in rete:

http://letteregrosse.blogspot.com/2011/05/04.html

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staring@poetics

2011, 5" x 8", 56 pgs, Full Color.

ISBN 1-936687-03-8 | EAN-13978-1-936687-03-9

$12

To read about the book or purchase a copy -  http://xexoxial.org/is/staring_at_poetics/by/nico_vassilakis

from the book:

How do our retinal experiences alter what we think we know about alphabet? From minimal to maximal, the alphabet is explored and expanded on. From the contextual aggregates and combinations of letters to the visual elements that form a single letter. The visual poetry of alphabet insists that writing is the drawing of what and how we think, and within that writing, images accrue, the letters themselves, drawn, or otherwise printed, are illustrating or reproducing our thought.

Nico Vassilakis works with text and visual alphabet. Nico, with Crag Hill, edited the forthcoming The Last Vispo: Visual Poetry Anthology 1998-2008. He has published several books, including West of Dodge (redfoxpress, 2009), Protracted Type (blue lion books, 2008), Text Loses Time(Manypenny press, 2008), Disparate Magnets (BlazeVOX, 2009) and DIPTYCHS (Otolith, 2008). Nico lives in Seattle with the poet Crystal Curry and their kids..

staring poetics:
http://staringpoetics.weebly.com

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Call for papers :

workshop : Digital Poetics and Transnational Cultures

http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/41097

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submit to gammm :

http://gammm.org/index.php/submit

nell’ambito di EscArgot / scrivere con lentezza 2011
presso Esc Atelier autogestito
via dei Volsci 159 (San Lorenzo) – Roma –

OGGI, sabato 19 marzo 2011

dalle ore 18:00 alle 22:30 circa

Cinquanta Novissimi anni

Letture poetiche, testimonianze, interventi critici, performance e documenti video
per i cinquant’anni de

I Novissimi. Poesie per gli anni ’60

(Milano, Rusconi & Paolazzi, 1961)

Con Nanni Balestrini ed Elio Pagliarani

partecipano, leggono, intervengono

Luca Archibugi, Cecilia Bello Minciacchi, Andrea Borghi, Vilma Costantini, Lino Guanciale, Angelo Guglielmi, Claudio Longhi, Niva Lorenzini, Mario Lunetta, Massimiliano Manganelli, Francesco Muzzioli, Walter Pedullà, Cetta Petrollo, Daniele Poletti e Dale Zaccaria

+ EscArgot / Scrivere con lentezza (ossia:)
Maria Teresa Carbone, Andrea Cortellessa, Elisa Davoglio, Michele Fianco, Marco Giovenale, Giulio Marzaioli, Vincenzo Ostuni, Tommaso Ottonieri, Gilda Policastro, Lidia Riviello, Franca Rovigatti, Sara Ventroni

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http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=135685903168901

http://esc-argot.blogspot.com/2011/03/roma-19-marzo-cinquanta-novissimi-anni.html

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mOnocle-Lash has been silent but not idle this winter, and are ready to announce the release of five new publications (including one at 1,000 pages in three volumes!), plus some new distro material.

All are available via the mOnocle-Lash Website.

This release nearly coincides with the Marginal Arts Festival in Roanoke Virginia, which will be bringing together many scattered members of the mOnocle-Lash family including John M. Bennett, Bradley Chriss, Reed Altemus, Megan Blafas, bela b. Grimm, Jim Leftwich, Tomislav Butkivic, Keith Buchholz, Warren Fry, Tom Cassidy, Olchar Lindsann, and others in he Fluxus and Eternal Network. For this reason we’ll be including a reading of poems from Bennett’s massive new Textis Globbolalicus collection and the new Anti-Prophesies anthology among the festivities on Saturday, March 5.

While many of these are perfect-bound and not available for trade because they must be ordered through the printer online, all except the TLP are available as free downloads as well, from the website:

NEW RELEASES

• Textis Globbolalicus, by John M. Bennett. Introductions by Jim Leftwich, Olchar Lindsann, and Bob BreuKl.

Spanning three volumes and nearly 1,000 pages, this is THE DEFINITIVE collection of texts in that that most indecipherable of tongues, Globbolalia, by its only native speaker, the inimitable Dr. John M. Bennett.
Vol. I: 354 pp., Introduction by Bob BrueckL, cover by C. Mehrl Bennett.
Vol. II: 351 pp., Introduction by Jim Leftwich, cover by Blaster Al Ackerman.
Vol. III: 292 pp., Introduction by Olchar E. Lindsann, cover by Musicmaster.

