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March 30, 2024
Come and kick-off poetry month with Blackout Poetry at The Bookhouse. All ages are invited to come and create your poems during our kickoff event, or grab your packets to take home and work on at your convenience. All poems should be returned to The Bookhouse by April 27, 2024. Winners will be announced on April 30, 2024.
Blackout poetry is when you take a written piece of text from a book, newspaper, or magazine and redact words, in order to come up with your very own poetry!
Guidelines:
- Find a newspaper article, and old book or a magazine that you feel comfortable destroying.
- Skim the passage and keep your eye out for that eye-catching word that will guide the theme of your poem.
- Read the poem in its entirety.
- Make your final decisions and black out the rest of the poem!
Nia Imani at The Bookhouse
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Jeffrey L. Smith received a BA degree in Public Administration from Elon University. In 1986 he returned to
Paul is a Winston-Salem native, a graduate of R.J. Reynolds High School and Wake Forest University, where he got his first taste of the media as an announcer for the student-run station, WAKE Radio. He has earned advanced degrees in liberal arts and journalism/mass communications from Johns Hopkins University and UNC-Chapel Hill. Paul has worked as a journalist for 30 years. Locally he has worked for The High Point Enterprise, the News & Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal. Paul has been affiliated with 88.5 FM WFDD, public radio for the Piedmont and High Country, for the last 10 years. He also currently serves as an adjunct professor of the practice in Journalism at Wake Forest University.