YouTube VisPo
The poet (and visual poet) Nick Carbo has started a “Visual Poetry” group at YouTube, the most famous online venue for amateur video clips. I joined upon being invited and spent a tiny part of tonight poking around the site. I can’t say I’ve developed a good sense of the modern videopoem by clicking on a few of the videos in this group, but there’s quite a bit of experimentation here. And everyone’s methods appear remarkably different. I wouldn’t classify some of this as visual poetry (for instance, a few examples of spoken poetry over video images), but in general this is a real visual poetry site.
Among my favorites from tonight’s clickings were two by Gary Barwin. His “Antinomy for the Eclipse” slowly and carefully deconstructs the tiniest of texts, while his “Unvention” (which actually doesn’t seem to be one of the Visual Poetry group’s thirty-nine poems) teaches us the beauty of swirling ourselves.
One of the bloggers I tagged yesterday has responded with five little known facts about himself. Behold Bob Grumman.
ecr. l’inf.
1 comments:
"Unvention" is great until that second i shows up -- i just liked the simplicity of an i winding into a spiral.
--endwar
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