For my course I have had to submit two concrete poems. I had to wrack my brains to dig up High School information to actually remember what a concrete poem was. To be honest, I was so excited when I found out! I love the opportunity to create and play with image and words. For those of you whose English class memories are tucked behind some other important information, here’s a reminder. Concrete poetry is word play: arrange the words of your poem into a form that represents your theme.
I found a great website called Tagxedo where they provide a platform for creativity. You type in your words, poem, blog etc, and choose your image. The program processes the words into the image, but then you get to edit how it looks. I spent almost 3 hours on this yesterday, playing around and finding out what I liked best. Here’s the first creation I came up with for school.
Enjoy!
Concrete comment: COOL.