poeMvelope
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n, envelope imprinted with lettristic poetry or other vispo language.
[In 1976 and ’77, when I was living in Chicago, I had many active correspondents and thought that rubberstamping minimalist, visual poems on envelopes would be intriguing. ¶I sent poeMvelopes to friends and literary correspondents for a couple of years before I got hooked up with mail artists. -Joel Lipman, quoted in Myers, Alphabets Sublime, 22]
[In 1976 and ’77, when I was living in Chicago, I had many active correspondents and thought that rubberstamping minimalist, visual poems on envelopes would be intriguing. ¶I sent poeMvelopes to friends and literary correspondents for a couple of years before I got hooked up with mail artists. -Joel Lipman, quoted in Myers, Alphabets Sublime, 22]
Origin: [poem + (en)velope]
1976