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          SIXTH ANNUAL VISPO CONTEST

 

We received 70 entries for this year’s contest and are grateful to everyone who took the time to participate and share their visual poems with us.

Congratulations to the winners and to the artists whose work is featured in our 2026 Vispo Gallery! The range and quality of the submissions are nothing short of phenomenal, and we are proud to present this little showcase.

First Place

Marianne Paul & Corbin Davis

Second Place

Ella Aboutboul

 

Third Place

Rona Luo

 

Honourable Mentions 

Sandra L. Faulkner

Deepa Patil

 

 

VISPO GALLERY 2026

in order of appearance

Vidya Premkumar

Meg Hamilton

Stephen Nelson

Martina Matijević

Rowan Beckett Minor

Bill Marsh

Hakutoh-maru

Cherie Hunter Day

Thomas Terceira

Tip: To take a closer look at the images in our Vispo Gallery, zoom out (press control and the minus key together) to enlarge the pieces. 

VISPO GALLERY 2026

‘pirouette’ by Marianne Paul and Corbin Davis
‘morning and evening birds’ by Ella Aboutboul
‘Soviet Green 4BO’ by Rona Luo
‘Poetic Inquiry as Cricket Sound’ by Sandra L. Faulkner
‘sonder’ by Deepa Patil
‘winter rose’ by Vidya Premkumar
‘arc of a flower’ by Meg Hamilton
‘Blackbird’ by Stephen Nelson
‘Distilled Kafkaesque’ by Martina Matijević
‘high expectations’ by Rowan Beckett Minor
‘Risk Disruption’ by Bill Marsh
‘Hand’ by Hakutoh-maru
‘Quantic’ by Cherie Hunter Day
‘re’ by Thomas Terceira

VISPO GALLERY 2025

'The 2nd Coming, 2025,  #USA250' by James Spencer
‘Semata Lugra Thumophthora Polla’ by Daniel Galef
‘everything we mix’ by Vidya Premkumar & John Levy
‘The Hours’ by Cinzia Farina
‘All Seating Is at the Discretion of the Elements’ by Kara McKeever
‘No Experiments’ by Greg Hill
‘Semiote 2’ by Kristine Snodgrass
‘adept’ by J.I. Kleinberg
‘Departure’ by Debbie Strange
‘bathroom mirror’ by Mxchx
‘What I Wash My Hands Of In’ by Carol Schoder
‘Listen’ by Colette Love Hilliard
‘Card XII: The Hanged Man’ by Olya Nixdorf
'cirque pony theat'r' by Peer Smits
‘Kaiju Codex: Lilac Crests’ by Jay Snodgrass

VISPO GALLERY 2024

'The Work Is to Love My Body' by Richard Ely
'Break Glass in Case of Emergency Curiosity' by Dale A. Lombardi
'St. Sebastian' by Joe Roberts
'Depression Era' by Debbie Strange
'theophoric name' by Raghav Prashant Sundar
'Aristotle-Plato debate' by Vidya Premkumar & Chidambar Navalgund
'Both Writer and Artist Unafraid' by Heidi Neipris Wexler
'All These Words' by Dale A. Lombardi
'Chronological Scraps' by Deepa Patil
'Without Baggage' by Heidi Neipris Wexler
'Prairie Landscape' by Marcia Brauer
'ichor' by Vidya Premkumar & Deepa Patil
'The Government' by Surashree Joshi
'After Harvest' by Marcia Brauer
'The Other Side' by Heidi Neipris Wexler

VISPO GALLERY 2023

'Buddha' by Chidambar Navalgund
'after Klee, the equivocateur' by David E. Matthews
'cerebral wavelength' by Surashree Joshi
'ancestral trauma' by Dhaatri Vengunad
'Check Enclosed' by Alison Jennings
'Oh Child' by Michele Rule
'Map of the Michigander' by Kristen Gledhill
'girlhood' by Norma Bradley
'Heart Strings' by Marcia Brauer
'dried river' by Bhawana Rathore
'Of People' by Chidambar Navalgund
'comparison' by Dhaatri Vengunad
'Owning My Narrative' by Deepa Patil
'True Story' by Lesley-Anne Evans
'Foreign Letters #1' by Alejandra Koreck
'Treaty 1' by Debbie Strange
'Communication or Confrontation' by Shrehya Taneja
'new year' by Darlene O’Dell
'Living Memory' by Seth Copeland
'Contronymia' by David E. Matthews
'Truth Behind Shadows' by Marcia Brauer
'Repentance' by Julie Schwerin
'glitsky' by Deepa Patil
'moksha' by Raghav Sundar
'waves' by G. Akila

VISPO GALLERY 2022

'Neuromeds' by Geethanjali Rajan & Dhaatri Vengunad Menon
'With real swords' by Thomas Terceira & Dave Read
'Reader' by Chidambar Navalgund
'Longing' by Jane Ellen Glasser
'twelfth anniversary' by Raghav Prashant Sundar
'horoscope' by Aishwarya Vedula
'Here I Come' by Nico Vassilakis
'Max Semiotic Irregularity' by David E. Matthews
'Le città #3' by Cinzia Farina
'Jasper Arrow' by Maureen Alsop
'I don't want to be giddy' by Amanda Earl
'Sustenance' by Agnes Eva Savich
'Pausing' by Kati Mohr
'windchimes' by Vidhi Ashar
'Tu Me Manques' by Natalia L Rudychev
'Nautical Depths' by Ustat Sethi
'How Do You Feel When I Kiss You Good Night' by Natalia L Rudychev
'hope' by Chidambar Navalgund

VISPO GALLERY 2021

'Visarjan' by Raghav Sundar
'tic-tac-toe' by Geethanjali Rajan and Dhaatri Vengunad Menon
'Plastic Love' by Alisha Ahmad
'Family Secret' by Kelly Nelson
'Tanka for Pollock' by Tchello d'Barros
'Expect Nothing' by Rajeshwari Goswami
'Noetic Map' by Mark Meyer
'Outback Sunrise' by Oormila Vijayakrishnan P
'drawing together' by Julie Bloss Kelsey
'Our First Conversation' by Kelly Nelson
'Of Itself VI' by Penny Smith
Trying to Recreate_ Meredith McGhan
'Mounds of Silence' by Vidhi Ashar
'as for us' by Geoff Pope
'Yatra' by Teji Sethi
'A Patch of Sunlight' by Christine L. Villa
'Retirement' by Engin Gülez
'God' by Chidambar Navalgund
'Endangered 3' by Katy Wimhurst
'Animals' by Meredith McGhan
'a hovering multitude' by Amanda Earl
'White Space' by Rajesh D.
'Anima' by Genaro Barba
'Psalms of the Shoal' by Karla Van Vliet

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