This is poem 16 out of 30 for International Newspaper Blackout Poetry Month.
TODAY’S SHOUT-OUT! goes to the SuperViva blog. Thanks for the mention!
This is poem 16 out of 30 for International Newspaper Blackout Poetry Month.
TODAY’S SHOUT-OUT! goes to the SuperViva blog. Thanks for the mention!
I’m good at keeping my posts on the tumblelog tagged, and the other day I was clicking around and thought, “Hey, you could make a pretty decent bio out of those tags…”
My name is Austin Kleon and I am a writer and a cartoonist and a web designer. I make these things called newspaper blackout poems, which some call poetry.
I grew up in a small town in southern Ohio, and still have family there. I think you are where you were, and so place, worldbuilding and maps are obsessions of mine.
Writing, storytelling, songwriting, cartooning, and drawing are all ways that I play so I can feel alive and happy.
I’m fascinated by how we see and process the world around us, which involves vision, memory, and neuroscience.
I believe that visual thinking is one of the best tools we humans have to solve problems and that we should, like the cavemen, practice drawing on the walls. Sometimes a picture is better than words, and so we have Isotype and wordless stories. Most of the time a picture is better with words, and so we have comics, information design and infographics.
I love pure black and white, but I’m trying to learn color.
For artists, I think that sometimes you don’t have to go to college, you should keep your day job, and write the book you want to read. I also wonder, what if we give it away?
Like most people, I like music and movies. Sometimes I talk politics and religion.
These are just a few of the folks who blow my mind: Lynda Barry, Kurt Vonnegut, Charles Schulz, Edward Tufte, Anders Nilsen, Kevin Huizenga, Tom Gauld, Saul Steinberg, Otto Soglow, Bill Callahan, and Joann Sfar.
I believe life is a story and often that story is just a collage or remix of who/what came before us.
I’m married to a wonderful woman and I live in Austin, Texas.
Forgive me if this is really f***ing cheesy.
This is poem 15 out of 30 celebrating April as National Poetry Month (Inter)national Newspaper Blackout Poetry Month.
TODAY’S SHOUT-OUT! goes to Laura Thomas for her really nice post about me and the poems. Go say hi to her on twitter!
This is poem 14 out of 30 celebrating April as National Poetry Month (Inter)national Newspaper Blackout Poetry Month.
I thought this poem looked kind of familiar, so I dug in the archives and found a similar unfinished poem (and finished it):
TODAY’S SHOUT-OUT! goes to Wim Lockefeer for his continued support. Please go visit his awesome blog, The Ephemerist!
This is poem 13 out of 30 celebrating April as National Poetry Month (Inter)national Newspaper Blackout Poetry Month.
I’ve been sick this week, so this is small, and a day late. I’ll make up for it with TWO SHOUT-OUTS! to the blogs Build It Again and Pentakappa for posting about the poems—thanks, y’all!
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