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<div>Several years ago, aided and abetted by Literary Twitter, I started gathering poems with joy in mind. It was 2017, and I needed more joy, and so did you. We all still need it. So here is a slightly updated and revised compilation of those poems shared by readers and writers in a very long thread. I\u2019ve linked to some; others you\u2019ll have to hunt down yourself online and in print. Feel free to share your own suggestions in the comments, and we\u2019ll keep this work-in-progress going.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Since the process of my work is pretty transparent, I figured it only made sense to encourage other people to try out the method themselves, so I started a Tumblr blog, NewspaperBlackout.com, a place where people could learn about the blackout poems and share their own:</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>download poems</div><div></div><div>Download &#10031; https://t.co/6C30KyY03x</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>But the best is still seeing the poems out in the world, and seeing folks make their own attempts. Last year we had an art show in Denton, Texas, and part of the show was dedicated to a poem-making station where people could pick up a newspaper and make their own:</div><div></div><div></div><div>Although the content of the collection is often grim, it is treated with beauty and humor. The poems collected center a poor, queer Southern youth who's struggling to survive; they seek moments of solace.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Authentic voices of human beings experiencing rural poverty are difficult to come by in literature. In Gay Poems for Red States, Willie Carver emerges as such a voice. As a collection, his poems build a world that is economically poor but relationally rich, that can hold darkness and also be beautiful, that is full of hunger and also deliciously bountiful. Gay youth growing up in rural America will recognize themselves here, but this collection is a quintessential American text, good and good for all of us.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Gay Poems for Red States possesses a defiant, resilient voice which resounds loudly above the cacophony of hate and backlash permeating discriminatory legislative decisions. The poems also celebrate a place otherwise associated with oppression, racism, and discrimination, uplifting the healing aspects of a misunderstood natural landscape historically and greedily stripped of its resources. Gay Poems for Red States is immediate and necessary, and it emerges at a critical point in education, society, and publishing.</div><div></div><div></div><div>(This) collection Gay Poems for Red States presents the harsh realities of being a gay man during this time of rising hatred towards LGBTQIA+ teachers across Appalachia and the rest of America. Simultaneously, Carver's poems are an outpouring of love for a place that doesn't love him back. Carver conveys such tenderness for Appalachian culture and the rural communities that raised him.</div><div></div><div></div><div>A hard-hitting collection of relatable poems. Appalachian queer folk will find a home inside this book. It's complicated, sad, hopeful, sentimental, and it whisked me back to my teen years for some quiet healing.</div><div></div><div></div><div>The walls of the Alhambra are full of calligraphic decoration, cursive and kufic writings with sentences such as "Only God is victor" (apparently by Zawi ben Zirí, founder of the Nasrid dynasty) and poems by three poets of the Court of Granada, Ibn al-Yayyab (1274-1349), Ibn al-Jatib (1313-1375) and Ibn Zamrak (1333-1393), who were secretaries of the royal chancellery and prime ministers. Among them, Ibn Zamrak is considered to be the most brilliant of the poets of the Alhambra.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div> df19127ead</div>