mIEKAL aND. Hidden deep inside the pages of any of my books are unlimited references to the very first thoughts I may have had as a child, the spaces, the hesitations, the mis-pronounced words. I've been writing around & away from those thoughts ever since consciousness first shook me. It's all there inside SAMSARA CONGERIES <http://xexoxial.org/samsara_congeries/> a life's long poem, soon to be issued under one cover, 30 years of reinventing the hyper-writer of the bloodbath typewriter. Look elsewhere for traces of achievement: mIEKAL aND Author Page at EPC <http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/and>

Anny Ballardini's poetry appears on several online sites and was collected in Opening and Closing Numbers, published by Moria Editions, 2005. She is the curator/editor of the Poets' Corner on the Fieralingue.it site. Among her many translations from and into English and Italian: In RI by Henry Gould, '06. Her blog can be found under Narcissus Works.

David Baptiste-Chirot: born in lafayette, indiana, grew up in vermont. lived in gottingen, germany, arles & paris, france, hastveda, sweden, wroclaw, poland, boston and milwaukee. since 1997 essays, poetry, visual poety, performance/event scores, sound poetry, prose poetry have appeared in 90+ print journals, dozens of web journals and sites, 300 mail art calls. several books: found rubBEings (Xerolage 32) ANARKEYOLOGY (runaway spoon)REVERBERATIONS (Lulu) ZERO POEM (Traverse) tearerISm (singlepress) HUNG ER (neotrope) and chapbooks, work in many anthologies in USA and UK. google search david baptiste chirot / blog: davidbaptistechirot.blogspot.com.  "I work with a profound faith and energy in the found, everywhere and always to be found."

David Baratier's poems have appeared in hundreds of journals. His anthology appearances include American Poetry: the Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon UP), Clockpunchers (Mammoth Books), and Red White and Blues (University of Iowa). Collections include: A Run of Letters, Poetry New York Press; The Fall Of Because, Pudding House; an epistolary and prose novel In It What’s in It, Spuyten Duyvil; and Estrella’s Prophecies which was released by three different publishers.

 

Michael Basinski is the Curator of The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries, State University of New York at Buffalo.

 

Natalie Basinski is a senior fine arts major, with a focus on painting, at the University of Buffalo.

Tom Beckett's _Unprotected Texts: Selected Poems (1978~-2006)_ was recently published by Meritage Press. His blog e-x-c-h-a-n-g-e-v-a-l-u-e-s (http://willtoexhange.blogspot.com)  publishes interviews with poets. He lives in Kent, Ohio

 

John M. Bennett has published over 200 books and chapbooks of poetry and other materials.  Among the most recent are rOlling COMBers (Potes & Poets Press), MAILER LEAVES HAM (Pantograph Press), LOOSE WATCH (Invisible Press), CHAC PROSTIBULARIO (with Ivan Arguelles; Pavement Saw Press), HISTORIETAS ALFABETICAS (Luna Bisonte Prods), PUBLIC CUBE (Luna Bisonte Prods), THE PEEL (Anabasis Press), GLUE (xPress(ed), LAP GUN CUT (with F. A. Nettelbeck; Luna Bisonte Prods), INSTRUCTION BOOK (Luna Bisonte Prods), la M al (Blue Lion Books), CANTAR DEL HUFF (Luna Bisonte Prods), and SOUND DIRT (with Jim Leftwich; Luna Bisonte Prods).  He 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. Ars Poetica: “Be Blank”

Bob Brueckl, 57 years old, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, interested in mysticism, the 4th dimension of stillness, silence, the experience of timelessness; degrees from the Univ. of Pittsburgh and Johns Hopkins University, studying under John Ashbery, among others. Conscientious Objector during the Vietnam War. He has been published in MONKS POND (edited by Thomas Merton, 1968) in an issue that included Jack Kerouac and Louis Zukofsky while they were both still alive, Partisan Review, and more recently in Lost & Found Times, BlazeVox2, Wryting, Muse Apprentice Guild, xSTREAM, Idiolect, Van, and VeRT #9. Two of his favorite writers are Gertrude Stein and John M. Bennett

