April is National Poetry Month. Celebrate by creating your own blackout poem and sharing it with others on our teen bulletin board. It's easy: choose a page (from damaged books) from the box; read it over; decide on a theme; circle your chosen words and blackout the rest. Create something new from something old. For inspiration watch Austin Kleon's TED talk "Steal Like An Artist." It's a creative manifesto based on 10 things he wished he'd heard when he was starting out. Austin is the author of Newspaper Blackout, a book of poetry made by redacting newspaper articles with a permanent marker. Click this link to find Austin's book, Steal Like An Artist, in our catalog.
