Week 12: Concrete Poetry

"Forsythia" by Mary Ellen Solt

Tuesday, April 6

  • In class:
  • Assignment:
    • Read “Pilot Plan for Concrete Poetry“
    • Explore works by Haroldo de Campos, Augusto de Campos, Decio Pignatari, Eugen Gomringer, and Mary Ellen Solt in UBUWEB: Historical.
    • Analyze one concrete poem by one of the above-listed artists, focusing on how their work enacts the poetics of concrete poetry

Thursday, April 8

  • In class:
    • Discussion of Concrete Poetry
  • Assignment:
    • Explore concrete poetry works in UbuWeb Historical
    • Write a 1-page analysis of a concrete poem. Copy/Paste the poem itself into your document.
    • Read Paul de Vree’s Manifesto (both the concrete poetry version and the translation)

By Leonardo Flores

Professor Leonardo Flores is Chair of the English Department at Appalachian State University. He taught at the English Department at University of Puerto Rico: Mayagüez Campus from 1994 to 2019. He is President of the Electronic Literature Organization. He was the 2012-2013 Fulbright Scholar in Digital Culture at the University of Bergen in Norway. His research areas are electronic literature and its preservation via criticism, documentation, and digital archives. He is the creator of a scholarly blogging project titled I ♥ E-Poetry, co-editor of the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 3, and has a Spanish language e-lit column in 80 Grados. He is currently co-editing the first Anthology of Latin American Electronic Literature. For more information on his current work, visit leonardoflores.net.