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Welcome to The Last Vispo Anthology
The Last Vispo Anthology has three purposes: to document the recent upsurge in visual poetry, to make visual poetry available to a wider audience, and to be used as a pedagogical tool in poetry and art curriculum at the secondary and post-secondary level. This anthology is global in scope with 130 contributors from over twenty countries, with proportionally more women…
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Karl Kempton: Visual Poetry: A Brief Overview Of Ancestors And Traditions To The Present (W/Bibliography)
An expressed intent of this anthology is introducing visual poetry to a new audience. In the spirit of this purpose, the following overview is addressed to individuals with no or little exposure to the historical streams leading to the contemporary expression named visual poetry. To master an art form, knowing its history is common sense; not knowing, one is…
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The Last Vispo Show in Smolensk, Russia
Photos of the event:
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The Last Vispo Show at L-Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Photos from the June 11, 2010 event by Gleb Kolomiets:
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The Last Vispo Anthology: What Then, What Now?
Editors Crag Hill and Nico Vassilakis present, with contributor/essayist James Yeary, a cut-up of words from essays from the anthology at the Avant Writing Symposium in 2010 at Ohio State University:
Part one: Last Vispo Performance, Columbus, OH 2010 Part One
Part two: Last Vispo Performance, Columbus, OH 2010 Part Two
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The Last Vispo in Budapest
On April 23, 2010, Hungarian visual poet Márton Koppány curated an exhibition of selected works from the anthology in downtown Budapest at the Ráday Könyvesház Cultural Center. The show displayed 52 prints on A4 paper. Its opening event inaugurated an international poetry festival drawing visitors from all over Central and Eastern Europe.
Artists & Their Works
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Explore the Works
We’ve included a few sample images from the anthology to give you an idea of the breadth, depth, and fearlessly inventive nature of the work.
