The New Concrete Poetry & Neo-Concrete Poetry

  "Escombros Subitos" by Luz Otxoa (Spain) (September 2024)  (Image courtesy of the artist) "Using metafore for anything" by Luz Otxoa (September 2024)  (Image courtesy of the artist) "peace or pieces" by Luz Otxoa (September 2024)  (Image courtesy of the artist) "Bouche de Feu" by Luz Otxoa (September 2024)  (Image courtesy of the artist) "Stretching Pulse" by Luz Otxoa (September 2024)  (Image courtesy of the artist)

  "..en.." by Ankie Van Dijk (Baarle-Nassau, Netherlands) (September 2024)  (Photo courtesy of the artist) "My typewriter is missing '1', '0', and '='. Had to improvise." by Ankie Van Dijk  (July 2024)  (Photo courtesy of the artist) "12 X 8 cm." by Ankie Van Dijk  (June 2024)  (Photo courtesy of the artist) "Experimenting with new material" by Ankie Van Dijk  (June 2024)  (Photo courtesy of the artist) "Playing with a typewriter" by Ankie Van Dijk  (June 2024)  (Photo courtesy of the artist)

"A Sonnet for Thomas Merton" by Mirlo Blanco (Chiapas, Mexico)  (September 2024) (Image courtesy of the artist) "Untitled" by Mirlo Blanco (August 2024)  (Image courtesy of the artist) "Untitled" by Mirlo Blanco  (September 2024)  (Image courtesy of the artist)                                                                                      el lenguaje                                                                                      no tiene vida    ...

"The (Poetic) Formation Process of the 'J' apanese Arch 'i' pelago"  by Takahiro Sawamura (Kyoto, Japan) (September 2024) "Problem"  by Takahiro Sawamura (August 2024) "Space World" by Takahiro Sawamura (September 2024) "Connect One Text Extent To No Control" by Takahiro Sawamura  (September 2024) "Elastic Poem" by Takahiro Sawamura  (September 2024) "Ecosystem" by Takahiro Sawamura  (August 2024)

  "Tribute to Kurt Schwitters" by TicTac Patrizia (Germany)  (March 2024)  (Photo courtesy of the artist) "Vertical Thought 67: Going places" by TicTac Patrizia (September 2024)  (Photo courtesy of the artist) "Vertical Thought 66: Tell me more" by TicTac Patrizia  (September 2024)  (Photo courtesy of the artist) "Portable Dictionary" by TicTac Patrizia  (August 2023)  (Photo courtesy of the artist) "Permanently Untitled" by TicTac Patrizia  (April 2024)  (Photo courtesy of the artist) "Vertical Thought 58: "Survival mode" by TicTac Patrizia  (November 2023)  (Photo courtesy of the artist)

  "Untitled " by John Richard McConnochie  (Gold Coast, Queensland,  Australia)  (September 2024) "Untitled " by John Richard McConnochie  (September 2024) "Passing Thought " by John Richard McConnochie  (July 2024) From "Quartet" " by John Richard McConnochie  (September 2024) From "Quartet [2]" " by John Richard McConnochie  (September 2024)

"Easy Seamless Score for Rain Burst" by Federico Federici  (June 2024) (Courtesy of Federico Federici &  Weisses Werk) "Writing in Response to a Request of a Written Text" by Federico Federici  (Italy)  (June 2024)  (Courtesy of Federico Federici &  Weisses Werk) "Before and After Learning" by Federico Federici (September 2024)  (Courtesy of Federico Federici &  Weisses Werk) "Variations on a Non-Theme Piece N. 8 B" by Federico Federici  (July 2024)  (Courtesy of Federico Federici &  Weisses Werk) "The Patient's Records" by Federico Federici  (June 2024) (Courtesy of Federico Federici &  Weisses Werk)

  "Stoen 254: in this act contained" by Geof Huth  (Newport, North Carolina, USA) (September 2024)  Recent Object Poems by Geof Huth    By De Villo Sloan   In my previous New Concrete interview with visual poet Terri Witek, I provided a context by sharing my observations about what I believe to be the emergence of a new iteration of an age-old poetic practice: Object Poetry. The New Object poem is likely to be three-dimensional and is often composed of randomly found, inexpensive materials. Various art, literature and music movements grounded in Neo-Concretism have had a powerful influence on recent developments in this postavant genre. Members of Fluxus exchanged Object Poems via their mail art network. Most New Object poems are shared in an environment of digital poetics. "In the milieu of New Object Poetry, there is no mediating poetic text. Simply   stated: The object IS the poem. Text might or might not be used." In the milieu of New Obje...

  materiality: empty mirror/v  by Terri Witek  (Florida, USA) (2024) The New Object Poetry & Terri Witek's  materiality series by De Villo Sloan In my articles on  Asemic Front 2  and elsewhere, I have noted the appearance of a new form of object poetry in the highly digital environment of contemporary concrete poetry, visual poetry and asemic writing. In this milieu, there is no mediating poetic text other than documentation. Simply stated: The object IS the poem, as Louis Zukofsky suggested in his writing about Objectivist poetry. I have been observing many permutations of the new object poetry with keen interest. While intrigued, I feel the best way to understand this potential new genre is to begin by asking the poets themselves. Terri Witek and Geof Huth have captured my interest for several years with their innovative object poems; I recommend their work. For my first foray into the subject, I interviewed Terri Witek about her  materiality se...