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Here are a couple of articles about Blackout Poetry, (though there’s really not much more to know about it) and some examples I found online. If any of your writers are on Instagram, there’s a whole hashtag for Blackout Poetry where you can see beautiful examples and post your own! #BlackoutPoetry.(Thicker paper might be better if they want to use a lot of colour.)

BLACK OUT POETRY FULL

They can simply draw boxes around the words they want, or black out with marker the ones they don’t, or they can go the full Picasso and create works of art with felt tips or paint.The poem may become a narrative, or it may be about a clear idea, or it may be just a collection of beautiful images. A good way to start is simply to skim-read the page and underline in pencil any interesting words or phrases, and then see if they can be linked together.In fact it can be better if they don’t, so they’re not influenced by the narrative on the page. STEP 2: Use a marker to black out the words you don’t want in your poem, keeping the words visible that you do want to use. Grabbing something that was headed for the recycle bin is a perfect choice. They don’t have to read the page very closely in order to get started. How-To: STEP 1: Cut out a page from an old newspaper, magazine, or another page of text that you don’t need anymore.Two or more people (or the whole group) can be using copies of the same page of text because they’ll all come up with completely different poems, which can be fun to compare.If you can enlarge the pages, that can be good for turning them into pictures (see below).Show them some examples, from very simple to very artistic ones.

Think fiction, magazine/newspapers, non-fiction, Classic novels, Sci-fi, Romance, Thriller etc.

To get the widest range of vocabulary, photocopy pages from a wide variety of books. Bohaterem tego artykuu bdzie blackout poetry inaczej poezja negatywna, poezja zaciemnienia, czy te poezja zakrelana.

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