Shloka Shankar : The Fluff of Words

Shloka Shankar is a freelance writer and visual artist from Bangalore, India. She enjoys experimenting with Japanese short-forms and different found poetry techniques. A Best of the Net nominee, her work has most recently appeared in Under the Basho, Rogue Agent, Right Hand Pointing, Drunk Monkeys, and so on. Shloka is the founding editor of the literary & arts journal Sonic Boom, and its affiliated press, Yavanika. Twitter: @shloks89 

Jeff Bagato : scribes 005

A multi-media artist living near Washington, DC, Jeff Bagato produces poetry and prose as well as electronic music, and glitch video. Some of his textual and visual poetry has appeared in Empty Mirror, Futures Trading, Otoliths, H&, M58, Gold Wake Live, and The New Post Literate. His published books include Savage Magic (poetry), and Computing Angels (fiction). A blog about his writing and publishing efforts can be found at http://jeffbagato.wordpress.com.

Shloka Shankar : to deconstruct (v.)

Shloka Shankar is a freelance writer and visual artist from Bangalore, India. She enjoys experimenting with Japanese short-forms and different found poetry techniques. A Best of the Net nominee, her work has most recently appeared in Under the Basho, Rogue Agent, Right Hand Pointing, Drunk Monkeys, and so on. Shloka is the founding editor of the literary & arts journal Sonic Boom, and its affiliated press, Yavanika. Twitter: @shloks89 

Jeff Bagato : quasar 023

A multi-media artist living near Washington, DC, Jeff Bagato produces poetry and prose as well as electronic music, and glitch video. Some of his textual and visual poetry has appeared in Empty Mirror, Futures Trading, Otoliths, H&, M58, Gold Wake Live, and The New Post Literate. His published books include Savage Magic (poetry), and Computing Angels (fiction). A blog about his writing and publishing efforts can be found at http://jeffbagato.wordpress.com.

Alyse Knorr : Lorem Ipsum

Alyse Knorr is a queer poet and assistant professor of English at Regis University. She is the author of the poetry collections Mega-City Redux (Green Mountains Review 2017), Copper Mother (Switchback Books 2016), and Annotated Glass (Furniture Press Books 2013), as well as the non-fiction book Super Mario Bros. 3 (Boss Fight Books 2016). Her work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Denver Quarterly, Columbia Poetry Review, The Greensboro Review, and ZYZZYVA, among others. She co-edits Switchback Books.

Shloka Shankar : The Flipside

Shloka Shankar is a freelance writer and visual artist from Bangalore, India. She enjoys experimenting with Japanese short-forms and different found poetry techniques. A Best of the Net nominee, her work has most recently appeared in Under the Basho, Rogue Agent, Right Hand Pointing, Drunk Monkeys, and so on. Shloka is the founding editor of the literary & arts journal Sonic Boom, and its affiliated press, Yavanika. Twitter: @shloks89 

Jeff Bagato : quasar 026

A multi-media artist living near Washington, DC, Jeff Bagato produces poetry and prose as well as electronic music, and glitch video. Some of his textual and visual poetry has appeared in Empty Mirror, Futures Trading, Otoliths, H&, M58, Gold Wake Live, and The New Post Literate. His published books include Savage Magic (poetry), and Computing Angels (fiction). A blog about his writing and publishing efforts can be found at http://jeffbagato.wordpress.com.

J.I. Kleinberg : WRITING

Artist, poet, and freelance writer, J.I. Kleinberg is a Best of the Net and Pushcart nominee and winner of the 2016 Ken Warfel Fellowship. Her found poems have appeared in Diagram, Heavy Feather Review, Rise Up Review, The Tishman Review, Hedgerow, Otoliths, and elsewhere. She lives in Bellingham, Washington, USA, and blogs most days at thepoetrydepartment.wordpress.com.

