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Comics Poetry

Lyric and Short Poetic Forms

Comics poetry, or poetry comics, is a hybrid creative form combining aspects of comics and poetry, drawing on the syntax of comics such as images, panels and speech balloons to produce a literary or artistic experience akin to traditional poetry.

Facts
Notable Example
How To Be Everywhere by Warren Craghead (2007) 1
Defining Trait
Draws from the syntax of comics, such as images, panels and speech balloons, to produce a literary or artistic experience akin to traditional poetry 1
Sources
1. Comics poetry - Wikipedia
  • History section
    These works include Warren Craghead's How To Be Everywhere (2007); Matt Madden's Comic Sestina (2004), Michael Farrell's BREAK ME OUCH (2006)
  • Lead
    It draws from the syntax of comics, images, panels, speech balloons, and so on, in order to produce a literary or artistic experience akin to that of traditional poetry.
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