"This Wonderful Scourge"

I've been somewhat remiss in mentioning this, because the image is saved on another computer and I haven't been able to upload it until just now, but...my "newspaper blackout poem" entitled "This Wonderful Scourge" was named a runner-up in Austin Kleon's monthly Blackout Poems Contest. My poem will be published as part of Austin's blackout poem collection, which is coming out next September. (Click on the above for a full-sized, non-squint-inducing version, and click here for the original text.) This was a really fun piece to put together - so many possibilities and combinations of words to choose from, and the inevitable Sharpie fumes weren't even that bad.