Jeff Bagato : quasar 046

A multi-media artist living near Washington, DC, Jeff Bagato produces poetry and prose as well as electronic music, and glitch video. Some of his textual and visual poetry has appeared in Empty Mirror, Futures Trading, Otoliths, H&, M58, Gold Wake Live, and The New Post Literate. His published books include Savage Magic (poetry), and Computing Angels (fiction). A blog about his writing and publishing efforts can be found at http://jeffbagato.wordpress.com.

J.I. Kleinberg : the story horses

Artist, poet, and freelance writer, J.I. Kleinberg is a Best of the Net and Pushcart nominee and winner of the 2016 Ken Warfel Fellowship. Her found poems have appeared in Diagram, Heavy Feather Review, Rise Up Review, The Tishman Review, Hedgerow, Otoliths, and elsewhere. She lives in Bellingham, Washington, USA, and blogs most days at thepoetrydepartment.wordpress.com.

Alyse Knorr : Splittings

Alyse Knorr is a queer poet and assistant professor of English at Regis University. She is the author of the poetry collections Mega-City Redux (Green Mountains Review 2017), Copper Mother (Switchback Books 2016), and Annotated Glass (Furniture Press Books 2013), as well as the non-fiction book Super Mario Bros. 3 (Boss Fight Books 2016). Her work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Denver Quarterly, Columbia Poetry Review, The Greensboro Review, and ZYZZYVA, among others. She co-edits Switchback Books.

Shloka Shankar : to curl (v.) - An erasure culled out from 'Cutting Greens'

Shloka Shankar is a freelance writer and visual artist from Bangalore, India. She enjoys experimenting with Japanese short-forms and different found poetry techniques. A Best of the Net nominee, her work has most recently appeared in Under the Basho, Rogue Agent, Right Hand Pointing, Drunk Monkeys, and so on. Shloka is the founding editor of the literary & arts journal Sonic Boom, and its affiliated press, Yavanika. Twitter: @shloks89 

Jeff Bagato : feel your body 020

A multi-media artist living near Washington, DC, Jeff Bagato produces poetry and prose as well as electronic music, and glitch video. Some of his textual and visual poetry has appeared in Empty Mirror, Futures Trading, Otoliths, H&, M58, Gold Wake Live, and The New Post Literate. His published books include Savage Magic (poetry), and Computing Angels (fiction). A blog about his writing and publishing efforts can be found at http://jeffbagato.wordpress.com.

J.I. Kleinberg : stones

Artist, poet, and freelance writer, J.I. Kleinberg is a Best of the Net and Pushcart nominee and winner of the 2016 Ken Warfel Fellowship. Her found poems have appeared in Diagram, Heavy Feather Review, Rise Up Review, The Tishman Review, Hedgerow, Otoliths, and elsewhere. She lives in Bellingham, Washington, USA, and blogs most days at thepoetrydepartment.wordpress.com.

Alyse Knorr : Things to Throw

Alyse Knorr is a queer poet and assistant professor of English at Regis University. She is the author of the poetry collections Mega-City Redux (Green Mountains Review 2017), Copper Mother (Switchback Books 2016), and Annotated Glass (Furniture Press Books 2013), as well as the non-fiction book Super Mario Bros. 3 (Boss Fight Books 2016). Her work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Denver Quarterly, Columbia Poetry Review, The Greensboro Review, and ZYZZYVA, among others. She co-edits Switchback Books.

Eileen R. Tabios : MY ADOPTION

Eileen R. Tabios loves books and has released over 50 collections of poetry, fiction, essays, and experimental biographies from publishers in nine countries and cyberspace. Her 2018 poetry collections include HIRAETH: Tercets From the Last Archipelago; MURDER DEATH RESURRECTION: A Poetry Generator; the bilingual edition (English/Spanish) of One, Two, Three: Selected Hay(na)ku Poems; and TANKA: Vol. 1. She is the inventor of the poetry form “hay(na)ku” whose 15-year anniversary in 2018 will be celebrated in the United States with exhibitions and readings at the San Francisco Public Library and Saint Helena Public Library. Her visual work has been exhibited in the United States, Asia and Serbia. Translated into eight languages, she also has edited, co-edited or conceptualized 15 anthologies of poetry, fiction and essays as well as served as editor or guest editor for various literary journals. Her writing and editing works have received recognition through awards, grants and residencies. More information is available at http://eileenrtabios.com

