Thursday, November 16, 2017

AUTUMN SPECIAL ISSUE


That's it, folks! It is finally here. 

My original plan for BNW was simple. Make 9 issues with all-new authors and then churn out Issue 10 with every single contributor. Hundred or so contributors. After seeing the nice flow and steady growth of the magazine i thought it would be a good idea to make 10 issues with all-new contributors and then an ALL-STAR SPECIAL. Then i thought that putting out over a hundred posts in a single day will be a very long day. With elements of overkill. 

Around the same time interaction with disgruntled, scorned authors who didn't make the cut to the mag became tiring and i thought i need to slow things down a little. And then i've lost my job and found another one and the workload wasn't allowing me to fully concentrate on Brave New Word - so i decided to call it quits. And then i've lost that job and things got back to normal. Except for disgruntled authors - who were still writing their crap on a weekly basis. What is wrong with them? Anyway. Then i've found another job and it was very tiring and time consuming - i had no time to finish this issue. I even thought of putting a cheat easy issue first to buy some time. But now this bad job is gone too and i'm free to waste my time as i see fit. 

Without further due - i present to you BRAVE NEW WORD AUTUMN SPECIAL 

Table of contents:
  1. Devon Balwit - Four Poems
  2. Robert Keith - Six visual Poems
  3. Vernon Frazer - Three poems
  4. John Bennett - Seven text and visual poems
  5. David Kjellin - Three visual poems
  6. Russell Jaffe - American Dream Poem
  7. Phillip-Texas Fontanella - 5 erasures
  8. Siobhan Elvis Atkins - Two asemic pieces 
  9. Valeri Scherstjanoi - Four Pieces
  10. Alexander Limarev - Homage to Alexander Pushkin
  11. Joel Chace - Six visual pieces
  12. Marton Koppany - Ellipsis Project
  13. Andrew Topel - from "Colors of Poetry"
  14. Amanda Earl - etc., a remix
  15. Hugh Tribbey - Five Poems
  16. Eryk Wenziak - Three visual poems
  17. Mark Blickley - Bed Bugs & Beyond
  18. Angela Caporaso - Three Collages
  19. Sean Gallagher - One sentence poem
  20. David Chirot - Twelve Pieces
  21. Mark Young - 10 poems
  22. Matt Margo - Three visual pieces
  23. L.G. Corey - Three Poems
  24. Guido Utermark - Collages
  25. Howie Good - 4 prose poems
  26. Gary Barwin - Five visual poems
  27. Francesco Aprile - Glitch Pieces
  28. Sacha Archer - Event Zone Poem
  29. Nico Vassilakis - Three Visual Poems
  30. Julian Kabza - Textual-visual piece
  31. XXXXXXXXX XXXXX - Carnal Pineapple

Volodymyr Bilyk - Carnal Pineapple


Volodymyr Bilyk is a writer, translator from Ukraine. He writes in English because he wants to prove that poetry is beyond any languages. (it's an excuse to present new photo).

His works include: visual poems in the series This is Visual Poetry (2013), CIMESA (2013), Casio's Pay-Off Peyote (2013), SCOBES (2013), THINGS (2014), Vispo Ay Ai Ay (2014), "To When Tea Ties Hence to Wank It Too" / "Eminent Means of Basil Dado Hem-Welt" in The Chapbook 5 (2015), "Heartbeat, Footclick, Machine Gun Vocalizes" (2016), Understanding (of language) are not enough (2016) and many others.

Julian Kabza - The thing


JK: "I don't have a biography that is important to reception."

