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AngelHousePress presents NationalPoetryMonth.ca

a celebration of poetic form of all kinds and an homage to those poets who try to extend the 
definition of poetry. This year's edition, which marks our fifth 
anniversary, is a tribute to the Last Vispo, an anthology of visual 
poetry edited by Nico Vasilkais and Crag Hill and published by 
Fantagraphics in 2012. The site contains visual poetry, asemic writing, 
collage, concrete poetry and other forms of whimsy by artists from
Australia, Canada, the USA, Finland, Hungary, Italy, and Sweden. Each 
day in April a different visual poem will be shown. AngelHousePress 
thanks all who participated and sent work for consideration and wishes 
the month had at least forty five days in order to showcase all the 
great poetry we received.

1 Gary Barwin
2 Michael Basinski and Ginny O’Brien
3 Cecil Touchon
4 K.S. Ernst
5 mIEKAL aND
6 Matthew Stolte
7 Michele Provost and Grant Wilkins
8 Geof Huth
9 Crag Hill
10 Mathias Jansson
11 Nico Vassilakis
12 Bridget Nutting
13 Mark Young
14 Marilyn R. Rosenberg
15 kevin mcpherson eckhoff
16 Karl Kempton
17 Joel Lipman
18 Andrew Topel
19 Aileen and Chad Pants
20 Márton Koppány
21 Marco Giovenale
22 Peter Ciccariello
23 Bill DiMichele
24 derek beaulieu
25 Michael Jacobson
26 John M. Bennett
27 Kaz Maslanka
28 Rosaire Appel
29 Eric Zboya
30 Satu Kaikkonen

thanks!

Amanda Earl

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http://angelhousepress.com/content.php
the angel is in the house

As of yet unedited soundage from Last Vispo launch at Fantagraphics

Download Fanta Book Launch 11-24-12

Didn't capture the entire event, alas, but I think you can pick up on its energy.

pheno”menon

March 22: How to Read by derek beaulieu & The Last Vispo Anthology contributors

Reception: March 22, 7 p.m.

 Niagara Artists Centre

354 St. Paul St.

St. Catharines, Ontario

Our co-curator, Eric Schmaltz, has teamed up with the Niagara Artists Centre once again to bring another innovative exhibition to St. Catharines, Ontario. The NAC will host the first ever solo show of derek beaulieu's work, a series of painted, drawn, and sculpted works that present artistic approaches to reading.

The opening reception will be Friday March 22, 2012 starting at 7pm at Niagara Artists Centre. The reception will feature a reading organized by the Grey Borders Reading Series in tandem with the editors of The Last Vispo, Nico Vassilakis & Crag Hill, gathering together some of the anthologies Canadian contributors.

March 14-15 2013, Last Vispo & the Poetry Center, San Francisco State

The Last VisPo Anthology: Visual Poetry 1998–2008,

with editors Crag Hill & Nico Vassilakis, and guests

Thursday MAR 14: 4:30 pm @ the Poetry Center, HUM 512, SFSU
Friday MAR 15: 7:00 pm @ Meridian Gallery, 535 Powell St., San Francisco
two events celebrating 21^st century international visual poetry anthology

Thursday, March 14, 4:30-6:30, SF State Poetry Center, 512 Humanities

The event may unfold thusly:

Slide show of images from The Last Vispo Anthology (running through collaged reading of editor’s essays)

Collaged reading of editor intros and “Why the Last Vispo?”

Brief performance interlude

Close reading/discussion of 5-7 images

Time for Q & A

 

Friday, Meridian Gallery, 535 Powell St., 7:00-9:00

Sean McArdle, solo music

The event may unfold thusly:

Slide show of images from The Last Vispo Anthology (running through collaged reading of editor’s essays)

Collaged reading of editor intros

15 minute talk by Stephen Vincent on haptics

Performances sound & visual poetry

Stephen Ratcliffe reading "On Robert Grenier's Drawing Poems: 'CICADA / CICADA / CICADA / CICADA' (Thinking [Writing/Making] Things," published last fall in Formes Poetiques Contemporaines (FPC) in Paris.

