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On the back cover, it is stated that Alexander Oiko was born in 1987 and lives in Khabarovsk, Russia. His works are published in such magazines as "Drugoe Polusharie", "Chernovik" and are the part of my book "Pyatna" ("Spots"). Besides visual poetry, he creates sound poetry and ZAUM. I regret very much that russian futurists of the beginning of 20th century have been forgotten undeservingly on their motherland. My creation is often called avant-garde? But I think, that mass-poetry hasn't been developing since 19th century. In my opinion, visual poetry shows author's feelings and makes images brighter. Visual poetry should be a standard and should become mass-poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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On the back cover, it is stated that Jukka-Pekka Kervinen is a Finnish writer, composer and visual artist. He is focused to computer-generated forms, creative algorithms and chance. Jukka lives in Puhos, Finland, between two lakes, near the border of Russia, with his wife and two younger children. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet, it is stated that interacting within themselves and with the viewer/reader -- content, vehicle, medium, form and word, within a concept, pull together merging the themes and the means. It is you, the reader-viewer, that completes the work! Since 1977 -- uncountable visual poems, + 25 + small editions of artists' books, 100 + unique sculptural bookworks, a few with collaborators. Marilyn says: "TRANSPIRE TIER SPARE TEAR is made of altered visual poems. They are a merged version of 40 pages, of the hidden center in the artists' bookwork, TIER SPARE TEAR. This work unfolded, was shown in a few places, but the hidden spare visual poetry within was not revealed, not read, and never published. The bookwork's outer structure, the walls, in book format are folded and pressed together and are part of the visual poetry. "Now here are 16 visual poems. All interior pages are altered, some much more than others. Individual pages merge a bit here a bite there;...

Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet, it is stated that John Moore Williams claims to be a poet and, occasionally, an artist. He also claims, marginally more lucratively, to be a copywriter and editor. It's fairly certain that he lives in Oakland, California, and that he has authored I discover i is an android (Trainwreck Press, 2008), writ10 (VUGG Books, 2008) and, with Matina Stamatakis, Xenomorphia (Wheelhouse, 2009). He also contributed lexical and visual poems, as well as book design, to [+!] (Calliope Nerve, 2009)"”the last in collaboration with Matina Stamatakis and Kane X. Faucher. He also edits the visual poetry journal The Bleed (http://avantexte.com/thebleed). His blog is called SinTax (fissuresofmen.blogspot.com). Thanks to Michael Jacobson and Mark Young, editors of The New Post-Literate and Otoliths, respectively, who originally published some of these works. This work is dedicated to my mother and to bitterness, endless sources of inspiration. -- Source of annotation:...

Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet, it stateS that Millie Niss (1973-2009) was a poet and web artist whose work was widely published on the web and in print, including the Electronic Literature Collection, SCOPE 2006, cover art for the International Journal on Multicultural Societies, Hyperrhizz, and Museum of the Essential and Beyond, dvblog, and logolalia. Her website: http://www.sporkworld.org and blog: http://sporkworld.tumblr.com. Several images first appeared in different form in Word Circuits (images 2-3) Iowa Review on the Web (image 4) and Dudley House, Harvard University (image 11). Martha Deed constructed this collection from works originally designed for exhibit in galleries or as interactive web.art. Martha says for Millie: "For Millie Niss, all relationships were political, and one's own life was also intimately connected to ever larger political and cultural circles. In the context of growing up with linguistic and family roots in France and New York State (New York...

