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Newspaper Blackout is ten years old
This weird little book turned 10 years old this month. Kind of hard to believe. I made most of the poems on the bus to work and on my lunch break at my office job. Years ago I thought for sure it...
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I have spoken to Batman
I made this one in 2016. (Draw a picture of Batman! Everyone can be Batman!)
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Trying to Teach Your Kids the Kind of Math They Teach in School Now
I made this blackout after observing my wife teach my kids math out of a workbook that uses techniques that confuse our Elder Millennial brains. Here’s a decent explanation for why Common Core math...
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Analog Ctrl-Z
In today’s newsletter, I demonstrate how I use a dry erase marker and a transparency sheet to make poems like this one:
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The map is not the territory
After I posted Tuesday’s newsletter about how I hit an “invisible wall” at the edge of a map of my understanding, I came across these two familiar quotes: 1. “A map is not the territory.” —Alfred...
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Tomorrow is February
Today’s newsletter is about the shortest month and what to do with it.
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Time is not a butler
“Time is not a butler,” 2014 Thought of this one after witnessing a grown man have a tantrum in public. There but for the grace…
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The reader approaching middle age
“Peak,” 2014 I’m turning 40 in a few months and trying not to think too much of it, but I am getting my bearings a bit. Yesterday Elisa Gabbert tweeted, “I think I liked magazines more as a kid because...
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I made some poems
Marc Weidenbaum wrote some kind words about my blackout work, which inspired me to take a day and do some “comfort work.” I wrote about it in the latest newsletter: Whenever somebody says something...
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Small requirements
In today’s list of 10 newsletter: Joan Baez on drawing Another gardening metaphor for creative work: “Sleep, creep, leap” Television, time, and constraint …and more. Read it for free here.
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Back to the beginning
Today’s newsletter begins with a quote from Katherine Rundell’s Why You Should Read Children’s Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise: “When you read children’s books, you are given the space to...
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The mind at 4 a.m.
I made this blackout last week and put it at the top of Friday’s newsletter about getting in and out of trouble. Unfortunately, it was prophetic, because I was up at 4 a.m. this morning…
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