List of Concrete and Visual Poets
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Below is a partial list of Concrete poets and Visual poets with article written, where appropriate, from around the world. Dead links are in red and located on the Talk (discussion) Page.
Brazil
- Eduardo KacEduardo KacEduardo Kac is an American contemporary artist internationally recognized for his interactive net installations and his bio-art. Kac was born in 1962, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He lives and works in Chicago....
- Augusto de CamposAugusto de CamposAugusto de Campos is a Brazilian writer who was a founder of the Concrete poetry movement in Brazil. He is also a translator, music critic and visual artist....
- Haroldo de CamposHaroldo de CamposHaroldo de Campos was a Brazilian poet, critic, and translator. He did his secondary education at the College of St. Benedict, where he learned the first foreign language, like Latin, English, Spanish and French...
- Décio PignatariDécio PignatariDécio Pignatari is a Brazilian poet, essayist and translator.Since the 1950s, conducting experiments with poetic language, incorporating visuals elements and the fragmentation of words...
- Philadelpho MenezesPhiladelpho MenezesPhiladelpho Menezes . Brazilian poet, visual poet, pioneer of new media poetry, professor in the Communication and Semiology post-graduation program at the Pontifical University of São Paulo...
Australia
- Jas H. DukeJas H. DukeJas Heriot Duke was a cult figure in the Australian performance poetry scene. He worked much of his life in Melbourne Board of Works and began writing poetry in 1966. He was influenced by Dada, Expressionism and experimental movements...
- Tim GazeTim GazeTim Gaze is an Australian rock and blues guitarist, songwriter, singer and producer. He was a member of several prominent Australian groups of the 1960s and 1970s including Tamam Shud, Kahvas Jute, Ariel and Rose Tattoo.-Biography:...
- Peter MurphyPeter Murphy (artist)Peter Murphy is an English artist working in traditional egg tempera and gold leaf techniques, and a member of the Stuckist art movement.-Life and work:...
- Pi OPi OП. O. is an Australian, working class, anarchist, poet of Greek origin.Born in Katerini, Greece, П. O. came to Australia with his family around 1954. After time in Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Centre, the family moved to the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy.П. O...
- Pete SpencePete SpencePete Spence , suspected of robbery in 1878 in Goliad County, Texas, changed his name from Elliot Larkin Ferguson. He was later a suspect in a stagecoach robbery outside Bisbee, Arizona and was known for his association with outlaw Cowboys Frank and Tom McLaury and Ike and Billy Clanton of...
- Amanda StewartAmanda StewartAmanda Stewart is a contemporary Australian poet and sound/performance artist.Amanda Stewart began writing and performing poetry in the 1970s and has since produced a wide array of sound, video and multimedia work. In the 1980s she worked for ABC radio as a producer...
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Canada
- Randy AdamsRandy AdamsRandy Adams is an American serial entrepreneur funded by Sequoia Capital in Menlo Park, California in the Silicon Valley, and a founder of seven venture capital backed companies including Will Ferrell's popular comedy site, Funny or Die.He was educated at Mount Desert Island High School in Bar...
- Jim AndrewsJim AndrewsJames Pratt Andrews was a Major League Baseball right fielder in 1890 for the Chicago Colts of the National League. He was a native of Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts....
- David Aylward
- Shaunt BasmajianShaunt BasmajianShaunt Basmajian was a Canadian poet and author.Born in Beirut, Lebanon to Armenian parents, Basmajian emigrated to Canada when he was seven years old. He was a founder of the Canadian Poetry Association, co-founder of Old Nun Publications , and was a member of the Parliament Street Library poetry...
- Derek BeaulieuDerek BeaulieuDerek Alexander Beaulieu is a Canadian poet, publisher and anthologist.Beaulieu studied contemporary Canadian poetics at the University of Calgary. His work has appeared internationally in small press publications, magazines, and in visual art galleries...
- Earle BirneyEarle BirneyEarle Alfred Birney, OC, FRSC was a distinguished Canadian poet and novelist, who twice won the Governor General's Award, Canada's top literary honor, for his poetry.-Life:...
- bill bissettBill Bissettbill bissett is a Canadian poet famous for his anti-conventional style. He often does not capitalise his name or use capital letters.-Life:...
- Judy Copithorne
- JW CurryJW Curryjwcurry is an avant-garde Canadian poet, publisher, and bookseller.-Influences:Curry literally grew up under the influence of bpNichol, that Canadian author who most represented twentieth-century avant-garde...