• Avant the Avant-Garde: Childhood and Family in the Culture of the Avant-Garde, compiled by Olchar E. Lindsann.

• Anti-Prophesies: Post-NeoAbsurdist Prophesy Poems, A.Da. 86-94. by Aaron Andrews, Megan Blafas, Bradley Chriss, Bruno Franklyn, Warren Fry, Jim Leftwich, Olchar Lindsann, the Montana PNA group, & other anonymous Post-Neos.

One of the first and most versatile Post-Neo microforms, dozens of Anti-Prophesies have appeared in Post-Neo journals, books, and performances since A.Da. 87 (2003). Through them a characteristic but heteroclite tradition, mythology, and poetic has coalesced. This is the first comprehensive collection of PNA Anti-Prophesies drawn from the Post-Neo archives, with an introductory essay by Olchar E. Lindsann.

• The Hymn of Stone, by Imogene Engine & Olchar Lindsann.

Dark and atavistic cycle of verses, collaboratively composed by Imogene Engine and Olchar Lindsann, adorned with collages by the writers. Crisp was the clock / shutting its eye to all of the bodies. // Bring me the sorrowful creature/ with its forehead of wood / and its skin marked with notches / like a soldier marked for his sins.

• War Storm, by Warren Fry.

Fight the vicious Glandelinian army as one of the heroic Vivian Girls, in this tiny game based on the world created by Henry Darger. The first in a series of TLP-RPGs: 8-page mini-role-playing games with minimal rules & character-generation, experimental systems, and a lot of room for play.

DISTRO

• from the Spart Action Group: Transmission. ed. Justin McKeown.
  

• from Mycelium: A Zoum/Asemic History of Post-NeoAbsurdism. by Olchar Lindsann. Facsimile distribution of Lindsann’s minimal and indirect history of Post-Neo, using only Post-Neo talismanic catch-phrases; the original edition of 20 copies is completely hand-stamped and already spoken for.
  

• from [Pro]-[Anti] Press: Dada n’est rien. ed. Tomislav Butkovic. A French language mini-[Anti-]primer on Dada, with work by Hausmann, Ball, Hennings, Picabia, Tzara, Duchamp, plus a quiz and other embellishments by Butkovic.

FORTHCOMING FROM MONoCLE-LASH

• Babbage’s Disease & Other Fictions, by David Beris Edwards. British Post-Neo comedian and writer Edwards’ long-awaited nonsensical-historical novella on the final weeks of the life of Charles Babbage, godfather of the computer, anchors this collection of long and short fiction, newly revised.
  

• On Fun, by Olchar Lindsann. First published in SPART Action’s Transmission, Lindsann’s essay On Fun in pamphlet form.

• The Prelude, Part II, trans. Fast Sedan Nellson. Nellson informs us that he is within pages of completing the second volume of his long-awaited translation of Wordsworth’s long-winded epic The Prelude into Even-More-Boring-And-Trite.
  

• Ubu Enchained, trans. Amy Oliver & Ubu Roi Special Edition. Two different Post-Neo takes on Ubu: British Post-Neo Amy Oliver’s translation of Ubu Enchained, which served as the script for the American Post-Neo production of the play in Roanoke, VA in A.Da. 93 (2009), and a special edition DVD of Lindsann, Lennard & Lennard’s A.Da. 89 (2005) film version of Ubu Roi, with audio commentary and other questionable goodies.
  

• Scoria of the Bouzingo & Romanticist Manifestos. Translation is still afoot, but keep an eye out for the first printed fruits of the Bouzingo project: an anthology of writings and images of the Jeunes-France/Bouzingo group with introduction and short bios of the members; and a collection of manifestos, prefaces, polemics and theoretical texts from the French Romanticist community that will trace the context and emergence of the first(?) avant-gardes in the 1820s and ’30s in the words of the participants themselves.

• Imogene & Olchar: Ephemera as Memoir. First issue of an occasional ‘zine by Olchar Lindsann & Imogene Engine, in collage & calligraphy.

