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Poets often are operating in modes influenced by the visual arts and the ekphrastic mode is one example of a popular medium. However, poets also create visual art. Consider Derek Walcott, a painter, and his collection, Tiepolo’s Hound, and how the poet engages with Pissarro impressionist visual observations in his own work. This is abundant in contemporary poetry. We bring together several different poets who work in visual art modes of projection mapping, hybrid, and other forms to discuss how poets who also work in visual art are defining and expanding their work. Some other examples we will reference are Avery R. Young, which features black gospel speech acts as visual, Douglas Kearney, in which the language itself is used as material, as well as the work of Renee Gladman. Other artist-poets who have two distinct practices include Etel Adnan and her paintings—while we also reflect on how Adnan integrates drawn glyphs in works like Arab Apocalypse.
