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 ...
The Georgia Straight

Letters: Michael Morris and Concrete Poetry is a juicy slice of Vancouver art-making in the 1960s

Los Angeles Letter, a 1968 painting by Michael Morris, encourages you to move back and forth in front of it, catching furtive glimpses of yourself. Rendered in narrow vertical stripes of blue paint, ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Quietus

Concrete Poetry: Robert Montgomery’s Hammersmith Poem

What’s black and white and read all over? The answer is artist, poet, and agitator Robert Montgomery’s monumental new installation called Hammersmith Poem. Unveiled this week at Hammersmith Town Hall, ...
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 ...