Newspaper + Marker = Poetry.
Instead of starting with a blank page, poet Austin Kleon grabs a newspaper and a permanent marker and eliminates the words he doesn’t need.—NPR’s Morning Edition
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browse the archives & the visual archives for 2008 & 2009 & 2010Austin Kleon is a writer, cartoonist, and web designer living in Austin, Texas. He's the author of Newspaper Blackout.