Scope and Contents This copy is stored in the Bob Grumman box. 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...

Scope and Contents On the back cover, it is stated that In 1980 Kaz Maslanka received his BFA in Sculpture from Wichita State University where he also studied music, mathematics and physics. He has been involved in the arts for more than 35 years and been pioneering mathematical poetry since the early 1980's. He has a strong international presence not only on his blog "Mathematical Poetry" but also with exhibitions of his work. He currently lives in San Diego California and works as an aerospace engineering consultant for a technology company where he leads a group of engineers creating leading edge computer modeling techniques for aerospace manufacturing. He is on the board of directors for the San Diego based "Sonic Arts Studio" a group of composers and musicians devoted to the development and proliferation of microtonal music. He also serves on the advisory board of the Bronowski Art and Science Forum in Del Mar, California. His work can be seen on his website http://www.kazmaslanka.com. (photo:...

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On the back cover, it is stated that since 1976, Mr. Helmes has been a leading international figure in experimental poetry. Work has been published in notable magazines, including Poetry, Paris Review, and the Notre Dame Review. As a writer, his work has appeared in Print, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota Monthly, and Whistling Shade, including non-fiction and fiction. As an artist and photographer, he has been included in exhibitions throughout the Upper Midwest. His work is included in museum collections world wide and his writing archive from 1972 to 1997 is in the Avant Writing Collection of The Ohio State Libraries. Mr. Helmes is professionally employed as an architect and lives in St. Paul, MN. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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On the back cover, it is stated that Keiichi Nakamura is a Japanese mail artist. He was born in 1960. He has been making Visual poetry and Mail art since 1994. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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On the back cover, it is stated that Maggi's prevalent artistic interests are: visual poetry since 1973; copy art, artist's books, Mail Art since 1975; laser art 1976; holography 1979; chaotic art based on the theory of Chaos, fractals, entropy since 1985. Underwood site-specific installation GAM Gallarate; curator Camera 312 -- promemoria per Pierre at the 52. Biennale Venezia. He has realized at Villa Glisenti and the Silpakorn University's Art Centre in Bangkok the installation Ecce ovo for an Italian-Thai art meeting dedicated to the problem of global warming. 2009 he has arranged a site-specific installation dedicated to XX years of the Fall of Berlin's Wall. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Dirk Vekemans was born in Flanders, the Dutch speaking part of Belgium, in 1962. Taking the internet as his natural habitat, his creative activities cover nearly all media. In 2004 Dirk initiated the Neue Kathedrale des erotische Elends, originally a website at http://www.vilt.net. Everything he does is somehow incorporated within this "opera', a work in plural, indicating its stress on openness, incompletion and multiplicity. Dirk lives in Kessel-Lo, a suburb of Louvain. There, together with his friends from Grapes of Art and De Bereklauw, each year he organizes the KLEBNIKOV CARNAVAL, an eight day participative Festival of Free Lyricism. Dirk says: "The Neue Kathedrale actually has turned into a lifelong CR&D program for me: Creative Research and Development. I go wherever it takes me, & i don't really care to what media the output goes. The running program is what's important, what comes out is its garbage, manure that...

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On the back cover, Martone writes, "Bob Grumman's RASP press published my first two books of visual poetry in the 1980's. Recent work has appeared in Mark Young's Otoliths, Michael Rothenberg's Big Bridge and online at fluxusa.com, and the weblogs of Jim Leftwich and Geof Huth. Marco Giovinelli produced several of my short books at GAMM editions. Among my other books of poetry is Ksana, which appeared from Jim Kacian's Red Moon Press in 2009." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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On the back cover and internet, Baker writes, "born April 19, 1941 here April 19, 2010. thanks to all of those who have previously published my "stuff" Y'all know who you are. this, and my entire body (of work) is dedicated to my original muse: "What's Her Name". Ed says: "Her" heart-mind "My" mind-heart on a voyage through the interstellar darkness around (our) moist kisses. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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On the back cover, it is stated that Joe Balaz is a visual poet and artist. He is the editor of 13 Miles from Cleveland, an online magazine of literature and art. Balaz incorporates various forms of media into his visual works. He is always cognizant of form and content and he places an emphasis on diversity and strong underlined concepts within his pieces. Work in this chapbook has previously appeared in The City Poetry, Wheelhouse Magazine, LITnIMAGE, Neon Literary Magazine, and Otoliths. The cover visual is entitled "Philology." www.joebalaz.com. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet it is stated that Carla Bertola was born in 1935 in Torino, Italy where she lives. Since the early 60's she contributes to poetry magazines and poetry events. Produces Vispo since the 80's, edited on international magazines and some books in France, USA, Ireland, Italy. In the same period begins her performances of sound poetry. She had solo and collective exhibitions in many Countries: Visual Poetry, Installations, Artists Books. Her research in visual poetry has created different "Interferences in writing" in b/w and colour like those reproduced in this book. In 1978 she founded Offerta Speciale an International Magazine for Visual and Research Poetry. Carla says: "This book is another step showing my research called "Franges of interferences on writing" that started more then 10 years ago. At the beginning it was the writings in different shapes, interferring each other. That is, I cut and assembled over and over and finally made photocopies...

Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet Appel writes that as an artist I'm looking into and at things that exist along the boundary line between writing and drawing, reading and looking. In the series included here, I've put aside all words that could determine a poem in order to consider the visual possibilities of the poetic form without them. Diagrams emerge, architecture, energy fields, flow charts, blueprints, and compositions of assorted marks relating to each other in confined spaces"¦ I have published several books concerning different aspects of this subject. Shadow Poems is a collection of tracings of the shapes of actual poems by various authors. As it were explores the story form much as these explore the form of a poem. Wordless (poems) blurs the line between written and drawn. (all available through Amazon.) I live and work in New York. Rosaire says: "these visual poems use no words but rely on drawing, marks on paper and subtle color to express their forms." -- Source...

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On the back cover, it is stated that Jonathan Brannen is the author of twelve volumes of poetry and four books of visual literature. His most recent collections are Mona Lisa (Avantacular Press, 2010), a sequence of visual poems he created combining computer constructed images and photocopying between 1975 and 1982, and Deaccessioned Landscapes, a collection of technically innovative sonnets (Chax Press, Tucson, 2005). His poetry and fiction have been anthologized in five countries on three continents and translated into two languages. He grew up in Florida and currently resides in St. Paul, Minnesota. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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On the back cover and internet, Sarah Ahmad writes, I was born in India and live in Pakistan. I see myself as a struggling poet and artist as in my world where life is so fragile, not knowing if you will return alive every time you step out of the house, getting someone to acknowledge your art is a real struggle. Sarah says: "My work here is me struggling to make even a little bit of sense out of what is going on in the world around me, for the sake of preserving my sanity. This book consists of work that incorporates photography and scanned objects with minimal text." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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On the back cover, Jane Dunnewold writes, I am self-taught. I am especially interested in writing and making as integral aspects of the creative process. Works begin as white silk and are transformed through dyeing, painting, drawing, and screen-printing with sand. I seek a whole larger than the sum of the parts and am currently intent on discovering what it takes for a visual surface to be perceived as poetic. I write about the creative process at existentialneighborhood.blogspot.com, and authored Art Cloth: A Guide to Surface Design on Fabric (Interweave 2010). I maintain Art Cloth Studios in San Antonio, Texas, and teach a dozen workshops a year. My website is complexcloth.com. Cover: Meditation One; the writing reads: Live in present time. / Seek only the Truth. / Surrender your will to God. / Love is the only true power. / Honor thyself. /Honor one another. / All is One. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Michael Basinski is the Curator of the Poetry Collection, the University at Buffalo. He performs his work as a solo poet and in ensemble with BuffFluxus. Among his many books of poetry are Poems Popeye Papyrus (Slack Buddha Press), Of Venus 93 (Little Scratch Pad) and All My Eggs Are Broken (BlazeVox). His poems and other works have appeared in many magazines including Dandelion, BoxKite, Open Letter, Torgue, Explosive Magazine, First Offense, Terrible Work, Kenning, Lungfull, Lvng, Generator, Tinfish, Curicule Patterns, Score, Unarmed, Rampike, House Organ, Ur Vox, Damn the Caesars, Pilot, 1913, Filling Station, Public Illumination, and Poetry. Michael says: "SNAP! is a narrative "opem' (a poem with many points of entry) improvisational (out of mind reading aloud at point of encounter), aural and visual/manuscipted, comic book, performable and emergent poetry. "Hell has no power over pagans.' -- Rimbaud." -- Source of annotation:...

