Poem by Tyler Knott Gregson. Source Text: Travels with a Donkey in the Cevénnes by Robert Louis Stevenson (Chapter 10).
Welcome to your monthly poetry writing exercise!
Inspired by Baby Teeth Journal’s Blackout Poetry Competition, today we’re exploring redaction and reshaping through blackout poetry.
But this week we’re doing something a bit different than using paper and markers to create a blackout poem!
Blackout poetry is a type of found poetry, using any text as inspiration. The poet picks out words and phrases from the text to create a poem, then blacks out the remaining unwanted words or phrases.
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