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:...

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...