



These poems take inspiration from passages in the Old Testament. The font these poems use is Courier New, though any monospaced font, such as Aptos Mono or Cascadia Mono, works equally well. Mark Wyatt discusses his technique in ‘Using letters as number-like particles in constructing pattern poetry’, an article that appeared in the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts: https://doi.org/10.1080/17513472.2025.2518519
Mark Wyatt now lives in the UK after teaching in South and South-East Asia and the Middle East: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8647-8280. His pattern poetry has appeared since 2024 in Antifa Lit Journal, Artemis Journal, Ballast, Borderless, Clockwise Cat, Cosmic Daffodil, Dust Poetry, Exterminating Angel, Full Bleed, Full House Literary, Greyhound Journal, Hyperbolic Review, Ink Sweat and Tears, Libre, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Moss Puppy Magazine, Neologism Poetry Journal, Osmosis, The Paper, The Plentitudes, Radon Journal, Re-Mediate, Shift, Sontag Mag, Streetcake Magazine, Talking About Strawberries All Of The Time, Tap Into Poetry, Tupelo Quarterly, and Typo. Other pattern poems are forthcoming from Allium, Brooklyn to Gangnam, Genrepunk Magazine, and Santa Fe Literary Review. Two of his poems have recently been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
These pattern poems involve interaction between image and word. They were designed to be displayed so: https://youtu.be/NOZbWEZsgIo