newspaper blackout

Up early

Saturday, August 4, 2018

so early the moon is yours and yours only

From scratch

Thursday, June 8, 2017

“What do you want your days to look like?”

Newspaper Blackout finally available as an eBook

Thursday, March 20, 2014

My first book, Newspaper Blackout, is now available as an eBook.

Kindle
Nook

iBooks
ebooks.com

Word of caution: you need to have a reasonably large, preferably backlit screen to appreciate these things. If you just have an old Kindle or an eReader with a tiny screen, you’d be better off buying the paperback. (I haven’t tested every device, but I can say it looks really great in iBooks on an iPad. Maybe even better than on paper.)

The eBook also contains some “deleted scenes”—a dozen or so poems that got cut from the original manuscript—and a new afterword.

TIME Magazine Names Newspaper Blackout a Must-See Tumblr Blog

Monday, January 30, 2012

30 Must-See Tumblr Blogs | NewsFeed | TIME.com

His redacted masterpieces have won him both a book deal and a line of art prints sold through online gallery 20×200. The focus of his Tumblr, however, is his fans. Anyone with a marker, a newspaper and a little creativity can submit to the site. The result is a kind of free-form word search, with people providing one-liners that range from funny to enigmatic to genuinely thought-provoking. Whether or not you consider it actual poetry, it’s definitely not a bad way to recycle your morning paper.

Thanks very much to TIME readers who recommended the site and to all who’ve submitted poems in the last couple of years. Strangely enough, the site is almost exactly 2 years old! I knew there should be a site where people could submit their own poems, but I was waiting around for the right platform to come along. Luckily, a few months before the book came out, Tumblr started allowing users to submit posts. And that was that. Today the site has over 25,000 readers.

I’m still accepting poems, so feel free to send me yours: NewspaperBlackout.com→

NEWSPAPER BLACKOUT AT THE AUSTIN MUSEUM OF ART

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

I was pretty thrilled when The Austin Museum of Art asked me if I wanted to do a Newspaper Blackout event. We got to display a mini-exhibit of originals and prints, and I led a 90 minute blackout poetry workshop. It was a great time, and we had a terrific turnout.