J.I. Kleinberg : reality

Artist, poet, and freelance writer, J.I. Kleinberg is a Best of the Net and Pushcart nominee and winner of the 2016 Ken Warfel Fellowship. Her found poems have appeared in Diagram, Heavy Feather Review, Rise Up Review, The Tishman Review, Hedgerow, Otoliths, and elsewhere. She lives in Bellingham, Washington, USA, and blogs most days at thepoetrydepartment.wordpress.com.

Elaine Woo : Mother

Elaine Woo is a poet, librettist, comics creator, and artist.  She is the author of Cycling with the Dragon. Other works are in Sustenance, Grain, Prism International, Veils, Halos, & Shackles, The Maynard, The Elephants, CWILA's S/tick, and Experiment-O.

dedicated to Niki de Saint Phalle

Alyse Knorr : here

Alyse Knorr is a queer poet and assistant professor of English at Regis University. She is the author of the poetry collections Mega-City Redux (Green Mountains Review 2017), Copper Mother (Switchback Books 2016), and Annotated Glass (Furniture Press Books 2013), as well as the non-fiction book Super Mario Bros. 3 (Boss Fight Books 2016). Her work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Denver Quarterly, Columbia Poetry Review, The Greensboro Review, and ZYZZYVA, among others. She co-edits Switchback Books.

J.I. Kleinberg : BETTER

Artist, poet, and freelance writer, J.I. Kleinberg is a Best of the Net and Pushcart nominee and winner of the 2016 Ken Warfel Fellowship. Her found poems have appeared in Diagram, Heavy Feather Review, Rise Up Review, The Tishman Review, Hedgerow, Otoliths, and elsewhere. She lives in Bellingham, Washington, USA, and blogs most days at thepoetrydepartment.wordpress.com.

hiromi suzuki : C'est tout

hiromi suzuki is a poet, artist living in Tokyo, Japan.  A member of "gui" (run by members of "VOU" group of poets, founded by the late Katsue Kitasono). Author of Ms. cried, 77 poems by hiromi suzuki (kisaragi publishing, 2013 ISBN978-4-901850-42-1). Her works are published internationally in Otoliths, BlazeVOX, Empty Mirror, Experiment-O, M58, DATABLEED, Black Market Re-View, Burning House Press, h&, BRAVE NEW WORD magazine, DODGING THE RAIN, Jazz Cigarette, TAPE HISS zine, The Arsonist Magazine, MOONCHILD MAGAZINE, Parentheses Journal, Angry Old Man Magazine, Coldfront Magazine, 3:AM Magazine, Obra/Artifact, Utsanga.it magazine, NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2015 / 2017, and Poem Brut at Rich Mix London 2017, amongst other places.

Her latest book of visual poetry, logbook (Hesterglock Press, 2018 ISBN 978-1-9999153-1-5).

web site: hiromisuzukimicrojournal.tumblr.com

Kyle Flemmer : 60° 40’ · 0h 3m

Kyle Flemmer founded The Blasted Tree Publishing Company in 2014 as an outlet for his writing and to build a community of emerging Canadian artists. He is currently the Managing Editor of filling Station magazine, were he served as Associate Poetry Editor for two years. Kyle graduated from Concordia University with a double-major in Western Society & Culture and Creative Writing, and has released three recent poetry chapbooks: ASTRAL PROJECTION (2017) from above/ground press, Lunar Flag Assembly Kit (2017) from no press, and Pray / Lewd (2016) from The Blasted Tree.

