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Blackout Poetry Journal Swap 2

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Blackout Poetry Journal Swap 2
Swap Coordinator:Faun00 (contact)
Swap categories: Art 
Number of people in swap:13
Location:International
Type:Type 3: Package or craft
Last day to signup/drop:March 26, 2012
Date items must be sent by:April 9, 2012
Number of swap partners:2
Description:

I recently hosted the first blackout poetry journal swap, here is the second one. You do not need to have participated in the first one to join in this one.

For this swap, you will photocopy a page from your favorite book, (you may use an actual book page if you like.) then blackout all but a few words creating a poem from the words. Wait I said journal didn't I? I (with the help of jandmterry) decided NOT to actually mail journals around but to have a swap created to be able to put into your own journal. My recommendation it to get a composition notebook as I think it will be about the right size for any of the swaps you get. Decorate your journal to your liking and fill it with your blackout poetry as you receive them. To make this nice for people to put in their journal your info will NOT be on the back like with so many swaps. You will put (my recommendation)your name, date, location (i.e. city, state country it's always nice to see where your swaps came from) and final poetry words on a separate paper to be put into your journal on a facing page.

You will have 2 partners and will send a different photocopied blackout poem to each of them(you can always send more if you feel inspired). Some of you may have books you use for crafting, if you want to use an actual book page that is fine. You can decorate it if you wish, but it is not a requirement. Use your imagination and have fun! Send something you would like to receive.

A rating of 4.8 or above please to participate in this swap. Message me if you are lower, just no flakers please. Newbies welcome.

If people show an active interest in this then I will do at least 1 a month so our journals will start to fill up.

Discussion

latentsmile 03/12/2012 #

Woohoo! Excited to see another set of poems!!! ^v^

eepy 03/13/2012 #

Clarification please. I use actual pages of old books, obviously not great literature or even good reads.

But for those who do start with a photocopied page, you would copy the page, do the blackout on the copy and then send that "original" to your partner, not a photocopy of it... is that right?

Faun00 03/13/2012 #

Correct

Moochew12 03/27/2012 #

So do you blackout several words and then using the remaining create a poem or are the remaining words the poem? I want to make sure I am reading this right...I kinda managed to confuse myself. =P

Faun00 03/29/2012 #

The remaining words create the poem in order of appearance on the page. I look at the words first to come up with my poem and then black out the unused ones.

LavenderLizard 04/10/2012 #

I am pretty sure that I missed our mail pickup yesterday so I am marking sent today....they could be postmarked yesterday or today!

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