Tilla Brading, poet, performer and textual artist was assistant editor of PQR (Poetry Quarterly Review), teaches creative writing and has worked most of her life with students with Learning Difficulties. She was brought up in Ystradfellte, Wales but is now assistant Custodian of Coleridge Cottage, where the poet lived, in Nether Stowey, Somerset. Her poetry appears widely in a variety of magazines i.e. Shearsman, Oasis, Fire, Staple, Terrible Work, HOW2 etc. Poetry publications include: Possibility of Inferno (Odyssey Poets 1997), AUTUMnal Jour (Maquette Press 1998), Notes in a Manor: of Speaking (Leafe Press 2002

 

Nick Carbo is the author of three books of poetry, the latest being Andalusian Dawn (2004). He has co-edited a fabulous anthology of Filipina women's writing, Babaylan (2000), with Eileen Tabios.

Mackenzie Carignan is a poet and teacher who is currently  working on her PhD dissertation. She has recent publications in Fourteen Hills, Alligator Juniper, Wicked Alice, MiPOesias, Dusie.org (with Scott Glassman) Briar Cliff Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Chaffin Journal (Pushcart Prize Nomination), Liberty Hill Poetry Review, Into the Teeth of the Wind, Sniper Logic, Square One, and bluesky review as well as upcoming poems in Near South and ACM (Another Chicago Magazine). Recent honors include the Chicago Bar Association Charles Goodnow Memorial Award, Near South poetry award, and a finalist nomination by Anne Waldman in the 2003 Poetry Center’s Juried Reading. She was also named an AWP Intro Award recipient in 2001, a finalist in the 2003 Paumanok Poetry Award Competition, and won 1^st place in the Jovanovich Awards for her manuscript Red Field in 2002.  Her theoretical and academic interests focus on the use of the lyric poem as experimental, more specifically in a feminist poetics.

 

John Crouse, Washington State, Sissy, Kicker, Chachi, Cedar, Winthrop, Nosecone, Dawns, Dusks, Whats Happening Baby.

 

Crystal Curry has poems appearing or forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, Verse,
The Hat & The Bedazzler. She is half unicorn and half thick-sliced hickory-smoked bacon. She lives in Seattle.

 

steve dalachinsky was born in 1946, Brooklyn, New York. His work has appeared extensively in journals on & off line. His most recent chapbooks include Musicology (Editions Pioche, Paris 2005), Trial and Error in Paris (Loudmouth Collective 2003), Lautreamont's Laments (Furniture Press 2005), In Glorious Black and White (Ugly Duckling Presse 2005), St. Lucie (King of Mice Press 2005), Are We Not MEN & Fake Book (2 books of collage - 8 Page Press 2005). Dream Book (Avantcular Press 2005). His books include A Superintendent's Eyes (Hozomeen Press 2000) and The Final Nite (complete notes from a Charles Gayle Notebook, Ugly Duckling Presse 2006).

His latest CD is Phenomena of Interference, a collaboration with pianist Matthew Shipp (Hopscotch Records 2005). He has read throughout the N.Y. area, the U.S., Japan and Europe, including France and Germany.

 

Maria Damon teaches poetry and poetics at the University of Minnesota.  She is the author of The Dark End of the Street: Margins in American Vanguard Poetry; co-author, with mIEKAL aND, of Literature Nation and pleasureTEXTpossession; and co-editor, with Ira Livingston, of Poetry and Cultural Studies: A Reader; as well as numerous journal articles and essays on contemporary poetics.

D^Vid D^Vizio was born in 1955 in Toronto. Educated in Engineering and Computer science, he dedicated himself in 1982 to explore/expose his creativity and first showed his art as object in 1984. Drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, resistive action, ultimately as intervention, led to his performing and variously collaborating internationally a multi-media computer language transformation series with dancers and musicians, throughout the 1990s, while he alternated living in Canada and Japan. His current work is an experimental writing drawing from the membrane where art and science are joined, bound by Spirit as mediator of experience and its expression. He is a regular contributor to the Wryting-l listserve.

