Regular blog readers and Instagram followers know how much I enjoy creating blackout poems. I use old free books to make them, but occasionally use other means as well. I enjoy seeing what alternative sentences emerge from the words on a given page. Sometimes they seem profound, at other times they’re rather ordinary. And sometimes,Continue reading “Offbeat Blackout Poems”
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Pattern-Changing Questions
In my college years, I was part of an evangelical-leaning group that made use of a small booklet titled the Four Spiritual Laws. A few members of the leadership team swore by this tract as a tool for “witnessing” to non-Christians, the basic approach being to walk them through the tenets it contained and thenContinue reading “Pattern-Changing Questions”
A Few Blackout Poems
I’ve been making blackout poems for several years now. I was inspired by Austin Kleon to explore the practice: his first book was a collection of blackout poetry he created from newspaper columns. My go-to source is old secondhand books that I think nobody will miss, which is why observers may note a yellow-ish qualityContinue reading “A Few Blackout Poems”
Jeffrey A. Nelson 