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Praise for Newspaper Blackout Poems

Instead of starting with a blank page, poet Austin Kleon grabs the New York Times and a permanent marker and eliminates the words he doesn’t need. — NPR’s Morning Edition

Sort of like Michelangelo carving away the marble that imprisoned what he saw within.—Cleveland Plain Dealer

One can imagine taking up blackout poetry on their daily bus commute in place of sudoku or the crossword puzzle.— Toronto’s National Post

Some of the results are hilarious, some are profound and even unsettling, but they are never bland or boring.—The Ephemerist

Part “writing with constrictions,” part happy accident, part found art, part design challenge...the collection...gives a well rounded and consistent view into a guy most of us would want to buy a beer. —Radio Exile

Kindred

Tom Phillips’ A Humument

Jochen Gerner’s TNT En Amerique

John Lennon’s FBI File

Postsecret

The Montage Art of Winston Smith

Graham Rawle’s Woman’s World

Jonathan Lethem, The Ecstasy of Influence

Categories

COMICS & ILLUSTRATION
Pictures + Words

NEWSPAPER BLACKOUT POEMS
Newspaper + Sharpie = Poems.

NOTES ON COMICS & INFORMATION DESIGN
Exploring the connections between comics and information design and the art of communicating with pictures and words.

NOTES ON WRITING AND DRAWING
Craft, technique, and theory of writing and cartooning.

SKETCHBOOK
Pictures + Words = Play

X-MISCELLANEA
Ramblings on life, books, music, movies, and travel.