The Blackout Poetry Corner!

Make a poem, save the poem, share the poem! There is a new page each day! New poems to be found!

Tag and share your poems, and show us your blackout skills!

Blackout Poetry, the art of removing words from written material to find a poem hidden inside, is an immersive and innovative way to create visual poetry while playing around in your favorite books.

Follow 3x Bram Stoker & Elgin Award nominated poet, Jessica McHugh as she guides you through lessons, assignments, and never-before-seen blackout poems to break down the process of this art form. Learn how to find the ghostly poem in MacBeth, how editing can make a Dracula piece more biting, and how a thoughtful blackout design can expose the varied nightmares in the dream worlds of The Enchanted Castle and more! With step-by-step examples and practice pages!

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Jessica McHugh is a 3x Bram Stoker Award-nominated poet, a multi-genre novelist, & an internationally-produced playwright who spends her days surrounded by artistic inspiration at a Maryland tattoo shop.

She’s had thirty books published in fifteen years, including her Elgin Award- nominated blackout poetry collection, The Quiet Ways I Destroy You, her sci-fi bizarro romp, The Green Kangaroos, and her cross-generational horror series, The Gardening Guidebooks Trilogy.

Explore the growing worlds of Jessica McHugh at McHughniverse.com.