Episode 8: All Related to Word and Image (Marvin Sackner)

Episode 8: All Related to Word and Image (Marvin Sackner)

Marvin Sackner, one of the founders of the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, explains how he and his wife became collectors of visual poetry and other works that merge image with text, how they built their renowned collection, and where he donated their assemblage of publications, artworks, and personal papers related to this field.

Episode 7: Language Astronauts Fidgeting with Alphabet (Nico Vassilakis)

Nico Vassilakis, a well known visual poet now living in the Bronx, talks about his vispoetic life, his deep connection to alphabets and the characters therein, and wonders, as he always does, whether we have made it to the historical end of visual poetry. The episode includes a sound poetry performance of part of Öyvind Fahlström’s “Nyarsklockorna” by Nico and the host Geof Huth. We end the episode, after its apparent close, with an improvisational sound poem we call “Juggadugga.”

Episode 6: The Place Where I Work is Still Language (Donato Mancini)

Donato Mancini, visual poet and artist, sits down for a wide-ranging talk about visual and concrete poetry, the great bpNichol, the octothorpe, Titus Andronicus, climate change, and how a typewriter poem cannot ever be typed perfectly.

Episode 5: Once You Know How to Read, You Can't Unread (Ragnhildur Jóhanns)

Ragnhildur Jóhanns, a visual artist and visual poet based in Reykjavík, Iceland, talks to us about her visual poetry, which takes the forms of collages, object, paintings, and more. Working in Icelandic and English, her work interrogates the meaning and meaninglessness of language while always addressing the inherent joy of the visually beautiful.

Episode 4: That Really Finished Me for Words (Rosaire Appel)

Rosaire Appel, an active visual poet who works in radical asemic forms, discusses how she changed from being a painter to a photographer to a novelist and then a visual poet. She discusses her inspirations along the way and explains her various bookmaking practices.