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...

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The poems in this book all show a hand with a slip of paper with a concrete poetic image between the thumb index finger, possibly a take on Wallace Berman's Verifax collages. On the back cover, it is stated that Billy Mavreas is a Canadian cartoonist and artist living in Montreal, Quebec, whose mostly silent or wordless comics revolve around the themes of language, sexuality and spirituality. He is the co-founder of Expozine, one of Canada's largest and most well respected small press fairs, as well as the curator and resident-at-large of Monastiraki, a shop and gallery of wonders in Mile End. Mavreas has also been active in the international mail-art network contributing visual poetry and graphics to many projects under the name EHEL. He continues to explore many creative outlets including vocal experimentation, installation and lately has been leading creative roundtable workshops for kids and adults. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Anatol Knotek (www.anatol.cc) is an austrian artist and visual poet. He was born in Vienna, Austria where he still lives and works. Anatol's work has been exhibited internationally and his concrete and visual poems have been published in journals, chapbooks, schoolbooks and anthologies. Anatol says: "In this book I like to show the beauty of single characters in a different way, by creating rotated "character-spaces'." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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On the back cover, it is stated that karl kempton's visual poems have been nationally and internationally published and exhibited since 1974. his work has evolved from typewriter to computer b&w to color and now mixed media with use of a slr digital camera. RUNE series began november 1974. edited and published KALDRON between 1976-1990. coeditor of kaldron, volume two, on-line anthology edition published by karl young http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/kaldron.htm. 12 from RUNE Series and 5 PHOTONS. acknowledgments: books "” RUNE, A SURVEY and 3 CUBED; mag "” ECHO; anthologies "” WRITING TO BE SEEN and THE LAST VISUAL POETRY ANTHOLOGY. web "” logolalia, fundacaove locipedica, skylab, mathematical poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Sarah McCann is a Baltimore based community artist. She partners with individuals and organizations to facilitate projects that use existing systems of behavior to form deeper human relationships and create opportunities for reflection and growth. She is currently the Wide Angle Youth Media Festival Coordinator. Sarah also teaches with Baltimore Clayworks, and is an independent curator. Her most recent curatorial endeavor What's Your War? was exhibited at Load of Fun Gallery in Baltimore and 5 Myles Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. Sarah has facilitated public and collaborative projects and looks forward to continuing her work in Baltimore and other urban centers. Sarah says: "This book contains a series of monoprints created from text appropriated from books, film, television, conversation, my own writing and other sources. I put them together in a way that I hope explains, communicates, and shares something about how I view the world. A...

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On the back cover, it is stated that he was born in 1941. Filmmaker (about 100 films for German TV), co-founder of Visual Poetry in Germany (since 1970 intern. Exhibitions & publications). Dencker did in 1972 the first TV-film (ARD/HR) and the first German anthology (Textbilder-Visuelle Poesie international. Cologne) about Visual Poetry. Dencker-Archive at the Art-Library Berlin (about 700 works & 500 books). Dencker-monograph with biography, bibliography & works: Klaus Peter Dencker, Visuelle Poesie 1965-2005. Weitra(A) 2006. Monograph about Visual Poetry: Klaus Peter Dencker, Optical Poetry. From early pictorial inscriptions to present day digital experiments. Berlin/New York, Oktober 2010. His works are in many international museums. Art-Prizes: 1972 (Erlangen), 1982 (Berlin) a. o. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Evgenij V. Kharitonov, Poet, -- sound -- and visual artist, musician, and researcher of science fiction was born in 1969 in Moscow. He has a philological education, is the author of numerous literary publications and many books, and works in journalism. He is the publisher and the editor of the magazine of literary and art avant-guard "Drugoe Polusharie/Another Hemisphere", the audio-magazine of sound poetry and audio art "ARTronic Poetry", and the curator of Festival of experimental art "Lapa Azora". He created of the music projects EugeneKha, Nameless Dancers, Microbit Project, Spacebirds and Yoko Absorbing. http://academia-f.narod.ru (Home page) http://drugpolushar.narod2.ru/ (Another Hemisphere Magazine) http://www.myspace.com/evgenijvkharitonov (Sound Poetry Page) Email: drugpolushar@yandex.ru | sssr05@yandex.ru Evgenij says: "In the creativity I use various receptions of visualisation of poetry -- from a collage and book...

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On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Jenee Mateer is a photographer and video artist. She holds an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and she teaches photography and digital media at Towson University in Baltimore MD. Jenee says: "I see my work as a meditation on issues of gender, desire, identity and the complexities of language (communication). Inspired by the philosophy of Wittgenstein and Bachelard, influenced by images from popular culture, art history, advertising and various books on science, number and communication theory, electronics and computers, I search for answers to questions about responsibility, choice, chance, fate and man's place in the chaotic and complex universe." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Nico Vassilakis is a multimedia artist, poet and writer. He was a curator for the Subtext Reading Series in Seattle. His visual poetry videos have been shown at festivals and exhibitions of innovative language arts. Vassilakis' writings have appeared in numerous magazines, including: EOAGH, West Line Coast, Aufgabe, Rampike, Talisman, Thermos and Golden Handcuffs Review. His latest publications are TEXT LOSES TIME, staReduction -- a vispo essay, Disparate Magnets, Protracted Type, a collection of visual poetry, and recently, West of Dodge. Along with Crag Hill, he is currently editing The Last Vispo Anthology 1998-2008. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Since 1972 he dedicates to experimental and visual poetry, using the most diversified techniques and supports. Published 9 poetry books, 3 juvenile books and 6 anthologies of Portuguese and International Visual Poetry. Since 1983 participated in more that 100 International Festivals of Performance and Poetry in Portugal, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Holland, Canada, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, China, Macao, U.S.A., Hong-Kong, Korea, Turkey and Iceland. Organized several exhibitions of visual poetry and Festivals of Poetry and Performance since 1985. In 2005 he created the "Soneto Ecologico", a sonnet measuring 110 x 36 meters, made with 70 trees. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet, it is stated that My name is Bill DiMichele. I'm originally from Pennsylvania, and have been doing visual poetry since the late 1970s. My first pieces were typeovers done on an old Smith Corona typewriter. In 1980 I moved to San Francisco where I worked at a graphics company, doing work on the various machines at my disposal, copiers, cameras, vacuum frames, printing presses, etc. I was coeditor of SCORE, magazine for visual poetry, with my friend Crag Hill, 1982-1990. I have been published in an endless number of small press magazines and blogs. I now publish Tip of the Knife (motto -- draw blood or go home). The piece I'm presenting is Fugue Dog The Ecstatic, a treatise on the nature of time and higher consciousness. Bill says: "Fugue Dog the Ecstatic (one who has mystical experiences) is the subject of this series. He uses numerous tools on his quest, from Qabalah ( this spelling used for magick) to the Bible ( Solomon's temple) to the Fourth Way...