10 Visual Poems

Poems about Work

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Matthew Stolte began practicing concrete & visual poetry July 1998 in Madison, Wisconsin.  Poems about Work are drawn & painted on 8.5” X 11” card stock.  A variety of stencils are used with acrylic paint to print letters & images including refrigerator magnets, found “stencils” from broken car parts & cookie cutters.  The visual poems employ concrete & shape poetry.

Of the recurring figure, Stolte says, "It may be helpful to describe the drawn/painted figure found in most of the poems.  This figure is made using the word 'day job' to depict a person frantically typing at a PC.  It is a glyph of sorts (Geof Huth may define it as a fidgetglyph)." 

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