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.

Announcing Brave New Word Issue 8

Ladies and gentlemen!

Brave New Word #8 is going live on October 25th.

It was a tough issue to pull off. Mainly because so much crap is going on around me. But it all paid off. I guess this issue is the strongest i've made to date. I'm really proud of it. The line-up is probably one of the most exciting you will ever see in any magazine. It is a murderers row of talent. There's even a reunion of M58 crew in the form of Jez Noond and Andrew Taylor. There's stuff from one of the all time greats - Valerij Scherstyanoi. I mean this issue will blow your mind the way no other issue of this or any other literary magazine ever will.

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Issue Line-up:

• mIEKAL aND 
• Giorgio Moio 
• Russell Jaffe 
• David Chirot 
• Steve Timm 
• Ruud Janssen 
• Guido Utermark 
• Raul Reguera
• Mick Boyle 
• Valerij Scherstyanoi 
• Andrew Taylor 
• Jez Noond 
• Francesco Aprile 
• Gregory Betts 
• Logan K. Young 
• Jason Motsch