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Nine Photographs by J. A. Spahr-Summers
April 2008
Jeffrey Spahr-Summers is a poet and photographer, founder of The Chicago Poetry Agenda and a former board member of The Tulsa Arts and Humanities Literary Arts Council. A former member of The Greater Dallas Community of Writers, he has conducted and participated in many poetry workshops and feature readings. His poetry and photographs have been published in numerous print and online magazines.
Six Visual Pieces by Adrian Kenyon
April 2008
Adrian Kenyon attended Salendine Nook secondary school, where he failed to recognize authority and experienced a major breakthrough regarding rebellious tendencies. He then attended Huddersfield new College and Aston University. Twenty-four hours after graduating, he started work on a demolition site with some bikers. He worked for the forestry department of his local council on Dutch Elm disease for a few months until it was abolished.
Visual Poetry by Vernon Frazer
March 2008
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.
Misti Rainwater-Lites
March 2008
Misti Rainwater-Lites still doesn't know what she wants to be when she grows up but she's pretty sure it doesn't involve kissing ass or any kind of math. Misti makes a lot of collages and writes a lot of poems. Her self-published poetry collections and novels are available at lulu.com. She also has chapbooks available through Kendra Steiner Editions, Erbacce Press and Scintillating Publications.
Peter Schwartz
February 2008
Peter Schwartz is a painter, poet and writer. He's also an associate art editor for Mad Hatters' Review. His artwork can be seen all over the Internet but specifically at: www.sitrahahra.com. He's had hundreds of paintings, poems, and stories published both online and in print and is constantly submitting new work as if his very life depended on it. His last show was at the Amsterdam Whitney Gallery in Chelsea, New York City.
Jeff Crouch and Diana Magallón
February 2008
Diana Magallón is an experimental artist: http://cipollinaaaaa.blogspot.com
Jeff Crouch is an internet artist in Grand Prairie, TX. Google "Jeff Crouch" to see where he's been on the internet.
Janet Snell
January 2008
Janet Snell is a graduate, magna-cum-laude, of the Maryland Institute College of Art, where she studied painting with the late Ed Dugmore. She has shown her work in New York City, Baltimore, Washington, D. C., Cleveland and other cities, and is the author of two books of art with poems: Flytrap (Cleveland State University Press Poetry Center, 1990) and Heads (March Street Press, 1998).
The Industrial Poet
by Joe Balaz, January 2008
Joe Balaz lives in northeast Ohio. He is the author of Domino Buzz, a cd of music-poetry available at www.JoeBalaz.com. He is also co-author, with photo-artist Mary Ellen Derwis, of JOMA—online, an online gallery of concrete poetry and photography. His recent work has appeared in or is forthcoming from various publications online.
Dee Rimbaud
December 2007
Dee Rimbaud is an artist, writer and occasional new age gypsy. He has just returned to his native Scotland after a year of living mainly in a van with his partner and child, travelling round Britain, France, Spain & Portugal.
Anita Wexler
December 2007
Anita Wexler, a member of Women Contemporary Artists, got her BFA in Communication and Graphics Design from the Parson's New School of Design in New York. She's had dozens of exhibitions throughout Florida, as well as in New Jersey, Connecticut, Arkansas, and Indiana, and has appeared on HGTV's "Crafter's Coast to Coast" and "Isn't That Clever."
Jeff Crouch, of the Third Kind
November 2007
In the Dallas-Forth Worth metroplex of Texas.
Culture as history, politics, and art, the conjunction thereof.
Time as Moebius strip.
Splicing poetry into it.
gum
by Karl Kempton, November 2007
Karl Kempton's visual poems have been nationally and internationally published and exhibited since 1974. His work has evolved from typewriter to computer b&w to color and now mixed media works with the use of a SLR digital camera. gum is from photos taken in San Luis Obispo's Gum Alley.
