Arts & Culture
How Calligram Poetry Merges Text and Visual Form
Quick fact
The term 'calligram' was popularized by the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire in 1918, but the idea dates back to ancient Greek 'technopaegnia'—poems shaped like objects, like a wing or an egg.
Why this is interesting
You've probably read a poem and visualized the scene, but what if the poem itself could take shape? Imagine a poem about rain where the words fall down the page like drops—this is a calligram.