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NEWSPAPER BLACKOUT POEMS
Newspaper + Marker = Poetry.
OFFBEAT
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
THE CO-FOUNDER OF THE ARTIST
Thursday, December 17th, 2009
MATHEMATICAL
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
UNTOUCHED
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
GALLEYS!
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
We got the galleys (uncorrected proofs) for Newspaper Blackout in the mail today. This time last year I had just finished the manuscript.
To celebrate, here are a few (somewhat grainy) photos. Six poems no one (except for Meg and the HC folks) has ever seen!
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WATCHING MOM PREPARE
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
In progress:
BLACKOUT POETRY WORKSHOP AT ANGELO STATE
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Last week Meg and I drove out to San Angelo, Texas. My friend Laurence Musgrove had invited me out to Angelo State to give a talk to a poetry class and conduct a blackout poetry workshop. The idea was to have a kind of “warm up” presentation to get ideas for any book tour I might do. This is the first time I had done anything like this, and how it went far exceeded my expectations. The students were great: they were engaged, eager, and they asked awesome questions. (Laurence posted a great Flickr set of the workshop – the photos in this post are his.)
Below I’ve posted the complete slideshow:
Here I am hating on Microsoft Word:
Here’s how the workshop went:
- I taped newspaper broadsheets to the walls and gave everyone a marker
- We formed a line, and I started by circling one anchor word or phrase
- The next person in line was instructed to build off that anchor phrase
- We kept going until poems emerged
The challenge, as always, was to get the students circling concrete nouns and verbs — words that put images in the head.
This combo made us all chuckle:
We only had a half hour or so, so we didn’t get any finished poems, but I promised everybody I’d go home and see what I could get out of the work we started. I’ll post the results here when I get a chance.
Thanks to Laurence, Angelo State, and all the great students!
I’m hoping we can do more of these workshops after the book comes out.
RATIO
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
ROOKIE
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
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