Tribute to Visual Poetry

Conversations with
Marvin Bell & Bob Hicok

 

Releasing June 2008, issue #29 features a tribute to visual poetry, including 37 mixed-media poems in a 64-page, full-color special section on heavy paper. We didn’t know what we’d get when we put out a call for visual poems, and what formed was an eclectic mix of everything but the kitchen sink. We’ve got poem-paintings, collages, comic poems, concrete poems, cut-up poems, found poems, ephemera, landscape haiku, edible poems, and (it’s true) poems written on Venetian blinds. Curious yet?

Also in the issue, Alan Fox interviews Marvin Bell and Bob Hicok, and more of the best poetry around. We needed to stretch to 224 pages just to fit it all in.

 

	Visual Poetry
	David Alpaugh	Space Monkey
		Strip Taze
	Ruth Bavetta	I Am Anything
		The End and the Aim
		The Making of History
	Bernett & Worman	Enter the Painting
	Burdick & Foster	Playground
		The Dream of Trees
	Nick Carbo	Saussure’s Remedy
	Amy Sara Carroll	i
	Peter Ciccariello	Drowning Poem
	Daniels & Brodsky	For Rent
		The American Pedestrianus
	Kip Deeds	Walden, Sprawl, and All
		Elevated Findings
	Denise Duhamel	The Johari Window
	Ian Finch	Early Light
	Krista Franklin	Boy w/Joker
		Built by Angels
	Hage & Waber	Self-Portrait with Purple Erogenous …
	Kurt Kleidon	Time Starts Starts
	Susan Landgraf	Founder
	López & Gibson	We All Flew South
	Orr & Orr	To Be Alive
		If To Say
		Autumn
	Voltaire Q. Oyzon	The Love Curve
	Ellen Peckham	Red Fence
	Louis Phillips	The Periodic Table of Elements
	Jessy Randall	Poetry Comic #1
		Poetry Comic #2
	Marilyn Stablein	Winter Walk
	Arlene Tribbia	10,000 Loves You Have Known
	Patrice Vecchione	Oh, No, Not the House, Again…
	Poetry
	José Manuel Arango	The Beggar’s Figure
	J. Stiles Askew	Moments
	Michael Bazzett	Expiration Date
	Marvin Bell	Basho’s Frog
		Creatures
	Bonnie Bolling	Reproduction
	Tom Boswell	Harvesting the Carrots
	Jennifer Boyden	Inside This Next Vase, Likely
	Tanya Chernov	Someone Else’s Wet Styrafoam
	Kevin Clark	Class Politics
	Martha Clarkson	How She Described Her Ex-Husband …
	Bruce Cohen	The Jerry Lewis Telethon
	John Colasacco	The Preakness
	Paul F. Cummins	Under Cover
	James Cushing	The Man with the Corpse …
	Paul Dickey	Wheat State Salvation
	ellen	Five Stages of Grieving
	Alejandro Escudé	The Driving Range
	Anthony Farrington	How to Write an Erotic Letter
	Alan Fox	Coupling
	Joy Gaines Friedler	Assisted Living
	Peter Funk	The Town Drunk’s Last Stand
	Jeannine Hall Gailey	Advice Given to Me Before …
	Pamela Garvey	Western Michigan University, 1989
	Maria Mazziotti Gillan	Shame Is the Dress I Wear
	Jack Granath	After the Japanese
	Jonathan Greenhause	Fire Flowers
	Jennifer Gresham	Halfway House for the Incoherent
	Jared Harel	My Grandfather’s 90th
	Jamey Hecht	First Divorce
	Bob Hicok	Show and Tell
		Lovely Day
	Richard Jackson	Silences
	Michael Jemal	Letter to Hugo from Union Street
	Allan Johnston	Goats
	Michael Jon Khandelwal	Hay Elote
	Robert W. King	Work
	Lynne Knight	The Lesson
	Caryn Lazzuri	Monarchs
	Andrew Miller	Claiming to Be Canadian
	Joe Mills	On Attending a High School …
	Dave Morrison	Repairman
	Jason Nemec	Every Drunk Has a Passport
	John Paul O’Connor	Stone City
	Sherman Pearl	Demolition Derby
	Rainer Maria Rilke	Sonnets to Orpheus: Part 2 & #13
	Hayden Saunier	Self-Portrait with the Smithfield Ham…
	Timothy David Shea	Looking at a Photograph …
	J.R. Solonche	The Lover of Stone
	Donna Spector	John Berryman Used to Sway
	Sarah Pemberton Strong	After 75 Years, She Finally Gets Angry
	Jennifer K. Sweeney	Birds of America
	Chrys Tobey	The Loss of Lemons
	Tony Trigilio	Dougie’s Sister Exposes Herself
	Brian Trimboli	Things My Son Should Know …
	Nathaniel Whittemore	Death and Tacos
	Douglas Woody Woodsum	Nocturne with Cat and Spider
	Elizabeth Wurz	After My Third Tattoo
	Meg Yardley	Origami
	John Yohe	You Might
	Matt Zambito	The Louvres
	Jane Zwart	The Perishable
	Conversations
	Marvin Bell
	Bob Hicok