Create Your Own Blackout Poetry

Poetry can be fun! In this class, learners will talk about what poetry is before being introduced to one type of poem: blackout poetry. Blackout poetry is when a poet takes a marker to written text and blacks out words until a poem is formed. Both the remaining words and the blacked out area create a visual poem. Learners will have the option of just blacking out words or creating a picture over the words they wish to redact. At the end of class, they will have created a one-of-a-kind...