The New Concrete Poetry & Neo-Concrete Poetry

    "The Seagull's Alphabet" by Geof Huth (New York City) (August 2025)  (Image courtesy of the poet) "The Seagull's Alphabet" & Other Recent Eco-Asemics  & Object Poems by Geof Huth by De Villo Sloan These days writing about esoteric abstractions such as metasmics and patasemics makes it easy for me to forget my first serious asemic theory  to receive attention in our broader community was my writing about eco-asemics: https://asemicfront2.blogspot.com/2024/08/af2-commentary-eco-asemics-revised-by.html When Peter Schwenger was doing the research for his book  Asemic: The Art of Writing  (2019), he contacted me about some of my blog posts where Nancy Bell Scott (Maine, USA) and I had traded tree bark as mail art and called it asemic. Both she and I had been involved in some extensive online discussions about identifying asemic symbols in nature as well as in found material generated by humans.  https://www.amazon.com/Asemic-Art-Writing-Pet...

                                                 From Danny Snelson's project to  "reconstitute" Charles Bernstein's  L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E  (May 2023/25) Danny Snelson is involved in a project, L≠A≠N≠G≠U≠A≠G≠E, using artificial intelligence to "reconstitute" the original magazine published by the Language poets (1978-82) "so that machines might appreciate this 'poetics'". Visit the project here : https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/the-little-database/resource/snelson-9781452973456-r006 Deepest thanks to Christian Bok who originally shared this information at X

Cover of Interrupted Narrative: A Hypergraphic Novel by mIEKAL aND (West Lima, Wisconsin, USA) (Xerox Sutra Editions 2024)  (Image courtesy of the Asemic Front 2 Archive) Review of Interrupted Narrative: A Hypergraphic  Novel  by mIEKAL aND La Farge Wisconsin, USA:  Xerox Sutra Editions 2024 8 X 10 inches; 84 black & white plates Review by De Villo Sloan  I have just recently obtained a copy of mIEKAL aND’s  Interrupted Narrative: A Hypergraphic Novel published in 2024 by Xerox Sutra Editions in La Farge, Wisconsin, USA. I am enjoying perusing this excellent collection and want to register some observations in the official record of my reviews and commentary before at last saying a fond farewell to 2024. The creation of AI-assisted digital vispo (for which mIEKAL aND is receiving much praise) is opening new literary genres. We are witnessing the birth of patasemics, metasemics, conceptualism, quantum poetry, and numerous other new poetic forms and c...

  Cover of  The Autobiography of Ampersand X  by mIEKAL aND  (West Lima, Wisconsin, USA: Xerox Sutra  Editions  2025)   (Image courtesy of Asemic Front 2 Archive)   Review of  The Autobiography of Ampersand X      by mIEKAL aND      West Lima, Wisconsin, USA:      Xerox Sutra Editions 2025      4.5 X 7 inches; 60 color plates https://xexoxial.org/?fbclid=IwY2xjawLpPIdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFiVjlsRTVWSkdERXpOR04wAR54C9NgepS3p65GUNmzol7Sm9aTqt_Nj00rFPQaCJ6iSU7XVTAtyBwSgejCRg_aem_eW--rX3JJzMSJNNHMRtdnA      Review by De Villo Sloan From  The Autobiography of Ampersand X  by mIEKAL aND (West Lima, Wisconsin, USA: Xerox Sutra  Editions  2025)   (Image courtesy of Asemic Front 2 Archive) mIEKAL aND has released a new collection of work,  The Autobiography of Ampersand X,  published by his Xerox Sutra Editions, a major, historically signific...

Concrete sonnet collab by Christian Bok (Alberta, Canada)  & Gregory Betts ( Ontario, Canada).  (Photo courtesy of Christian Bok) New Concrete Poetry blog readers are no doubt aware I have a special interest in vispo and concrete experiments with the sonnet, which you can explore at your leisure in the blog archive.  Canadian visual poet Christian Bok recently collaborated with Gregory Betts to create an impressive new concrete poetry version of a piece from a crown of sonnets by Bok entitled, The Crown of Venom (included in his long poem Xenotext).  Traditionally, a crown is a series of seven intertwined sonnets using repeated lines, rhymes, and themes.  The colorful work above - "The Crown #1" - is the piece Gregory Betts created as a response to Bok's sonnet cycle. ________________ "In an explanation of the collab, Christian Bok writes, 'The Crown #1' by Gregory Betts uses colors to visualize all the syllables that rhyme in the first sonnet from my s...