Poet, playwright, composer, performer, artist, and publisher, Dick Higgins is one of the preeminent transmedia artists of our time. Mr. Higgins became interested in pattern poetry (modern visual poetry) in 1967 and has spent the past two decades collecting examples from all corners of the world. His recently published Pattern Poetry: Guide to an Unknown Literature describes over 2,000 pattern poems while illustrating more than 150 of the best of them.

In conjunction with: College of Fine and Applied Arts, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, School of Music, Department of English, Department of Theatre, Graphic Design in the School of Art and Design, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Lorado Taft Lecture Committee, Illini Union Board, George A. Miller Committee