Alexander Limarev - Homage to Alexander Pushkin


Alexander Limarev, freelance artist, mail art artist, poet and curator from Russia. Participated in more than 500 international projects and exhibitions. His artworks are part of private and museum collections of 53 countries. His artworks as well as poetry have been featured in various online publications including EXPOESIA VISUAL EXPERIMENTAL, THE NEW POST-LITERATE: A GALLERY OF ASEMIC WRITING, SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION LANGUAGE IMAGE LAB, FOOOM, POEZINE, THE GAMBLER MAG, UNDERGROUNDBOOKS.ORG, BOEK861, TIP OF THE KNIFE, BUKOWSKI ERASURE POETRY ANTHOLOGY (Silver Birch Press), KIOSKO (libera, skeptika, transkultura), SIMULACRO, UTSANGA, ZOOMOOZOPHONE REWIEW, ICONIC LIT, M58, CARAVEL LITERARY ARTS JOURNAL, METAZEN, MAINTENANT etc.


Joel Chace - Six visual pieces


Joel Chace has published work in print and electronic magazines such as, The Tip of the Knife, Counterexample Poetics, OR, Country Music, Infinity's Kitchen, and Jacket.  Most recent collections include Sharpsburg, from Cy Gist Press, Blake's Tree, from Blue & Yellow Dog Press, Whole Cloth, from Avantacular Press, Red Power, from Quarter After Press, Kansoz, from Knives, Forks, and Spoons Press, Web Too, from Tonerworks, War, and After, from BlazeVOX [books], and Scorpions, from Unlikely Books.

Valeri Scherstjanoi - Four Pieces


Valeri Scherstjanoi (born 1950) is a sound poet and graphic artist. He is the author of numerous books poetry. He also writes texts on literary theory (he developed his own method Ars Scribendi) as well as articles on history of Russian Futurism. Currently lives in Berlin.

Sacha Archer - Event Zone Poem


Sacha Archer is a Canadian writer, visual artist and ESL Instructor currently residing in Ontario. He was the recipient of the 2008 P.K. Page Irwin Prize for his poetry and visual art, and in 2010 he was chosen to participate in the Elise Partridge Mentor Program. His work has appeared in journals such as filling Station, ACTA Victoriana, h&, illiterature, NōD, and Experiment-O. His most recent chapbooks are Detour (Spacecraft Press, 2017), The Insistence of Momentum (The Blasted Tree, 2017), and Acceleration of the Arbitrary (Grey Borders, 2017). One of his online manifestations is his blog at https://sachaarcher.wordpress.com/


Angela Caporaso - Three collages



Angela Caporaso is an Italian artist focusing on visual poetry and artists books, working with the mediums of collage, trash-art and, more recently, digital formats . Angela Caporaso's art has always been characterized by a constant research and experimentation.
Since her first exhibitions, which date back to the eighties, she has revealed a constant strain towards new expressive languages.
This constant research led Angela to contaminate sign with colour, font with image, literature with painting, as though one single medium was not sufficient to express her complex imaginative world.
 Angela Caporaso has worked on the words of the main contemporary writers.

Mark Young - ten poems

Mark Young lives in a small town in North Queensland in Australia, & has been publishing poetry for almost sixty years. He is the author of over forty books, primarily text poetry but also including speculative fiction, vispo, & art history. His work has been widely anthologized, & his essays & poetry translated into a number of languages. His most recent books are Ley Lines & bricolage, both from gradient books of Finland, The Chorus of the Sphinxes, from Moria Books in Chicago, & some more strange meteorites, from Meritage & i.e. Press, California / New York.

He is the editor of Otoliths.

L.G. Corey - Three Poems


L.G. COREY is the author of four books of poetry -- Sausalito Poems, Rats' Alley Poems, The Kalidas Verses and Shards of Glass -- all brought out over the past years by the British book publisher, Platypus Press, Ltd. (Larry just finished a fifth collection, 85 Meaningless Poems, currently looking for a publisher.)

His works also have appeared in Right Hand Pointing, Rogue Poetry Review 2015, Kairos, RAUM, FUG.UES, Chaffey Review, Empty Sink, Unlost : A Found Poetry Review, Dead Snakes, Corvus Review, The Literary Commune, Danse Macabre (France) , Kalyna Review (Ukraine), Hot Tub Astronaut (Scotland), California Journal of Poetics, Red Savina Review, Chaffey Review, Poetry Pacific, Empty Sink, Snapping Twig, Screech Owl and others.


