News at Eleven: In her keynote address to the symposium,

Marjorie Perloff, noted American critique of avant-garde strains of poetry such as language poetry, argued in favor of these new non-referential, material forms of poetry. All these strains of poetry, Perloff said, share a concomitant commitment to innovative technology, a questioning of the politics of mark making, the pluralizing of language and the problematizing of the self as a vehicle of expression. As such, poems such as "Lighght" become more important--they don't just "express" an idea but actually embody it, thus expanding the horizons of poetry and making language palpable.

from The Daily Utah Chronicle: The 'lighght' of conceptual poetry
also The University of Arizona Poetry Center: Conceptual Poetry and Its Others

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