Visual Poems and Sound Poems

Many poets love to play - and to use language in a very experimental way. Examples are visual poems and sound poems. Please share links to your favorite visual poems and/or sound poems and comment on your reading/listening experience, your thoughts about these poems, and other comments you may wish to share.

Please feel also free to post your own visual and/or sound poems here!

Some of my favorite visual and sound poems are:

Earle Birney, "Alaska Passage"
(apparently not available on-line - so you have to find it in the library)

bp nichol, "What is a Poem":  
http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/bpNichol/Ear-Rational-1982/bpNichol_02_Pome-Poem_1972.mp3

bp nichol, "Love Poem for Gertrud Stein":  
http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/bpNichol/bpNichol/bpNichol_01_Love-Poem-4-Stein_bpNichol_1971.mp3

Bill Bissett, "Gypsy Dreamers,":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh9FzN6oh5w&feature=related

Bill Bissett, "Chant":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0KqtN0GczY

See also: 2 parts of Phillis Webb interviewing Bill Bissett and bp nichol:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBmxvfktZaM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv8BN2NA6nk&feature=related

Contemporary Visual Poems are easily accessible:
-> just google: "visual poems image" or: "concrete poems image"

For Visual Poetry through the Ages see:
http://www.webexhibits.org/poetry/explore_21_visual_examples.html

Please do not forget to play with the sounds and the visual arrangement of words yourself. It really is fun!

gudrun