Visual poetry

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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…

serena ♡ on Instagram: "visual poetry ¹ used a typewriter to layer “the sun” repeatedly making the shape of the sun ⁷ To Be Found written by me published in zine Seeing Sun Spots"

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

The hardest part about writing poetry is choosing the right words. Use a paper or magazine as raw material to get over the first hurdle.

blacked out words, poem, text on a page.

Learn all about the art of visual poetry and how to craft your own!

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the project, the artist is releasing new prints with created through the historic medium of letterpress.