Blackout!

Hello again, dear readers! I want to begin by informing you all how much I appreciate your support. This project started out as a sort of online diary- I figured no one would ever read it. But this has not been the case thanks to you! Big hugs. Also, if you're trying to comment on my posts and it isn't working, send me an email at lindseybrigitte@gmail.com. I know the comment system hasn't been working for a while...as a matter of fact, if you've left a comment AT ALL, go ahead and email me...I haven't gotten any of them. I want to know what you think about my writing!

Enough logistics. Back to writing and such.

I held a workshop for the literary magazine members on Tuesday that was a great success! It was inspired by the poetry of Austin Kleon. Basically, Kleon takes pages out of newspapers, selects the words he likes, and colors the rest in with Sharpie, such that only the poem shows through. Here's his website if you're interested: http://www.austinkleon.com/

My Austin-Kleon-style newspaper blackout poem went as follows:


Crazy people              think               there's actually     a precedent
        For the         drop in gas prices
                                                               hopefully, it won't take
                                     another 40 years       to
                             get         change we can all believe in


There were a great many good poems produced at the workshop, all of them better than mine. But it was a fun experience, and I think I helped to get the LitMag's creative juices flowing. You see, there seems to have been a contagious strand of writer's block going around, and I wanted to do something to help. Thus the balckout poem workshop. The point behind newspaper blackout poetry isn't just to make cool poem art out of cheap stuff. It's to show that there is poetry everywhere, you just have to know where and how to look for it. Even the Business section of USA Today can be artistic. (That's where my poem came from!)