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On the back cover, it is stated that Keiichi Nakamura is a Japanese mail artist. He was born in 1960. He has been making Visual poetry and Mail art since 1994. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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On the back cover, it is stated that Joe Balaz is a visual poet and artist. He is the editor of 13 Miles from Cleveland, an online magazine of literature and art. Balaz incorporates various forms of media into his visual works. He is always cognizant of form and content and he places an emphasis on diversity and strong underlined concepts within his pieces. Work in this chapbook has previously appeared in The City Poetry, Wheelhouse Magazine, LITnIMAGE, Neon Literary Magazine, and Otoliths. The cover visual is entitled "Philology." www.joebalaz.com. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Renaat Ramon was born in Bruges (BE). Poet, essayist and visual artist: monumental sculptures, paintings, graphics, installations, furniture designs and architectural projects in the spirit of constructivism and minimalism. Collaborator to Big Ode (PT), I/Z (NL) and Poeziekrant (BE). Published a.o. concrete and visual poetry: Ongehoorde gedichten / Poems unheard-of (1997), Color-field poetry (1999) and Zichtbare stem / Visible voice (2009), essays on the relation between word and image and the concrete poetry of Theo van Doesburg (De Stijl) and H.N.Werkman (The Next Call). In preparation: Visie & Vorm / Vision & Form. History of the concrete and visual poetry in the Netherlands and Flanders. Renaat says: "notebook: preliminary notes for a new pure world, constructed only with an alphabet of 26 letters, 10 digits, 4 arithmetical signs and 3 geometrical elements." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet, it is stated that David A. Colon teaches literature at Texas Christian University. He received his Ph.D. in English from Stanford University, where he wrote a dissertation on the transformation of the trope of the Chinese written character as a medium for poetry from Imagism to Concretism. His poems have appeared in DIAGRAM, Score, Latino Stuff Review, The Stanford Black Arts Quarterly, and elsewhere. His work in poetics and poetry criticism has appeared or is forthcoming in Cultural Critique, The Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies, How2, Hispanet Journal, MELUS, Studies in American Culture, and The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry & Poetics. He was born and raised in Brooklyn and now lives in Fort Worth. David says: "These visual poems treat letters and words as a palette from which familiar (and defamiliarized) images are conjured. Negative space is a counterpoint to the designs, suggesting a visual representation of silence: the same...

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Michael Zarichnyi (1958) is a professor of mathematics at the Lviv University (Ukraine). His interests include not only geometry and topology of infinite-dimensional manifolds but also poetry, music and visual/concrete poetry. He is the author of one book of poetry, about 60 songs, and about 50 visual works. Personal exhibition of the visual/concrete poetry (Lviv University Gallery, 2011). The works are often minimalistic, inspired by beauty of mathematical constructions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Roman Pyrih is a Ukrainian poet born in 1977. Roman says: "Yurai is Ukrainian poet-palindromist, diplomat and humble student of ancient knowledge. "His experiments with palindromes were inspired and heavily based on Ukrainian palindrome tradition dating back to the texts of mystic Kyiv poet of the XVII century Ivan Velychkovskyi , who is also considered grand contributor to the development of Ukrainian visual poetry. In XX century Ukrainian palindrome was greatly invigorated and brought to a new level by outstanding efforts of renowned masters -- Ivan Iov, Ivan Luchuk, Nazar Gonchar and others. "What distinguishes Yurai's creations is that he gradually departed from palindrome as a text and visualized it as a graphic artwork. This was a natural drift, manifested at first as side effect of illustrating palindrome poems, and gradually evolved into self-sufficient art. This mirroring fusion of symbol, meaning and their graphic interpretation is aimed to complete restless sensory quest...

Scope and Contents Alexander Jorgensen is a writer, visual artist, teacher, and adventurer. He has lived and worked in such disparate places as Germany, the Czech Republic, the Galapagos, China, Kazakhstan, and Oman. His visual poetry and writings have appeared in Van Gogh's Ear, Drunken Boat, Shampoo, Listenlight, Noon: Journal of the Short Poem, Moria, Big Bridge, Sous Rature, and The Return of Kral Majales: Prague's International Literary Renaissance 1990-2010. His visual poems have been exhibited in Toronto, Atlanta, Moscow, Prague, and at the 2011 Text Festival in Manchester, UK. He was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2008. Alexander says of his work: "It is hybrid, combining aspects of analogue and digital design. Each poem manifests its own appearance. My work is influenced by extensive travel as well as my underlying values. What's most important to me as I construct a visual poem is that it shows intention, that I am saying, "Here we are.'" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth...

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Taken from pete spence's Archive 1998. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The almost micrographic written text, black ink on white paper, is layed out as circular shapes to form a vertical rectangle. This is mounted to a crumpled kraft paper background. Although the text appears to form words, the letters are indecipherable. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a photograph of a model for a poem-garden utilizing reinforced concrete slabs with letters imbedded bronze. The sculptural forms are non-representational and there are no garden elements to denote what the words describe in contrast to Ian Hamilto Finlay's landscape picture poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Houedard provides an explanation of the three poems which were written on the 18, 19 & 20 of July, 1966 for Exit magazine (1966). A copy of these prints is held by the Sackner Archive and is a catalog entry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Consists of pages 61-64 from the periodical, The Lugano Review Vol 1 No.1. Includes the poems, Acrobats, Ajar, and Ring of Nets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Designated Writers Forum 'fours' number one. The handwritten additions provide directions for ordering the poetry and the timing of each piece. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.