Newspaper poetry, invented by Austin Kleon, sounds like a fun idea, and probably the only way I will ever be able to write a poem.
Here's how it works, grab a marker, find an article in a newspaper, black out words you don't want, leaving the words that create your poem.
Two examples of newspaper poetry...
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| Austin Kleon is a writer/artist who lives in Texas.http://www.austinkleon.com/ |
What to learn more about Austin Kleon's newspaper poetry?
His first book published in 2010,
How very strange - never heard of this type of poetry.
ReplyDeleteIt all sounds strange to me too but it seems to work doesnt it?
ReplyDeleteThis is so very cool! I am going to suggest this book to the "Creative Writing" teacher at my work (a high school).
ReplyDeleteI love this! What a cool idea. Thanks for sharing it!
ReplyDeleteThis is pretty cool! Nice way of trying out some simple poetry. I agree with the comment above that it's a great idea for a teacher.
ReplyDeletemy kids would very much enjoy this! thanks!
ReplyDeletei am sooo gonna try this now :) thanks for posting! brilliant!
ReplyDeleteI have to jump on the bandwagon too! How fun!
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