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Winter Wheat
I’ve attended Winter Wheat in Bowling Green for the last three years. Every year I walk away with new ideas. This year I will be giving two sessions, “Blackout Poetry” and “Saying Goodbye to the Fluff.” For more information and to register for the festival (it’s free!), click here.
Newspaper Blackout by Austin Kleon
Finished reading “Newspaper Blackout” by Austin Kleon. For examples of blackout poems, click here. I took a pamphlet I purchased in New Orleans and had a blackout poetry contest with my friend. We sat down with three pages of text and a marker. She finished first. Still, it was fun to look at a sea of …