The librarian introduces blackout poetry, which involves taking words from text and rearranging them to form new poems. To create a blackout poem, one scans a page from a book for words and phrases to use, underlines selections, then uses markers to black out unwanted words, leaving only the words for the poem visible. Blackout poetry allows for reimagining text in creative new forms through selective revealing and concealing of words on the page.
11. Next…
4. Underline a few words or
phrases or random letters
from anywhere on the page
you think you may want to
use in your poem.
Then go back and circle the
“definites.”
Use
