Showing posts with label newspaper poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label newspaper poetry. Show all posts

March 21, 2012

Newspaper Poetry

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...




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, 
Newspaper Blackout contains some of his best works.