a rawlings’ research in acoustic ecology, counter-mapping, and ecopoetics informs her artistic output. Her literary debut Wide slumber for lepidopterists (Coach House Books, 2006) received an Alcuin Award for Design; the book was adapted for stage production by VaVaVoom, Bedroom Community, and Valgeir Sigurðsson in 2014. She is the recipient of a Chalmers Arts Fellowship (Canada, 2009) and held the position of Arts Queensland Poet-in-Residence (Australia, 2012). rawlings' 2012 digital publication Gibber amassed sound and visual poetry from Australian bioregions. In 2013, her work Áfall / Trauma was shortlisted for the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Playwrights. rawlings is an active performer, collaborator, and installation artist. She works with many international artists, including Sachiko Murakami, Matt Ceolin, Maja Jantar, Rebecca Bruton, and Kristín Eiríksdóttir. She has also penned librettos for composer Gabrielle Herbst's Bodiless and for a collaboration called Longitude with composer Davíð Brynjar Franzson and new media artists Davyde Wachell and Halldór Arnar Úlfarsson. rawlings loves in Iceland.

a.m. kozak is a social worker, poet, anti-poverty advocate & editor of 30 under 30: an anthology of Canadian millennial poets (In/Words, 2017), currently living in Ottawa.He and Amanda Earl hosted the Small Machine Talks, a podcast that explores the poetry scene of Central Canada and beyond from 2016 to 2020.

Adriána Kóbor  (Hungary, 1988), active in the Benelux from 2006 till late 2018. Her poems aim to explore and extend the boundaries of language. The major part of her work is written in English, though her verses and stories written in other languages — Hungarian, Dutch etc. — have gained attention as well. Currently she is busy with the final touches on her unpublished work preparing it for publication. Besides that she created two books in collaboration with a visual poet and a collagist waiting to be pulled through the press. She is regularly submitting and publishing in the international literary media. Her work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca.

Aileen and Chad Pants live, work and collaborate in the Minneapolis area. View more of their work at flrxwrx.wordpress.com.

Aileen Beno most recently lives in Minnesota with two zebra finches and a hairy monster.

Akua Lezli Hope is a creator who uses sound, words, fiber, glass, and metal  to create poems, patterns, stories, music, ornaments, adornments and peace whenever possible. She has won two fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, a Ragdale U.S.-Africa Fellowship, and a Creative Writing Fellowship from The National Endowment for The Arts.  She is a Cave Canem fellow. Her manuscript, Them Gone, a 2015 Word Works finalist, won Red Paint Hill’s Editor’s Prize. She won the 2015 Science Fiction Poetry Association’s short poem award.  She has published 116 crochet designs. A paraplegic, she’s started a paratransit nonprofit so that she can get around her country town. Her poem, “Mommy’s Arias” appears on NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2017: A Celebration of Women.

Alexis Fedorjaczenko writes poetry, essay, and in hybrid methods, and her visual work includes handcrafted poem objects, digital/analog collage, and photography. She is presently hand printing visual poetry onto linens and indigo-dyed fabrics. Alexis holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry and essay from Western Connecticut State University and a Master of Public Health degree in health policy from Yale University. She lives in rural New England where she works as Town Clerk along with other pursuits. At one time, Alexis lived in a pop-up camper for fifteen months while exploring the American landscape, mainly west of the Rocky Mountains. She has attended residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Elsewhere Studios, and Prairie Center for the Arts. Several of her pieces in this issue appeared in earlier forms in 3:AM Magazine, Streetcake Magazine, and the Beir Bua Journal blog. Further publishing credits and social media links can be found at: linktr.ee/ObjetAutre. Her work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca and Experiment-O Issue 15. 

Ali Znaidi (b.1977) lives in Redeyef, Tunisia. He is the author of several chapbooks, including Experimental Ruminations (Fowlpox Press, 2012), Moon’s Cloth Embroidered with Poems (Origami Poems Project, 2012), Bye, Donna Summer! (Fowlpox Press, 2014), Taste of the Edge (Kind of a Hurricane Press, 2014), and Mathemaku x5 (Spacecraft Press, 2015). For more, visit aliznaidi.blogspot.com.  Ali's poetry appears on NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2016 and in Experiment-O Issue 9.0.

Alice Burdick (she/her) lives in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, and is the author of four full-length poetry collections, Simple Master, Flutter, Holler, and Book of Short Sentences, and one selected: Deportment: The Poetry of Alice Burdick (which came out through Wilfrid Laurier University Press). 