 

Martin Edmond lives in Sydney. His most recent book is Luca Antara: Passages in Search of Australia, from East Street Publications, November, 2006.

kari edwards, whose untimely death occurred during the compilation of this anthology, received one of Small Press Traffic’s books of the year awards (2004), New Langton Art’s Bay Area Award in literature (2002); and was author of obedience, Factory School (2005); iduna, O Books (2003), a day in the life of p. , subpress collective (2002), a diary of lies - Belladonna #27 by Belladonna Books (2002), and post/(pink) Scarlet Press (2000). edwards’ work can also be found in Scribner’s The Best American Poetry (2004), Bay Poetics,  Faux Press, (2006),Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action, Coffee House Press, (2004), Biting the Error: writers explore narrative, Coach House, Toronto, (2004), and Bisexuality and Transgenderism: InterSEXions of the Others, Hawoth Press, Inc. (2004).

 

K.S. (Kathy) Ernst was born in St. Louis, MO, but spent most of her adult life in New Jersey about an hour from New York City. During the 1980s, she edited the visual poetry postcard magazine, Place Stamp Here and printed visual poetry on T-shirts. Her press, Press Me Close, in conjunction with John M. Bennett's Luna Bisonte Prods is now publishing visual/experimental poetry chapbooks in color. She gives workshops in visual poetry. Much of Ernst's work is painted, collaged, or digital. Ernst also does work using three-dimensional letters: these may be freestanding sculptures or poems in books with pages made of wood. Other sculptural objects have three-dimensional non-alphabetic subjects that take the place of part of the text. Many of her digital pieces are designed for output in very large format.

 

Thomas Fink is the author of four books of poetry, mostly recently No Appointment Necessary (Moria Poetry, 2006) and After Taxes (Marsh Hawk Press, 2004), an e-chapbook, Staccato Landmark (Beard of Bees, 2006), and two books of criticism, including A Different Sense of Power: Problems of Community in Late-Twentieth-Century U.S. Poetry (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2001). His work has appeared in Talisman, Verse, Jacket, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Otoliths, and numerous other journals. His paintings hang in various collections.

 

Vernon Frazer has published eight books of poetry and three books of fiction. His work has appeared in Aught, Big Bridge, Drunken Boat, First Intensity, Jack Magazine, Lost and Found Times, Moria, Miami SunPost, Prague Literary Review, Sidereality, Xstream and many other literary magazines. His web site is http://vernonfrazer.com. His most recent works are the longpoems Holiday Idylling, Avenue Noir and IMPROVISATIONS, the now-completed work which he introduced in his 2001 reading at the Poetry Project. Frazer is married and lives in South Florida.

 

peter ganick published potes & poets press, a seminal publisher of language poetry, from
1980-1999. for himself, he has published 27 books since 1978 and never tires of wondering about the possibilities of the alphabet in all its formats.

 

Robert Garlitz (Ph.D. University of Chicago) is the author, with Rupert Loydell, of Snowshoes Across the Clouds and Speaking To Silence.  He has also published Kenneth Burke's Logology and Literary Criticism.  Garlitz is professor of English at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire. 

 

Jesse Glass stays up all night painting and hand-lettering tiny editions of his poetry. The Tate Gallery, London, has recently taken two for their collection of artists' books.

 

Scott Glassman is the author of the chapbooks Exertions (Cy Gist, 2006), Surface Tension (with Mackenzie Carignan) and Identity Crisis (Dusie, 2006).  His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Iowa Review, No Tell Motel: A Bedside Guide, Sentence, MiPoesias, Coconut, Marginalia, Philadelphia Stories, and others.  He was a finalist for the 2006 Iowa Review Award in Poetry.  He also co-curates the INVERSE Reading Series in Philadelphia.  