Howie Good - 4 prose poems



Howie Good, a journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz,  is the author of The Loser's Guide to Street Fighting, winner of the 2017 Lorien Prize from Thoughtcrime Press, and Dangerous Acts Starring Unstable Elements, winner of the 2015 Press Americana Prize for Poetry. 

Gary Barwin - Five visual poems


Gary Barwin is a writer, composer, and multidisciplinary artist and the author of twenty-one books of poetry, fiction and books for children. His latest book is the poetry collection No TV for Woodpeckers (Wolsak & Wynn). His recent national bestselling novel Yiddish for Pirates (Random House Canada) was a finalist for both the Governor General’s Award for Fiction and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. His interactive writing installation using old typewriters and guitar processors was featured during 2016-2017 at the Art Gallery of Hamilton.

Mark Blickley - Bed Bugs & Beyond


Mark Blickley is author of the story collection Sacred Misfits (Red Hen Press) and his most recent play,The Milkman's Sister, was produced last Fall at NYC's 13th Street Repertory Theater Blickley is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and PEN American Center. He recently published the text based art book, 'Weathered Reports: Trump Surrogate Quotes From the Underground.' (Moria Books, Chicago)


Amanda Earl - etc., a remix



Amanda is a Canadian writer, publisher and visual poet. She's the managing editor of Bywords.ca and the fallen angel of AngelHousePress. Amanda's books/chapbooks include Kiki (Chaudiere Books, 2014), Electric Garden (Tree Press Award, 2017), and  I Owe Saint Hildegard The Light (unarmed press, 2016). More info is available at AmandaEarl.com. Connect with Amanda on Twitter @KikiFolle


Andrew Topel - from "Colors of Poetry"

(Andrew is on the left, just in case)

Andrew Topel became involved with visual poetry around 2002.  while studying fine arts in college, he began taking creative writing courses as well and greatly enjoyed the experience. Coming to love both writing and art, he began to wed the two related practices to create visual poetry.  he currently resides in florida and is editing the forthcoming anthology RENEGADE.

David Chirot - Twelve Pieces




David-Baptiste Chirot: born Lafayette, Indiana, grew up in Vermont, lived in Gottingen, Germany, Arles & Paris, France, Wroclaw, Poland, Hastveda, Sweden, Boston and Milwaukee. 
Since 1997 essays, poetry, visual poetry, sound poems, event scores and book reviews in 70+ journals in 8 countries, including some in translation (Spanish and Portuguese) 
Print Books: Anarkeyology (Runaway Spoon) Zero Poem (Traverse) Tearerism(singlepress/Kiro) Reverberations (8PagePress) Found RuBBeings (Xerolage 32, Xexoxial Editions) 
Print Book Anthologies: Loose Watch (Invisible Books, London) Word, Score, Utterance, Choreography (Writers Forum, London) Oranges Hung (Milwaukee) 
several complete visual poetry books included in print journals 
Have participated in over 300 exhibitions and calls of Visual Poetry and Mail Art in over 40 countries, assistant to Clemente Padin for Mail Art Hit Parade, Havana Biennial, 2000, Cuba 

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Devon Balwit - Four Poems




Devon Balwit writes in Portland, OR. She has five chapbooks out or forthcoming: How the Blessed Travel (Maverick Duck Press); Forms Most Marvelous (dancing girl press); In Front of the Elements (Grey Borders Books), Where You Were Going Never Was (Grey Borders Books); and The Bow Must Bear the Brunt (Red Flag Poetry). Her individual poems can be found in earlier editions of this journal as well as in The Cincinnati Review, Sierra Nevada Review, The Stillwater Review, Red Earth Review, Psaltery & Lyre,The Ekphrastic Review, Emrys Journal, and more.

Hugh Tribbey - Five Poems



Hugh Tribbey’s most recent collection of poetry is Wrinkle and Mechanism from White Sky Ebooks. He teaches freshman composition and religion at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma.

