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 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 ...
Santa Barbara Independent

Review | ‘Concrete Poetry: A 21st-Century Anthology,’ Edited by Nancy Perloff

Compare an accomplished short poem of several hundred characters — say Seamus Heaney’s “Wedding Day” — with just about any concrete poem of the same length, and you’ll quickly realize what the former ...
Seven Days

Word on the Street Project to Set Poetry in Concrete

In a few years’ time, stanzas of poetry will dot the town of Middlebury like X’s marking hidden gems on a treasure map. By the end of next year alone, five original poems will be engraved into the ...
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 ...
Los Angeles Times

Mary Ellen Solt, 86; a leader in the concrete poetry movement

Mary Ellen Solt, a poet and poetry critic who often arranged words on the page in a visual graphic, resulting in such works as “Forsythia,” a poem that looks like a flowering shrub, has died. She was ...