Visual poetry

My mind is a mess I can't escape Visual Poetry

by Brett Vogelsinger When it comes to concrete poetry, students are often impressed with its combination of simplicity and cleverness. And that's the thing about concrete poems: like masterful acrobats or skateboarders or dancers, they make artful maneuvers look easy. As some people work on movement to play with gravity, the concrete poet plays with negative space, the blank page, and the shape of words in original and sometimes humorous ways. One of my favorite concrete poets is Bob Raczka…

I recently came back to this fun way of writing after about 10 years. I loved creating slightly abstract poems in college by way of black out or cut out poetry, but somewhere along the way, it got lost. My wonderful friend Bee reminded me of it in one of her Patreon posts, and one evening after work, I spotted some books for free on somebody's wall. I took one home. I didn't want to read that book, but I did want to cut it up and make something of my own. I spent an evening cutting out any…

Concrete Poetry

»ART is THE END« by will ashford

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From Jerrod Schwarz’s erasure of Trump’s inaugural speech to Niina Pollari’s blackouts of the N-400 citizenship form, contemporary poets are engaging with the world through text, creating new and…

Zohra Hussain │ Collage Poetry on Instagram: “I used prompts: repetition by @shivanixagrawal palmful for @letsescapril.”