The Small Machine Talks - Episode 42 - Part Two - Visual Poetry
Recorded on Sunday, March 3, 2019
with a.m. kozak and Amanda Earl
Episode 41 - The Small Machine Talks
The Small Machine Talks with a.m. kozak and Amanda Earl
Episode 41 – Visual Poetry – Part 1
Recorded on Sunday, March 3, 2019
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In this episode we discuss visual poetry, its history, defining the genre, the question of meaning, reading, asemic writing, communication, universality, the role of visual poetry in politics and counterculture.
Here are some of the sources we quote from and refer to:
Karl Kempton’s “Visual Poetry: A Brief History of Ancestral Roots and Modern Traditions” http://glia.ca/conu/digitalPoetics/prehistoric-blog/wp-content/uploads/karl-kempton-visual-poetry-a-brief-introduction.pdf
Andrei Codrescu Against Meaning – interview with Lidia Vianu published in Desperado Essay Interviews
http://lidiavianu.scriptmania.com/andrei_codrescu.htm
Cold Front Magazine’s Singular Vispo feature
Michael Winkler http://coldfrontmag.com/singular-vispo-first-encounters-part-9/
K.S. Ernst http://coldfrontmag.com/singular-vispo-first-encounters-part-2/
Amanda Earl http://coldfrontmag.com/singular-vispo-first-encounters-part-5/
Connie Tettenborn http://coldfrontmag.com/singular-vispo-first-encounters-part-6/
The CanLit Guide to Visual Poetry and Experimentation
http://canlitguides.ca/canlit-guides-editorial-team/poetic-visuality-and-experimentation/visual art/conceptual art
What Kind of Sic Sense Is That – Gary Barwin interview with Amanda Earl in Jacket 2
https://jacket2.org/commentary/what-kind-sic-sense
Brick Books Celebration of Visual and Concrete Poetry
http://www.brickbooks.ca/a-celebration-of-canadian-visual-concrete-poetry-part-1/
https://www.brickbooks.ca/a-celebration-of-canadian-visual-concrete-poetry-part-2/
Stay tuned for Episode 42 – Visual Poetry Part 2 in which we discuss Amanda’s visual poetry practice, including her life’s work, the Vispo Bible.
Thanks to Charles Earl for processing, Jennifer Pederson for intro and outro, to listeners and all who share the podcast with fellow poetry enthusiasts.
The Small Machine Talks Episode 40 - Interview with Mariah Horner
The Small Machine Talks Episode 40 with a.m. kozak and Mariah Horner
In this episode, a.m. kozak interviews friend and collaborator Mariah Horner on how space interacts with performance and art-creation and how space impacts the audience's (or the reader's) interpretation of the content. They talk mostly in the context of theatre, but most of the ideas they discuss are applicable to all art forms.
Mariah Horner is an actor, director, producer, and dramaturg based in Kingston, Ontario. She is currently an Artistic Producer with SpiderWebShow. She was the Festival Director of the Storefront Fringe Festival in Kingston from 2016-2018 and was a Metcalf Foundation Intern in Artistic Directing with both SpiderWebShow and Theatre Kingston. Co-founding the Cellar Door Project with Devon Jackson in 2013, Mariah has produced twelve shows with the site-specific company in cemeteries, record stores, bars, parks and the Diefenbunker. Mariah played Kate Unger in George F. Walker’s HBO Canada Series Living in Your Car. Mariah has an an MA in Theatre Theory & Dramaturgy from uOttawa and has been published by SpiderWebShow, Visit Kingston, Canadian Theatre Review, the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario. Up next, she is assistant directing Darrah Teitel’s Behaviour at the GCTC and developing Search Party, part-party crawl part digital scavenger hunt to be produced at foldA in 2019.
Call for Asemic Writing for NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2019
Please send jpgs, a bio and photo to amanda@angelhousepress.com with NPM 2019 in the subject line. Do not send links to sites or a Dropbox or Google drive and ask me to pick. Send as many jpgs as you like until the deadline.
Deadline: February 28, 2019
E-mail address: amanda@angelhousepress.com
Publication status: work can be previously or currently published or unpublished as long as you hold copyright.
The work will be published on line at NationalPoetryMonth.ca in April 2019. The entire month will feature asemic writing. The work will be on line until February 29, 2020.
Visit NationalPoetryMonth.ca to see site’s parameters and aesthetic considerations. If you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail me.
AngelHousePress began NationalPoetryMonth.ca in 2009 as an alternative to institutionalized celebrations of poetry with the goal of expanding preconceived notions of what poetry is or means. My favourite response to the poetry on NationalPoetryMonth.ca is "this isn't poetry!"
We publish one work each day in April for a total of 30 poems/pieces. I use the opportunity to discover potential contributors to Experiment-O.com and to our essay series. This year I want to focus on asemic writing to feature a type of visual poetry that is less well known.
AngelHousePress, established in 2007, publishes raw talent, ragged edges and rebels through its limited edition chapbook series (final chapbooks spring 2019), NationalPoetryMonth.ca, an annual celebration of poetry in April, Experiment-O.com, an annual online PDF magazine that comes out in the autumn, an online essay series and a podcast, the Small Machine Talks. Please visit AngelHousePress.com for more information, and to sign up to our mailing list to stay informed about calls for submission and activities.
Please share this call with fellow asemic writers.
Happy New Year and thank you to all who contributed and submitted work, bought and reviewed chapbooks, and shared our shenanigans in 2018.
yr fallen angel,
Amanda Earl
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The Small Machine Talks Episode 39
we discuss the Toronto Meet the Presses Indie Book Market and Ottawa Small Press Book fair, and a.m. kozak's recent reads, how to end a poem and other interesting stuff.