What's on view in a terrifically lively show at the Getty Research Institute has gone by various names — concrete poetry is the most common, but also visual poetry, spatial poetry and imaged words, ...

SANTA CLARITA – Mary Ellen Solt, who used letter and word arrangements to enhance the meaning of a poem and was a leader in the concrete poetry movement, has died. She was 86. Solt died June 21 in ...

Los Angeles Letter, a 1968 painting by Michael Morris, encourages you to move back and forth in front of it, catching furtive glimpses of yourself. Rendered in narrow vertical stripes of blue paint, ...

Humankind may struggle to find the right words to describe thoughts and feelings but for concrete poets like Scotland's Ian Hamilton Finlay, who once said, ''The mind will always try to make words out ...

Ian Hamilton Finlay, interior of “4 Sails” (1966) (image courtesy of the Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay) Tug, fug, chug, glug — such are the rhyming words used by the writer and artist Ian Hamilton ...

In the 1950s and ’60s, the counterculture scene, the introduction of typewriters, and a new interest in typographic innovations all converged to form the concrete poetry movement. Visual poets like ...

In 1974, Marvin and Ruth Sackner began gathering works of “concrete poetry," poems whose words and typography are arranged to convey meaning graphically. But they didn’t know the genre was called ...

Mary Ellen Solt, a poet and poetry critic who often arranged words on the page in a visual graphic, resulting in such works as “Forsythia,” a poem that looks like a flowering shrub, has died. She was ...