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Back to WordArt

Remember WordArt, the font font of the 90s? It's back in Back to WordArt. Check out this fun 18 seconds by Berlin-based artist Mike Ruiz, a.k.a. Mikey Awesome. (via  rhizome)

Vispo by Jukka-Pekka

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Originally uploaded by nonlinear poetry to flickr

Here's new visual poetry by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen from his blog, Nonliner Poetry. Beautiful.

Hot, Piping Bowl of Vispo

As your waiter today, I recommend the soup.  Chris Joseph is a talented chef.

Visual--Sonic--Visceral

Visual poetry by David Baptiste Chirot.  See more of his work at his blog.

Art Scotch Paper

Check out Art Scotch Paper, a website for the cool, the creative.

In Other Words, You See by Nico Vassilakis

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Nonlinear

If you're a visual poet or simply curious, check out Dan Waber's VisPo group and message board.  This month they are sponsoring a weekly contest.   Never tried it before?  It's NaPoWriMo so why not  now?  Here's the winner from the third week of March.  I love love love this visual poem by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen.

The Be Blank Consort

In the "Cross Media" issue of Unlikely 2.0, you can find five compositions by the Be Blank Consort.  The Consort is a collaborative group of experimental writers dedicated to the creation and performance of sound-texts.   You can see their compositions and  listen to them performed as well.

Here's some of their self-description:   'The Consort was formed to perform various kinds of texts, many of them created collaboratively, in ways that would reveal new resonances and possibilities in them. Some of the pieces are poems that were written by one of them and scored for multiple voices by another. A few are entirely written and scored by one person. Many more were written in collaboration between one or more of the performers and others. The goal is to highlight language as music and sound, in addition to its function as a carrier of meaning, and to this end, they have devised various strategies of simultaneity, breaking up of lines,

stretching out of words, choral arrangements, and many others. All of them are also visual poets, and many of the pieces designed for performance are also visual poems.    '

Visual artists and poets of the Be Blank Consort include: Harriet Bart, John M. Bennett, Michael Basinski, Kathy S. Ernst, Philip Gallo, Scott Helmes, Carlos M. Luis, Michael Peters and Wendy Collin Sorin.

OTOLITHS

OTOLITHS specializes in VisPo, visual poetry by a wide range of poem-makers.  The publication's  tagline, a magazine of many e-things, gives editor Mark Young an extra ounce of latitude and so some of the work published is the conventional poem,  made of words alone, without shape or image.  Here is a diptych  by Nico Vassalikas.

SnowGlyphs by Geof Huth

Visual poet Geof Huth is always creating amazing things that I never really imagined possible.  Check out his poems in the snow at Unlikely 2.0.

And if you ever end up in Schenectady, New York, on a snowy day, pay close attention to everything you see.

Stir Fry

Check out five new Stir Fry poems by Marko Niemi (Finland) on Vispo, the visual poetry blog of Jim Andrews.  Niemi's new work combines aspects of web technology, concrete poetry, and visual poetry.  Although aimed more at the head than the heart, the gap between title and text can be intriguing.  For example, "Four Musicians" is a digital riff on the word ECHO.  In order to experience the work, move your mouse across the image.