Blackout Poetry Workshop, 5:30 p.m., for Poemville at Joybird Books! What is Blackout Poetry? In brief, it’s taking existing writing and redacting parts of it to reveal new thoughts or ideas.

Any text can be turned into a blackout poem. All you need is a marker or some other instrument that allows you to cover over existing words.

All in all there are really only four steps:

Identify the text you want to blackout.

Draw boxes over meaningful words, images, phrases, and ideas.

Draw an image outline or arrows for reading the text, if necessary.

Color it in!