Weeks 7 & 8: Looking at Poems

Poet using paintbrush on typewriter paper
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Monday, October 3

  • In class:
    • Lecture and discussion on poetic form and visual information
  • Assignment:
    • In The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, read “Visual Poetry” “Concrete Poetry”
    • Read “Mirtha Dermisache and the Limits of Language“
    • Write a brief response to the Dermisache piece, thinking about the implications this has for poetry. Post in our forum before class on Wednesday.

Wednesday, October 5

Monday, October 10

Wednesday, October 12

  • In class:
  • Assignment:
    • Bring a 3D printed copy of your concrete poem or upload one/several images of your 3D concrete poem to our forum space, accompanying it with a paragraph-long description of your work.
    • Due on Wednesday, October 26.
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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.