 

Michelle Greenblatt is the co-editor (along with David-Baptiste Chirot) of the upcoming magazine, The New Hallucinogen. Her first book brain:storm, went to press this January. Her second book, Ashes and Seeds is forthcoming from BlazeVOX. Michelle can be reached at michelle.greenblatt@gmail.com

 

Bob Grumman is a substitute high-school teacher living in Port Charlotte, Florida, whose specialty as a poet is visiomathematical poetry, but who also composes conventional poems (mainly about an alter ego called Poem), infraverbal poems (i.e., poems that happen mostly or entirely inside words) and unmathematical visual poetry. A critic, too, he is notorious for believing visual poems ought to have words, and for his attempt to provide a proper taxonomy for all forms of poetry. He has a website, comprepoetica.com, from which one can go to his poetry/poetics blog, po-X-etera. He's had some things published.

 

Alan Halsey's Not Everything Remotely: Selected Poems 1978-2005 was published by Salt in 2006. Marginalien (Five Seasons 2005) collects his poems, sequences, prose texts & graphics 1988-2004. Quaoar (2006) records in poems & graphics his journey to the twelfth planet with Ralph Hawkins & Kelvin Corcoran. He is the editor of West House Books, www.westhousebooks.co.uk.

 

Mary Rising Higgins writes from Albuquerque NM, where she completes a third, final manuscript in the TIDES series.  Many of her lines from “Who Feed Their Leaves” have appeared in a recent issue of the Hamilton Stone Review ezine. Her most recent book of poems is )Cliff TIDES((, from Singing Horse Press, 2005.

 

Jennifer Hill-Kaucher (http://www.jkaucher.addr.com) is the author of four books of poetry: “Questioning Walls Open,” from Foothills Publishing in 2001, “Nightcrown,” a crown of sonnets in a limited edition lotus book in 2003, “Book of Days,” from FootHills Publishing, 2005 and "A Proper Dress," 2006.  A Pennsylvania Council on the Arts roster poet, Jennifer conducts poetry workshops and residencies throughout the state and recently in Ireland.

 

Geof Huth has lived on most continents on earth. Over the years, he has created visual and other poems in a wide variety of formats: lineated verse, prose, paintings, drawings, and films. He has been published in venues as diverse as The American Poetry Review, Dreams and Nightmares, Kalligram, Lost and Found Times, Modern Haiku, La Poire D’Angoisse, prakalpana Literature, ZYX, and atop bandaids. His chapbook of visual poems, “Out of Character,” was published by Paper Kite Press in 2006. He writes almost daily on visual poetry at his blog dbqp: visualizing poetics, available at http://dbqp.blogspot.com.

 

George Kalamaras lives in Fort Wayne, Indiana and is the author of several books of poetry, including Even the Java Sparrows Call Your Hair (Quale Press, 2004), Borders My Bent Toward (Pavement Saw, 2003), and The Theory and Function of Mangoes (Four Ways Books, 2000).  The Bitter Oleander Press will bring out his next book in 2007, Gold Carp Jack Fruit Mirrors.

 

Sean Karns lives in Columbus, Ohio. He has poems that have appeared in Near South, H_NG_AN, Lost & Found Times, Poetry Motel and House Organ. He is the associate editor of Pavement Saw Press

 

jUStin!katKO is an intermedia writer and publisher. He has collaborated on videos and text w/ Keith Tuma and collaborates w/ Camille PB under the collective alias Coupons-Coupons. He co-operates Meshworks: the Miami University Archive of Writing in Performance, co-edits On Company Time w/ Keston Sutherland, and edits the poetry journal Plantarchy (Critical Documents). Useful links: http://www.muohio.edu/meshworks - http://oncompanytime.biz - http://couponscoupons.blogspot.com - http://plantarchy.us

 

erica kaufman is the co-curator of the belladonna* small press and reading series.  she is the author of two chapbooks (a familiar album, the kickboxer suite) and two new ones are coming soon.  her poems can be found or are forthcoming in: CARVE, LIT, jacket, jubilat, 26, the tiny, puppy flowers, bombay gin, good foot, and other places.  she lives in brooklyn and loves her puggle. 

