Dunno if Rick's question is ironic, but I'm going to take it as straight:
A "page poem" is what most of us here write most of the time: a poem that we expect to deliver as written text on a printed page or on a screen, and that--most often, at least--people are going to read to themselves.
Of course these get read at readings, and they'd better be passably good in that mode. But poems that are composed primarily or only for performance on the stage, or on video, or otherwise with only the visual, non-text component in mind, are different animals from page poetry. Sez I, anyway.
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