Two Homages: For Mary Ellen Solt by Joel Lipman (Ohio, USA) & for Paul Celan by Cheryl Penn (South Africa)
"Homage for Mary Ellen Solt" by Joel Lipman (Ohio, USA) (December 2025) (Image courtesy of the artist) Earlier this week I was excited to see visual poets Joel Lipman and Cheryl Penn had both digitally published impressive homages to two important figures in poetry, experimental literature, and visual poetry: Joel created a piece for Mary Ellen Solt and Cheryl – always a fan of great European poetry – produced an impressive work honoring Paul Celan. Mary Ellen Solt (1920-2007) earned a master’s degree in literature from the University of Iowa. She became one of the most important leaders of the global concrete poetry movement of the 1960s, co-editing the influential and classic anthology Concrete Poetry: A Worldview (Indiana University Press 1968). Learn more about Mary Ellen Solt, including Concrete Poetry: A Worldview at Ubu: https://www.ubu.com/papers/solt/index.html Solt’s concrete poetry collections, Flowers in Concrete a...