In this hands-on studio, participants create short visual poems using newspapers/magazines alongside archival facsimiles from the Martha Jackson Gallery Archives (letters, exhibition ephemera, ...

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 ...

Rickshaw poetry in Pakistan. D.Kazi, CC BY-NC-ND Whose mischief created a world of beseechers? Each petitioner is seen wearing a garment of paper This line from the famous Mughul poet Ghalib refers to ...

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 ...

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 ...