“...Keogh’s work brings to mind both the spontaneity of the Abstract Expressionist painters and the geometric rigor of Donald Judd.” - Ann Landi, ARTnews Magazine July 2012

 

“ I collaborate with uncertainty and work with both stillness and immediacy. Intuition, awareness, my breath, body and repetitive gestures are constant processes I use to reveal my experiences that have settled and compressed with time.”

 

Alison Keogh earned her architectural degree and completed a masters program at Kingston University, London. Formerly an architect, her artistic practice embraces repetitive and contemplative processes as a way of collaborating with natural materials. While adhering to an underlying structural premise of modernist forms her work emanates an organic sensibility. Keogh’s work has been exhibited internationally as well as nationally in solo and group exhibitions. In 2012 she exhibited at the Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, and attended an artist residency at Fundacion Valpariso, Spain. She was represented by William Siegal Gallery, Santa Fe for five years until the closure of contemporary program in 2017. Alison exhibited at Gallery Moris, Kobe, Japan in the spring of 2018. Her work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2019.

 

Photography credit - Robert J Mang Photography

Allegra Stevenson-Kaplan is a queer emerging poet based in the unceded lands of the Lekwungen-speaking peoples. She recently completed her Honours English degree at the University of Victoria, where she served as a Poetry Editor for The Warren Undergraduate Review. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Warren Undergraduate Review, The Albatross English Undergraduate Journal, Unstamatic Magazine, KULA Journal, IDEAH Journal, and elsewhere. She is currently a poetry reader for PRISM international magazine. Allegra's work appears on NationalPoetryMonth.ca. Find her @allegra__kaplan on Twitter.

Ally Fleming is a poet and reviewer who lives in Toronto. Her work has appeared in CAROUSEL, Canadian Medical Association Journal Blogs, This Magazine, and the chapbooks The Worst Season (Anstruther Press, 2017) and What Happened Was: He Flew (serif of nottingham editions, 2011). Her work appears on NationalPoetryMonth.ca. The title of this piece is "For This Poem to Exist I Have No Choice But to Suffer This Grief," from "There's no one who loves me" by Fernando Pessoa.

Amanda Earl (she/her) is a Canadian pansexual polyamorous feminist writer, visual poet and publisher, living on the unceded territory of the Algonq uin Anishinabeg peoples with her husband, Charles. She’s the managing editor of Bywords.ca, the editor of Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry and the fallen angel of AngelHousePress. Author of Beast Body Epic (AngelHousePress 2023), Kiki (Chaudiere Books, 2014, now with Invisible Publishing), A World of Yes (DevilHouse, 2015) and Coming Together Presents Amanda Earl (Coming Together, 2014), over 30 chapbooks. Please visit https://linktr.ee/amandaearl for too much information about Amanda Earl.

In addition to publications in England and France, Amy Dennis' poetry has appeared in more than a dozen Canadian literary publications, such as CV2, Event, Queen's Quarterly, and Prairie Fire. Her poetry has been nominated for two National Magazine Awards and a Random House Creative Writing Award. She placed second in the UK’s National Bedford Open Poetry Competition. Most recently, her chapbook THE COMPLEMENT AND ANTAGONIST OF BLACK (OR, THE DEFINITION OF ALL VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS) was published by above/ground press in February of 2013. She now lives in the UK where she is completing her Ph.D. 

Amy Rodriguez is an Artist and Poet living in the Ozark Mountains. Her work has been featured in WAAVe Global Gallery 2021, Singing With the Nightingales (A WAAVe Global Response to the Ukraine Situation), Nicola Winborn’s Attic Zine and Rumors, Secrets & Lies: Poems about Pregnancy, Abortion & Choice. She is mentioned as one of 1181 known Women Making Visual Poetry in Judith, a 21st century anthology edited by Amanda Earl. Her work appears in Experiment-O Issue 16, published in November 2023. Amy’s work can also be seen in Asemic Writing: The New Post-Literate on Facebook.

Anatol Knotek is an Austrian artist and visual poet. His work has been exhibited internationally and his concrete and visual poems have been published in journals, chapbooks, schoolbooks and anthologies. He is a member of the Austrian Art Association with its residence in Schönbrunn Palace. Examples of his concrete poetry, textanimations, written pictures and textobjects can be viewed on his website http://www.anatol.cc

andrew topel has less hair, worse eyesight and slower hands now then when he first began creating visual poetry

Angela Caporaso is an Italian artist focusing on artists books and visual poetry, working with the mediums of collage, trash-art and, more recently, digital formats.

