Newspaper Blackout

New York magazine"Highbrow/brilliant…It's better than it sounds."




NPR's Morning EditionInstead of starting with a blank page, poet Austin Kleon grabs the New York Times and a permanent marker and eliminates the words he doesn't need.


Cleveland Plain DealerSort of like Michelangelo carving away the marble that imprisoned what he saw within.




Toronto's National PostOne can imagine taking up blackout poetry on their daily bus commute in place of sudoku or the crossword puzzle.




The Ephemerist"Some of the results are hilarious, some are profound and even unsettling, but they are never bland or boring."




Wall Street Journal"…a kind of Rorschach approach to reading newspapers…"




The New Yorker"[The poems] resurrect the newspaper when everyone else is declaring it dead…like a cross between magnetic refrigerator poetry and enigmatic ransom notes, funny and zen-like, collages of found art…"




Texas Monthly"…hidden bits of Zen lite that occasionally bump up against brilliance….