ISSUE 14,5

Editor's Note:

Well, this one came out of nowhere!
There is a reason for that. I wanted to put out an issue with zero build-up and even less expectations so that it would feel out of nowhere. And since no one really cares about it - this cunning stunt is relatively easy to pull off.
Without further ado - enjoy!

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Issue Line-up:

1. Olchar Lindsann - Five Poems
2. Robin Tomens - Five visual works
3. Mark Blickley - Four Text-Visual Combos
4. BILL DiMICHELE - Four Pieces
5. Tchello d'Barros - Five Visual Poems
6.  Michael Kostiuk - Food Sticker Blank Verse
7. Stephen Nelson - Five Asemic Pieces
8. Guido Utermark - Eleven Collages
9. Hiromi Suzuki - Rain evaporates like a daydream fast 
10. Nico Vassilakis - KAROL
11. Federico Federici - Asemic B-Sides
12. Piotr Szreniawski - Eight Asemic Pieces
13. Jim Meirose - Ah. No No No
14. Rosaire Appel - Projections
15. Yrik Max Valentonis - ThE BUgMAn 

Federico Federici - Asemic B-Sides

Federico Federici is a physicist, a translator and a writer. He lives and works between Berlin and the Ligurian Apennines. His texts have appeared in «Maintenant 3», «Raum», «Sand», «Stadtsprachen Magazin», «Magma», «Trafika Europe» and others. Among his books: L'opera racchiusa (2009, Lorenzo Montano Prize), Appunti dal passo del lupo (2013) in the book series curated by Eugenio De Signoribus, Dunkelwort (2015) presented at Berlin Literaturfestival “Stadtsprachen” 2016 and translated into Catalan by Marta Vilardaga (Paraula de tenebra, 2018),Mrogn (2017, Elio Pagliarani Prize) presented at the 19 Poesiefestival Berlin (2018), the long poem in English and German Requiem auf einer Stele (2017), On a certain practical uncertainty(2018) dedicated to W. K. Heisenberg and the asemic album Liner notes for a Pithecanthropus Erectus sketchbook (2018), with a foreword by SJ Fowler. In 2017 he was awarded the Lorenzo Montano Prize for prose.

Piotr Szreniawski - Eight Asemic Pieces

Piotr Szreniawski is Extraordinary Professor at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland. Published a few hundred brochures of poetry, comics and poemics. He is the guy who said that poemics can be treated as a separate field of art between poetry and comics (and combining elements of both).

Jim Meirose - Ah. No No No

Jim Meirose's work has appeared in numerous magazines and journals, including Calliope, Offbeat/Quirky (Journal of Exp. Fiction pub,), Permafrost, North Atlantic Review, Blueline, Witness, and Xavier Review, and has been nominated for several awards. Published books include: Understanding Franklin Thompson (Exp. novel - JEF pubs (2018)), Sunday Dinner With Father Dwyer (Exp. Novel - Scarlet Leaf Press (2018)), Inferno (E-Chap - Underground Voices), Mount Everest and Eli the Rat (Lit. Novels - Montag). Visit www.jimmeirose.com to know more.

Rosaire Appel - Projections

Rosaire Appel is a visual/ verbal artist in New York who also makes books. The most recent one is "Connect Here", available through Small Editions https://smalleditions.bigcartel.com/category/rosaire-appel

"from here to there" - Not confined to a single surface these drawings/ diagrams simulate projections - it is not unlike the way words are projected from writing into speech . 

Yrik Max Valentonis - ThE BUgMAn

Yrik-Max Valentonis wanders through the urban landscape seeking out fairy circles. He makes puppets so other people can see his imaginary friends. He steals apples to justify his philosophy. He is Baba Yaga's favorite grandson.

His comics and writings have appeared in magazines, e-zines, and the anthologies: “Sinbad and the Winds of Destiny”, "Zombie Nation: St. Pete", "Animal Blessings", and "Divided Again".

He has M.F.A. in Poetry and Prose from the Naropa University and a B.A. in English and American Literature from the University of South Florida.

Robin Tomens - Five visual works

Robin Tomens lives in London and is a regular contributor to Timglaset arts magazine (Sweden) as well as having had two books published by Timglaset Publishing (Prints and Too Much To Bear). His book on Jazz (Points of Departure) was published by Stride. He explores various styles such as vispo, collage and print, often combining them all. His art site is Out Of My Mind whilst Include Me Out covers music and culture generally.

