Current & Past Events
Blackout Poetry Reading
colourschool presents the first in a series of blackout poetry readings. Referring to the method of mark-making that creates the poetry, blackout poems take found texts such as newspapers, magazines, and spam as their source. Identifying words that have poetic, comic, or general appeal, poets then “black out” the remaining text in order to create new works.
For this session, participants are invited to bring and recite their poems. Alternately, poems may be e-mailed to info_at_colourschool.org. For examples of blackout poems, see Austin Kleon’s newspaper blackout poems archive: Austin Kleon’s site
- date & time:
- July 30th, 2007 at 7 pm
- location:
- 6363 Stores Road Studio 2A University of British Columbia
- contact:
- [info@colourschool.org]