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On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Renaat Ramon was born in Bruges (BE). Poet, essayist and visual artist: monumental sculptures, paintings, graphics, installations, furniture designs and architectural projects in the spirit of constructivism and minimalism. Collaborator to Big Ode (PT), I/Z (NL) and Poeziekrant (BE). Published a.o. concrete and visual poetry: Ongehoorde gedichten / Poems unheard-of (1997), Color-field poetry (1999) and Zichtbare stem / Visible voice (2009), essays on the relation between word and image and the concrete poetry of Theo van Doesburg (De Stijl) and H.N.Werkman (The Next Call). In preparation: Visie & Vorm / Vision & Form. History of the concrete and visual poetry in the Netherlands and Flanders. Renaat says: "notebook: preliminary notes for a new pure world, constructed only with an alphabet of 26 letters, 10 digits, 4 arithmetical signs and 3 geometrical elements." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet, it is stated that A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz is a media artist and theorist, an assistant editor at the online journal Anti-, and a member of the art collective RUST, LTD. He is the author of two previous chapbooks, Alphabet Man (Slack Buddha) and Count as One (New River), and a forthcoming full-length collection, Afeeld: Computer Games as Poetics (ETC/MediaCommons). His recent work has appeared in Diagram, Hobart, Kotaku, Otoliths, Word for/Word, and the Zaoem Festival of Contemporary Poetry. He created the poems in this chapbook by modifying "glitchNES," a ROM originally created by Don Miller, and using it with the Nestopia NES emulator. A. J. says: "These visual poems are the result of glitches I created and controlled through computer game software. I used an NES emulator as an instrument, improvised and composed in real time, and recorded the output of my play. The resultant poems are colorful screenshots that suggest meaning through image and...

Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Helen White (www.krikri.be/helen) was born in Britain in 1977 and now lives in Ghent, Belgium, where she co-organizes festivals and other poetry events as a member of the Krikri polypoetry collective. Recent publications include a contribution to the anthologies Zieteratuur (Uitgeverij Passage, Groningen, 2010) and Last Vispo (forthcoming). Her chapbook How to Quote Visual Poetry is no. 94 in Luc Fierens' postfluxpostbooklet series. Inspired by the miniature format of the series, this chapbook is a collection of fragments from larger projects along with poems that would otherwise be too small to print. Helen says: "I have always experienced poems as tangible objects: as a child, my favourites were the ones that felt like putting a marble in my mouth and walking around with it hidden under my tongue. I make poems with kaleidoscopes, shadows, pebbles, my fingers. Most of the poems photographed in this booklet can be held in the hand,...

Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Luc Fierens (www.vansebroeck.be) was born 1961 in Mechelen (BE). He's "an active mail-artist since 1984, when he began delivering his distinctive flavor of poesia-visiva-inspired visual poetry to individuals, exhibitions, and archives around the planet. His method of production is collage, a particular brand of verbo-visual collage that makes it points by abrupt collocations of disparate fragments of image and word." (Geof Huth 2007). Recent publications include contributions to anthologies: Zieteratuur (Uitgeverij Passage, Groningen, 2010), Ein Alphabet der Visuellen Poesie (edition ch, Wien, 2010) and Poeti D'Europa (Fondazione Sarenco, Italy 2009). "Luc Fierens is a master of the narrative and discursive serial collage poem." (Jim Leftwich 2005) Luc says: "This series is a critique on the position of women's beauty in society : past, present & future. These layers make connections between image/word. My language of bodies...

Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Martha Deed is a poet and web.artist who lives on the Erie Canal in North Tonawanda in a house that causes writing to happen. Martha's chapbook The Lost Shoe, and her tiny booklets Heat (flash fiction) and her 500 Favourite Words have previously been published by chapbookpublisher.com. Her work has appeared on line and in print in many professional and literary journals. Martha Deed's websites: www.sporkworld.org/Deed and sporkworld.tumblr.com. Several of the images in this series have appeared previously: the cover and #10 were included in the Avant exhibit at the Skywalk Gallery, Columbus, Ohio; #6 can be seen at unlikelystories.org; #7, was included in the Erasures Exhibit at Yale University; #s 8-10 can be seen at logolalia.com/alteredbooks; and #15 will be in Rubbings (a forthcoming anthology). Martha says: "This series reflects a feeling of apprehension, the story of an actual murder in images when the facts alone were not...