Newspaper Blackout Poetry

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Newspaper Blackout Poetry

5/8/2008 10:59:04 AM

By blacking out large sections in newspapers, Austin-based writer and cartoonist Austin Kleon creates poetry. Some of the poems are funny, some are melodramatic, but the site's worth a look.

(Thanks, Kottke.org.)

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