Vis(ual)po(etry)

January 27, 2008 10:28 PM

Vispo is a site dedicated to visual poetry, both static and animated, run by Jim Andrews (though there's also a sound section). Among my favorites are bpNichol's First Screening (made in Hypercard), poem game Arteroids, the works of Ana Maria Uribe, Oppen Do Down (warning: audio starts immediately), Enigma M, strings and a selection of typographic works by Clemente Padin
posted by Kattullus (5 comments total)

I should add that I found the site looking for bpNichol's First Screening, which is a classic. Here's a clip of The Four Horsemen, an avant-garde barbershop quartet of sorts that featured, among others, bpNichol.
posted by Kattullus at 10:32 PM on January 27, 2008

This is why I love Metafilter.
posted by roll truck roll at 11:15 PM on January 27, 2008

Born magazine has some neat stuff too. (previously)
posted by juv3nal at 11:42 PM on January 27, 2008

Oh, cool. Thanks.
posted by Hypocrite_Lecteur at 6:18 PM on January 28, 2008

Wow, excellent post! I remember reading bpNichol in my Canadian Lit class. I've never seen this, though. Great stuff.

Fun fact: bpNichol wrote 3 episodes of Fraggle Rock. I plotzed when I learned that--I loved that show when I was a kid!

He died way too young.
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 6:19 PM on January 28, 2008