An Anthology of Spanish Visual Poetry

via VisualObxectual:

A editorial Marenostrum publica dentro da súa colección «Clásicos Marenostrum», dirixida polo crítico Santos Sanz Villanueva, unha «Antología de la Poesía Experimental Española» (1963-2004), con selección e edición do investigador Félix Morales Prado, que rescata do silencio un xénero lírico tan descoñecido como malentendido con nomes fundamentais como Francisco Pino, Juan Eduardo Cirlot, Joan Brossa ou Julio Campal.

The Last Text

via Tony Trehy's blog:

Tomorrow the last exhibition of the 2005 Text Festival opens at Bury Art Gallery with a new neon instalation by the Italian conceptual artist Maurizio Nannucci.

Tell Me More, Tallmo

via Dan Waber's minimalist concrete poetry:

I think this describes an ideal state that a healthy percentage of concrete poetry works towards--to be immediately apprehended in the way a road sign or (since we're here in the land of navigational iconography) a navigational icon is. Slipping in under the threshold of awareness, the twisting scalpel of subverted meaning can strike that much deeper, and be that much more effective. Here, I have a better idea, how about if I let Karl-Erik Tallmo show you what I mean.

The Eternal Struggle

via fat red ant:

To further let him off the hook I confessed that as much as I want to, I don't think I really get Concrete Poetry. I try, I seek it out, I enjoy much of it, and think I even generate some, but I can't say with any certainty that I "get it."

An Umbrella Closes and Opens

via Jesse Glass and ahadada books:

Judith Hoffberg's Umbrella has provided a major resource for all things related to alternative and experimental art--with a special focus on artists' books, mail art, and visual and concrete poetry--for 28 years now.

A Few Words on and Pieces by Lora-Totino

via foxbase:

Arrigo Lora Totino is a leader of the concrete poetry movement in Italy. He is director of the review MODULO, which for its first number published a comprehensive international anthology of concrete poetry. He helped establish the Museum of Contemporary Poetry in Turin along with Carlo Belloli.