2024 NATIONAL MEDAL
for Museum and Library Service Finalist

Teens

Blackout Poetry

Create your own poetry from book pages!

blackout poem is when a poet takes a marker (usually black marker) to already established text–like in a newspaper–and starts redacting words until a poem is formed. The key thing with a blackout poem is that the text AND redacted text form a sort of visual poem.

Gr. 6+