Olchar Lindsann - Five Poems

Olchar E. Lindsann is a writer, theorist, publisher, historian, teacher, performer, archivist, organiser, and translator, dedicated to the formation, maintenance, and transformation of marginal countercultures. A co-founder of the International Post-NeoAbsurdist Collective, he is also actively engaged with Fluxus, Neoism, the Eternal Network, and many other radical and avant-garde projects internationally. He is the editor of mOnocle-Lash Anti-Press, and of the print periodicals Rêvenance and The In-Appropriated Press. The author or co-author of 40 books of critical and social theory, verse, historiography, performance scores, visual poetry, polemic, and collage, Lindsann has performed and lectured extensively in the US and the United Kingdom. He maintains several archives of contemporary and historical countercultures. Lindsann teaches cross-disciplinary Humanities classes, writing and history at a progressive school in Roanoke, Virginia.

BILL DiMICHELE - Four Pieces

BILL DiMICHELE 

• Originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  Attended Bucknell University
• Degree in Fine Arts 1974
• Relocated to San Francisco
• Coeditor of SCORE 1982-1990
• Currently editor of TIP OF THE KNIFE
• Abstract Painter, Sculptor, Visual Poet, Graffiti Artist, Poet, Writer, Musician and Song Writer (Batang Frisco Outpatients and Billy Dim)

Published in many fine arts, visual poetry and poetry magazines    

Mark Blickley - Four Text-Visual Combos

Mark Blickley and Amy Bassin collaborate on text based art collaborations and videos. Their text based art collaboration, Dream Streams, was featured  as an art installation at the 5th Annual NYC Poetry Festival held at Governors Island. They have published numerous excerpts from this series, including in Columbia Journal of Literature and Art. Our video, Speaking In Bootongue, was recently selected for the London Experimental Film Festival.

Tchello d'Barros - Five Visual Poems

Tchello d'Barros is a poet, visual artist and screenwriter. He has published 6 poetry books and have publishing texts in more than 50 books among collections, anthologies and didactic books. It has carried out cultural activities in all the States of Brazil and in more than 20 countries. He have been touring with the individual and retrospective exhibition of Visual Poetry ''Convergencias''. With his visual works, he has participated in about 130 exhibitions, both individual and collective, in Brazil and abroad. He have taken his poetry production in several book fairs, biennials, literature forums, national and international congresses, besides ministering several lectures and literary workshops. He lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Michael Kostiuk - Food Sticker Blank Verse

Michael Kostiuk is a multimedia artist. He was born in Paris, Texas, USA. Currently lives in Yamaguchi City, Japan. His works were exhibited all around the around.

Stephen Nelson - Five Asemic Pieces

Stephen Nelson is the author of Lunar Poems for New Religions (KFS Press) and Thorn Corners (erbacce-press). His latest book is a Xerolage of visual poetry called Arcturian Punctuation (Xexoxial Editions). He has published in The Sunday Times and exhibited vispo internationally. Check out www.afterlights-vispo.tumblr.com.

Guido Utermark - Eleven Collages

G.G.M. Utermark Den Haag Nederland

Hiromi Suzuki - Rain evaporates like a daydream fast

hiromi suzuki is a poet, artist living in Tokyo, Japan.  A member of "gui" (run by members of "VOU" group of poets, founded by the late Katsue Kitasono). Author of Ms. cried, 77 poems by hiromi suzuki (kisaragi publishing, 2013 ISBN978-4-901850-42-1). Her works are published internationally in Otoliths, BlazeVOX, Empty Mirror, Experiment-O, M58, DATABLEED, Black Market Re-View, Burning House Press, h&, BRAVE NEW WORD magazine, DODGING THE RAIN, Jazz Cigarette, TAPE HISS zine, The Arsonist Magazine, MOONCHILD MAGAZINE, Parentheses Journal, Angry Old Man Magazine, Coldfront Magazine, 3:AM Magazine, Obra/Artifact, Utsanga.it magazine, NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2015 / 2017, and Poem Brut at Rich Mix London 2017, amongst other places.
Her latest book of visual poetry, logbook (Hesterglock Press, 2018 ISBN 978-1-9999153-1-5).
web site: hiromisuzukimicrojournal.tumblr.com

Nico Vassilakis - KAROL

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.