Blackout Poetry: Find a Poem Inside Another Text
Blackout poetry hides most of a text and lets a few words speak. Choose words in order and a new poem appears.
What is the Blackout Poem Maker?
Paste a source text and the words to keep, in order, and the tool returns only the kept words as your poem, with the rest blacked out in concept. In the browser the idea is the same: kept words stay visible while the rest is hidden.
How to use it
- Paste a source text.
- List the words to keep, in order, separated by commas.
- Click Make Blackout Poem.
Worked example
From the sample source, keeping river, quietly, morning, and sings gives the poem 'river quietly morning sings'.
How do you make a blackout poem?
Pick words from a source text, keep them in order, and hide the rest — the kept words become the poem.
Frequently asked questions
Must kept words stay in source order?
Yes, that constraint is what makes blackout poetry a found-poem form.
What if a word is not found?
The tool reports how many were found, so you can swap in a word the source actually contains.