Eryk Wenziak - Three Visual Poems


Eryk Wenziak serves as art editor of A-minor magazine, art director of A-minor press, and teaches at the graduate level. He is widely published and a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee. He is the author of four chapbooks, including "1975," a long poem on the Cambodian  genocide, and "4am," a collection of visual poetry and photocopy art.  His new full-length book of poetry, I NEED SPACE, was recently released by Deadly Chaps Press. His text-based visual art is routinely on exhibit in Brooklyn area gallery exhibitions and his photography has been used as cover art for several prominent authors. He lives at www.erykwenziak.com.


David Kjellin - Three visual poems


David Kjellin is a writer, artist and musician, working with elements such as chance, repetition, bricolage and spontaneity, as well as the absurd and useless. He currently lives in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Siobhan Elvis Atkins - Two asemic pieces


Siobhan Atkins lives in the Sperrins in Northern Ireland with two boys, two goats, two dogs and a scattering of hens. Her passion is poetry and conservation.

Francesco Aprile - Glitch pieces


Francesco Aprile (Lecce, Italy) is a freelance journalist, poet and visual-poet, essayist. In 2010 he became a member of the literary movement called New Page-Narrativa in store, that was founded in 2009 by Francesco Saverio Dòdaro. Since March 2013 the cure of this movement has been at two voices: F. S. Dòdaro-F. Aprile, but currently he is the director of New Page (since August 2016). In April 2011 he founded the group of artistic research Contrabbando Poetico, subscribing the first manifesto. He is the co-founder of Unconventional Press (2012, with Cristiano Caggiula) and the magazine of experimental languages www.utsanga.it (2014, with Cristiano Caggiula). He is author of code poetry/poetic algorithm (2010), asemic cinema/asemic film (since February 2016), visual poetries, asemic writing, glitch and literary glitch, asemic-glitch writing, writing error, asemic ABC book.

Matt Margo - Three Visual Pieces

Matt Margo is a person who writes. Their books include yr yr (Ghost City Press, 2017), Blueberry Lemonade (Bottlecap Press, 2015) and When Empurpled: An Elegy (Pteron Press, 2013). They are Founding Editor of Zoomoozophone Review, Editor-in-Chief of experiential-experimental-literature, and Publicity Director for Gold Wake Press. Learn more about Matt and their writing at http://matt-margo.blogspot.com.


Marton Koppany - ellipsis project - A Little Anthology of Ellipses




Márton Koppány (b. 1953) lives in Budapest, Hungary. His books include: Immortality and Freedom, Coracle Press, 1991; The Other Side, Kalligram 1999; To Be Or To Be, Runaway Spoon Press,1996; Investigations and Other Sequences, Ahadada Books, 2003; Endgames, Modulations, Addenda, all by Otoliths, 2008, 2010, 2012; this is visual poetry, 2010; Fall Leaves, Woodland Pattern Book Center, 2011; The Reader, Runaway Spoon Press, 2012. E-books include: Waves, HungarianLangArt, TheAhaMoment , all by Eratio, 2008, 2014, 2016.

Collaborative books include : From The Annual Records of The Cloud Appreciation Society, with Nico Vassilakis, Otoliths, 2008; Short Movies, with Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, cPress, 2008; Book of Numbers, with Jim Leftwich, Luna Bisonte Prods, 2011. An ongoing collaborative project with Anatol Knotek is online at Márton and Anatol.

In anthologies: Anthology Spidertangle, The Last Vispo, A Global Visuage, The Dark Would and The New Concrete. First exhibitions: Barbican Library, 1989, Woodland Pattern, 1991. Recent shows: Text Festival, Manchester, 2011 and 2014; The Dark Would, Edinburgh, 2013. Recent readings (2011-2013): The Green Lantern, Chicago; Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee; UNF, Jacksonville; Birkbeck, Rich Mix and X Marks the Bökship, London.


