A Few Questions and Answers about Visual Poetry
I began creating visual poems in about 1976, when I was living in La Paz, Bolivia. My English teacher taught a unit on concrete poetry where she had us create concrete poems. None of those early (and truly awful) concrete poems of mine
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In other words the concrete poet seeks to relieve the poem of its centuries-old burden of ideas, symbolic reference, allusion and repetitious emotional content; of its servitude to disciplines outside itself as an object in its own
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If we > can > > conceive of visual poetry, for example -not only of concrete or sound > > poetry, but also of poetry This piece explores how the process of > creating > and constructing meaning can change when a poem is a computer
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Excepting the florid typeface, this is hard cold classic concrete: simple, sure, steady, with a little twist of our spine. If we imagine the poem in a different typeface, we are left with a study for a concrete poem, but not the perfect
concrete poem
Up in the Attic Smashed TV with its circuits blown parts of an old car dusty books rusty old working tools leaking tin of paint rotten old bike with burst tires Down in the Cellar Broken lamp shade with a light smashed to smithereens
POETRY SATURDAY: Joyce Sidman, Part II
The collection includes Mouse Haiku, a lovely poem written in three haiku stanzas, and If I Were an Egg, a concrete poem about the emperor penguin written in the shape of an egg. Egg Business, a fast-paced humorous poem, is told in the
Aram Saroyan Interview
which is a line in an early Creeley poem, so either Finlay got it there or Creeley took it from Finlay—and that magazine, a sort of poetry newsletter, had concrete poetry in it, which I’d never heard of before, and took to immediately.
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Jones then read, “A Rose that Grows in the Concrete,” a poem he wrote that was partly inspired by Smith. “It has no idea why it grows, but it does,” said Jones, who then pointed to Smith. “This is the example, from the concrete grows a
CONCRETE POETRY
In case you're wondering, concrete poetry is poetry in which the typographical arrangement of words is as important in conveying the intended effect as the conventional elements of the poem, such as meaning of words, rhythm,
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Not a tower like a well-formed sentence that runs on for pages, splashing like a duck in its own watery prose; or a concrete poem, many meanings in an eyeblink; but a tower like a phone book, or a stock inventory at a lumberyard,

Poetry Form - The Concrete Poem
in the 1950's, the term "Concrete Poem" now often includes what was historically Kenneth Koch suggests some ways to get started on writing a Concrete Poem,
Concrete poetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
in which the overall typography of the poem is in the shape of its subject. Mary Ellen Solt on the beginnings of concrete poetry in Brazil.
Concrete Poem
Concrete Poem. A concrete poem is a collage of words, letters or symbols that creates meaning the 17th century, poets experimented with concrete poems.
Concrete Poems
Provides a definition and an example of a concrete poem
Concrete Poems
Features several visual concrete poems
CONCRETE POETRY: A WORLD VIEW
They believe that the concrete poem with its reduced form of language the concrete poem from the traditional form (the sonnet) through concrete art
ReadWriteThink: Lesson Plan: Discovering Poetic Form and Structure Using Concrete Poems
Providing educators and students access to the highest quality practices and "Suppose Columbus" and the additional concrete poem(s) that you've chosen to discuss.
Concrete Poetry: Links, Indexes, Bibliography, and Some Poems.
Title Index to Concrete and Visual Poetry Websites. Text Poems, ASCII-Art-Poems Zen Poetry. Title Index to Specific Concrete Poems. Reviews and Feedback
Concrete Poem
Concrete Poem. Slide 26 of 30. Go to slide:
Concrete Poem
Concrete Poem. I am a concrete road - a thoroughfare of human endeavor. In the years to come no man can say where I begin and where I end - I shall go concrete+poem: concrete+poem