- Paul HartalPaul HartalPaul Hartal is a Canadian painter and poet, born in Szeged, Hungary. He has created the term "Lyrical Conceptualism" to characterize his style in both painting and poetry, and has created a manifesto to describe his thesis....
- Lionel KearnsLionel KearnsLionel John Kearns is a Canadian poet and teacher.Kearns was born in Nelson, British Columbia, and attended the University of British Columbia, where he was a student of Earle Birney...
- Camille MartinCamille MartinCamille Martin is an American-Canadian poet and collage artist who lives in Toronto, Canada. After residing in New Orleans for fourteen years, in 2005 she moved to Toronto following Hurricane Katrina.-Early life and education:...
- Steve McCafferySteve McCafferySteven McCaffery is a Canadian poet and scholar who was a professor at York University. He currently holds the Gray Chair at SUNY Buffalo . McCaffery was born in Sheffield, England and lived in the UK for most of his youth attending University of Hull. He moved to Toronto in 1968...
- bpNicholBpNicholBarrie Phillip Nichol , who often went by his lower-case initials and last name, with no spaces , was a Canadian poet. He became widely known for his concrete poetry while living there in the 1960s...
- John Riddell
- Andrew Suknaski
- David UU (David W. Harris)David UU (David W. Harris)David UU , or David W. Harris, is considered an accomplished concrete and experimental poet and an important small press publisher. Along with bill bissett and bpNichol, he was a pioneer of the concrete poetry movement in Canada, and perhaps the first Canadian poet to explore visual collage...
England
- Bob CobbingBob CobbingBob Cobbing was a British sound, visual, concrete and performance poet who was a central figure in the British Poetry Revival.-Early life:...
- Alan HalseyAlan HalseyAlan Halsey is a British poet. He managed The Poetry Bookshop in Hay-on-Wye from 1979 to 1997. Since 1997, Halsey has lived in Sheffield, working as a specialist bookseller and publishing West House Books....
- Dom Sylvester HouédardDom Sylvester HouédardDom Sylvester Houédard , also known under the acronym dsh, was a Benedictine priest, theologian and noted concrete poet.- Life :Born on Guernsey, Houédard was educated at Jesus College, Oxford...
- Geraldine MonkGeraldine MonkGeraldine Monk is a British poet. She was born in Blackburn, Lancashire in 1952. Since the late 1970s, she has published many collections of poetry and has recorded her poetry in collaboration with musicians...
- Tom PhillipsTom Phillips (artist)Tom Phillips CBE R.A. is an English artist. He was born in London, where he continues to work. He is a painter, printmaker and collagist.-Life:...
- Stephen BannStephen BannStephen Bann CBE, FBA is the Emeritus Professor of History of Art at the University of Bristol. He attended Winchester College and King's College, Cambridge, attaining his PhD in 1967....
France
- Pierre Albert-BirotPierre Albert-BirotPierre Albert-Birot was a French avant-garde author.Born in Angoulôme, he moved to Paris in 1894. There he attended art school and befriended Gustave Moreau. He worked for five decades as a restorer for antique dealer Madame Lelong....
- Guillaume ApollinaireGuillaume ApollinaireWilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki, known as Guillaume Apollinaire was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic born in Italy to a Polish mother....
- Isidore IsouIsidore IsouIsidore Isou , born Ioan-Isidor Goldstein, was a Romanian-born French poet, film critic and visual artist...
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Germany
- Max BenseMax BenseMax Bense was a German philosopher, writer, and publicist, known for his work in philosophy of science, logic, aesthetics, and semiotics...
- Klaus Peter Dencker
- Reinhard DöhlReinhard DöhlReinhard Döhl was a German writer and scholar in the fields of literature and media studies, also remembered as a poet and artist....
- Helmut HeißenbüttelHelmut HeißenbüttelHelmut Heißenbüttel was a German novelist and poet. Among Heißenbüttel's works are Das Textbuch and Marlowe's Ende . He received the important Georg Büchner Prize in 1969...
- Dieter RothDieter RothDieter Roth was an Icelandic artist of Swiss German origin best known for his artist's books and for his sculptures and pictures made with rotting food stuffs. He was also known as Dieter Rot and Diter Rot....
Italy
- Mirella BentivoglioMirella BentivoglioMirella Bentivoglio is an Italian sculptor, poet and performance artist.In the 1960s she joined the international concrete poetry movement...
- Nanni BalestriniNanni BalestriniNanni Balestrini is an Italian experimental poet, author and visual artist of the Neoavanguardia movement.- Context :Nanni Balestrini is associated with the Italian writers movement Neoavanguardia. He wrote for the magazine Il Verri, co-directed Alfabeta and was one of the Italian writers...
