To understand sound poetry, the form Dutch artist Jaap Blonk has dedicated his life to, you have to understand the Dada movement. Dadaism stems from Marcel Duchamp’s coining of a kind of “anti-art” in ...

These two debut solo albums of innovative Norwegian musicians—Kristoffer Lo and Bjørn Thevik feature long and nuanced sound poems, created with minimal means. Tuba player Lo, a member of the art-rock ...

The verse essay has fallen out of style so definitively that even the most recalcitrant of teachers won’t bother assigning to their students the classics of the genre. Lucretius thought poetry a ...

Other Minds Festival 23 recently finished a week of events dedicated to new and old sound poetry at ODC Theater, San Francisco. Subtitled "The Wages of Syntax," the series covered a range of vocal ...

In his 1918 Dada manifesto, Tristan Tzara, one of the founding fathers of the movement, wrote: “It was necessary in the era of the [First] World War, to ask about the sense and utility and general use ...

Pianist Ken Berman's friendship with the late poet Eythan Klamka served as the inspiration for Sound Poetry, a musical project of mostly original compositions bookended by two solo reinterpretations ...

If someone asked you how you felt and you said you had “a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling was the light of setting suns, and the round ocean, and the living air”, ...

Our latest poetry feature is “The Palace,” a long poem by Kaveh Akbar. Akbar, who was born in Tehran, Iran, and teaches at Purdue University and in the low-residency M.F.A. programs at Randolph ...

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