Poetry doesn’t have to occupy lines only — sometimes it takes place in shapes, pauses, borders. Visual poetry is an art where language meets design.
This genre appealed to me because words needed room to expand — they could no longer occupy their conventional places on a piece of paper. I needed them to become alive, to dance as light or float like petals on the surface of still water. Poetry can take place on cameras, computers, scraps of notebook paper near cups of chai tea.
Visual poetry is poetry of spaces, pauses, borders. Rhythm is created by placing words and sentences rather than by punctuation marks. It becomes a matter of wandering rather than reading.
In visual poetry, one does not aim for perfection, but for presence. Emotional experience finds new forms away from the constraints of grammar and syntax.
A simple word at the corner of the paper may mean more than many words in stanzas.
That’s what visual poetry is all about.
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