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L’ULISSE n.14

rivista di poesia, arti e scritture:

direttori: Alessandro Broggi, Stefano Salvi, Italo Testa

IL PAESE GUASTO – L’ITALIA VISTA DAI POETI

In mezzo mar siede un paese guasto

(Dante, Inferno, XIV, 94)

Tema di questo numero de L’Ulisse è “Il paese guasto”: è cioè incentrata, questa nuova uscita della rivista, sull’Italia, vista da poeti e da autori.

Tale la designazione: e se guarda all’ampio di guasto in ogni forma di noi, dal nostro “vivere istituzionale” a ciò che coglie la nostra fiducia (di futuro, di presente), ed alla nostra “forma” di vivere (in comune, nel chiuso di noi e di identità nostre, chiuse dal fuori), anche vuole osservare le “cose attorno” – realtà di/del paesaggio, attorno a noi, entro cui viviamo, di che viviamo.

Ci è parso necessario: oggi, a centocinquant‘anni dall’unità, le varie “percezioni”, i “possibili” (non solo a riguardo di “grado di soddisfazione economico”) davvero delineano il volto del Paese – le cui impossibili/possibili percezioni sono il nostro “volto” qui – e l’“attuale” non può lasciarci come presenza che un interrogativo.

(tratto dall’editoriale di Stefano Salvi)

Gong Xi Fa Cai

Otoliths

welcomes in the Year of the Rabbit with a powerhouse issue that’s even more wide-ranging than usual.

Issue #20, the southern summer 2011 issue, contains work in many forms—text, visuals, even chapters from an asemic kinetic novel-in-progress—by nick-e melville, Jim Meirose, Satu Kaikkonen, dan raphael, Philip Byron Oakes, Barrie Darke, Dorothee Lang & Karyn Eisler, James Davis, Morgan Harlow, Tyson Bley, John M. Bennett,  Raymond Farr, Matthew Johnstone, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, Jeff Crouch & Satu Kaikkonen, Theodore Worozbyt, Howie Good, Michael Farrell, Stephen Emmerson, B. T. Abrams, Jeff Harrison, Andy Frazee, Mariah Hamang, Reed Altemus, Andrew K. Peterson, Felino Soriano, Carlos Rowles, Robert Gauldie, Tom Beckett interviewing Joel Chace, Joel Chace, SJ Fowler, De Villo Sloan, Eric Hoffman, Cecelia Chapman, Wayne Mason, Jill Chan, Anatol Knotek & Márton Koppány, Paul Siegell, Peter LaBerge, George McKim, Carlyle Baker, sean burn, Chris Moran, Stephen Nelson, Alexander Batkin, Keith Higginbotham, J. Crouse,  Orchid Tierney, Rachel J. Fenton, Ana Viviane Minorelli, Russell Jaffe, Vernon Frazer, Samit Roy, Sam Langer, Michael Jacobson, Heller Levinson,  Mark Cunningham, Marco Giovenale, Charles Freeland, Clark Lunberry, J. D. Nelson,  Susan Gangel & Terry Turrentine, Bobbi Lurie, Tim Wright, Bob Heman, Thomas Fink, Spencer Selby, & Richard Kostelanetz

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The following titles can be downloaded as pdfs : (more…)

OGGI, domenica 19 dicembre 2010
nell’ambito di Critical Book & Wine

POESIA TOTALE !

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OGGI, domenica 19 dicembre 2010
nell’ambito di Critical Book & Wine

POESIA TOTALE !

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Tim’s new abstract graphic novel is available as a pay-for-download e-book, from the German distributor XinXii.

published by Transgressor, of South Australia.

his novel consists of 100 pages of black & white abstract images, created using decalcomania.

some points of reference: Max Ernst (especially Une semaine de bonté & La femme 100 têtes), Andrei Molotiu’s Nautilus, Rorschach inkblots.

it includes Notes, in English.

c’est vraiment un nouveau roman !

a Roma, giovedì 25 novembre, alle ore 17:30
presso la libreria Feltrinelli
in Via del Babuino 39/40

Cecilia Bello Minciacchi e Andrea Cortellessa
…presentano

SHELTER, di Marco Giovenale

(Donzelli, collana poesia, 2010)

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http://www.donzelli.it/libro/2189/shelter