- Caterina DavinioCaterina DavinioCaterina Davinio is an Italian poet, novelist and new media artist. Author of digital art, net.art, video art. She was the creator of Italian Net-poetry in 1998.-Biography:Born in Foggia, she grew up in Rome since 1961...
- Marco Giovenale
- Filippo Tommaso MarinettiFilippo Tommaso MarinettiFilippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti was an Italian poet and editor, the founder of the Futurist movement, and a fascist ideologue.-Childhood and adolescence:...
- Eugenio MicciniEugenio MicciniEugenio Miccini was an Italian artist and writer, considered to be one of the fathers of Italian visual poetry.-Biography:...
- Lamberto PignottiLamberto Pignotti-Biography:In the early 1960s he was one of the first artists who worked creating intersections between poetry, word and mass media, fixing theoretical basis and assembling traditions of avant-garde and Pop Art. Lamberto Pignotti, together with Eugenio Miccini, is considered to be one of the...
United States
- Reed Altemus
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- C Mehrl Bennett
- John M. BennettJohn M. BennettJohn M. Bennett is an American experimental text, sound, and visual poet.- Writing and publishing :As well as steadily producing and distributing his own work, Bennett, through "Luna Bisonte Prods", a small press founded in 1974, has published thousands of limited edition items by writers who...
- John CageJohn CageJohn Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde...
- david-baptiste chirot
- E. E. CummingsE. E. CummingsEdward Estlin Cummings , popularly known as E. E. Cummings, with the abbreviated form of his name often written by others in lowercase letters as e.e. cummings , was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright...
- David DanielsDavid Daniels (poet)The visual poet David Daniels was born in Beth Israel Hospital, Newark, New Jersey and grew up in Maplewood, New Jersey. He made words out of pictures and pictures out of words for over 60 years. Visual Poetry: The Shape Poem: Shapes tell the words what to say and words tell the shapes what to form...
- Johanna DruckerJohanna DruckerJohanna Drucker is an author, book artist, visual theorist, and cultural critic. Her scholarly writing documents and critiques visual language: letterforms, typography, visual poetry, art, and lately, digital aesthetics...
- endwarEndwar (concrete poet)Endwar is the primary penname of Andrew Russ, a concrete poet from Athens, Ohio, USA, born in 1962. His work has been published through IZEN, his own micropress, since 1990, and in numerous other titles by other micropresses in the US and Canada...
- Chris FrankeChris FrankeChris Franke is an experimental poet from Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. His work includes concrete poetry, sound poetry, performance poetry, and various forms of conventional poetry. He has performed as a member of the Endangered Species Trio as a reader of his poetry to harp and flute...
- Ken FriedmanKen FriedmanKen Friedman, is a seminal figure in Fluxus, an international laboratory for experimental art, architecture, design, literature, and music. He had his first solo exhibition in New York in 1966. He has also been involved with mail art, and he has written extensively about Fluxus and Intermedia...
- Jesse GlassJesse Glass-In America:Glass first began to write and publish experimental poetry in c. 1972. Starting in 1976, he edited and published the mimeographed Goethe’s Notes Magazine and Goethe's Press from his family home in Westminster, Maryland...
- Robert GrenierRobert Grenier (poet)Robert Grenier is a contemporary American poet associated with the Language School. He was founding co-editor of the influential magazine This...
- Dick HigginsDick HigginsDick Higgins was a composer, poet, printer, and early Fluxus artist. Higgins was born in Cambridge, England, but raised in the United States in various parts of New England, including Worcester, Massachusetts, Putney, Vermont, and Concord, New Hampshire.Like other Fluxus artists, Higgins studied...
- Ray JohnsonRay JohnsonRaymond Edward Johnson , known primarily as a collagist and correspondence artist, was a seminal figure in the history of Neo-Dada and early Pop art...
- Ronald JohnsonRonald Johnson (poet)Ronald Johnson was an American poet. He was born in Ashland, Kansas, graduated from Columbia University and lived in New York in the late fifties, wandered around Appalachia and Britain for a number of years, then settled in San Francisco for the next twenty-five years before returning to Kansas,...
- Bill KeithBill Keith (artist)William "Bill" Keith was an American artist who began his artistic life as a painter, but moved into photography and visual poetry...
- Alison KnowlesAlison KnowlesAlison Knowles in New York City is an American visual artist known for her soundworks, installations, performances, and publications. Knowles was very active in the Fluxus movement, and continues to create work inspired by her Fluxus experience....
