The New Concrete Poetry & Neo-Concrete Poetry

Cover of  Analog Glitch  by Lova Delis (Ohio, USA)  (Photo courtesy of Asemic Front Archives) Review:  Analog Glitch by Lova Delis (Curated by Kristine Snodgrass) Tallahassee, Florida, USA:  Anhinga Press Visual Poetry Series 10 X 7 inches, 58 pages Review by De Villo Sloan "For the bad bitch in us all..." - Lova Delis,  Analog Glitc h intro Asemic Front 2  readers sometimes ask why I only "publish good reviews."  Indeed, I like to accentuate the positive and share my enthusiasm for innovative and creative work that crosses my path. Amazing things are happening in the visual poetry and asemic communities. But sometimes I see things so egregious, poorly conceived and financially and spiritually bankrupt that I am compelled to break the silence. The fledgling Anhinga Press Visual Poetry Series has churned out a half dozen, expensively produced and weighty tomes with little to no promotion. Each new release, in the estimation of this reviewer, grows ...

"The Spectacle" by Nick Piombino (New York City)  (June 2025)  (Photo courtesy of the artist) "Pop-Up" by Nick Piombino  (June 2025)  (Photo courtesy of the artist) "What?" by Nick Piombino  (June 2025)  (Photo courtesy of the artist) "RA" by Nick Piombino  (June 2025)  (Photo courtesy of the artist) "Go" by Nick Piombino (New York City, USA)  (June 2025) (Photo courtesy of the artist) "$5" by Nick Piombino  (June 2025)  (Photo courtesy of the artist)

  To be published August 19, 2025 by the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Press: The Complete Stein Poems by Jackson Mac Low A landmark publication in computer-generated poetry drawn from the works of Gertrude Stein. The Stein poems of Jackson Mac Low (1922–2004) were written between 1998 and 2003. Comprising more than 500 pages of text, this edited series of 161 poems—most of them never published—is the poet’s last great work, composed during the final years of a lifetime of prolific creation. The raw material of each poem was produced through Mac Low’s diastic text-selection method of reading through passages of either Ulla E. Dydo’s  A Stein Reader  or a corrected version of Gertrude Stein’s  Tender Buttons .  Guided by Charles O. Hartman’s 1994 DIASTEX5 computer program, which replicates the diastic method first developed by Mac Low in 1963, the process requires that words be drawn sequentially from the source text in accordance with their rule-dr...

  "databending" by Kristen Szumyn (Sydney, Australia) (June 2025)  (Image courtesy of the artist) "untitled" by Kristen Szumyn (June 2025)  (Image courtesy of the artist) "found stamp" by Kristen Szumyn (May 2025)  (Image courtesy of the artist) "Untitled" by Kristen Szumyn (June 2025)  (Image courtesy of the artist) "'Introduction à l’Esthétique Imaginaire ou Mémoire sur la  particule  infinitésimale'  from the archives;  still   shot  from the short  film for De Villo Sloan"  by Kristen Szumyn (May 2025)  (Image courtesy of the artist) "found stamp" by Kristen Szumyn (June 2025)  (Image courtesy of the artist)

"The Spectacle of our Decomposition" by Robin Tomens (London, UK)  (June 2025)  (Image courtesy of the poet) "What is a word, really?" by Robin Tomens  (June 2025)   (Image courtesy of the poet) "I read a book" by Robin Tomens  (June 2025)   (Image courtesy of the poet) "Interplanetary Construction" by Robin Tomens  (May 2025)   (Image courtesy of the poet) "Normal Linguistic Exchange" by Robin Tomens  (June 2025)   (Image courtesy of the poet) "We think" by Robin Tomens  (June 2025)   (Image courtesy of the poet)

By Stephen Nelson (Hamilton, Scotland, UK) (May 2025)  (Image courtesy of the poet) By Stephen Nelson (May 2025)  (Image courtesy of the poet) By Stephen Nelson (May 2025)  (Image courtesy of the poet) By Stephen Nelson (May 2025) (Image courtesy of the poet) By Stephen Nelson (May 2025)  (Image courtesy of the poet)