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About the Style
A blackout poem is when a poet takes a marker (usually a black marker) to highlight a text in a newspaper magazine or a book and starts marking out words until a poem is formed. The key thing with a blackout poem is that the text that remains form a sort of visual poem.
Rules
| 1. | You can redact alphabets, words, phrases or the whole sentence. |
| 2. | The poem could be in any format. No desired style or length. |
| 3. | This kind of poetry is generally visual poetry. |
Example
In this poem:
- This is the first page of the first chapter of the book “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” (“The Boy Who Lived”).
- In some parts of the page, some words are highlighted. In other parts, some alphabets or some phrases.
- A black marker is used to cover the unuseful parts.
