Solt, Mary Ellen

Solt, Mary Ellen
▪ 2008
Mary Ellen Bottom 
      American poet

born July 8, 1920, Gilmore City, Iowa

died June 21, 2007, Santa Clarita, Calif.
was a leading figure in the concrete poetry movement, which flourished during the 1960s and featured words arranged on a page to create a visual graphic. For her most notable poem, “Forsythia,” the design was fashioned from the letters of the name of the flowering shrub and the Morse Code equivalents of each letter. After earning a B.A. (1941) in English literature from the Iowa State Teachers College (now the University of Northern Iowa) and an M.A. (1948) from the University of Iowa, Solt taught high school for several years. In 1970 she joined the faculty of Indiana University as an associate professor of comparative literature, and she remained there until her retirement in the 1990s. Her poetry was published in Flowers in Concrete (1966), and she edited and wrote the introduction that expounded on the emerging art form in Concrete Poetry: A World View (1953).

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