{"id":71,"date":"2026-08-03T19:19:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T19:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/linkwrightlinkbright\/?p=71"},"modified":"2026-08-03T19:19:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T19:19:55","slug":"virtual-symposium-reflection-blog-black-out-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/linkwrightlinkbright\/2026\/08\/03\/virtual-symposium-reflection-blog-black-out-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Symposium: Reflection Blog Black Out Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been such a pleasure working will all of you this term! For my virtual symposium submission, I decided to comb back through my reflection blogs and turn them into blackout poems! I found <a href=\"https:\/\/emmawinston.me\/blackoutpoetry\/\">this tool<\/a> to do this online, though doing this by hand is certainly fun!<\/p>\n<p>It was interesting to re-read the posts, especially the earlier ones and see the ways my reflections evolved. I enjoyed zoning into singular resources to doing a deeper reflection. Being able to synthesize my coursework with my professional experiences has also been rewarding; I found connections between public library and academic library spaces that I don&#8217;t think I would have found prior to this course! I greatly appreciated seeing the many directions my peers went in when it came to creating and completing the work for this class.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck, everyone! 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For my virtual symposium submission, I decided to comb back through my reflection blogs and turn them into blackout poems! I found this tool to do this online, though doing this by hand is certainly fun! It was interesting to re-read the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/linkwrightlinkbright\/2026\/08\/03\/virtual-symposium-reflection-blog-black-out-poems\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Virtual Symposium: Reflection Blog Black Out Poems<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":838,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtual-symposium"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/linkwrightlinkbright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/linkwrightlinkbright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/linkwrightlinkbright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/linkwrightlinkbright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/838"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/linkwrightlinkbright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/linkwrightlinkbright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/linkwrightlinkbright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/linkwrightlinkbright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/linkwrightlinkbright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/linkwrightlinkbright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}