Creating a Blackout Poetry Art Show

Afew years ago, I started experimenting with blackout poetry. Blackout poetry, sometimes called “erasure” poetry, is where the writer uses an existing text and “blacks out” or “erases” words on the page in order to create a new poem. The words that remain after the erasure form the poem. <blockquote> How to Make a Blackout Poem 1. Choose a text 2. Black out or erase words 3. What remains is a poem </blockquote> Blackout poetry is a type of Found Poetry. Found poetry is an umbrella term encompassing any poem that uses an outside source text to create a new poem. That text is generally previously published material, although simply using this definition doesn’t exactly hit the nail on the head, as non-literary texts also work well for found poems. (Examples include manuals, informational packets, advertisements, and other texts not meant to be defined as literature.) Essentially any poet who uses material that is not wholly original to create a new poem is engaging with found poetry. (This may also include poets using their own past texts — old journals as an example.) Found texts may include but are not limited to: Newspapers, books, periodicals, graffiti, other poems, street signs, advertisements, propaganda, online media, Twitter posts, or anything with words that can be rearranged, erased, cut-out, or reformulated to create a new and wholly original piece of poetry. <a href="https://medium.com/write-wild/creating-a-blackout-poetry-art-show-d0ee57828398">Click Here</a>