Blackout Poetry Workshop series

Blackout poetry is a form of poetry in which the artist erases words from an existing text in order to generate a piece of poetry. 

It's a creative process that allows you to be the creator, by eliminating what you consider unnecessary in a given piece of text in order to focus on what is necessary for your own artistic piece in that moment. The very essence of blackout poetry is that it enables one to see what is hidden in plain sight. But instead of it being a matter of ‘reading between the lines’, it is a matter of ‘reading between the words’. Imagine that a piece of text is a completed puzzle, each word being a puzzle piece. With blackout poetry, you discover that random puzzle pieces fit together, creating a wholly different image. And, of course, they stop looking random anymore.

Blackout poetry is a model which…