The Dictionary (3,007 total words)

"grist for the mill " of a poet.
— Christopher Franke
ÈpoU«mv«ÈloUp
n, envelope imprinted with lettristic poetry or other vispo language.
[In 1976 and ’77, when I w...
— Joel Lipman
An art object consisting of a visual poem applied by Joel Lipman to the back
of an envelope via ru...
— Geof Huth
FEELING of WELL-being, withOUT heart, PSEUDO-happy.
— Malok
A visual poet’s control of the linguistic aspects of a visual poem. (A clear
exemplar of a visua...
— Geof Huth
(po et' ihk SET ur uh)
n. The field of poetics plus all the incidentals connected with it,
such as the personalities and...
— Bob Grumman
(poe' trang)
At some point in history, poets were exiled from the face of the
earth, & they quickly sought...
— mIEKAL aND
n. a rastafarian proctologist.
— anonymous
1. a brand of personal cleaner endorsed by No. 3
2. v. to clean like you've never cleaned before, ...
— Atlanta Poets Group
(n): A promise one intends to keep only as long as it
remains advantageous or convenient to do so.
...
— John Osman
excelling at more than one nonadjacent art (whereas sculpture
and painting are adjacent, as are ph...
— Richard Kostelanetz
(pah' lee sep' shoo AA lih tee)
n. The significant use of more than one major awareness (the
major awarenesses being intellectual...
— Bob Grumman
the condition of frequently starting a sentence several times
altering the word choice slightly ea...
— Danielle Chynoweth
eclectic teacher; compliment of polymath. also polygogic.
— Steven M. Deyo
n. 1. When someone experiences multiple occurrences of amnesia. 2. When
someone experiences multip...
— Richard Weiler
a sort of saying "Hi!" by sending or handing out poems.
— Christopher Franke
Scorpio chauvinism
— Michael Helsem
The reverse of stealing from strangers.
— mIEKAL aND
sigh of an old dog settling down
— John Wright
Pertaining to the back part of the leg behind the knee.
— Unknown Author
All trends all styles simultaneously.
— mIEKAL aND
1. Asleep in inner-space.
2. A loaded baked potato with black thangs on it.
3. The smell of bla...
— Atlanta Poets Group
"break music" = the music of smashing things
— Michael Helsem
an interstellar event, real or imagined, that will affect the
minds of humanity with its outpourin...
— Matt Sipress
pertaining to a proposition that affirms the possibility of finding
conditions that will render a ...
— Michael Helsem
(pawr' no GAWR ee uh)
n. Art which has to do only with sado-masochistic sex.
Distinguished from "pornography? which...
— Bob Grumman
PORT her man TOE fruh dih tick
relating to the combinination of two things into one,
especially if the things are opposites and h...
— Geof Huth
paa zih MISS tick
pessimistic in a useful, positive (not destructive) way
— Geof Huth
see mail-art
— Klaus Groh
modern art collecting area for mail-artists
— Klaus Groh