October 2007
Born in 1967 in San Pedro, CA, Chet Zar's interest in art began at an early age. Zar's interest in the darker side of art began in the earliest stages of his life. His interest in horror films and art eventually culminated into a career, designing and creating effects for such films as The Ring, Hellboy, Planet of the Apes and the critically acclaimed videos for Tool.
Peter Schwartz
June 2007
Peter says, "I paint to transcend everyday life. When I paint I am 100% occupied, so in a very real sense I inhabit an entirely different dimension. It is that total commitment that allows me to make work that at least pleases my own very judgmental eye."
Cecelia Chapman
June 2007
Cecelia Chapman is an artist and writer living a pretty simple life on the outskirts of the Northern California coast. For example, it is her sole ambition to finish learning Flash and post some short video-stories that look like fabric.
Jeremy Hight
May 2007
Jeremy Hight is a new media artist/writer and locative media artist/writer. He invented spatial locative narrative in the first locative narrative project "34 north 118 west". He has a project shortlisted by the European Space Agency to trigger text and image works as the astronauts pass above key cities on the earth. He has lectured about his work at conferences at MIT and overseas.
Dee Rimbaud
May 2007
Dee Rimbaud is an artist, poet, novelist and occasional new age gypsy. He has been of No Fixed Abode since August 2006, living mainly in a Mercedes 609d van with his partner and child, travelling round Spain & Portugal. He is author of two poetry collections, The Bad Seed and Dropping Ecstasy With The Angels and one novel, Stealing Heaven From The Lips Of God.
round midnight, christmas day, and mystic infernal embrace - dark seamless nights stretching across flood soaked city lights
by Ray Brown, May 2007
"death to the infidel
death to women and their kiss
death to armies and navels and the fundamental narcissism
complex"
The Return of Jeff Crouch
April 2007
In the Dallas-Forth Worth metroplex of Texas.
Culture as history, politics, and art, the conjunction thereof.
Time as Moebius strip.
Splicing poetry into it.
Cecilia Ferreira
March 2007
"If I can somehow portray how beautiful human flaws are I would convey a message of truth. We are all bruised apples that didn't fall far from the tree. There is a lot of beauty in those specific parts in the human psyche that society wants us to hide. We are animals who are not allowed to give in to our instincts due to the civilized stigma attached to walking on two legs."
J. Michael Mollohan
February 2007
"I am a visual/concrete poet whose work has been taught at the University of Iowa and included in a show at Harvard. I'm a visual artist and photographer. I live in Charleston, West Virginia and travel as much as I can afford. My work is included in collections from California to New York, from England to Japan. Money has always been a problem, but the creative impulse never has."
Song Shapes
by Jim Andrews, January 2007
"No audio. You imagine the music."
On the Barge of the Soud, P piece, Bleak Use, S zon, and Caw Huffer
by The Be Blank Consort, January 2007
"The Be Blank Consort was born in June 2001 at The Atlantic Center for the Arts (New Smyrna Beach, FL) when all of its members were part of a literary residency convened by Richard Kostelanetz. They are all writers, but they all use language in greatly expanded and often completely new ways and contexts. The Consort was formed to perform various kinds of texts, many of them created collaboratively, in ways that would reveal new resonances and possibilities in them."
Green
by Tantra Bensko, January 2007
"Is a prayer that answers itself,
With the hoot of an owl,
The stones that wind follows
All night, as you walk,"
Missing
by Martha L. Deed, January 2007
"I've been working on the aftermath of a 1998 murder in western New York that has affected an unusually large number of people and tested the criminal justice system to its limits. Originally, I thought I would write a book, but as I worked my way through the materials made available to me, I realized that I had something quite special, quite powerful, and that 'the story' cried out for multimedia web presentation.
Paul Dutton
visual poetry, January 2007
Paul Dutton is a poet, novelist, essayist, and oral sound artist, whose artistic focus since 1967 has been the fusion of the literary and musical impulses. He has taken his art to festivals, clubs, concert halls, and classrooms throughout Canada, the United States, and Europe, appearing solo and in ensemble (The Four Horsemen, CCMC, Five Men Singing).
