Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Two Flash Fictions

Marcus Slease:
Two Flash Fictions,
Press Board Press

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Moments Notice

Moments Notice

Nico Vassilakis

Publisher: Luna Bisonte Prods
PubDate: 6/17/2013
ISBN: 9781938521065
Binding: PAPERBACK
Price: $30.00
Quantity Available: 15
Pages: 75
 
1
Poetry. Art. Nico Vassilakis' MOMENTS NOTICE has taken a huge leap forward in the evolution of concrete poetry, by utilizing the myriad possibilities of digital typographic manipulation. The result is work of great beauty, full color, design, concept, and a visuality that makes his ideas and poetics vivid and endlessly intriguing.

"Moments notice us at a moment's notice, lying in wait for us, in this space-time lingo-jaunt. When humans (hypothetically) fall into a black hole, the first thing their bodies undergo is 'spagghettification.' One could say when human language falls into Nico Vassilakis' clutches, it undergoes a similar process. But instead of annihilation, there is plenitude."—Maria Damon

"Is it feasible for visual poetry to be positively erudite? In the words (or word) of one of the not-quite-texts here, MOMENTS NOTICE presents the argument for YES."—Ron Silliman

Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA

Nico Vassilakis is a writer living in New York City. He has published several books of poetry and visual poetry, including MOMENTS NOTICE (Luna Bisonte Prods). Nico co-edited The Last Vispo Anthology (Fantagraphics Books).

Mike Topp: Stuyvesant Bee, Volume1, Issue 125


Mike Topp: Stuyvesant Bee, Volume 1, Issue 124


Wednesday, July 03, 2013

Pop-Up

Chris McCabe:
Poems, Poetry International,
Interview, Adam Fieled

Benedict Arm

Spencer Selby:
Two Poems,
Coconut # 16

The Pink Slip

Marcus Slease:
The Pink Slip,
Word Riot

Tuesday, July 02, 2013

You Look Sensational...

Daniela Olszewska:
Three Poems, PANK Magazine
Four Poems, Octopus Magazine #15
Two Poems, Alice Blue Review

Monday, July 01, 2013

Moments Notice

MOMENTS NOTICE, a visual poem
by Nico Vassilakis
76 pages
Full color
Luna Bisone Prods., 2013
Purchase/Peruse: here
 
BLURBS:
 
Vassilakis has taken a huge leap forward in the evolution of concrete poetry, by utilizing the myriad possibilities of digital manipulation of typography.  The result is work of stunning beauty, color, design, concept, with a visuality that makes his ideas and poetics vivid and endlessly intriguing.
 
John M. Bennett
 
Is it feasible for visual poetry to be positively erudite? In the words (or word) of one of the not-quite-texts here, Moments Notice presents the argument for YES.  
 
Ron Silliman
 
Moments notice us at a moment’s notice, lying in wait for us, in this space-time lingo-jaunt. When humans (hypothetically) fall into a black hole, the first thing their bodies undergo is “spagghettification.” One could say that when human language falls into Nico Vassilakis’s clutches, it undergoes a similar process. But instead of annhihilation, there is plenitude.  Visually festive, this malleable skein of tangled spagghettiyarn’d verbiage bounces and twists its way through text/image after text/image, singing as it goes. Join in for a rollicking time, but hold on to your hat!
 
Maria Damon
 
The Tongue knows language never spoken never revealed in the spaces between letters between the multiple readings of discourse gone blissful. The Tongue ties typography graphic in the handheld device of your choice, thumbed at, thumbed into endless arrays pleasured from the keyboard of all possibilities.
 
mIEKAL aND
 
Anyone interested in a digital file for reviewing purposes, please contact: cmehrlbennett@gmail.com

Milk and Money

Marcus Slease:
from Milk and Money,
Corium Magazine

Tuesday, April 02, 2013

Public Spaces

Marcus Slease:
Poems, Coconut 16

Kopenhaga

Kopenhaga, by Grzegorz Wróblewski, translated by Piotr Gwiazda, Amazon

Thursday, February 14, 2013

In the DEAD HOURS of DAWN

A.D. Winans In the DEAD HOURS of DAWN New Release from Bottle of Smoke Press Poetry, 32 pages. 8 1/2" x 11 1/4". A new book of poems by award winning poet A.D. Winans consists of poems not previously published in any of his previous fifty-three books of poetry. The cover is printed on Fabriano Tiziano paper using hand-set 12 line Bradley wood type and 54 point Satanic metal type. The text is printed on vintage Curtis Tweedweave paper and set in Adobe Garamond Pro. Printed via letterpress on a Vandercook SP15 in Newark, Delaware. ISBN-13: 978-1-937073-42-8. Published in an edition of 100 hardcover copies signed by the author and numbered 1-100 ($50.) Signed Hardcover Edition Limited to an edition of 100 hardcover copies signed by the author and numbered 1-100. ISBN: 978-1-937073-42-8. $50 We now also accept all major credit cards by contacting me directly or paying through PayPal. To order, please pay with PayPal, or email me first so I can hold your copies and mail a check along with postage to: Bill Roberts Bottle of Smoke Press 902 Wilson Drive Dover, DE 19904 I accept PayPal under the id orders@bospress.net. Please visit our website at www.bospress.net/order.html to see photos as well as find information on other great releases. All pre-ordered copies of this book shipped today.

Sunday, February 03, 2013

DANCING WITH WORDS

A.D. Winans

DANCING WITH WORDS
There are poets who like

To dance with words

Dance for favors and illusionary

Poetry careers

But dancing for an audience

Isn’t like feeling the rhythm

That rubs up against the soul

Odetta, Buffy Saint-Marie
Phil Ochs, Woody Guthrie,

Pete Seeger Billy Bragg
Were living proof of this


Money pigeonholes

Power corrupts

The spiritual truth

The scriptures tell us this


The true poet knows this

Stands tall above

The dancing with word poets

Who are little more than

Instruments of a poem greater

Than themselves



Bar room revolution talk

Is little more than an exercise
In futility

Take it to the streets

Be like Walt Whitman
Walk blood stained battlefields

Real and imagined

Tend to the spiritual wounds

Of your comrades


Be like the people of Egypt

Risking life and limb

For their beliefs
Be like the anonymous poets of Poland

Who during the height

Of government tyranny

Tossed poems into the public square

For the people to read

Giving them hope in desperate times


Be like your sisters and brothers

In the peoples struggle in Wisconsin

Fighting for worker rights

Love them become one with them


Shout your poems from rooftops

In solidarity with them.


Whitman was the Heavyweight
Champion of poetry

Stood tall and fearless among

The enemy

Which is never really man

But the poison in his soul

Pride envy lust for power

How can those inflicted

Write from the heart?


One column of media praise

Is of less value

Than a single tear drop on a poem

From a waitress in a greasy

Road stop diner


The dancing with word poets

Dance a solo dance

In a bar room with no jukebox

The true poet’s topic is people

Not the poet.

a.d. winans
2/3/12

Mike Topp: Stuyvesant Bee, Volume 1, Issue 121


Mike Topp: Stuyvesant Bee, Volume 1, Issue 120


Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Cinderella Cop

Marcus Slease:
Cinderella Cop,
Banango Street

Saturday, January 19, 2013

Aspects of strangers

Piotr Gwiazda:
Poems,
BODY

Thursday, December 13, 2012

In Case of Sleep

Amy De'Ath:
Poems,
Jacket2

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

the only poet in this place

John Grochalski:
Poems,
Horror Sleaze Trash

Monday, December 03, 2012

Somebody

Barbara De Franceschi:
Somebody,
Eclectica Oct-Nov 2012