Celebrate Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day at The Open Book!
Come and try your hand at blackout poetry throughout the weekend. We’ll provide the materials and instructions, all you need to bring is enthusiasm and creativity!
Fun for the whole family, and perfect for anyone who wants to write poetry but doesn’t know where to begin. Just pop in any time between 10am and 5pm Friday through Sunday, our craft table will be ready for you to unleash the power of poetry!
Never heard of black out poetry? Black Out Poetry is the name of any sort of poem that is derived from blacking out any unwanted words from a paragraph, book, sign, etc. using whatever inking or coloring tools you have on hand. You can be as creative as you want, as you’ll see in the second image below.
A page of German text, with graphic lines connecting the words and an anatomical heart drawing in the bottom left corner. The rest of the text can just be seen, blocked out with dark green highlighter pen.