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 series, which has fascinated an