Red
by Amanda Earl, January 2007
"...the words "poem," "poetry" and "poet" mess me up. i try to conform to this inner nag droning on and on about what a poem is supposed to be; i enforce line breaks for no particular reason, fall into precious language and unnatural syntax...
Alphaglyphs
by endwar, January 2007
"I just wanted to see what would happen if i could make the letters interact in some mathematical way, and see what sort of shapes would result. There are some reappearances of letter forms in diminished or transposed forms – many variations on E, H and a few As. Some crosses, and some forms that look like obscure symmetric signs..."
AVATAR Sketches
by Sharon Harris, January 2007
'In at least one creation myth, a god said "Let there be light". From light came worlds. These planet drawings were digitally created from the colourful circles of light that splash across photos in certain lighting conditions.
'Some people believe the lens flares accurately depict beings from a higher realm: therefore, the orbs of light are nicknamed, "angels".
Snowglyphs
by Geof Huth, January 2007
Visual poems sculpted in snow, photographed as they were effected by the elements and human intervention.
Vedic Space, String Theory, and the Eternal Knot
by Karl Kempton, January 2007
A 36-page visual presentation
Graffiti
by Márton Koppány, January 2007
"I have always tried to be laconic..."
Janan Leikazu
visual poems, January 2007
'there's a number of things i think of when creating these pieces, i'll try and explain some of that. a letter - letters generalized – can come down to a "natural" shape (a grapefruit, a waffle, a face, a road (something "seen")) or a shape abstracted (a square (the shape of many canvasses, the shape of waffle -grids-), a line ("thread shape"));'
dog dream and temptation
by Kaz Maslanka, January 2007
"My first paintings from the early nineteen seventies, inspired by music, were images visualized in the music. Soon after, my synaesthesia moved toward a more empirical path by creating a visual language for aural experiences. My interest in correlating experience through language spawned my desire to study mathematics and physics. I am currently pursuing my interest in using mathematics as a language for art."
consider the lillies, holy glow, imaginaive child, i spyed a spider, and run!
by Sean McCluskey, January 2007
Sean McCluskey: Born 1972 in Scotland. Studied art at Edinburgh and Dundee. Started cutting up texts in 1994 in an effort to get a hands on approach to poetry. Worked with the now defunct The Beta Band on two tours as the warm up act reading poetry. Has travelled widely; U.S.A, Mexico, Thialand, Nepal, Russia, India, West Africa, France, Sweden, Turkey and more.
Memory Tables
by Gil McElroy, January 2007
"Two hundred years ago, two European powers intent on colonial expansion and hungry for the resources this continent offered clashed there, and as a consequence it has a history of heartbreak, great tragedy, and violence. In the mid-eighteenth century this place was home to French settlers who set about trying to agriculturally tame the wetlands."
Twelve Digital Poems
by Marko Niemi, January 2007
These visual poems are animated through the use of Web-based scripting functions.
Once More Around the Sun: A 2007 Calendar
by W. Bradford Paley, January 2007
"The visual/cultural resonances with ancient native American calendars, mandalas, antique engravings of the solar system; the red weekends at the bright center and the wavy outer corona all have been turned to directly support the calendar's use as a tool. It contextualizes every hour, even on a year's time scale: if someone marks the calendar, then looks back in even as little as an hour, they will be able to see time's inexorable march.
American Flact
by Alan Semerdjian, January 2007
"Facts are for facts are for..."
Spiel
visual poems, January 2007
"The poet Spiel: Born out west to decent white farmers; same year the U.S. entered WWII; maverick child who made art which evolved as he matured intellectually through lifestyle changes leading to considerable national exposure. But in 1996, traumatic life/death illness abruptly halted his career. When his life was spared, he became reticent & for the first time ever, uncreative—until spring 1999..."