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On the back cover and internet, it states that sean burn is a writer, performer and outsider artist who is actively involved in disability arts -- currently working with dash (disability arts shropshire) and the new art gallery walsall to "reclaim the languages of lunacy'. his 25 poetry films have screened worldwide (and now viewable on vimeo). the most recent of his three cd's is speaksong with gareth mitchell, musician. skrev press (www.skrevpress.com) recently published his third full-length collection of his writing -- wings are giving out -- (isbn 978-1-904646-56-3). sean says: "assembled from fragments photographed or scanned across europe and turned into contemporary illuminated manuscript -- lo-fi, scratched, credible, these works are culture-jams, subverting existing narratives that surround and which i simply don't/won't buy into." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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On the back cover, it is stated that Beaulieu is the suthor of four books of poetry (most recently the visual poem suite chains) and two volumes of conceptual fiction (most recently the short story collection How to Write), derek beaulieu's work is consistently praised as some of the most radical and challenging contemporary Canadian writing. Toro magazine recently wrote "using techniques drawn from graphic design, fine art and experimental writing, [beaulieu] vigorously tests the restrictions, conventions, and denotations of the letters of the alphabet." beaulieu lives in Calgary where he teaches high school Journalism and English." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Stephen Nelson was born in Motherwell, Scotland in 1970, to the King of Belguim and his wife, a member of the Swedish Royal Family. He was educated in a monastery in Bhutan where he quickly learned the simultaneous arts of telepathy and levitation. He gave it all up for poetry however, and now practices visual poetry, minimalism and freeform song at the blog http://afterlights.blogspot.com. He's been published in various magazines, including the Hungarian publication, Kalligram, where one of these pieces first appeared. Stephen says: "Letter compositions, processed, and processed again, digitally, magically -- concrete to visual to concrete, around the magic alphabet, across the magic page." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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On the back cover, it is stated that John M. Bennett has published over 300 books and chapbooks of poetry and other materials. He has published, exhibited and performed his word art worldwide in thousands of publications and venues. He was editor and publisher of LOST AND FOUND TIMES (1975-2005), and is Curator of the Avant Writing Collection at The Ohio State University Libraries. Richard Kostelanetz has called him "the seminal American poet of my generation". His work, publications, and papers are collected in The Museum of Modern Art and other major libraries and institutions. His PhD (UCLA 1970) is in Latin American Literature. Ars Poetica: "Be Blank -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Enzo Minarelli, after his university degree in psycholinguistics at Cà Foscari Venice, since early Seventies, has been developing his multiple activities, starting from the written word which will become oral, visual and a televisive one. He has been active in the field of linear and visual poetry, several one-man shows , editing also CDs and DVDs. He is the theorist of Polypoetry (its manifesto comes (sic) out at Valencia in 1986), stating the spectacular event of sound poetry, he has been performing abroad. He has been the publisher of the vinyl series 3ViTre Records, producing about twenty records both at 45 turns and LP, founding the 3Vitre Archive of Polypoetry which has been collecting verbo-voco-visual works at an international level. Scholar and researcher about orality and poetry, his essays and books are a well-known reference. As a video-poet, he has produced many video-poems since the early 80s. His website is...

Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Gary Barwin is a writer, composer, and performer. His many books and chapbooks will soon include: The Porcupinity of the Stars (Coach House), How it Begins: A Short History of Bite (No Press), The Obvious Flap (with Gregory Betts; BookThug) and Franzlations (with Hugh Thomas and Craig Conley; New Star). His books already include anus porcupine eyebrow (Supernova Tadpole/Paper Kite) and frogments from the frag pool (with derek beaulieu; Mercury) and the 2010 bpNichol chapbook award co-winner, Inverting the Deer (serif of nottingham). He lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and can be found at serifofnottingham.blogspot.com. This sentence makes frequent stops. Gary says: "Photoglyphic collages of free-range semi-colons, vowels, imaginary letters, and an m or two. Language in its natural environment: a Magritte-like graphosphere of shifting sign and surface. A languagescape The alphabet as stigmata on the open hands of the world." --...

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On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Misha Magazinnik was born in the "former" USSR & has been living in the US for over 20 years. He is a member of vy da vy sindikat artist collectvie (vydavy.com), co-founder of NY-based experimental Russian-language publication "Magazinnik" (magazinnik.com). His translations, poetry, visuals have been published in the US, Australia, Europe & Russia; his artist books are in private collections. Some images in this book are collaborations with Felix Davelman, Masha Magazinnik & Timosha Magazinnik. Aleksei Kruchenykh is the source of it all! Misha says: "Mostly mixed media collages plus finger-paint with organic alphabet pasta." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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On the back cover, it is stated that he is a multidisciplinary artist (conceptual poetry, video, performance, theater). He sees his work as a re-creation, an imperious dialogue with the dead and the living, sometimes absurd and, paradoxically, non-expressive. His researches also seek to transgress gender and to examine their limits. He realized many exhibitions in Montreal, where he is finishing his Master Degree in Theater. He's about to publish a conceptual chapbook, called DIRECTIONS, coauthored with Robert Fitterman (No press, 2010). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents On the back cover, it is stated that she is a teacher and a poet / visual poet from Finland. She made her first visual poems in the beginning of the year 2008. Kaikkonen states I like to explore all different kinds of artistic and typographical terrains. To me the most important part of doing visual poetry is being with in process. I often connect asemic elements to my visual poems and I use many different kind of ways and methods to do visual poetry. Some of my vispos (in this book poems number 8-11) I have done under pseudonym (nele hannes), because it gives me freedom to create different kind of things. One of my works has been published by the Paper Kite Press in USA. I have also published works in the Otoliths, in the SCRIPT and in the Finnish print journals Parnasso and Tuli&Savu, and on the websites nokturno.org. and The New Post -literate: gallery of asemic writing. In this year 2010 some of my works will be part of the exhibitions in Russia (asemics) and also in...

Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Miguel Jimenez was born in Avila, Spain in 1953. Major Degree in Arts, studied Art and Architecture in Sevilla and Salamanca. He is a Plastic artist, and lives in Sevilla where he created El Taller de Zenon, an organization devoted to the research and the creation of image, with constant presence on Internet by means of its website. His plastic work, as much in painting as in other techniques has led to the Visual Poetry. He contributes regularly to numerous magazines and publications of art and visual poetry in Europe and America, and he has appeared in several poetry anthologies. On a regular basis he participates in expositions and collective projects of Visual Poetry and Mail Art throughout the world. Miguel says: "Visual poems carried out in the last year and belonging to several series: Urban poems, Random Poems, Uppercase Letters, Presences, and two Optic Poems. "Poemas visuales realizados en el ultimo ano y pertenecientes a...

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On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Sheila E. Murphy has been creating visual poetry, including asemic work, over the past 11 years. Her work has been included in multiple exhibitions internationally. Murphy's textual poetry has been a major commitment in her life for more than three decades. Current work incorporates hand-drawn images that are subsequently treated electronically and presented in multi-layered formats. Recent book publications include visual poetry: permutoria (with K.S. Ernst) and The Case of the Lost Objective (Case), a solo book that features both visual and textual poetry. Murphy has lived most of her adult life in Phoenix, Arizona. Sheila says: "These are the pictures that found the hand that found the light that found the punctuation that found a language past the language." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet, it is stated that nick-e melville is a scottish poet who does visual stuff and found stuff. his first collection of visual poetry, selections and dissections, was published by otoliths press in 2010. he also does shellsuit massacre (cf. poem 7) with rodney relax: found poetry social commentary to guitar techno. some of these poems, all now in colour, appeared in these places: blazevox, one less magazine, otoliths and sleeping fish; the 10th poem appears on the poet's left forearm, underside. nick-e says: "these are basically all the pieces i've done in colour, and, curiously, there's a higher usage of mixixed media than in my other visual work, including handwriting (poem 12) and skin. some were made using tippex (whiteout) on papers and credit card junk mail (snow pake is an archaic term, from the 70s and 80s). others were created using circles from bags of blue circle cement. i'd always admired the targetesque design, and the blue-on-buff bags, so...

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On the back cover, it is stated that Piotr Szreniawski is a scientist, artist, and a religious reformer. He has published various books on administrative sciences. He creates experimental comics, poemics, metapoetry, as well as epopeys, aphorisms and fairy tales. He is the head of the European Centre of Poemics. But why am I saying "he" when it is I, who writes it all? I like to create, and to try different arts, such as titleart or shiborugami. I am the editor of a monthly newsletter -.^ where I publish my theories, poems and other creations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet, it is stated that K. S. (Kathy) Ernst works in digital and mixed media visual poetry. She often uses three-dimensional letters sculpturally as shown here. Recent publications include Drop Caps and Sequencing (Xexoxial Editions) and Permutoria with Sheila E. Murphy (Luna Bisonte Prods). Ernst lives in New Jersey and travels to perform visual and sound poetry with The Be Blank Consort, which includes John M. Bennett, Scott Helmes, Sheila E. Murphy, and Michael Peters. Some of these works reside in private or institutional collections such as the Ohio State University and Yale University libraries. Some images have previously appeared in other publications. Kathy says: "K. S. Ernst is interested in words and letters as symbols "” their basic symbolic make-up as well as their representational use. This book contains three-dimensional sculptural poems constructed from stand-alone ceramic letters, letters that form words and/or phrases and at the same time...

Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Bob Grumman has long been active in the micro-press as publisher (the Runaway Spoon Press), conventional poet (Of Poem), visual poet (Xerolage 30), mathematical poet (April to the Power of the Quantity Pythagoras Times Now), critic (Of Manywhere-at-Once), columnist (for Small Press Review) and blogger (Poeticks.com). His other interests include arguing on the Internet with wacks certain Shakespeare was a fraud, tennis, riding his bicycle (his only mode of local transportation) and trying to finish a full-scale (totally uncertified) theory of psychology he's had under way since he was 26. Bob says: "My hope is that engagents of the works here will experience them in the verbal portions of their brains more or less at the same time that they experience them as works of visual art. In a few of them, my "visual long-division poems,' I try to trip those entering them into a third part of their brains, as well." -- Source of annotation:...