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Jennifer Hill is editor and co-founder of Paper Kite Press Studio & Gallery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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On the back cover, Mollohan states that he "was born in a log cabin. Well, not quite. I was born in 1947, which from 2010, seems like a log cabin. I have been interested particularly in those arts which push envelopes. I wrote my first poem between first and second grade. I've lived in Charleston, WV since 1975. I've worked for government, trade unions, bookstores, pizza places, software firms, and other non-poetic places. My visual poem, "Singularity" was used as a CD cover by Capitol Records. My poetry has been taught at the University of Iowa (thanks, Dan!). My ambitions are few, yet"¦ambitious. Nothing short of Nirvana will suffice. The contents of this book are conceptual photographs, artwork, and other plastic works that I deem to be evocative in a manner similar to that of a traditional poem. They are rather like Haiku of the mind." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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On the back cover, In the late seventies I felt pressed to "get rid" of my Hungarian. So the main source of my way is a deficiency, which makes things simple in some sense. Asemic Table No. 2 on the cover is a comment on Tony Trehy's Reykjavik. Works on pp 4, 6, 7, 8, 11 and 13 were dedicated to Geof Huth, Karl Kempton, Jim Leftwich, Bob Grumman, Nico Vassilakis and Karl Young respectively. All poems are from: Endgames, Otoliths 2008; From The Annual Records of The Cloud Appreciation Society, Otoliths 2008 (coedited with Nico Vassilakis); and from a book project, also with Otoliths. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Spencer Selby, Born and raised in the midwest, began writing film criticism and poetry after college. In 1984 he published Dark City: The Film Noir, an early study of the genre that has remained in print for over 25 years. In San Francisco in the mid-80s he put out SINK, which was one of the first experimental poetry magazines to be desktop published. This was followed by a stint as coordinator of the Canessa Park Reading Series in North Beach from 1987-93. After that came the creation of Selby's List of Experimental Poetry/Art Magazines, which has endured online as an important source of info for innovative writers and artists around the world. Spencer Selby has performed his work in many North American cities and in Europe. He is the author of eight poetry books and four previous compilations of visual work. He currently lives in Ames, Iowa. Spencer says: "My color work is digital but is created following a unique and somewhat...

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On the back cover, it is stated that Rebecca Eddy is from Cornwall, England. She is particularly interested in interdisciplinary poetics and creative catachresis. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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On the back cover, it is stated Kulemin that was Born in Russia (1960), - an artist, poet, author of many realised and unrealised projects out of definite esthetics; - an inspirator and organiser of various communication creative societies (KEPNOS, Group of Unknown Artists, Smolensk School of Appologists, etc.); - a participant of some poetic actions, exhibition and seminars (Russia, Germany, USA, France, Italy, Norway, Belgium, Macedonia"¦). - an author of the books: "It seems to have begun" (1994), "Odnohujstvenny Ulysses" (1995), "By the artificial way" (1998), "Multimatum" (2002). Publications: Mitin Magazine (Russia), Chernovick (New York- Moscow), Humanitarian fond (Russia), Limonka (Russia), "The Smolensk fortress" (collection, Russia), Cool-Strip-Art-Antology (Macedonia), Fiera Lingue (Italy), Risvolti (Italy), Another hemisphere (Russia), Slova (Russia). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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On the back cover, it is stated that Derya Vural was born in 1974 in Germany. She lives in Istanbul and works as a child psychologist and addiction consultant. She is interested in modern/contemporary visual arts, maths and motor-sports. Her visual poems were published at Zinhar/Poetikhars (Turkish visual poetry website/magazine), www.391.org and exhibited at the Asian visual poetry exhibition in Russia since 2005. Infusoria 2009. She is going on publishing visual poems at her personal website, www.dryvrl.blogspot.com. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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On the back cover, it is stated that Peter Ciccariello works at the intersection of image and word and is fascinated by the space between the two. He writes and creates in digital 3-D environments using real-world photography, digitized and found text, and pieces of avatars. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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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...