Nico Vassilakis - Three Visual Poems



Nico Vassilakis is running in poems have outgrown their usefulness here now by the universal remote asleep at the wheel and trouble in mind. Yes. Go see what's doing.

Sean Gallagher - one nonsensical sentence poem


Sean is a weird person, writes weird poetry sporadically reads WAY to much and resides in Anchorage Alaska. Contact him now @ ghosthyve@gmail.com

Guido Utermark - Collages


G.G.M. Utermark Den Haag Nederland

Phillip-Texas Fontanella - 5 erasures

Phillip is a nice chap who can do stuff. You can find his work @ Otoliths, Uut, The New Post Literate, Zoomoozophone, Tip of The Knife, M58, H& and other places. They are from Mt Druitt, live in the Blue Mountains & I don't know, maybe.


John Bennett - Seven text and visual poems





John M. Bennett 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 several major institutions, including Washington University (St. Louis), SUNY Buffalo, The Ohio State University, The Museum of Modern Art, and other major libraries. His PhD (UCLA 1970) is in Latin American Literature.


Vernon Frazer - Textual and Visual poems


Vernon Frazer lives, writes and creates multimedia videos.


Robert Keith - Six visual Poems


R. Keith is the author of Chicken Scratch (EYEAMEYE books), Background (inquieto press), How to design a hail storm (Another new calligraphy), Signature Move (Knives Forks and Spoons) and re: verbs (Bareback editions), as well as four chapbooks. His writing appears in Canadian and international literary journals.

Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Russell Jaffe - American Dream Poem



Russell Jaffe is the editor of TL;DR magazine (tldrmagazine.com), teaches at Loyola University in Chicago and Fusion Academy in Oak Brook, and stars in literary study guides for Course Hero. He is the author of the poetry collections This Super Doom I Aver (Poets Democracy, '12), INTROVERT//EXTROVERT (Punk Hostage Press, '14), LA CROIX WATER (Damask, '16), and Civil Coping Mechanisms (Civil Coping Mechanisms, '17). Russell Jaffe, shoopa shoopa, Russell Jaffe.


Announcing Autumn Special


That's it, folks! It is finally here. 

ISSUE LINE-UP:
  1. Russell Jaffe
  2. Robert Keith
  3. Vernon Frazer
  4. John Bennett
  5. Phillip-Texas Fontanella 
  6. Alexander Limarev
  7. Joel Chace
  8. Andrew Topel
  9. Amanda Earl
  10. Mark Blickley
  11. Angela Caporaso 
  12. Sean Gallagher
  13. Mark Young
  14. L.G. Corey
  15. Howie Good
  16. Gary Barwin 
  17. Sacha Archer
  18. Nico Vassilakis
  19. Julian Kabza 

Tuesday, October 24, 2017

ISSUE 8


ISSUE #8

Editors note: 

This issue is designed after 2001 trip sequence. 

"Sometimes you just can't get rid of the bomb!" Remember when the last time i've said that Issue 7 is "last BNW for foreseeable future"? I was wrong! The very reason i decided to abandon this journal just vanished a bit later (in cosmic terms - it was "moments later") and i was left utterly perplexed. I feel stupid about that and I'm very sorry for causing needless fuss.

So - what happened? From August to some part of September i had a job at NGO and it was "so-so la-la" but well-paid and fitting my skills (writing stuff, etc.). I thought i could do it. But there were two problems. First - lack of any sort of task management. Everything was chaotic and i had no idea what is going on most of the time. The entire communication was based on Facebook Messenger which is counterproductive to say the least and there was no real system of tracking progress or keeping schedule intact. No Trello or Slack. But you can get behind the chaos if you want to. What you can't get behind is toxic environment. And boy, it was TOXIC. It was Chornobyl level of toxicity. Here's a thing - i can adapt to the collective. But it takes two for a tango and when the other side is not willing to embrace newbie - there is nothing to be done. After a while i was rejected and isolated simply because i wasn't one of them. That NGO-crowd were lawyers, graduates, PR-managers - all interested in one thing - politics and politics only. And they had no idea about anything. Anything!! They live in a parallel dimension. So when the writer comes to write stuff for them - their reaction was as if it full-on alien invasion. It seems like they don't really understand that some people may be different from them. And so they acted hostile and plain mean. It was disgusting. I was undermined at every point and had no chance to show what i'm capable of. That made very sad but i was willing to go on - because i'm not the one gives up. But they decided otherwise - and so I was out. I think it was a good thing after all - i nearly had a nervous breakdown because of the growing tensions (fun, fun, fun).

