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This essay was #65 in the magazine's "Maintenant" series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Edited by Damian Lopes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Spencer Selby, Born and raised in the midwest, began writing film criticism and poetry after college. In 1984 he published Dark City: The Film Noir, an early study of the genre that has remained in print for over 25 years. In San Francisco in the mid-80s he put out SINK, which was one of the first experimental poetry magazines to be desktop published. This was followed by a stint as coordinator of the Canessa Park Reading Series in North Beach from 1987-93. After that came the creation of Selby's List of Experimental Poetry/Art Magazines, which has endured online as an important source of info for innovative writers and artists around the world. Spencer Selby has performed his work in many North American cities and in Europe. He is the author of eight poetry books and four previous compilations of visual work. He currently lives in Ames, Iowa. Spencer says: "My color work is digital but is created following a unique and somewhat...

Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet, it is stated that C. Mehrl Bennett is an artist, visual poet, and collaborates with others. This photo was taken by her spouse, John M. Bennett, in March 2010, before the Mayan hieroglyphic staircase in Copan. Her works have been published in Lost & Found Times, Vispoeology (Minneapolis Center for Book Arts), Otoliths, and other websites. http://stores.lulu.com/lunabisonteprods features books by JMB & CMB; three collaborative books by JMB, Thomas Cassidy, Richard Kostelanetz, K.S. Ernst, and Sheila E. Murphy; and books by Marilyn R. Rosenberg, Tom Taylor, Paul Thaddeus Lambert, Carlos Martinez Luiz, and Edward Lense. She is technical facilitator and co-editor for that website. Cathy says: "Inside are digitally enhanced asemic characters -- each a small part of a painting I'm currently working on. I began my painting after returning from a two week archeological tour in Guatemala where we were highly saturated with Mayan glyphs on stelas,...

Scope and Contents Marco Giovenale lives in Rome. He's editor of http://gammm.org. His most recent book of (linear) poems in Italian is Shelter (Donzelli, 2010). His artbooks are Sibille asemantiche (Camera verde, 2008) and, under the name of Differx, aweapon (2008), Severe red (2010), unrelated | undepicted | (diptychs) (2010), and septemware (2011), all by Vugg Books. Some sibyls are also in the Anthology Spidertangle (Xexoxial, 2009). A gunless tea, collection of 23 prose pieces, was published for the 2007 Dusi/e-chap project (dusie.org.) The prose CDK was published in 2009 by Tir aux pigeons. An interview is here: http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-65-marco-giovenale. For more information, please visit: http://slowforward.wordpress.com/bioen/. Marco says: "This book offers a variety of tablets or frames/plates of asemic writing: in cursive or glyphs style. My opinion is that asemic writing is a major path leading out of the western logos legacy. Generally speaking, twisted signs or tiny...

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Jeremy Balius was born in Dallas Texas, raised in Giessen Germany, educated in Los Angeles California, lived in Berlin Germany and has called Fremantle Western Australia home for the last eight years. His asemic pieces have appeared in The New Post-literate. He is the author of wherein? he asks of memory (Knives Forks & Spoons Press, UK) and looks after Black Rider Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Vsevolod Vlaskine was born and grew up in Moscow, Russia. Currently he lives in Sydney, Australia .In his series of asemic photocalligrams, he explores the fluency of unobstructed, uncontrived movement mapped into the night landscape through the light of the full moon. He tries to remove photographic medium as a frame of reference, and to preserve the concrete materiality of the images, avoiding any editing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Vsevolod Vlaskine was born and grew up in Moscow, Russia. Currently he lives in Sydney, Australia. In his series of asemic photocalligrams, he explores the fluency of unobstructed, uncontrived movement mapped into the night landscape through the light of the full moon. He tries to remove photographic medium as a frame of reference, and to preserve the concrete materiality of the images, avoiding any editing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The asemic writing on the photocopied colored pages by Leftwich makes each book unique -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This poem is based upon William Wordsworth (1770-1850), "Intimations of Immortality," Stanza IV; and Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), "The Wreck of the Deutschland," Stanza XXXI. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.