A Writer's Guide to Multimodal Poetry
Mixtures and Margins
A Writer's Guide to Multimodal Poetry
Mixtures and Margins
Description
A hands-on guide for poets who want to make work beyond the page.
How can a poem become an image, a soundscape, a performance, an erasure, a tactile object, or a digital encounter? A Writer's Guide to Multimodal Poetry brings together poets, visual artists, editors, publishers, and teachers working across the expanding field of multimodal poetics.
Pairing examples of artists' work with craft essays and writing exercises, this collection gives readers practical ways to combine poetry with visual art, sound, music, movement, archive, found materials, digital media, and performance. Contributors share the tools, choices, and compositional processes behind their work, from blending text and image to experimenting with rhythm, translating across media, using erasure and collage, and designing interactive or embodied reading experiences.
Rather than treating multimodal poetry as an add-on to traditional forms, this book shows how medium itself can become part of the poem's thinking. The essays explore audio-modality, image-text hybrids, musical influence, alphanumeric translation, lyrical improvisation, neo-concrete poetry, archival practice, found poetry, mythic reimagining, tactile experience, and more.
Designed for writers, artists, students, and teachers, A Writer's Guide to Multimodal Poetry offers both inspiration and instruction: a field-defining introduction to multimodal poetics and a practical invitation to make poems that move through sight, sound, touch, space, and screen.
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Hazards
The publication contains no hazards
Support for non-visual reading
Has alternative text descriptions for images
Navigation
- Page list to go to pages from the print source version
- Elements such as headings, tables, etc for structured navigation
- All or substantially all textual matter is arranged in a single logical reading order
Table of Contents
1. "We Cannot Make Them Happy Behave Passionate Safe Sorry", Rachel Zucker (NYU, USA)
2. Edges & Fray, Danielle Voegel (Wesleyan University, USA)
3. “Dólii”, Bojan Louis (University of Arizona)
4. “A Prime Number for Nadia and Lili Boulanger”, Patrick Milian (Green River College, USA)
5. “Cyan, Threads, and Light: Revisioning Poetic Process in Multiple Media”, Kelly Hoffer (Univerity of Michigan, USA)
6. Prompt Press 13: Prompt for the Planet, Jennifer Coleville (Founding Editor, Prompt Press)
7. Just The Thing: Visual Poetry and Collage, Sarah J. Sloat (Poet)
8. Erasure, Laura Didyk (Poet)
9. “The Junk Drawer as a Kind of Ideal”, Mark Ehling (Visual Artist)
10. "We Face the Tremendous Meat on the Teppan", Naoko Fujimoto (Poet)
11. Folk Music and Improvisation in Poetry, Abraham Smith (Weber State University, USA)
12. Possibility, Wordless Prompts, and Multithreaded Meeting Grounds, DJ Saverese (Poet and activist)
13. Translating Ma Indira Devi Through Poetry, Oil Painting, and Music, Michael Sowder (Utah State University, USA)
14. Cultural Exigencies of Visual Poetry, Andrew Brenza (Visual Poet)
15. Black Girlhood and the Concentrate Archive, Courtney Faye Taylor (Visual Artist)
16. “Poetry and Painting Take Classes at Arthur Murray”, Scott Poole (Poet)
17. “On Tools”, Ander Monson (University of Arizona, USA)
18. “Lightscatter Press”, Lisa Bickmore (Salt Lake Community, USA)
19. Student Example
20. Student Example
21. Student Example
Index
Product details
| Published | 01 Apr 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 232 |
| ISBN | 9781350530591 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 41 colour illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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