Fact of the Day: 25/03/2022

Concrete poems are poems written to create shapes. Who created the first known concrete poems? According to poets.org, “European artists Max Bill and Öyving Fahlström originated the term in the early 1950s, and its early methods were described in the Brazilian group Noigandres’ manifesto ‘Pilot Plan for Concrete Poetry.’ During this period, concrete poems were intended to be abstract and without allusion to an existing poem or identifiable shape” (“A Brief Guide to Concrete Poetry” par. 2). Often throughout history, things do not stay the way they start—just like how concrete poems went from representing abstract shapes (how they started) to representing shapes in the real world.

Reference(s): https://poets.org/text/brief-guide-concrete-poetry

Fact Author: Durga I.

Fact Editor: Ace 

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