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