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 ...

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 ...

It is in these poems of his local travels that we find, side by side, the photographs taken by Kilates himself, another testament to his love affair with the visual MANILA, Philippines – What if ...

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 ...

Visual poetry can be defined as poetry that is meant to be seen. Combining painting and poetry, it attempts to synthesize the principles underlying each discipline. Visual poems are immediately ...

MANILA, Philippines — The multiple differences among us are mathematical truths that are either conspicuously existing on us or impeccably concealed inside us. We live in diverse colors, shapes, sizes ...

Visual arts faced a monumental challenge in Abrahamic milieus. The Divine was now hidden in the unfathomable realm of utter transcendence — a phenomenon known among Sufis as tanzeeh (literally, ...