Tony Rickaby : Too Many Orders

Tony Rickaby lives in London and these pieces look at a specific part of Hackney, in East London. His current practice deals with such hidden aspects of that city as gang culture and the security state. His conceptual works, installations and paintings have been shown throughout Europe and the US. Recent books by him are Urban Directions and Unnoticed.

Eric Schmaltz : from Assembled Lines

Eric Schmaltz is an artist, writer, and educator living in Toronto. His writing has been published in Jacket2, The Capilano Review, Poetry is Dead, Lemon Hound, and Open Letter with work forthcoming in Arc Poetry and the Berkeley Poetry Review. His first book of poetry and text-art, entitled Surfaces, has been published by Invisible Publishing. More details at https://ericschmaltz.com/.

The images of “Assembled Lines” are made in collaboration with Christopher Doody as he prepared excerpts from Eric Schmaltz's Surfaces to be 3D printed.

Eileen R. Tabios : I RECALL FORGETTING A SECRET FROM MY YOUTH

Eileen R. Tabios loves books and has released over 50 collections of poetry, fiction, essays, and experimental biographies from publishers in nine countries and cyberspace. Her 2018 poetry collections include HIRAETH: Tercets From the Last Archipelago; MURDER DEATH RESURRECTION: A Poetry Generator; the bilingual edition (English/Spanish) of One, Two, Three: Selected Hay(na)ku Poems; and TANKA: Vol. 1. She is the inventor of the poetry form “hay(na)ku” whose 15-year anniversary in 2018 will be celebrated with exhibitions and readings at the San Francisco Public Library and Saint Helena Public Library. Translated into eight languages, she also has edited, co-edited or conceptualized 14 anthologies of poetry, fiction and essays as well as served as editor or guest editor for various literary journals. Her writing and editing works have received recognition through awards, grants and residencies. More information is available at http://eileenrtabios.com

Tony Rickaby : Shredded Messages

Tony Rickaby lives in London and these pieces look at a specific part of Hackney, in East London. His current practice deals with such hidden aspects of that city as gang culture and the security state. His conceptual works, installations and paintings have been shown throughout Europe and the US. Recent books by him are Urban Directions and Unnoticed.

Tony Rickaby : Forgotten Stories

Tony Rickaby lives in London and these pieces look at a specific part of Hackney, in East London. His current practice deals with such hidden aspects of that city as gang culture and the security state. His conceptual works, installations and paintings have been shown throughout Europe and the US. Recent books by him are Urban Directions and Unnoticed.

jim leftwich : untitled

jim leftwich is the author of Six Months Aint No Sentence Books 1 - 187, written between Easter 2011 and August 29, 2016 (Books 1 - 6, White Sky Books, 2011/12, Books 7 - 30 White Sky ebooks 2012, both edited by Peter Ganick & Jukka-Pekka Kervinen), (Books 1 -187 Differx Hosting@Box, edited by Marco Giovenale)

http://whiteskybooks.blogspot.com/2012/09/jim-leftwich-six-months-aint-no.html

http://whiteskybooks.blogspot.com/2012/12/jim-leftwich-six-months-aint-no.html 

jim leftwich : untitled

jim leftwich is the author of Six Months Aint No Sentence Books 1 - 187, written between Easter 2011 and August 29, 2016 (Books 1 - 6, White Sky Books, 2011/12, Books 7 - 30 White Sky ebooks 2012, both edited by Peter Ganick & Jukka-Pekka Kervinen), (Books 1 -187 Differx Hosting@Box, edited by Marco Giovenale)

http://whiteskybooks.blogspot.com/2012/09/jim-leftwich-six-months-aint-no.html

http://whiteskybooks.blogspot.com/2012/12/jim-leftwich-six-months-aint-no.html

hiromi suzuki : on the side of a river

hiromi suzuki is an illustrator, poet, artist living in Tokyo, Japan. A contributor to the Japanese poetry magazine gui (run by members of the Japanese "VOU" group of poets, founded by the late Kitasono Katue). Author of Ms. cried, 77 poems by hiromi suzuki (kisaragi publishing, 2013 ISBN978-4-901850-42-1). Her works are published internationally in Otoliths, BlazeVOX, Empty Mirror, Experiment-O, M58, DATABLEED, Black Market Re-View, Burning House Press, h&, BRAVE NEW WORD magazine, DODGING THE RAIN, Jazz Cigarette, TAPE HISS zine, The Arsonist Magazine, MOONCHILD MAGAZINE, Angry Old Man Magazine, Coldfront Magazine, 3:AM Magazine, NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2015 / 2017, and Poem Brut at Rich Mix London 2017, amongst other places.

