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Tag: Visual Poetry
Poetry that incorporates visual aesthetics into linguistic practice.
A Bit of Nostalgia in the Basement
poor books, / I will pick you / up off the carpet / one day
Basement Warm-up
This writing is less the craft heavy and prosody poised work that keeps process hidden behind closed doors of the poet’s writing studio and their intellectual hesitance, and more the freestyle, live over home-made beats push for moments of flow.
Thrall
I am other / sound of thunder
Water Damage
might / watch / the Matrix Trilogy & / drink / a 2 litre
Back Porch Revel
It was high time / I got out of there
Light
Light is a little like…
Against the Grain
These / dots / these evil / deep, dark / drops / I / can’t / stand / them / must / stop / them
Kinda Funny Traced Poems
Funny-ish poems about my morning commute when I lived in Dresden, Humpty Dumpty and a Martian.
Traced Visual Poems
Visual poems that are basically my high school experience.
Break Up Poem
… because I am a fool.
If Ya Wanna Dance with Me
The poem was written over the imagined form of a dancing body, which was followed by tracing the dancer with the help of, you guessed it, my overhead projector.
Overhead Projector Poem-ing 5
For this group of Overhead Projector Poem-ing poems I decided I would take my fancy projector to the Wick Poetry Center.
Something I’m Working On
A project I’m working on that involves a deep fascination with circles that move & live.
A Visual Poem
…and killed the dean’s dog with what we thought were caps.
Hip Hop Influence
Biggie rhyming hippopotamus with preposterous did me in. That was it. I was like, Okay, maybe there is more to sonics than just sonnets and nursery rhymes. Exceptional things happen here.
Major Mistakes I’ve Made in Writing Visual Poetry
Then it drops down a vertical line? Why, Dan? Why?
What a Visual Poem “Should” Show
Either it is a face or it is a cloud. Or maybe it’s a little bit of both.
Constraint in Visual Poetry
Every visual poem is constrained by human sense of what is real, whether physical “laws” or metaphors of abstract concepts.
Visual Poetry and Fun
I mean, you can have a graphic novel about Batman sitting in his bat-cave or you can show him swooping across rooftops.
Some Thoughts on Visual/Concrete Poetry
To view a single letter as a thing unto itself.
Visual Poetry: A Reason Why
Complicated answer:
Wtvr
naked boy outside Jerusalem