Blackout poetry—also known as erasure poetry, redacted poetry, and a form of found poetry—is a popular method of exploration and recontextualization. It is when you take a written piece of text from a book, newspaper, or magazine and redact words, in order to come up with a poem. You can take a black marker and mark through entire words, sentences, and paragraphs in the found text. This is a way of reworking text into your own verse. 

For this activity you will pick a favorite song. You can find the lyrics online. There are a number of sites that host lyrics. Cut and paste the lyrics into a word document. You can print the document and work with the paper or you can use the text highlighter color (set to black) to black out words. 

The goal is to find a poem inside of the lyrics. When you are done, give it a title.