- Richard KostelanetzRichard KostelanetzRichard Kostelanetz is an American artist, author and critic.He was born to Boris Kostelanetz and Ethel Cory and is the nephew of the composer Andre Kostelanetz....
- Robert LaxRobert LaxRobert Lax was an American poet, known in particular for his association with famed 20th century Trappist monk and writer Thomas Merton. A third friend of his youth, whose work sheds light on both Lax and Merton, was Ad Reinhardt. During the latter period of his life, Lax resided on the island of...
- d. a. levyD. A. Levyd.a. levy , born Darryl Alfred Levy , was an American poet, artist, and alternative publisher active during the 1960s, based in Cleveland, Ohio.- Biography :...
- Camille MartinCamille MartinCamille Martin is an American-Canadian poet and collage artist who lives in Toronto, Canada. After residing in New Orleans for fourteen years, in 2005 she moved to Toronto following Hurricane Katrina.-Early life and education:...
- Sheila MurphySheila MurphySheila E. Murphy is an American text and visual poet who has been writing and publishing actively since 1978. She currently lives in Phoenix, Arizona.She earned:...
- Bruce NaumanBruce NaumanBruce Nauman is a contemporary American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking, and performance. Nauman lives in Galisteo, New Mexico....
- F. A. NettelbeckF. A. NettelbeckFrederick Arthur Nettelbeck was an American poet. In the early 1970s he began work on a long poem that was published in 1979: Bug Death. Bug Death was created using cut-up and collage texts combined with original writing. His literary magazine, This Is Important , published such writers as William S...
- Kenneth PatchenKenneth PatchenKenneth Patchen was an American poet and novelist. Though he denied any direct connection, Patchen's work and ideas regarding the role of artists paralleled those of the Dadaists, the Beats, and Surrealists...
- Bern PorterBern PorterBernard Harden "Bern" Porter was an American artist, writer, publisher, performer, and scientist.In 2010 his work was recognized by an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.- Biography :...
- Ad ReinhardtAd ReinhardtAdolph Frederick Reinhardt was an Abstract painter active in New York beginning in the 1930s and continuing through the 1960s. He was a member of the American Abstract Artists and was a part of the movement centered around the Betty Parsons Gallery that became known as Abstract Expressionism...
- SAMO© GraffitiSAMO© GraffitiSAMO© Graffiti appeared in New York City from 1977 to early 1980. They were short phrases, in turns poetic and sarcastic, mainly painted on the streets of downtown Manhattan. The tag SAMO© has been primarily associated with the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, but was developed mainly as a...
- Aram SaroyanAram SaroyanAram Saroyan is an American poet, novelist, biographer, memoirist and playwright. There has been a resurgence of interest in his work in the 21st century, evidenced by the publication in 2007 of several previous collections reissued together as Complete Minimal Poems.- Biography :Saroyan was born...
- Armand SchwernerArmand SchwernerArmand Schwerner was an avant-garde Jewish-American poet. His most famous work, Tablets, is a series of poems which claim to be reconstructions of ancient Sumero-Akkadian inscriptions, complete with lacunae and "untranslatable" words....
- Mary Ellen SoltMary Ellen SoltMary Ellen Solt, née Bottom was an American concrete poet. Her work was most notably poems in the shape of flowers such as "Forsythia", "Lilac", and"Geranium"...
- Cecil TouchonCecil Touchonright|thumb|ABOVE: "Fusion Series #2174" By Cecil Touchon. A collage using fragments of lettering from found bill board material. Image use courtesy of the artist...
- Nico Vassilakis
- Hannah WeinerHannah WeinerHannah Adelle Weiner was an American poet who is often grouped with the Language poets because of the prominent place she assumed in the poetics of that group.- Early life and writings :...
- Derek White
- Emmett WilliamsEmmett WilliamsEmmett Williams was an American poet and visual artist.Williams was born in Greenville, South Carolina, and grew up in Virginia, and lived in Europe from 1949 to 1966...
- Jonathan WilliamsJonathan Williams (poet)Jonathan Williams was an American poet, publisher, essayist, and photographer. He is known as the founder of The Jargon Society, which has published poetry, experimental fiction, photography, and folk art for more than fifty years...
- Michael WinklerMichael WinklerMichael Winkler is a poet/artist. He makes book art and net art combining mathematics, linguistics, poetry, and visual art.-Work:...
- Karl Young
- Z'EVZ'EVZ'EV is an American poet, percussionist, and sound artist. After studying various world music traditions at CalArts, he began creating his own percussion sounds out of industrial materials for a variety of record labels...