 

Penn Kemp, sound poet, performs in festivals around the world; see http://www.mytown.ca/pennkemp/. Penn has published twenty-five books of poetry and drama, had six plays and ten CDs produced as well as Canada's first poetry CD-ROM   Penn Kemp is one of four poets discussed in Poets, Poetry and New Media: Attending to the Teaching and Learning of Poetry: http://faculty.uoit.ca/hughes/research.htm. She is featured on December's http://womenspeak.ca/ and Britain's http://www.goddess-pages.com, as well as November's www.Palabras-Press.com .  News is up on http://www.mytown.ca/pennletters/, penn's update.

 

Luke Kennard is a poet and academic. His first collection, 'The Solex Brothers', is published by Stride Books and won an Eric Gregory award in 2005. His second collection, 'The Harbour Beyond the Movie' will be published by Salt in 2007. He is married and lives in Exeter, England.

 

Jukka-Pekka Kervinen is Finnish poet, composer and visual artist. He is author of several books, texts and visual works have been published many magazines and exhibited both in USA and Europe. He is also an editor of xPress(ed), eIghT-pAGE pREss, cPress and xStream, and a co-editor of Blue Lion Books together with Peter Ganick.

 

Jim Leftwich, 1956- , an innovative and dynamic poet from Charlottesville, Virginia, founded and edited the influential avant-garde literary journals Juxta and Juxta Electronic, with co-editor Ken Harris, in 1994. During the 1990's he was intensely active as a correspondent, theorist, and critical writer in the area of avant-garde poetry and writing, and was an influential figure in the development of ideas and consciousness for the new literary culture he was involved with. He was also influential in the promotion and distribution of the work of many of his fellow poets and writers. He himself has produced a significant body of literary work, work which is textual, conceptual and/or visual. Among his books and chapbooks are Dirt (1995), Khawatir (1995), Gnommonclature (1996, a collaboration with Jeffrey Little), Plasm, Plasm, Plasm (1997), Sepher Viscera (1997, a collaboration with Jake Berry), The Passion of Indifference (1997), Improvisations, Transformations (1998), Sample Example (1998), and Doubt (2000).

 

Rupert Loydell is Lecturer in English with Creative Writing at University College Falmouth, and Managing Editor of Stride Books and magazine. His recent publications include Ex Catalogue (Shadowtrain) and A Conference of Voices (Shearsman).

 

Scott MacLeod has been presenting live, time-based, media, conceptual and/or static work in the Bay Area and internationally since 1979. His writings have been widely published in the USA and, in translation, in Russia, Yugoslavia and the Czech Republic.  His conceptual/literary projects include The Imagined Gallery and The Institute for Study & Application, Kohoutenberg. He has presented over 100 performances in 13 countries and co-produced several international cultural exchange projects between USA, France, Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia. http://seriousprojects.blogspot.com/ unlocks the vault.

 

Susan McMaster's ninth book, Until the Light Bends, was shortlisted for the Ottawa Book Award and the Lampman Poetry Prize. She edits such volumes as Waging Peace: Poetry and Political Action; and performs and records with Geode Music & Poetry, SugarBeat, and First Draft. Susan founded the national feminist and arts quarterly Branching Out. Susan has worked with many collaborators, including poets Colin Morton and Penn Kemp; composers Andrew McClure, John Armstrong, Jennifer Giles, and Peter Skoggard; musicians Alrick Huebener, Gavin McLintock, Dave Broscoe, Jamie Gullikson, Linsey Wellman, John Higney and Mark Molnar; artists Roberta Huebener, Julia MacDonald,  Pat Durr and Claude Dupuis; dramaturges Janet Irwin and Jennifer Boyes-Manseau; and choreographer Merrilee Hodgson. Her millennial project "Convergence: Poems for Peace", brought together 56 poets and 52 artists from across Canada to deliver art-wrapped poems  to all MPs and Senators.

 

Robert Mittenthal is working on how to collaborate more effectively with himself and others. The name means mid-valley or middle valley, so either his feet are wet or he lives on the plateau.  His third person gives thanks for compound words.

