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  Comic Theory 101: Visual Poetry | COMIXTALK
Neil Cohn writes and researches on the cognition behind the visual language of "comics," and is currently a graduate student in Psychology at Tufts University.
The components of your visual poetry seem to be based on panel selection and formatting according to the quantity and nature of 'entities'.
In literary poetry, a distinction is made between prose by the use of certain forms and rules regarding meter, rhyme scheme and other elements.
comixtalk.com /comic_theory_101_visual_poetry   (3296 words)

  
  COMPUTER GENERATED POETRY AND VISUAL ARTS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Visual poetry is a genre that has a long and varied history since the time of the ancient Greeks to the latest experiments with animated texts and hypertext poems.
In the case of Visual Poetry, the inclusion of the computer into that arena results in a change in the nature of the way in which the poems are received by the audience, and a change in the nature of poetry itself.
This poetry is poetry to be seen, and what makes it different from a canvas or a picture is the motion, the dynamic component that is incorporated into the poems, and that is achieved with the help of the computer used as a tool in the artistic course of action.
www.cs.bham.ac.uk /~nxm/mscPoetry/survey/CGPoetry.htm   (9790 words)

  
 Visual Poetry from Clemente Padin's "Art and People: Latin American Art In Our Time"
Visual poetry, a synthesis of centuries of poetic experimentation (recall the poems of Simias of Rhodes and Theocritus of Syracuse, around 300 AD), reaches an unusual point of development at the beginning of the 1950s.
In this formal aspect, visual poetry, stemming from lettrism, had already freed itself of signification, although in general the forms it utilized were letters next to other visual elements.
Thus, the spectator or "reader" of visual poetry is in a situation of genuine relationship with the work through his knowledge and through the elements that this contributes, making real his option to decide whether or not it has living value for him, without pre-established judgements or impositions of any kind.
www.concentric.net /~Lndb/padin/lcpapvis.htm   (490 words)

  
 dbqp: visualizing poetics: Mafioso or Seafood Visual Poetry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
But this is a wonderful choice for a zine that is so full of visual poetry, because it itself is something of a found visual poem.
A kaleidoscopic review of visual poetry and related forms of art over the centuries, joined with the recollections of one contemporary visual poet.
"dbqp: visualizing poetics" is a weblog that focuses on discussions of contemporary and historical visual poetry and other types of verbo-visual art (comics and visual prose).
dbqp.blogspot.com /2004/05/mafioso-or-seafood-visual-poetry.html   (629 words)

  
 esono.com - Poetry on the Road 2006
Poetry on the Road is an international literature festival which is held every year in Bremen, Germany.
While the theme itself is changing, the underlying idea for the visuals is always the same: All graphics are generated by a computer program that turns texts into images.
So the poems of each wirter are introduced by an abstract visual representation of themselves.
www.esono.com /boris/projects/poetry06   (351 words)

  
 Visual Poetry Clippings
Arrigo Lora Totino is a leader of the concrete poetry movement in Italy.
Visual Voices is nothing short of a tour de force in fiddling with the knobs of the poem as a print object.
The Poetry of Subtraction versus the Poetry of Accretion
vispo.blogspot.com   (729 words)

  
 Visual Poetry Clippings: November 2004
I don't like the sound of "visual poet laureate," nor the fact that we'd be representing the country in bestowing the honor if it were named that, so propose we give instead an award called the d.a.levy award for visual poetry.
What I like about using "textual" and "visual" poetry is that neither is taking ownership of the word poetry.
Poetry is everyone's to dissect and enjoy, but no one's to own.
vispo.blogspot.com /2004_11_01_vispo_archive.html   (138 words)

  
 Perihelion
Importantly, visual language is reduced language; this is achieved primarily through an acute awareness of graphic space as a structural agent within the composition of the piece.
The concrete poetry movement of the 1950s and 1960s had its roots both in Surrealism and Dada and prior to that in the writings of the French symbolists, especially Apollinaire.
Discontinuous space computer poetry is where the static presentation of the three-dimensional space of a poem is broken down into different spaces that may or may not overlap in space or time.
www.webdelsol.com /Perihelion/p-theory.htm   (1310 words)

  
 COS - Revista FACE - From visual to sound poetry: the technologizing of the word   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The matrix of visual is the domain where painting and visual arts flourishes, likewise the music develops itself in the matrix of sound.
In the field of poetry, verbal sign is put in connection with visual ones, giving place to all varieties of visual poetry (like the futurists' tavole parolibere, the dada's optophonetic poems, the surrealists' object poems, concretism, Italian visive poetry and so on).
Considering that poetry is yet a special form of organisation of signs, I tried to establish a frame of organisation of visual poems.
www.pucsp.br /~cos-puc/face/s1_1998/poesia2.htm   (3231 words)