Marco Giovenale vive a Roma, dove lavora. È redattore di gammm.org, «bina», della rivista statunitense «Or», e di vari spazi web. Collabora alle pagine culturali del «manifesto». Tra i libri recenti: Criterio dei vetri (Oèdipus, 2007), La casa esposta (Le Lettere, 2007), Soluzione della materia (La camera verde, 2009), Storia dei minuti (Transeuropa, 2010); e le prose di Numeri primi (Arcipelago, 2006) e Quasi tutti (Polìmata, 2010). Suoi testi sono inoltre antologizzati in Parola plurale (Sossella, 2005), Nono quaderno di poesia contemporanea (Marcos y Marcos, 2007), e nel volume del Premio Antonio Delfini 2009. Con i redattori di gammm è nel libro collettivo Prosa in prosa (Le Lettere, 2009). Per Luca Sossella ha curato nel 2008 la raccolta antologica di Roberto Roversi, Tre poesie e alcune prose.

scheda del (e testo dal) libro :
http://slowforward.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/shelter-_-scheda-e-testo.pdf

su slowforward :
http://slowforward.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/25-novembre-roma-shelter/

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Libreria Feltrinelli

via del Babuino, 39/40 - 00187 Roma RM
Telefono: 06.36001842 / 36001899

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Donzelli Editore

Ufficio stampa tel. 06 4440600

Antonella Sarandrea – a.sarandrea [at] donzelli [dot] it
Maddalena Lucarelli – ufficiostampa [at] donzelli [dot] it
Chiara Mannelli – comunicazionede [at] donzelli [dot] it

a Padova, OGGI, sabato 23 ottobre, alle ore 18:30,

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OGGI, venerdì 22 ottobre, inaugurazione di

NEW YORK BODIES:

OVERground/UNDERground

LAURA CALLEGARO

LAMBDA GALLERY - PADOVA - VIA MONTE SOLAROLO, 20 www.lambdagallery.it
22 ottobre/15 dicembre 2010
Accompagnano le foto i testi di Gian Maria Annovi, Giovanna Frene, Marco Giovenale, Giulio Mozzi

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www.lauracallegaro.it
lunedì-venerdì 9,15 - 13,00 15,00 - 19,00 sabato 10,00 - 12,30
LAMBDA GALLERY

here’s the official launch of **Little Red Leaves Issue 5** — with over 30 new poets, extended project features from Carmen Giménez Smith and Robin Tremblay-McGaw, an interview with Brenda Ilijima by Thomas Fink, a gorgeous selection from the Paros Translation Symposium as well as 5 new e-editions.

============ check it out at: http://littleredleaves.com/LRL5/5home.html =============

Included in the issue:

____Special Feature from the **Paros Translation Symposium** edited and introduced by Joseph Mosconi. With Susan Gevirtz, Angelos Parthenis, Steve Dickison, John Sakkis, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Eleni Stecopoulos, Katerina Iliopoulou, Liana Sakelliou, Mairi Alexopoulou, Maria Laina, Phoebe Giannisi, Siarita Kouka, Socrates Kabouropoulos, Thanasis Maskaleris,and Vassilis Manoussakis.

____New Work By: Hugo García Manríquez, Stan Apps, Valerie Coulton & Ed Smallfield, Amina Cain, Carolyn Guinzio, Roberto Tejada, Jimmy Lo, Justin Audia, Travis Macdonald, Tasha Marren, Cindy Savett, Kelli Stevens Kane, Aby Kaupang, Carrie Hunter, Amanda Ackerman, Judith Goldman, Jared Shickling, Brad Vogler, Matthew Cooperman, Beverly Dahlen, Karen Hannah, Arkava Das, Christine Kanownik, Laura Wetherington, Burt Kimmelman, Nathalie Knight, William Allegrezza, Meg Barboza, Adam Fagin, and Matt McBride.

___Project Features: Carmen Giménez Smith __Selections from Goodbye Flicker__,  Robin Tremblay-McGaw __Selections from THE MELMOTH LETTERS__

__Thomas Fink Interviews Brenda Ilijima

++Plus 5 New e-editions++ http://littleredleaves.com/ebooks/index.html
Sarah Campbell’s __Everything We Could Ask For__, Brian Mornar’s __Three American Letters__, Mathew Timmons’ __Sound Noise__, Gloria Frym’s __Any Time Soon__, and Eléna Rivera’s __Remembrance of Things Plastic__.

