The New Concrete Poetry & Neo-Concrete Poetry

  "August Sonata in Si Bemol" by Avelino de Araujo  (Brazil) (NCP  9.5.2024) "Don't trust the algorithim" by Luz Otxoa (Colombia)  (August 2024) (NCP  9.6.2024) "New York Public Library" (June 2024) by Nick Piombino  (New York City  USA)  ( NCP 10.1.2024) "Variations on a Non-Theme Piece N. 8 B" by Federico Federici (Italy) (July 2024) Courtesy of Federico Federici &  Weisses Werk)  (NCP  9.12.2024) "Tribute to Kurt Schwitters" by TicTac Patrizia (Germany)  (March 2024)  (NCP  9.18.2024) "The (Poetic) Formation Process of the 'J' apanese Arch 'i' pelago"  by Takahiro Sawamura (Japan) (September 2024)  (NCP  9.18.2024) "Stoen 254: in this act contained" by Geof Huth  (North Carolina,  USA)  (September 2024)  (NCP  9.8.2024) "Experimenting with new material" by Ankie Van Dijk  (Netherlands)  (June 2024)  (NCP  9.25.24) "A Sonnet for Thomas Merton" by Mirlo...

"Untitled" by Jeff Nimp (France)  (December 2024)  (Image courtesy of the artist) "Sinistre" by Jeff Nimp (December 2024)  (Image courtesy of the artist) "Untitled" by Jeff Nimp (November 2024)  (Image courtesy of the artist) "Untitled" by Jeff Nimp  (August 2024)  (Image courtesy of the artist) "Untitled" by Jeff Nimp  (November 2024)  (Image courtesy of the artist) "Untitled" by Jeff Nimp  (August 2024)  (Image courtesy of the artist) "Pourquoi faites-vous cela?"" by Jeff Nimp  (July 2024)  (Image courtesy of the artist)

By Miekal And (West Lima, Wisconsin, USA) (December 2024)  (Image courtesy of the artist) The New Concrete Poetry & AI Like many other visual and concrete poets, I follow with great interest poets and other experimentalists using tools of artificial intelligence to express their visions and push boundaries.  Lanny Quarles' (Texas, USA) AI-assisted work appears regularly on  Asemic Front 2.  mIEKAL  aND recently shared results of his collab with ChatGPT to create a 750-word post avant poem "in the style of mIEKAL aND." The implications for composition are epoch-changing. Throughout his career, mIEKAL aND has been at the forefront embracing new technologies & concepts. As one of our leading visual poets, he is an ideal guide into the new concrete. - De Villo Sloan December 11, 2024 By Miekal And (December 2024)  (Image courtesy of the artist) By Miekal And (December 2024)  (Image courtesy of the artist) By Miekal And (December 2024)  (Image ...

Cover of Collected by Charlotte Jung (Sweden: Timglaset 2023)  (Image courtesy of the artist) Essay/review -  Collected: Concrete Poems  by Charlotte Jung   Malmo, Sweden: Timglaset (2023)   124 pages, perfect bound, 7” X 8”   Review by De Villo Sloan   In preparing to write this essay on the minimalist poetry of Charlotte Jung, I have been greatly assisted by the publication of Collected: Concrete Poems by Charlotte Jung . This edition was released in 2023 by Timglaset, the acclaimed Swedish publisher of postavant lit. Collected gathers the majority of Jung’s minimalist compositions to date, including the contents of entire chapbooks and longer sequences, among them C (2019), (SEED) (Timglaset 2020), Hole Being (No Press 2021), and RAPE ( The Blasted Tree 2022), among others. This substantial volume does much to establish Jung as an important, innovative minimalist poet of the 21 st century. Readers of contemporary visual poetr...

Excerpt from A B C D E (2021) by Charlotte Jung (Stockholm, Sweden)  (Image courtesy of the artist) I am thrilled to welcome visual poet Charlotte Jung to the international list of poets and artists who are making The New Concrete Poetry blog an increasingly popular location to see the latest work in this exciting genre. Two goals of mine have intersected in this post: (1) I want to devote more attention to minimalist concrete poetry and (2) I have been very impressed by the minimalist work of Charlotte Jung. Charlotte and I are correspondents. Thanks to her kindness, we can look forward to seeing her exciting innovations.  The selections here come from Charlotte's chapbook A B C D E published by Trombone in Gothenburg, Sweden, in their Svavel Series (23) (2021). - De Villo Sloan October 30, 2024 Excerpt from  A B C D E  (2021) by Charlotte Jung (Image courtesy of the artist) Excerpt from  A B C D E  (2021) by Charlotte Jung (Image courtesy of the artist...

 "Soneto Mesmice" by Karlos Chapul (Ribeirao Petro, Brazil) (2015)  (Image courtesy of the artist)

  "Untitled (ink on paper)" by Hilde Vandenhout, (Sint-Niklass, Belgium)  (October 2024) (Photo courtesy of the artist)