Saturday, January 23, 2016

Singular Vispo :: First Encounters Part 6, edited by Nico Vassilakis

Singular Vispo :: First Encounters Part 6, edited by Nico Vassilakis
VISPO | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20TH, 2016
Was there an experience, a specific interaction with visual poetry that infected your brain, made you see language differently or drew you toward exploring vispo further? Is there a vispoem that captured your imagination. What piece first awakened in you the possibility of a visual alphabet/language alternative? That was the general question posed and here are the results. Though this query is overly reductive, the poets were kind enough to choose, for the most part, a singular vispoem as example of this phenomenon. The over forty posts will be rolled out in groups of five each. Enjoy!

Karl Kempton / on Seiich Niikuni
W. Mark Sutherland / on Augusto de Campos
Vittore Baroni / on Tom Phillips
Tim Gaze / on Jim Leftwich
Connie Tettenborn / on Derek Beaulieu

Slova 15, via Gleb Kolomiets

Slova 15via Gleb Kolomiets
Ольхар Е. Линдсанн / Olchar E. Lindsann
Карло Бугли / Carlo Bugli
Томмазина Сквадрито / Tommasina Squadrito
Вилли Мельников / Willy Melnikov
Джим Лефтвич и Билли Боб Бимер / Jim Leftwich & Billy Bob Beamer
Уоррен Фрай / Warren Fry
Тим Гейз / Tim Gaze
Света Литвак / Sveta Litvak
Нико Вассилакис / Nico Vassilakis
Имоджен Энджайн / Imogene Engine
Диана Магаллон / Diana Magallon

jim leftwich, asemic writing: recent history and ongoing research

STORIES & PUZZLES AN INTERVIEW with BILLY BOB BEAMER and JIM LEFTWICH by Márton Koppány

THE ODD MAGAZINE

ODDITY 12

STORIES & PUZZLES
by Márton Koppány

Monday, January 18, 2016

jim leftwich, poem

from Book 147, Six Months Aint No Sentence


missions writing "thrown" apophany
think one-dimensional defined
opened the better One being
random river repetitively
arbitrary in contrast
probability perceptions delusion
Etruscan fingers onrush neologism
Bible large loops literature
passage internecine nets characterize
birds semiotic analysis
sacrificed encircles 1956
animals illuminated abnormal
(lots strange sorted break monotonously
numbers soup extreme meaningfulness)



(raiding manifestations toast
mutual ephod) voice
Occidental ahead routine
mutt-purrs portent Babel
tomorrow informing patterns
around Urim fire mind
pro-Automatic medium
ephodwishedUrimthethepouch
pagan oracular pointed apophenia
hegemon human Thummim
they ceremonial population
unknown noise statistics
they precise the overfitting
market eggs divinatory face

Sunday, January 17, 2016

jim leftwich, poem

from Six Months Aint No Sentence, Book 147

born Moderr experimental
disTheory better One at
OBJECTS artists fingers
large gesture was
illuminatec (data action
wisdom) Occidental
toward toward categorical
reason b between
theoretica The Greek
ha th th Under and hav
informing the OBJECTS
cultural pro-Automatic
and they they the human
present changed into
reality and "to be"
between they they example
Automatic subjects
tendency separates
object occurs thethe the
and the its objects this
which face is is "thrown"