Austin Kleon – Newspaper Blackout

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Adult Event

Start: 04/13/2010 7:00 pm

Poet, cartoonist, blogger, and Austin resident Austin Kleon has
discovered a new way to read between the lines. Armed with a daily newspaper
and a permanent marker, he constructs through deconstruction—eliminating the
words he doesn't need to create a new art form: Newspaper Blackout poetry.
Highly original, Kleon's verse ranges from provocative to lighthearted, and
from moving to hysterically funny, and undoubtedly entertaining. We'll be
learning how to create our own blackout poems, tonight at 7PM.