Kurt Malkames - Week 6

Another week down and I still am interested in poetry. The visual stuff we looked at this week was very enjoyable. I've seen some out there sort of art and whatnot but the idea of making it from words is really cool. I guess the question comes up – where do you draw the line between a piece of visual art and a piece of poetry. I think it's hard to tell sometimes. Certainly some of the poems from the readings this week seemed much closer to the visual end than the poem end. As someone mentioned – how could you read some of these? The best way might just be to hang them on a wall – which is what I would call visual art. The assignment for this week was interesting as well. I tried to play off of the magazine idea for one of the poems and it turned out ok. I also did a re-edit of my previous poems and I think I corrected some pretty obvious things that were unclear to the reader. I look forward to the work shopping of it again next week to get some feedback on it. The prose poem reading for Thursday was a bit dry I'm my mind compared to some of the other stuff but, as always, I'm sure once we get to class it will come alive a bit more.