Career
Her work was most notably poems in the shape of flowers such as "Forsythia", "Lilac", and "Geranium". They were collected in Flowers in Concrete (1966). In 1968 Solt edited the groundbreaking and historically significant anthology Concrete: A World View, which the New York Times wrote was "considered one of the major anthologies of the form." In Concrete: A World View, she collected, translated, introduced, and contextualizing the global movement of concrete poetry that emerged in the 1950s and 60s: the first international literary movement.
Solt is the subject of issue #51 of the Swedish journal OEI. The issue is entitled, "Mary Ellen Solt – Toward a theory of concrete poetry." They both taught at Indiana University and she was also director of the Polish Studies Center.