  
 Studies in Canadian Literature
Visual poetry is not the startling new and unorthodox linguistic phenomenon that many think it to be.
By providing a brief historical account of the international concrete movement in poetry and then examining several Canadian examples of concrete poetry, I hope to draw attention to the values of this all-too-frequently misunderstood art form as it is practiced by some of our most talented Canadian poets.
Captain Poetry stands for the traditional usages of language, and his destruction is the destruction of language.
www.lib.unb.ca /Texts/SCL/bin/get.cgi?directory=vol2_2/&filename=david.htm   (3212 words)

  
 ImageChef - Visual Poetry for MySpace or Email Greetings
ImageChef - Visual Poetry for MySpace or Email Greetings
Write a comment or poem in the shape of hearts or other symbols.
Keep me up to date with news from ImageChef.
www.imagechef.com /ic/poem   (75 words)

  
 Light & Dust Anthology of Poetry -- An ongoing, pluralistic anthology of contemporary poetry, which includes complete ...
Poetry and commentary on one of Africa's foremost post-colonial poets,
Although written as a popular introduction to one of the many directions in contemporary visual poetry, this essay is worth reading by anyone sincerely interested in literary art as a whole.
The Visual Poetry of bpNichol; a Brief Sketch.
www.thing.net /~grist/l%26d/lighthom.htm   (1650 words)

  
 generator press   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Visual poetry is a hybrid artform which stresses the look of the poem on the page.
Visual poetry accentuates the flicker of the mind moving between these
'Post-Poetic' poetry, or electronic art using any available digital tools to create any sort of production that mixes and blurs the notions of categories previously held to be separate, such as the fine arts, entertainment, engineering, science, politics, and religion.
www.generatorpress.com /pages/2   (382 words)

  
 Performance Poetry Links
Speaking of Charles Reznikoff's poetry, poet George Oppen once remarked: "I don't know of any poems more pure, or more purely spoken, or more revelatory." For those not already familiar with the work of Reznikoff, or for those who feel like a return visit, this is the site.
The term ‘concrete poetry’ is generally used to refer to a variety of innovations and experiments following WW2 which revolutionised the art of poetry on a global scale and enlarged the possibilities for expression and communication.
Poetry Hi-Fi is a rather exciting place on the web to read and listen to poems by some of the best exponents of slam and performance.
www.suite101.com /links.cfm/4847   (6738 words)

  
 Kaldron Home Page -- Begun in the early 70s, Kaldron is the longest running magazine of visual poetry, or concrete ...
One of the goals of Kaldron and of Light and Dust is to present poetry as fully as possible in context.
Includes visual poetry, book art, paintings, lexical poetry, and criticism: A holistic approach to this major figure.
Although written as a popular introduction to one of the many strands of contemporary visual poetry, this essay is worth reading by anyone sincerely interested in literary art as a whole.
www.thing.net /~grist/l&d/kaldron.htm   (891 words)

  
 Concrete Poetry: Links, Books, Indexes, and Info.   By Michael P. Garofalo.     .
of Visual and Concrete Poetry is housed at the University of Pennsylvania Library.
Typoems Concrete and visual poems by Anna Maria Uribe.
Visual Poetry in Latin America By Harry Polinkhorn.
www.gardendigest.com /concrete/concr1.htm   (2585 words)

  
 Visual poetry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
D To relate the area of art with the workshop of visual poetry
E To relate the area of computing with the workshop of visual poetry
F To simulate the creativity and the fantasy of the children working the link of the visual image (drawing, order of the words etc, and the meaning of the words).
www.spurvelundskolen.odense.dk /visual_poetry.htm   (753 words)

  
 dbqp: visualizing poetics: Clipblogging Visual Poetry
Even as I accumulate information on visual poetry in my brain, I keep losing hold of some of it.
To try to retard that process of loss and as a further attempt to promote visual poetry, I have put together an informal clipblog on the topic of visual poetry.
Language and the atoms of language with a significant visual component.
dbqp.blogspot.com /2004/08/clipblogging-visual-poetry.html   (125 words)

  
 poems that GO : links
Historical Sound Poetry Scores: Pierre Albert-Birot, Hugo Ball, Giacomo Balla, Fortunato Depero, and F.T. Marinetti are included in this collection of early twentieth century sound poetry scores with accompanying mp3's and links to further resources.
You enter the verbs and nouns, choose your visual background, and a poem is generated.
Felix Jung's Round is a visual performance of music sung in rhythmic intervals.
www.poemsthatgo.com /links.htm   (1745 words)

  
 Open Directory - Arts: Literature: Poetry: Contemporary: Visual and Concrete   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Christy Sheffield Sanford Home Page - Moving visual poetry onto the web, Sanford may be the first completely mature web-specific visual poet.
Images and Poetry by Eric Morris - Poems and associated images by Eric Morris, mainly on the I Ching.
Workshop with Hungarian Visual Poets - Poetry by Maria Hegedus, Tibor Papp, Gabor Toth and others, most publishing in Hungarian Workshop magazine, which helped keep a sense of community going, even when some of these poets lived in exile.
dmoz.org /Arts/Literature/Poetry/Contemporary/Visual_and_Concrete   (535 words)

