Experimenting with Blackout Poetry

Schedule

Thu Apr 30 2026 at 06:30 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-05:00

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Ladd Library | Cedar Rapids, IA

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Wrap up National Poetry Month with an exploration of blackout poetry! Blackout poetry, also known as erasure poetry, involves taking an existing page of text and creating a new poem by carefully choosing words to highlight on the page and blacking out all the rest.
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Ladd Library, 3750 Williams Blvd. SW,Cedar Rapids,IA,United States

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