Although I really enjoyed Lowell's essay, I do think her argument has no aged well (through no fault of her own, it must be said). The proliferation of the printed word and the boom of mix-media art has produced a whole output of poetry that is conceived to be experienced on page and interacted with.
These are the examples for class I enjoyed the most, compiled for your enjoyment:
(We had a discussion about whether the window was open or closed. I get the idea of closed, as the wind is "against" the glass, but I feel like the "window" word only at the sides supports a reading of the window as opened.)
As a little extra, two contemporary collections that I have not yet read but I know heavily rely on being printed works as well as pieces to be read aloud are Elizabeth Sennitt Clough's At or Below Sea Level and The Displaced Children of Displaced Children by Faisal Mohyuddin. These are not concrete poems per-se, but poetry where the layout on page and/or other printed characteristics are essential and part of the make-up of the poems themselves.
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