Ash Smith, CJ Martin, Julia Drescher, and Chad Heltzel
LRL5 Editors

http://littleredleaves.com

L’Associazione Culturale Piane di Bronzo, l’Associazione Culturale Dark Camera
e il Centro Culturale La Camera Verde

presentano

Marcello Sambati, Le tenebre, ed. La Camera Verde, Roma 2010

Sabato 9 ottobre, alle ore 18.00

presso
Piane di Bronzo, loc. Puntone San Pantaleo
Strada provinciale vetrallese, Tuscania (VT)
+39 0761 445040 / +39 347 2108126

www.darkcamera.it
via della lupa, 10, 01017 Tuscania, VT
+39 320 6909642

www.lacameraverde.com
via Giovanni Miani 20, 00154 Roma
+39 340 5263877

a Padova, sabato 23 ottobre 2010, alle ore 18:30,

Performance Texts: Graphic Scores: Open Scores: Visual Poems: Event Scores: Open Texts: Eternal Network:

FORMAT: Free
TECHNIQUE: Free
SIZE: Free
PARTICIPATION: Open to all
TERMS: No jury, no returns
EXHIBITION: March 3 - 8, 2011, during the Roanoke Marginal Arts Festival. Also a good chance of some
of the scores being performed during the festival. Partial exhibits likely at Collab Fests in the weeks and
months following the festival.
DOCUMENTATION: Photographic documentation online, here and here. Some video also likely.
DEADLINE: February 28, 2011

an excerpt from:
Composition in Retrospect
by John Cage
EACH ACTIVITY IS CENTERED IN ITSELF, I.E., COMPOSITION, PERFORMANCE, AND LISTENING ARE DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES.
A WORK SHOULD INCLUDE ITS ENVIRONMENT, IS ALWAYS EXPERIMENTAL (UNKNOWN IN ADVANCE).
NO BEGINNING, MIDDLE, OR END (PROCESS, NOT OBJECT).
UNIMPEDEDNESS AND INTERPENETRATION; NO CAUSE AND EFFECT.
ANYTHING CAN FOLLOW ANYTHING ELSE (PROVIDING NOTHING IS TAKEN AS THE BASIS).
INFLUENCE DERIVES FROM ONES OWN WORK (NOT FROM OUTSIDE IT).
ACTIVITY, NOT COMMUNICATION.
THE PRACTICALITY OF CHANGING SOCIETY DERIVES FROM THE POSSIBILITY OF CHANGING THE MIND.

Jim Leftwich
525 10th St SW
Roanoke, VA 24016
USA

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NEW YORK BODIES:

OVERground/UNDERground

LAURA CALLEGARO

LAMBDA GALLERY - PADOVA - VIA MONTE SOLAROLO, 20
22 ottobre/15 dicembre 2010
Accompagnano le foto i testi di Gian Maria Annovi, Giovanna Frene, Marco Giovenale, Giulio Mozzi

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www.lauracallegaro.it
lunedì-venerdì 9,15 - 13,00 15,00 - 19,00 sabato 10,00 - 12,30
LAMBDA GALLERY

a Roma, oggi, martedì 28 settembre 2010
alle ore 20:30, presso la libreria Aseq
(via dei Sediari 10)

presentazione di

Marco Giovenale

QUASI TUTTI

[ "prose in prosa" nuove (e non nuove), 2008-2010.
Con una postfazione di Paolo Zublena ]

Edizioni Polìmata, http://www.polimata.it

Ex[t]ratione – collana di materiali verbali
diretta da Sara Davidovics e Ivan Schiavone

intervento introduttivo di
Sara Davidovics

letture dell’autore

___________________________________________________

info: 06 6868400
email:  info[at] aseq [dot] it

L’Associazione Culturale Piane di Bronzo, l’Associazione Culturale Dark Camera
e il Centro Culturale La Camera Verde

presentano

Impromptu

Experimental Workshop Session

di
Matias Guerra e Michele Zaffarano

Domenica 26 settembre, dalle ore 16.30 alle ore 20.30

presso

Piane di Bronzo, loc. Puntone San Pantaleo
Strada provinciale vetrallese, Tuscania (VT)
+39 0761 445040 / +39 347 2108126

www.darkcamera.it
via della lupa, 10, 01017 Tuscania, VT
+39 320 6909642

www.lacameraverde.com
via Giovanni Miani 20, 00154 Roma
+39 340 5263877