The Forward

Concrete Poetry or Shiviti? Four Works by Hank Lazer

Each Thursday, The Arty Semite features excerpts and reviews of the best contemporary Jewish poetry. This week, Jake Marmer introduces four concrete poems by Hank Lazer. If you’ve been to an ...
Hyperallergic

An Eye for Words: Concrete Poets at the Getty

Ian Hamilton Finlay, “You/Me,” lithograph from The Blue and the Brown Poems (New York: Atlantic Richfield Company & Jargon Press, 1968) Concrete Poetry: Words and Sounds in Graphic Space at the Getty ...
Hyperallergic

Getty Acquires Concrete Poetry by Two Modern Pioneers of the Form

Ian Hamilton Finlay, interior of “4 Sails” (1966) (image courtesy of the Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay) Tug, fug, chug, glug — such are the rhyming words used by the writer and artist Ian Hamilton ...
The Nation

The Concrete Poetics of Mary Ellen Solt

Her writing toed the line between fine art and poetry, asking readers to think of language as a multidimensional tool of communication and politics. If you ask a poet what poetry is, these are the ...