Blackout poetry

Reinvention. It's an exciting word. Take something great, make it more great, make it different, make it yours.

Writing is about making choices. Selecting words. Measuring them against each other. Combining them. Putting in and leaving out. Words have power, and so does space.

Blackout poetry is about using existing texts to create new ones. You can use any text to begin with, and make any new text you wish.

Try it out!

has a tool where you can click to select words and make your own poem from a set of texts. Click the example below to reach the page.