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Huth, a tireless artist and critic of concrete and visual poetry since 1985, was also one of the early experimenters with computer-animated poems.  Endemic Battle Collage  is a catalogue of smaller works which, for a viewer of the 80s, seemed to challenge the limitations of the personal computer, but for a present-day viewer, especially those addicted to retro stylings, seems to revel in what seem like straight-jacketing constraints. Huth demonstrates his incredible knowledge of concrete poetry tactics, making good use of the manifold vocabularies of low-information Concrete poetics within a screen size of less resolution than even the most basic cell-phone.

Brenda Iijima read at the Lake Forest College Literary Festival earlier this year, here is an excerpt from the notes I took, inspired by her discursive poetry: 

I believe them when they say: drawing together, they settle into difference. With subtle contagion of body as structured text, titled ligatures in the midst, thick with emotional materiel, Brenda Iijima’s work rhymes—off or near—sight as sound. Nature for culture, culture as nature, “we/ can play school under a tree” or at war. Breaking and building in twitchy compression. A kind of necessity is created here for saying, rejuvenating myths, turning anger into jouissance , making of thoughts a river of light…Beware: we won’t be chagrined anymore; such subversion is the changing of the world. Is that what you meant? 

Lars Berglund et al. have developed a type of paper that is purportedly “tougher than cast iron. The material—made from nanosized whiskers of cellulose—is also lighter than conventional paper.” Perhaps “nanopaper” like this might be utilized in collaboration with MIT’s e-paper development labs and future evolution of the material produced at E-ink which currently supplies the Kindle and Sony’s Reader among 20 other e-reader companies

A WEB & PRINT MAGAZINE OF MAGIC REALISM & SLIPSTREAM

It was announced on Friday, April 6, at Norwescon 35, in SeaTac, Washington, that the winner for the distinguished original science fiction paperback published for the first time during 2011 in the U.S.A. is:

THE SAMUIL PETROVITCH TRILOGY by Simon Morden (Orbit)

Special citation was given to:

THE COMPANY MAN by Robert Jackson Bennett (Orbit)

You’ve seen only a planed circle of moon,

the white wafer; the low sky’s flat penny

grow into that dime, flipped in the turn

taken by the earth,

                                     until you see

what’s won from behind its veil of brightness

by the lunar eclipse

                                                 a red marble,

a pinball of blood and it’s your shot, a ball

of red clay before its pinch into a bowl,

what I want to say and its look

that far away from it.

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Vanessa Place is a writer, a lawyer, and co-director of Les Figues Press. She is author of Dies: A Sentence (2006), La Medusa (Fiction Collective 2, 2008), Notes on Conceptualisms , co-authored with Robert Fitterman (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009), and The Guilt Project: Rape,…

Annalemma Magazine is pretty cool. 

We made this shadow show for a Matt Bell story published in  Issue Six  and performed it at the release party. A couple years later Matt releases the story as part of a larger work called  Cataclysm Baby . So we thought it might be a good idea to put it down onto film. Mr. Bell came into Brooklyn for an evening and we got weird in the studio space. Hope you enjoy. And check out  Cataclysm Baby , available April 15th, 2012 from  Mud Luscious Press .

SAIC’s Online Literary Journal. Here is an excerpt from their “Manifest:” 

Increasingly driven by the pressures of the electronic, writing at the interstices of innovation and tradition has taken on, rejected, usurped, altered, and informed its various practices as part of this changing current. Considering all of this in light of new mediums within contemporary art—which have undergone their own transformations, spurred on by acknowledgment and manipulations of the digital—we’ve arrived a strange new place that’s been around for a strange little while (an inconvenient forever?) in which the kind of things we wish to imagine through language might be able to be viewed with our own blinking eyes. 

Nicholas Carr discusses information overload.