What in the name is concrete poetry anyways?

"Poetry in which visual elements play a large part in the poetic effect.  Punctuation marks, letters, or words are arranged on a page to form a visual design: a cross, for example, or a bumblebee.

Max Bill and Eugene Gomringer were among the early practitioners of concrete poetry; Haroldo de Campos and Agusto de Campos are among contemporary authors of concrete poetry." (www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/glossary/glossary_bc.htm)

"The words of the poem are arranged in such a way that the physical shape of the poem on the page resembles the subject of the poem, ie/ a poem about a rabbit will be shaped to look like a rabbit."  (www.daffodil.ca/english/glossary_of_literary_terms.html)

"The origins of concrete poetry are roughly contemporary with those of musique concrete, an experimental technique of musical composition. Max Bill and Eugen Gomringer were among the early practitioners of concrete poetry. The Vienna Group of Hans Carl Artmannk, and Gerhard Rumm, and Konrad Bayer also promoted concerete poetery, as did Ernst Ju Jandi and Friederike Mayrocker." 

(www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/238238/Eugen-Gomringer)

or for a nice history on shapes and lines and dots which create this thing called letters, which form words, which spill from our brains explore 

http://jds-concrete.com/HISTORY.HTM\

OR FOR EVEN MORE FUN YOU MUST CHECK THIS OUT!!!  

http://wild-about-woods.org.uk/elearning/concretepoetry/