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The Avant Writing Sympposium

Vernon Downs Hotel, Room 708, Vernon, New York

A little announcement of a three-day symposium of "avant writing," which I might categorize as the more extreme avant-garde, being held in Columbus, Ohio, this year. The cost is miniscule, so be there.

The Avant Writing Symposium 2010
August 19-21Thompson LibraryThe Ohio State University1858 Neil Av. MallColumbus, OH 43210 USA

AN INTERNATIONAL AVANT WRITING SYMPOSIUM
In Memoriam Thomas L. Taylor

This August 19-21 the new OSU Thompson Library will...

Creating: A Life (A Fifty-Fifth Letter to a Young Imaginary Visual Poet)

Radisson Hotel Rochester Riverside, Room 817, Rochester, New York

It has been a long time since last I wrote. I haven't quite disappeared, as you can tell, but I've lowered myself a little more deeply into into a maelstrom of creation. I am not at all sure that this is a good thing, that such constant creativity leads to anything valuable, but I'm trapped between two aspects of my personality: my obsession with creation and my need to follow any path I've set for myself. And I've recently set ...

A Hundred Million Billion Pwoermds

Radisson Hotel Rochester Riverside, Room 817, Rochester, New York

I have the good fortune of receiving much interesting mail and many interesting packages, but there have been few I've waiting for with such expectation as the one Jonathan Jones sent me, which held a copy of his book of pwoermds, the fullcrumb series: 1-20 (i-iv) . It was one of my favorites of my gifts for my birthday, even if it arrived and I opened it a little early and even though Jonathan had no idea that my birthday was ap...

The Natural Concentration of the Word

Still Point, Caroga Lake, New York

It took me at least a year to purchase a copy of Christopher Rizzo's pamphlet of poems, "Naturalistless," and it wasn't the US$3.50 price, especially since I had no idea of the price until recently. I was just forgetting.

But now that I have this little booklet, I can't forget it. I've seen a number of these poems before, as a matter of fact I was supposed to have published an earlier realization of these poems as part of my dbqp series, but I let that slip my...

The Man of Mixed Means

Ari Kalinowski (Manhattan, 8 June 2010)
At the beginning of this week, I was in New York City for a couple of days experiencing a hectic couple of days of working, and proving that I have developed a knack for precise scheduling. I made it from meeting to meeting on time, but with no time to spare. I also found the time to have a late dinner with my beautiful daughter (I have only one) and my son-out-law. I did almost everything I wanted to do, but there was no time left for visiting bookstor...

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Ron, because I'd rather blog than comment from

Room 920, Affinia Manhattan, New York, New York, let me consider the idea you posit ("Hard copy is truth"). I am an archivist, a breed of saver that has had a hard time learning to save the technologically ephemeral. We want, deep within us whether we mean for it to be so or not, something to hold, to touch. We are people in love with the artifact, the tactile, and we believe in it.

But nothing can be that simple.

If hard copy is truth, than most of what we make is false (continuing your trope)...

rhapsody in blew

Just out from Coach House books is kevin mcpherson eckhoff's Rhapsodomancy, a book I won't review because I wrote the blurb for the back of the cover. Let me just point out that this is a book in the Canadian clean style of visual poetry, something along the lines of Darren Wershler-Henry's Nicholodeon: a book of lowerglyphs or Donato Mancini's Ligatures, which is to say a book of strikingly beautiful typoglyphic manipulations and founds, all with a keen intellectual mind and a conceptual ben...