Daily Blackout Poetry Challenge

Your daily blackout poetry challenge! Make a poem, save the poem, share the poem! There is a new page each day!

Tag the poem: #dailyBlackoutPoetryChallenge

Click on a word to select it, click on it again to unselect. When you’ve found your poem hit Blackout! Get a screen shot and copy the words below!

Copy Your Words

Copy the words you found here for alt-text, editing and archive! (Remember we don’t keep anything, so once you close this page, this poem is gone!)

More Blackout Poetry Awaits!

Check out our site for more blackout poetry, including HIDE AND SEEK a Blackout Poetry workbook by Bram Stoker nominated poet Jessica McHugh!

apokrupha.com/blackout

Help

The challenge is simple—select words from this page of text and find a poem. From there you can save it as an image and share it.

You can copy the text below the page and use it as a starting point to write your own poem.

You can make as many poems as you want each day with the same page. So don’t worry about ‘messing up.’

The page will be new each day. We have a bunch of different titles (see the list!). The pages are chosen at random, which means they will vary in content, which is a part of the challenge for you.

Make your posts with this hashtag so we can see you!

Buttons

Start Over

This will reset everything back to the start. There is no undo!

Blackout!

This inverts your page, blacking out what you didn’t choose, showing only what you did. It is now ready to be saved as an image!

Save as Image

This will save just the page portion of the site as a PNG file.

What can I do with these poems / images / things

Anything you want.

The text from these books is in the public domain, and you are free to use, remake, remix any way you want.

The images are yours and you make do what you wish. If you love us, let people know. But attribution is not required.

Privacy

We do not track you. We do not collect any data. We do not save copies of your poems. The Javascript libraries and fonts are self-hosted to prevent others from using them to track you.

The only way we will know if you use our site is if you tell us!

Contact

webmaster@dailyblackoutpoetrychallenge.com

We are intolerant of intolerance. If you see something hateful, transphobic, homophobic, racist, or the like, let us know.

We didn’t write any of the pages you see. While we do our best to pick works that don’t have hateful or hurtful contexts, that doesn’t mean that something could slip through.

If you see something, tell us, we will make it go away.

Notes on Mobile

The DBPC will work on your phone, but with some caveats. The screen shots are based on the actual size of the screen being used.

For best results, turn your phone landscape before taking the screenshot.

Note on Poems!

Since each day presents a limited canvas it is completely possible that two people will have the same, or very similar, words selected. That’s ok! This is a game to start your mind working. Your poem is still your poem even if someone else found it too!