New book of visual poetry logbook (ISBN 978-1-9999153-0-8) will be launched by Hesterglock Press in March, 2018.

web site: hiromisuzukimicrojournal.tumblr.com

jim leftwich : untitled

jim leftwich is the author of Six Months Aint No Sentence Books 1 - 187, written between Easter 2011 and August 29, 2016 (Books 1 - 6, White Sky Books, 2011/12, Books 7 - 30 White Sky ebooks 2012, both edited by Peter Ganick & Jukka-Pekka Kervinen), (Books 1 -187 Differx Hosting@Box, edited by Marco Giovenale)

http://whiteskybooks.blogspot.com/2012/09/jim-leftwich-six-months-aint-no.html

http://whiteskybooks.blogspot.com/2012/12/jim-leftwich-six-months-aint-no.html

hiromi suzuki : capricious citron

hiromi suzuki is an illustrator, poet, artist living in Tokyo, Japan. A contributor to the Japanese poetry magazine gui (run by members of the Japanese "VOU" group of poets, founded by the late Kitasono Katue). Author of Ms. cried, 77 poems by hiromi suzuki (kisaragi publishing, 2013 ISBN978-4-901850-42-1). Her works are published internationally in Otoliths, BlazeVOX, Empty Mirror, Experiment-O, M58, DATABLEED, Black Market Re-View, Burning House Press, h&, BRAVE NEW WORD magazine, DODGING THE RAIN, Jazz Cigarette, TAPE HISS zine, The Arsonist Magazine, MOONCHILD MAGAZINE, Angry Old Man Magazine, Coldfront Magazine, 3:AM Magazine, NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2015 / 2017, and Poem Brut at Rich Mix London 2017, amongst other places. hiromisuzukimicrojournal.tumblr.com

Eileen R. Tabios : Erasing Amnesia

Eileen R. Tabios loves books and has released over 50 collections of poetry, fiction, essays, and experimental biographies from publishers in nine countries and cyberspace. Her 2018 poetry collections include HIRAETH: Tercets From the Last Archipelago and MURDER DEATH RESURRECTION: A Poetry Generator. She is the inventor of the poetry form “hay(na)ku” which will be the focus of a 15-year anniversary celebration at the San Francisco Public Library in 2018. Translated into eight languages, she also has edited, co-edited or conceptualized 13 anthologies of poetry, fiction and essays as well as served as editor or guest editor for various literary journals. Her writing and editing works have received recognition through awards, grants and residencies. More information is available at http://eileenrtabios.com

jim leftwich : untitled

jim leftwich is the author of Six Months Aint No Sentence Books 1 - 187, written between Easter 2011 and August 29, 2016 (Books 1 - 6, White Sky Books, 2011/12, Books 7 - 30 White Sky ebooks 2012, both edited by Peter Ganick & Jukka-Pekka Kervinen), (Books 1 -187 Differx Hosting@Box, edited by Marco Giovenale)

http://whiteskybooks.blogspot.com/2012/09/jim-leftwich-six-months-aint-no.html

http://whiteskybooks.blogspot.com/2012/12/jim-leftwich-six-months-aint-no.html

sophie anne edwards : window

sophie anne edwards is a writer, artist, curator and and arts administrator who lives in northern Ontario (Canada). Her unke(m)pt blog can be found here. This poem was first published by Music Magazine, as a winner in its 2014 sonic geography poetry contest.