In 1974, Marvin and Ruth Sackner began gathering works of “concrete poetry," poems whose words and typography are arranged to convey meaning graphically. But they didn’t know the genre was called ...

First Light” by CAConrad is part of Bold Type, a new design series at Poetry Foundation emphasizing the visual impact of the ...

The course of true love never did run smooth, Shakespeare tells us, and the same can be said for “Vou: Visual Poetry Tokio 1958-1978,” a new book from Isobar Press. First conceived in the late 1990s ...

While poetry is often thought of as ink on paper, the work of concrete poets blurs the lines between written work and visual art. The University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections is the new home ...

Like many people, poet Holly Lyn Walrath created all kinds of visual art as a kid in school. Drawings, finger paintings — you name it. But, like many of us do as we grow up, she abandoned it after ...

Ask Vallo Riberto and Kazmier Maslanka to explain what separates “mathematical visual poetry” from other text-based art movements and you’ll get any number of answers. Words like “algebraic” and ...

The baton for Norman’s Poet Laureate has officially been passed to David Smith, who many in the poetry community may know as spontaneous bob. Norman became the first town in Oklahoma to have a poet ...

This graphic image was created on Canva software. In honor of National Poetry Month, the Parkersburg Art Center will hold its second annual Poetry and Art event in the Main Gallery at 6 p.m. Saturday.