Now it's over - i'm back in the saddle and ready to rumble!

This issue is far more visual than the previous. The line-up is murderers row of talent of all walks. Whole lotta collage stuff in different styles from Guido Utermark and David Chirot, visual poetry from the Ruud Janssen and Mick Boyle. But there are also some texts - Miekal And's Also Spake Moby Dick is getting well-deserved spotlight. Probably the best piece of poetry ever posted on BNW. There are also very curious stuff from Russell Jaffe and Steve Timm. There's even a reunion of M58 crew - Andrew Taylor and Jez Noond! And there's stuff from legendary Valerij Scherstyanoi. Overall - i'm very proud of this issue. Probably the strongest of the bunch so far.

And as a teaser of sorts i want to mention one project that will involve whole lotta visual poetry. I hope it will go as planned.

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Table of Contents:

  1. mIEKAL aND - Also Spake Moby Dick
  2. Giorgio Moio - Seven Visual Poems
  3. Russell Jaffe - Four Poems
  4. David Chirot - Ten Pieces
  5. Steve Timm - Five Poems
  6. Ruud Janssen - Six Pieces
  7. Guido Utermark - Seven collages
  8. Raul Reguera - Palimpsestos
  9. Mick Boyle - Seven visual poems
  10. Valerij Scherstyanoi - The train of autumn in the Puschkinallee
  11. Andrew Taylor - Three Visual Poems
  12. Jez Noond -  - -e--a- -a---i--- --/--/---- - --/--/----
  13. Francesco Aprile - Six Glitch Pieces
  14. Gregory Betts - Three visual pieces
  15. Logan K. Young - ɹoʇɐןnɔןɐɔ ɐ uo ǝdʎʇ uɐɔ 'ooʇ 'noʎ spɹoʍ 5341
  16. Jason Motsch - Five visual pieces

Guido Utermark - Seven collages


G.G.M. Utermark Den Haag Nederland

Ruud Janssen - Six Pieces



Ruud Janssen was born Tilburg, Holland on July 29th 1959. He is an artist, teacher, writer and publisher. He is active with mail art since 1980. Over the years he organized several international art-projects (TAM-bulletin, IUOMA-magazine). He is active participant of mail art scene. 

Steve Timm - Five Poems


Steve Timm have published 3 books of poetry: This's That (There Press, 2016), and Un storia (2010) and Disparity (2006), both with BlazeVoxHe teaches English as a second language at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Steve Timm also a performer of improvised sound poems (e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNSz6JG4tIw).


David Chirot - Ten Pieces



David-Baptiste Chirot: born Lafayette, Indiana, grew up in Vermont, lived in Gottingen, Germany, Arles & Paris, France, Wroclaw, Poland, Hastveda, Sweden, Boston and Milwaukee. 
Since 1997 essays, poetry, visual poetry, sound poems, event scores and book reviews in 70+ journals in 8 countries, including some in translation (Spanish and Portuguese) 
Print Books: Anarkeyology (Runaway Spoon) Zero Poem (Traverse) Tearerism(singlepress/Kiro) Reverberations (8PagePress) Found RuBBeings (Xerolage 32, Xexoxial Editions) 
Print Book Anthologies: Loose Watch (Invisible Books, London) Word, Score, Utterance, Choreography (Writers Forum, London) Oranges Hung (Milwaukee) 
several complete visual poetry books included in print journals 
Have participated in over 300 exhibitions and calls of Visual Poetry and Mail Art in over 40 countries, assistant to Clemente Padin for Mail Art Hit Parade, Havana Biennial, 2000, Cuba 

