Now Available: Full Color Visual Poetry Chapbooks

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Full-color chapbooks. Now open for submissions. Please see the site for the very specific Submission Guidelines.

The Internet has been a huge boon to visual poetry, because it did something that was previously impossible. It provided a way to distribute work in color to a readership too globally dispersed to justify the expense of color printing. It also connected a sprawling network of people in a way that is starting to make both practitioners and the world at large start to comprehend how widespread the practice really is.

But, it's also been a huge disappointment to visual poetry, because the Internet operates on projected light rather than reflected light, and this means that as a medium, it tends towards superficiality. So, while visual poetry has a much broader exposure, it's not getting the depth of consideration, the seriousness of evaluation, the sustained contemplation it needs. Only print can do that.

The series launches with titles from Dan Waber, Jennifer Hill, J. Michael Mollohan, Márton Koppány, Spencer Selby, Rebecca Eddy, Edward Kulemin, Derya Vural, Peter Ciccariello, and Alexander Oiko.