Fluxus poetry is normally created during a performance, an essential difference with visual poetry. The result of the performance can be a text, a visual poem, etc. Dick Higgins was one of the leading Fluxus people who also published his concrete poetry and invented Intermedia. Litsa Spathi developed the concept of Fluxus Poetry where the performance itself creates the result, a Fluxus Poem. With the use of computers a new result is generated after each performance. It is characterized by very quick cuts, that is several images per second, by wit, by the use of letters as a substitute for words. When the result is a video appropriate minimalist music is added. Fluxus Poetry is published by the Fluxus Heidelberg Center that is run by Litsa Spathi and Ruud Janssen and is located in Heidelberg, Germany.
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“Much verse fails of being poetry because it was not written exactly at the right crisis, though it may have been inconceivably near to it. It is only by a miracle that poetry is written at all. It is not recoverable thought, but a hue caught from a vaster receding thought.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)