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Poems poems black-out poems: One way newspapers are useful, to one man.

Austin Kleon, one of the few sharpie-based innovators in the newspaper world, got signed by Harper Collins to publish a book of his awesome newspaper black-out poems. These things, if you haven’t seen them, involve taking a news article and blotting out all but a few words. Choice words. Poetic words.

It may be proof that there really is gold in them there articles. Probably not, though. The article is dead. Just look at the tree it was printed on.

Here are some of my favorite newspaper black-out poems:

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