Blackout turns into a Knockout for Austin Kleon

While researching for the 5 Poets assignment I came across Austin Kleon, a texan artist who has made his name via Blackout Poetry from newspaper articles.  As a news junkie myself, I'm quite fascinated with the idea of blackout poetry using periodicals and news items.  In his blog, which you can find a link to below, there was a piece about some blackout poetry he did from a Halloween article that a reader said sounded like "the beginning of a good tale."

What followed was a wonderous expansion on a reader's suggestion that made the work so much deeper and funnier and just enjoyable than the original.  This idea that instant publishing of works through blogs or websites like Instagram and Facebook can reach people so quickly and that the feedback can immediately help you expand on your work in a matter of hours brings to life a notion that communication can be a heavy inspiration to today's artists.

Here's the spooky/goofy (spoofy?) story.

You can check out his blog here.