Making black-out poetry is a good mind-muscle builder. It's fun. It can be very serious. It's accessible and approachable. It's an excellent way to get people with low literacy on board with writing.

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Here's the progress of making one. For a summer I made a black-out poem every morning instead of reading the paper. I was a lot calmer.

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This one became a photo mash-up. Later it became something else.