Blackout Poetry: Creative Development
I enjoy writing poetry and making visual art with found things and thus it is a bit surprising that I only discovered blackout poetry in 2023. This type of poetry falls under the category of Found Poetry that according to poets.org takes existing texts and refashions, reorders and presents them as poems.
Blackout Poetry, also referred to as Redacted Poetry is brought into the world by selecting words from a block of text, leaving them in the original position they appeared in print and striking out the rest. This ...