I spend a ridiculous amount of time reading, which I justify to myself (and my family) by saying that the more I read, the better writer I’ll be.
Recently, I came across two writers who create their writing by rearranging or subtracting words from what they’ve read. I know this sounds kind of post-deconstructionist, but the resulting new works are absolutely unique.
First, there’s Newspaper Blackout Poems from the wonderfully named Austin Kleon. He is a writer, cartoonist and designer who does pretty much what the name implies — he writes his poems by removing words from newspaper articles. The results are sparse,…
