WHAT IS A BLACKOUT POEM?

A blackout poem is when a poet marks out already established text– like in a newspaper– and starts redacting words until a poem is formed. One interesting feature of a blackout poem is that the text AND redacted text create not only a poem, but also a work of visual art.

FALSE KEEL-

Here is another of my experiments with blackout poetry. It is titled, False Keel. Below the poem is the text it was created from. If you missed my first experiment with blackout poetry click here