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What's on view in a terrifically lively show at the Getty Research Institute has gone by various names — concrete poetry is the most common, but also visual poetry, spatial poetry and imaged words, ...
In the 1950s and ’60s, the counterculture scene, the introduction of typewriters, and a new interest in typographic innovations all converged to form the concrete poetry movement. Visual poets like ...
SANTA CLARITA – Mary Ellen Solt, who used letter and word arrangements to enhance the meaning of a poem and was a leader in the concrete poetry movement, has died. She was 86. Solt died June 21 in ...
In 1974, Marvin and Ruth Sackner began gathering works of “concrete poetry," poems whose words and typography are arranged to convey meaning graphically. But they didn’t know the genre was called ...
Humankind may struggle to find the right words to describe thoughts and feelings but for concrete poets like Scotland's Ian Hamilton Finlay, who once said, ''The mind will always try to make words out ...
In its third year at the Standard Spa Miami Beach’s summer residency, Exile Books is planning a five-course dinner that pairs signature dishes, expertly crafted cocktails, and live poetry performances ...
On March 13, Professor Patrick Greaney will answer these questions by looking at poems from the 1960s and 1970s by Ketty La Rocca and from 2017 by Carlos Soto Román. His talk "What's Concrete about ...
Mary Ellen Solt, a poet and poetry critic who often arranged words on the page in a visual graphic, resulting in such works as “Forsythia,” a poem that looks like a flowering shrub, has died. She was ...
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