Photo Credit: Stephan Geyer via Compfight

I have wanted to introduce Blackout Poetry writing for a couple of years, and finally the time was right. After a quick look at some examples, the classroom was covered with sheets of newspaper. The lure of the football reports proved a bit much for some but everyone had a go at “finding” a poem.

There were some astonishingly good results by students who could see the creative possibilities and were ready to experiment. We scanned some poems and they should be appearing soon on student blogs. It is exciting to see writers be brave enough to free themselves from conventional and structured forms of poetry. Continue reading »