Jun
27
Jun
27
Indivisible Poetry
Ab ovo, it begins. Among the earliest of visual poems were the technopaegnia of the Greeks, feats of technical brilliance laid as text on the page but in the shapes of objects of the world, including the egg.
The egg is a harbinger of birth, a promise of life, a blind eye ready to break open into an unblinking yolk of an iris floating in a glutinous sea that represents the whites of the eye.
The eye has it. The eye defines it.
The egg is a harbinger of birth, a promise of life, a blind eye ready to break open into an unblinking yolk of an iris floating in a glutinous sea that represents the whites of the eye.
The eye has it. The eye defines it.
Jun
26
How to Make Visual Poetry out of This Invitation: The Chained Hay(na)ku Project
HAY(NA)KU = INVITATION
You are cordially invited
by Ivy Alvarez, John Bloomberg-Rissman, Ernesto Priego, and Eileen Tabios
to participate in
THE CHAINED HAY(NA)KU PROJECT!
As authors of single-author poetry hay(na)ku collections, we invite you to collaborate with others to create "chained hay(na)ku" -- a poem based on the hay(na)ku poetic form and created by multiple authors (at least three individual authors).
You are cordially invited
by Ivy Alvarez, John Bloomberg-Rissman, Ernesto Priego, and Eileen Tabios
to participate in
THE CHAINED HAY(NA)KU PROJECT!
As authors of single-author poetry hay(na)ku collections, we invite you to collaborate with others to create "chained hay(na)ku" -- a poem based on the hay(na)ku poetic form and created by multiple authors (at least three individual authors).
Jun
21
How A Visual Poet Might Live
Complete with a video for our edification. Here's a rare glimpse of a visual poet in the mainstream media.
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Jun
20
geofhuthhtuhfoeg
Holiday Inn, Business Center, Saratoga Springs, New York (not yet returned home)
The ambigram is a strange beast. It's a bit of wordplay, but it plays with the visual form of the word (or a phrase), rather than its aural forms or even its intellectual content. It is the perfect bit of wordplay for the visual poet but rarely the true dominion of the visual poet. Instead, it is practiced by typographers, designers, players with shapes.
The ambigram is a strange beast. It's a bit of wordplay, but it plays with the visual form of the word (or a phrase), rather than its aural forms or even its intellectual content. It is the perfect bit of wordplay for the visual poet but rarely the true dominion of the visual poet. Instead, it is practiced by typographers, designers, players with shapes.
Jun
19
Korean Textscape
Kaz Maslanka recently sent me the photograph from his honeymoon of a textscape in Korea because the vista reminded him of me.
After allowing my eyes to wander over these imbricated multi-colored signs, I decided this scene should be called "Information" (though "Dunkin' Donuts" was the obvious second choice). I also noted how the text took over the landscape almost entirely, obliterating the buildings themselves and leaving little room for people.
After allowing my eyes to wander over these imbricated multi-colored signs, I decided this scene should be called "Information" (though "Dunkin' Donuts" was the obvious second choice). I also noted how the text took over the landscape almost entirely, obliterating the buildings themselves and leaving little room for people.
Jun
17
Six Sitting, Two Standing
Last Wednesday, June 13th, I found myself just outside of Buffalo, New York (in Williamsville), only fifteen minutes from Carnegie Arts Center in North Tonawanda, New York, which is exactly where Dan Waber and Jennifer Hill-Kaucher were giving a reading as part of their two-country reading tour. By now, they have also read in Toronto and Ottawa and are on their way to Wisconsin.
Jun
16
Huth Sigil
Today, Mick Boyle sent me a couple of sigils (his term, in this case) based on my surname. A wondrous typoglyph, it becomes my logo tonight
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