Giorgio Moio - Seven Visual Poems


Giorgio Moio, poeta (verbovisuale) con incursioni nella critica letteraria e nell’arte, nasce a Quarto (NA) il 25.5.1959. Già redattore di «Altri Termini», «Oltranza» (di quest’ultima è anche tra i fondatori) e direttore editoriale delle Edizioni Riccardi, nel ‘98, anno in cui inizia a partecipare a mostre collettive di poesia visuale (una sessantina fino ad oggi), fonda e dirige, per la suddetta Casa Editrice, la rivista «Risvolti», giunta al 23° numero. Ha pubblicato le seguenti raccolte: Scritture d’attesa (1989 - poesia); Sabbie mobili (1996 - poesia); Work in progress (1997 - poesia); Oltre la soglia del dolore (1999 - poesia); L’uomo dagli occhi rosa, con C. Bugli (2000 – poesia); Un vibrato continuo (2002 - poesia) e Libro d’artista n. 33, (2002 - poesia), con L. Caruso; Parodie marine (2003 - poesia); Con occhio allegorico(comprende anche Parodie marine, 2005 - finalista Premio Feronia-Città di Fiano 2006 – poesia); La fiera degl’inganni (2008 - poesia); Elaborando il tempo (2011 - aforismi); Per mutazioni (e-book –, 2014 - poesia); Dove la terra trema, con P. Della Ragione (2015 - prosa); Tra impegno e fuga (2015 - saggistica); Sui crespi marosi (2016 - poesia); Cento ahi-ku extravaganti (2016 - haiku). Con le Ed. Riccardi ha anche pubblicato una specie di romanzo breve, La finestra (2004). Presente in volumi collettanei, antologie e cataloghi d’arte, ha curato e partecipato ad eventi culturali, convegni, letture di poesia, mostre. Collabora col magazine on line “Cinque Colonne” e alle webzine “Malacoda” e “Utsanga”. 

Russell Jaffe - Four Poems



Russell Jaffe is the editor of TL;DR magazine (tldrmagazine.com), teaches at Loyola University in Chicago and Fusion Academy in Oak Brook, and stars in literary study guides for Course Hero. He is the author of the poetry collections This Super Doom I Aver (Poets Democracy, '12), INTROVERT//EXTROVERT (Punk Hostage Press, '14), LA CROIX WATER (Damask, '16), and Civil Coping Mechanisms (Civil Coping Mechanisms, '17). Russell Jaffe, shoopa shoopa, Russell Jaffe.


mIEKAL aND - Also Spake Moby Dick


mIEKAL aND lives outside the constraints of academia in the most lush and rural part of the unglaciated Driftless area of southwest Wisconsin. Choosing to focus on creating wilderness and abundance surrounded by the perfect setting for limitless imagination his course of action includes demonstrating alternatives to inbred aesthetics, delighting in the play of DIY culture, and making art and writing that is both anarchic and noisy.

aND is the author of numerous books, many available via Xexoxial Editions (http://xexoxial.org). After many years working in the realms of digital poetry and video, he has surrendered his role as author and focused exclusively on interactions that allow the author to be reconfigured by the mysteries of the collaborative process. Anyone wanting to tap into his stream can find him on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/miekal.

Jez Noond - -e--a- -a---i--- --/--/---- - --/--/----




Jez Noond’s short fiction can be read in Quartet, Patria, What Lies Within, Ruins and The Cinnamon Review of Short Fiction all published by Cinnamon Press. He teaches games design.


