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Austin Kleon

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How to Make a Blackout Poem

"What Is Marriage?" is one of Austin Cleon's most popular blackout poems. "I like this poem because I actually didn't, it's made by a, it was made from an article about the Emmy Awards," he says. The big thing for me when I'm doing a blackout poem is to somehow try to completely transform the original article into something new.

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