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    I-765

    By Hermelinda Hernandez Monjaras
    Under the header Other Names Used are a series of collaged labels from a form with boxes filled in with poetic text. Under the header Other information are two boxes. One asks for the alien registration number. The answer is filled in as antigravity. The other asks for the SSN and is filled in as antisocial. Under a collaged header with the text Your Countries Citizen Nation Place of Birth are several boxes filled in with poetic text.
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    I-765

    By Hermelinda Hernandez Monjaras
  • Poem

    There’s No Meaning: A Repeating Poem

    By Afrizal Malna
    Translated By Daniel Owen
    WORKSHOP 5: MY CAPTIVE

    its voice’s echo comes back to make a sound wall
    of its voice
    standing in a circle
    in front of a globe full of time traps
    fingers that clutch a rat
  • Poem

    Tidak Ada Artinya: Satu Puisi Berulang

    By Afrizal Malna
    WORKSHOP 5: TAWANAN AKU

    gema suaranya kembali lagi membuat dinding bunyi
    dari suaranya
    berdiri melingkar
    di depan bulatan penuh perangkap waktu
    jari-jari yang menggenggam tikus
  • Poem

    Spyrytual

    By Russell Atkins
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    Oh did
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  • Poem

    M

    By Aram Saroyan
    Typewritten lowercase m with an extra leg
  • Poem

    lighght

    By Aram Saroyan
                                                    lighght        
  • Poem

    ly ly ly ly

    By Aram Saroyan
                                                    ly     ly
                                            ly     ly        
  • Poem

    THE COLLECTED WORKS

    By Aram Saroyan
    “ # $ % _ & ‘  (  )  *  !
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  • Glossary Terms

    Visual poetry

    Related to concrete poetry, visual poetry is poetry rendered graphically. Sometimes only having a slight resemblance to a traditionally written poem that follows grammar and syntax conventions, visual poetry uses words and letter shapes as visual icons rather than linguistic units. Typography, color, shape, media, and other visual elements are presented as the primary bearers of intent and meaning. As Andrew Venell defines it in his learning prompt,  A visual poem is one that must be seen to be fully…
  • Poem

    Untitled Visual Poem

    By Tea Gerbeza
    Tea Gerbeza “Untitled Visual Poem” in “Sick Poetics,” special issue, Contemporary Verse 2, Spring 2022: Vol. 44, No. 4. Copyright © 2022 by Tea Gerbeza. Reprinted by permission Tea Gerbeza.
  • Article

    CAConrad: Selections

    By Natalie Earnhart & The Editors
    Interventionist Poet and Performer of (Soma)tic Poetry Ritual
    1 A CA Conrad copy
  • Poem

    Visual Poem 1 - "Sissy Dat Walk"

    By Maurice Moore
    Maurice Moore
    Moore, Maurice. “Sissy Dat Walk,” Ink on Paper, 19in x 24in, 2021.


    Become! Bout 50-11 figures fill the center of the picture plane. Some be crouching, others duck walking and given dat femme realness. The lines are sketchy and rough through de mid sections of the figures. The line weight is thicc, but thin scribbly line flows throughout most of the figures connecting de ancestors to their descendants. This werk is done on tracing paper with the opaqueness coming through in the center…
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