Raul Reguera - Palimpsestos


Raúl Reguera (1954). He studied Laws in Santiago de Compostela when there was not a single law in Spain and the notion of equity was not known. After the family financial bankruptcy in 1975, it traverses Latin America like vagabond. He publishes Experimental Poetry in collaboration with Xavier Seoane in 1978 and integrates the Anthology of Ibero - American Experimental Poetry published by the Blue Literary Center of Valencia (Venezuela) in 1979.
In 1978, through the International Geological Prospecting company, it is dedicated to the international traffic of heroin and hashish on a large scale hidden in large stones, between Kashmir, Holland, North Africa and Spain.
After reading to Gerald Brenan, in 1984 it establishes its residence in Timar,
small village of 20 inhabitants in the mountains of Sierra Nevada in Granada (Spain).
Between 1987 and 1992, Contraviesa Alpujarra SCA, the largest agrobiological project in Southern Europe, is in the extension of the time for the reconversion of 200 hectares. from conventional to organic farming.
Regular collaborator of alternative and marginal projects of Visual Poetry.and Mail Art, also activates own performances sporadically. Individually unpublished.

Logan K. Young - ɹoʇɐןnɔןɐɔ ɐ uo ǝdʎʇ uɐɔ 'ooʇ 'noʎ spɹoʍ 5341


Logan K. Young’s 1,000 Anagrams for La Monte Young is out now via Peanut Gallery Press. A summer student of Thurston Moore at Naropa’s Kerouac School, he’s since been published everywhere from 3:AM to UPenn's Jacket2 to experiential-experimental-literature and anthologized as far flung as That Devil Music: Best Rock Writing (Excitable Press), An Anthology of Asemic Handwriting(Uitgeverij) and Library of the Printed Web, Vol. 3.

Gregory Betts - Three visual pieces



Gregory Betts is the author of seven books of poetry, including If Language (a collection of 56 perfect paragraph-length anagrams) and The Others Raisd in Me (150 erasure poems of Shakespeare’s sonnet 150). He is also the author of Avant-garde Canadian Literature: The Early Manifestations, the first holistic study of avant-garde writing in Canada. He lives in St. Catharines, Ontario.

Valeri Scherstjanoi - The train of autumn in the Puschkinallee


Valeri Scherstjanoi (born 1950) is a sound poet and graphic artist. He is the author of numerous books poetry. He also writes texts on literary theory (he developed his own method Ars Scribendi) as well as articles on history of Russian Futurism. Currently lives in Berlin.

Jason Motsch - Five visual pieces


Jason Motsch is an artist and poet living in Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania.  His vispo and asemic writing are
done with an emphasis on glyph-style characters and randomly chosen text.  He is active in the mail art network 
to which he was introduced by his husband, Mick.  He also enjoys making collages, trashpo and writing traditional 
poetry.

Andrew Taylor - Three Visual Poems


Andrew Taylor is a Nottingham based, Liverpool born poet, editor, critic and lecturer. His second collection of poetry, March, was published in September 2017 by Shearsman Books. He is editor of M58, a blogzine of alternative poetries. www.andrewtaylorpoetry.com

Mick Boyle - Seven visual poems


Mick Boyle is an artist and photographer. His current vispo and asemic works use traditional and digital collage. He has  been involved in fluxus and mail art since the 1970's. He lives in a small town in Pennsylvania with his husband and fellow artist Jason and a cat named Cimony Jones.

Francesco Aprile - Six Glitch Pieces


Francesco Aprile (Lecce, Italy) is a freelance journalist, poet and visual-poet, essayist. In 2010 he became a member of the literary movement called New Page-Narrativa in store, that was founded in 2009 by Francesco Saverio Dòdaro. Since March 2013 the cure of this movement has been at two voices: F. S. Dòdaro-F. Aprile, but currently he is the director of New Page (since August 2016). In April 2011 he founded the group of artistic research Contrabbando Poetico, subscribing the first manifesto. He is the co-founder of Unconventional Press (2012, with Cristiano Caggiula) and the magazine of experimental languages www.utsanga.it (2014, with Cristiano Caggiula). He is author of code poetry/poetic algorithm (2010), asemic cinema/asemic film (since February 2016), visual poetries, asemic writing, glitch and literary glitch, asemic-glitch writing, writing error, asemic ABC book.