Performances: sound & visual poetry

Time for Q & A

Angel House looking for visual poems, asemic writing, collages and concrete poems

Deadline March 10

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for this year's nationalpoetrymonth.ca, & in tribute to the wonderful
visual poetry anthology that came out last year, the Last Vispo edited
by Crag Hill & Nico Vassilakis (Fantagraphics), i've decided April
2013's NationalPoetryMonth.ca should be entirely devoted to the
publication of visual poetry.

i invite you to contribute visual poems, asemic writing, collages and
concrete poems to amanda@angelhousepress.com
please send high resolution JPGs (1200 pixels on the longest side), a
short bio and a photograph to me by March 10, 2013. collaborations
are also welcome.

(do NOT send me PDFs or word processing documents.)

*Please send only one poem. *
The reason behind this is because otherwise i end up having to process
a whole pile of poems & it takes a lot more work. if i don't want to
publish that particular poem for some reason, but am interested in
your work, i'll ask to see more. you can always send a link to other
sites that feature your work & i'll look. i think the idea of asking
contributors to submit only one poem is interesting because it causes
you to think carefully about your selection, rather than just giving
a range. & anyway i can publish only one per person or collaboration.

if you haven't made any visual poems before, this is a great
opportunity to try. take it as a challenge.

if you know of any other visual poets whose work i should look at,
please send me links to their work.

as usual, republished work is fine, as long as you hold the copyright.

happy new year and thanks for your contributions to AngelHousePress in 2012!

Amanda
ps-i'm also still on the hunt for essays, rants, interviews, reviews
for the essay series & great stuff for experiment-o's 6th issue in
November.

Amanda Earl
AngelHousePress
www.angelhousepress.com
the angel is in the house

The Last Vispo Anthology at San Francisco State, March 14 & 15

The Last VisPo Anthology: Visual Poetry 1998–2008
with editors Crag Hill & Nico Vassilakis, and guests

Thursday MAR 14: 4:30 pm 
@ the Poetry Center, HUM 512, SFSU, free 

Friday MAR 15: 7:00 pm 
@ Meridian Gallery, 535 Powell St., San Francisco
$10, $5 student/low income

two events celebrating 21st century international 
visual poetry anthology

chance

encounter of

tennis ball, cat

 

toy

beneath living

room table, which

 

cat

fiercely reorders

disrupting the odds

Bob Grumman reading poems by Karl Kempton

On his Scientific American blog

Call for Art in an alternative school in rural Kansas:

I am the director of an alternative school in rural Kansas. Our students range in age from 5 to 18, and most struggle with emotional or behavioral disorders, or have otherwise struggled in the traditional school environment. Many are interested in the arts, and are motivated by creative endeavors. I am trying to build a small collection of original contemporary art to display in the common areas of the building alongside student art. 

I will admit to some selfish interest in choosing to begin with these groups and modes of art; however, I also believe that intermedia art and visual poetry will be of particular interest to our students. Much of their own artwork combines text and graphical elements: graffiti, logo design, and other creative writing is present in much of their work. In addition, they have been using collage in multiple ways and across curricular areas. 

Details:

Visual poetry and other intermedia works will be accepted on the judgment of the staff and administration of the school. Works should be of a size that will be easy to display using standard-sized commercially-available frames. Subject matter / content should be appropriate to display in a public school building. There is no jury; works will be accepted on the judgment of the school administrator. Works will become the property of the school and school district; artists will submit a written and signed note gifting the work to the school district. Artists will be publicly recognized, and receive documentation of their submission, and works on display will be cataloged in a format to be determined later. In addition to display for students and staff of the school district, the permanent exhibit will be regularly displayed to the public.

Anyone who is interested should contact Zachary Lawrence at zslawrence0@gmail.com or at 316-644-3194.

Unauthorized bio of the alphabet, the college years

New visual poetry up on the Renegade blog

Some good work here: 

http://visualpoetryrenegade.blogspot.com/

Older posts include work from many of the contributors to The Last Vispo Anthology.

Isidore Isou Speaking on Lettrism in Brief Interview with Citizen Kane, Macbeth, er, Orson Welles

Jaap Blonk's roots among other tendrils: