Recently, the 11th grade English class, taught by Ms. Trautmann, has been studying poetry.
A subtopic of this multifaceted topic is “Blackout Poetry” which we took a closer look at.
What is “Blackout Poetry”?
Author Austin Kleon has popularized Blackout Poetry with his Newspaper Blackout Book.
Ms. Trautmann introduced Blackout Poetry to us as an ingenious way of creating poetry yourself.
It is about creating something new from something that has already been produced by someone else.
How to create your own “Blackout Poem”:
The only thing you need to create your very own poem is a written piece of text from a book, newspaper or magazine and a few pens.
We worked with William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, A Streetcar named Desire by Tennessee Williams and The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas.
Now there are 3 steps which each one of us followed in order to produce our own piece of literature.
STEP 1:
You skim the text and look out for an eye-catching word that will guide the direction of your poem.
STEP 2:
Read the full text and search for words or phrases that might relate to your eye-catching word.