The Blackout Poetry Corner!

A bit of blackout poetry for everyone, from collections to challenges, to an instruction manual—find it all here!

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!

Seek & Hide: A Blackout Poetry Playbook

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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Blackout Poetry by Jessica McHugh

Three fantastic collections by Jessica McHugh of gothic, cosmic, horror blackout poetry

About Jessica McHugh

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.