Mary Ellen Solt

” … there is a fundamental requirement which the various kinds of concrete poetry meet: concentration upon the physical material from which the poem or text is made. Emotions and ideas are not the physical materials of poetry. … Generally speaking the material of the concrete poem is language …” (Concrete Poetry — A World View. 1968.)



concrete, language, poetry, writing

Anatol Knotek

Visuelle Poesie



concrete, digital poetics, vispo

Robert The

Book Art Backgrounders at Deeplinking

Robert The: “I kinda blew a fuse in my senior year—something very strange happened—and I lost my ability to read for a period of a month or two. This sharpened my interest regarding what was actually going on with the symbols that convey meaning on a concrete level.”



academia, art, book, concrete, vispo

David Daniels: The Gates Of Paradise



bard, concrete, typography, vispo

riccomini – ee cummings visualization


“To accurately approach research on a project exploring the progression and cadence of American poet, E.E. Cummings’ 1944 collection, “I X I,” it became clear that one of the few seemingly appropriate ways to “analyze” a poet whose core relation is a belief in love and feeling over thought, would be to create a mode through which I could explore his poetry that would remain true to the poet’s writing.”



concrete, infoViz, love

Thinkography!




3D, AI, concrete, jhave, typography

Crg Hill’s poetry scorecard


contemporary poetries, visual, verbal & visual/verbal, with especial focus on small press books, magazines, and on websites of avant poetries



concrete, poetry

Sweet Old Etcetera

net-visual ee cummings



concrete, poet

[digital sound visual interactive poetry etc.]



abstract, academia, concrete, digital poetics, generative

3D lettrism

logolalia logolalia logolalia whee logolalia :: dan waber



concrete, digital poetics, poet, vispo



concrete, vispo



concrete, typography



concrete, typography

UBU Web

“Essentially a gift economy, poetry is the perfect space to practice utopian politics….”

samples from the massive archive:
Jorge Luis Borges: The Mirror Man
Balkan Baroque 1999
John Cage in Conversation with Richard Kostelanetz [John Cage:"We do very good work when we don't know what we are doing."]



avant garde, concrete, dada, oulipo, spoken word, ubu

Afew concrete poetry sites with pdfs, etc….

SPIDERTANGLE


GAMM :::

Word for Word



collaboration, concrete, ebooks, vispo

“A death of someone is actually nothing more than what the death causes to leave behind, to bring into view.* Emmett Williams—one of the more famous of the concrete poets, a Fluxist, and simply an otherstream artist of our time—died in Berlin this Wednesday [Feb 14,2007], on Valentine’s Day….”

Geof Huth, dbqp: visualizing poetics



concrete, emmett, obit

Micahel Denhoff : Textbilder

“Text becomes picture.”



composer, concrete, text

WEN writing, script, language, literature, literary
ZI character, ideogram (pronounced “dzzz”)
WEN ZI writing system, written language, script (pronounced WEN DZZZ)
CONCRETE 具象 JUXIANG, as used in “concrete poetry” or “musique concr怼e”



concrete, digital poetics, sino


Kemeny Babineau


The late sixties and early seventies saw Suknaski produce work for at least ten concrete poetry chapbooks (including two anthologies) while publishing many titles by others (Dennis Lee, Stephen Scobie, bp Nichol, Earle Birney, and Sid Marty, to name a few) as well with his own Elfin Plot Press. He floated poems and magazines rolled up in Al Purdy’s cigar tubes down the North Saskatchewan River. He folded an issue of Elfin Plot into paper airplanes and had them dropped from an aircraft flying north out of Edmonton. He buried others on mountaintops, or left them on beaches melted into tablet-like candles abandoned for strangers: something to light them home. It was undoubtedly actions like these that prompted Douglas Barbour’s wry comment that Elfin Plot was “the most underground of underground magazines.” The output during this time was frenetic, sprawling, brilliant, compulsive and voluminous, especially considering his transitory lifestyle and constant poverty.

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concrete, pioneer, poet