  
 Brazilian Digital Art and Poetry on the Web compiled by Jorge Luiz Antonio
It is the way to show the electronic poetry and art's beginnings.
It is very important to emphasize this is a work in progress list and, in being so, some people are going to be included little by little.
Poetics and Visuality: a trajectory of Contemporary Brazilian Poetry by Philadelpho Menezes.
www.vispo.com /misc/BrazilianDigitalPoetry.htm   (1401 words)

  
 AlienFlower.org: Where poetry-lovers practice poetry. | Janan Young
Poetry is a complex, yet beautiful art; your site clarifies the intricacies of poetry and makes it so much more accessible to everyone."
We are looking to expand our site to include poetry and visual art about fruit.
For decades I wrote songs, stories, and insanely long letters about books and ideas and love (which is sometimes an idea and other times the embodiment of thoughtlessness).
www.alienflower.org   (553 words)

  
 Mocambopo Home Mocambopo Home Poetry Prose Performance literature poetics writing novels novelists poets Canadian ...
Award-winning poet Patrick Lane is editor of this remarkable new anthology of poetry featuring Canada's most revered writers alongside emerging poets and brand new voices - all readers at the Mocambopo reading series in Victoria, BC.
At the Pacific edge of the country, at the southern tip of Vancouver Island, Victoria, BC is home to one of Canada's most vibrant literary communities.
In a crowded small room, an eclectic assortment of poetry enthusiasts from all walks of life, drop their weekday identities and release the poet within.
www.geocities.com /mocambopo   (437 words)

  
 Riding the Meridian: Sound/Text by Bob Cobbing
is one of the great sound and visual poets, still producing after over half a century of innovative work.
Cobbing has single-handedly and single-mindedly changed the way we view poetry, opening up the possibilities available to poets.
In addition to making his own poetry, and to publishing the work of others, Cobbing has also been active in the promotion of poetry through a variety of organisations and associations, official and ad hoc.
www.heelstone.com /meridian/cobbingsolo/cobbing.html   (228 words)

  
 The Drunken Boat Spring/Summer 2005
Poetry is a very strange art form, almost a voice afraid of itself.
“Poetry has always felt a little lonely, needed some kind of accompaniment.
That was the original impetus of the poetry, and of the sax, to find a way to sing.
www.thedrunkenboat.com   (264 words)

  
 Gallery Guide - Visual Poetry: Paintings and Drawings from Iran
Hidden within the pages of scientific, historical, or poetic texts, intricately designed images have formed an integral part of Persian manuscripts since at least the thirteenth century.
They illustrate particular moments in the narrative and enhance the overall visual beauty of a work.
In the latter part of the fifteenth century, the relationship between word and image became increasingly relaxed.
www.asia.si.edu /exhibitions/online/VisualPoetry   (173 words)

  
 Is It A Book? | Bibliography | Concrete & Visual Poetry, Calligrams|
An anthology of concrete poetry, compiled by Emmett Williams.
Concrete poetry : an annotated international bibliography, with an index of poets and poems.
Newell, Kenneth B. Pattern poetry : a historical critique from the Alexandrian Greeks to Dylan Thomas.
www.philobiblon.com /isitabook/bibconcrete.html   (527 words)

  
 Writer Info
Her poetry and visual art have been widely published in hundreds of print and online magazines and anthologies.
As an exhibiting visual artist, her visual poetry and poetry/dance videos have been seen online, at film and video festivals, cable access tv and in print publications.
Kristy Odelius is finishing up the PhD in poetry at UIC; she has been teaching a combo of composition, literature and poetry workshops there for the past four years.
www.moriapoetry.com /writer.htm   (11682 words)

  
 The Gates Of Paradise   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
A series of visual poems that are between the limit
This gallery of visual, concrete, and sound poetry is an international oasis of contemporary and historic avant-garde work and associated scholarly resources.
The expansive blue-and-orange archive includes sound pieces by Artaud, Cocteau, and Tzara; "found + insane" poems; a diverse garden of exuberant "opems" by Michael Basinski, David Daniels' transubstantial "Gates Of Paradise", and intriguing texts by Kenneth Goldsmith, Vaclav Havel, Mark Peters, and others.
www.thegatesofparadise.com   (308 words)

  
 Visual Poetry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Poetry is supposed to project images in your mind.
This works fastest, but is visually not as nice as the stand alone program.
Old school poetry by A.E. Housman: I liked the result of several of his poems in Visual Poetry.
douweosinga.com /projects/visualpoetry   (1664 words)

  
 Omniseek: /Arts & Humanities /Poetry /Contemporary /Visual and Concrete Poetry /
Documentation of a visual poetry show curated by Philadelpho Menezes in Sao Paulo, Brasil, this site provides many examples from around the world.
Poetry by Maria Hegedus, Tibor Papp, Gabor Toth and others, most publishing in Hungarian Workshop magazine, which helped keep a sense of community going, even when some of these poets lived in exile.
Visual and Concrete Poetry Magazines With Poetry Spoken Word Help Inspiration Forums/Critique English Haiku Visual and Concrete Poetry Cyberpoetry (The Mining...
www.omniseek.com /srch/{13278}   (635 words)

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