Mary Ellen Solt, née Bottom (July 8, 1920 in Gilmore City, Iowa – June 21, 2007) was an American concrete poet, essayist, translator, editor, and professor.
Her work was most notably poems in the shape of flowers such as "Forsythia", "Lilac", and "Geranium".
The issue is entitled, "Mary Ellen Solt – Toward a theory of concrete poetry.
"[3] She married Leo Frank Solt, who was a historian, with books on old and early modern English history and Puritanism.
Solt's personal papers are held by the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.