The Art of Visual Poetry

From cutout and collage-poems to performance typography, these innovative poets extend their artistry beyond words to craft stunning visual poetry. In Distinguished Office of Echoes, New Writers Project and Michener professor Lisa Olstein turns to antique reference books to forge a new, incisive language through word and image, marine invertebrates and ancient Greece, history and feminism. In I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always, poet and performer Douglas Kearney charts an AfroFuturistic approach to performance typography, revealing the nature of shadow alongside meditations on Black subjectivity and art as self-defense.