Blackout poetry¶

blackout_poetry · procedural · catalogued

An erasure in which the deleted material is inked out rather than removed, so the excision stays visible on the page.

Provenance¶

Source: Traditional; a modern popular practice with no single originator
Attribution: traditional — classical or folk; no single origin to name
Checkability: none — no computable acceptance criterion exists
Attested: codified — formulated as a rule by a tradition rather than declared by an author

Details¶

Kind: constructive
Languages: en
Requires: tokens
Deterministic: no

Prompt hint¶

Black out most of the page and leave a poem in the words that survive.

Why this has no checker¶

This procedure has no computable acceptance criterion, so it will never be implemented. It is catalogued because the form belongs in an honest survey of the field, and denckring status counts it separately rather than reporting a gap that cannot close.