 

Gloria Alvernaz Mulcahy is of Tsalagi (Cherokee) ancestry, an academic at University of Western Ontario (Centre for Research on Violence Against Women & Children), author of various poetry publications in Canada and internationally. Alvernaz Mulcahy is a developmental / clinical Psychologist, curator and past coordinator of the Centre for Creativity at King’s University College. She is a musician, photographer and more recently documentary film maker. Current research and writing has centred on Indigenous traditional healing and post-modern analysis / critical narrative theory in the development of identity. Her most recent book Pinceladas (co-authored with Penn Kemp and translated into Spanish) was launched at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba in Argentina in 2005. In May 2006 she made a return trip to Argentina presenting papers at the III Congreso Internacional Patrimonio Cultural.

 

J.S. Murnet’s goal and soul imply collaboration. Murnet transcribes the dialogue, always seeking that golden harmonic.

 

Frances Presley was born in Derbyshire, and now lives in London where she is a free-lance author, performer and also works part-time at the Poetry Library.  She studied modern literature, writing dissertations on Ezra Pound and Guillaume Apollinaire, as well as the contemporary French poet, Yves Bonnefoy.  Publications of poems and prose include The Sex of Art (North and South, 1988), Hula Hoop (Other Press, 1993), Linocut (Oasis, 1997);  and Private writings: a Vermont journal (Maquette, 1998) with drawings by Peterjon Skelt. She has collaborated with the artist Irma Irsara, on a multi media performance about clothing and the fashion trade, Automatic Cross Stitch, (Other Press, 2000); and with the poet Elizabeth James on an email text and performance, Neither the One nor the Other (Form Books, 1999).  Somerset Letters (Oasis, 2002), with drawings by Ian Robinson, explored intersections of community and landscape.  Paravane: new and selected poems, 1996-2003 was published by Salt in 2004: the title sequence is a response to 9/11/2001.  Myne: new and selected poems and prose, 1976-2006, has recently been  published by Shearsman, and includes two new Somerset sequences, of which the most recent is ‘Stone settings’, an approach to the Neolithic stone sites on Exmoor and part of a collaboration with the poet Tilla Brading. She has also written various reviews and essays and has been on the editorial board of the experimental poetry journal How2 since 1997.  She runs a small press, 'The Other Press', which has recently published a book of experimental prose by Mary Michaels.  

Eileen R. Tabios has released 14 poetry collections, an art essay collection, a poetry essay/interview anthology, and a short story book. Recipient of the Philippines' National Book Award for Poetry, she recently released The Secret Lives of Punctuations, Vol. I. (xPress(ed), Espoo, 2006; for info, see http://secretpunctuations.blogspot.com).  In 2007, she will release The Light Sang As It Left Your Eyes (Marsh Hawk Press, New York, 2007).  She blogs at http://angelicpoker.blogspot.com. Eileen Tabios on Process:  My poetics can be summed up in three words: "I Love You' or "Everything, Everything, Everything!" Collaborations facilitate both paths.
 

Thomas Lowe Taylor has been writing, publishing and making photographs since the early sixties. He lives in Ocean Park, Washington.

an·drew
Pronunciation: 'an-(")drü
Function: noun
Usage: to name what changes shape
Etymology: And (&) from the bowels of other universes

                   Rew, proper name and short for renew
: a person who is sewn in ink

 

to·pel
Pronunciation: 'toe-pell
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): to·pel·inzki /-p(&-)el[ki]/
Etymology: from the mind of God, from the womb of Topel, Sharon, 1977
intransitive verb : to form poetry or as if from language robed in Swahili
transitive verb
1 : to cause a deep rumble trapped in whispers
2 : to work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor

Dan Waber is a visual poet, concrete poet, sound poet, performance poet, publisher, editor, playwright and multimedia artist whose work has appeared in all sorts of delicious places, from digital to print, from stage to classroom, from mailboxes to puppet theaters. He is currently working on "and everywhere in between".

Nico Vassilakis: storm tainting sprays of robust loss in mid collapse and blanketed affirmation when you cease to identify with what is absent though a description of portions found denuded remain vibrant. lives in Seattle. momentarily unscathed. never long enough. 

 

Mark Young has been publishing poetry for nearly fifty years. He is the author of a number of books, the most recent of which are a collection of poetry, episodes, & a speculative novella, the allegrezza ficcione. He edits Otoliths, an on-line journal.