Since her first exhibitions, which date back to the eighties, she has revealed a constant strain towards new expressive languages.

This constant research led Angela to contaminate sign with colour, font with image, literature with painting, as though one single medium was not sufficient to express her complex imaginative world. Angela's work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2020 Ode to the Small. http://www.angelacaporaso.com/

Angela Hibbs (she/her) is the author of Control Suppress Delete (Palimpsest Press, 2017) Sin Eater (Arbeiter Ring Press, 2014), Wanton (Insomniac Press, 2009), and Passport (DC Books, 2006). She lives in Peterborough, Ontario, the traditional territory of the Mississauga First Nations.  Her work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2022 (AngelHousePress).

Angela Rebrec is a writer, singer and graphic artist whose work can be found in various journals and anthologies such as PRISM International, EVENT, Prairie Fire and the Dalhousie Review. Angela currently facilitates writing and expressive arts workshops for kids aged 6 to 106. She lives with her husband and three children on unceeded Musqueam and Tsawwassen lands. Her poetry appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2020 Ode to the Small

Angeline Schellenberg is the author of the Manitoba Book Award-winning linked poems about autism Tell Them It Was Mozart (Brick Books, 2016) and the elegy collection Fields of Light and Stone (University of Alberta Press, 2020) shortlisted for the 2022 KOBZAR Book Award. Her microfiction appears online in Canadian, British, and American journals. She hosts Speaking Crow, Winnipeg’s longest-running poetry open mic. Her work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2022 (AngelHousePress).

Ania Urbanowska is a Polish-born filmmaker based in Edinburgh. She creates fictional, experimental and documentary films. She also collaborates with international artists on A/V performances and cross-platform projects. Ania has directed several short films that engage with subjects including the power of subconscious and coincidence, fear and sexuality. She recently collaborated with Sandra Alland on three other short films and the multidisciplinary performance, ‘Equivalence’. Ania edited the award-winning short documentary, ‘Where We Are Now’. http://aniaurbanowska.com/. Her film, "Bilingual Poet's Dilemma by Donna Williams" appears as part of NationalPoetryMonth.ca  2018 and was originally published as part of Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back (Nine Arches, 2017).

Ankie van Dijk:

Ariel Dawn  lives in Victoria, British Columbia. She spends her time writing, reading, and studying Tarot. Recent work appears in canthius, (parenthetical), Foxhole, Vine Leaves, Room, and is forthcoming in A Furious Hope anthology.

Her poetry appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca.

Ariel González Losada, composer, visual artist. Born in Buenos Aires in 1978. His musical and visual interests are marked by the behaviors, processes and structures on the natural phenomena, as well as by the underlying gestures to the written word.

Ashleigh Allen is a poet and educator born and raised in Toronto, Canada. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School and an MA in English Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. She is currently a visiting writer at Scarborough Arts in Toronto where she is a workshop facilitator, editor, and most recently a juror for a local writing competition. She teaches both creative and critical writing courses at Sheridan and Seneca Colleges in Toronto. Her poetry and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in: Contemporary Verse 2, Tethered by Letters, The Operating System, The Literary Review, Bort Quarterly, and Best American Poetry. Her poem, “Sure, self-examination” appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2017: A Celebration of Women.

Astra Papachristodoulou is a PhD researcher at the University of Surrey with focus in Material Poetics, and her work has been published in various magazines including The Times, Ambit Magazine and Magma Poetry. She is the author of several poetry books including Stargazing (Guillemot Press) and her work has been exhibited in numerous art venues across the UK, including The Southbank Centre and the A&D Gallery. Her work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca

Ava Homa is an award-winning novelist, a seasoned journalist, and a human rights activist. Her words have appeared in the Globe and Mail, BBC, Guardian, Literary Hub, Literary Review of Canada and many more. She has spoken about women's rights across North America and Europe, including at the United Nations, Geneva. Ava has a Master's degree in Creative Writing from the University of Windsor in Canada. Her book of short stories on modern Iranian women, Echoes from the Other Land, was nominated for the 2011 Frank O'Connor Short Story Prize. Her debut novel Daughters of Smoke and Fire, the story of a Kurdish woman’s search for justice and freedom in Iran, won the 2020 Nautilus Book Award, was a finalist for the 2022 William Saroyan International Writing Prize, and was Roxane Gay's Audacious book club pick. Her poetry appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca

http://www.AvaHoma.com

Photo by Sam Attar

Avelino De Araujo (Patu-RN, Brazil) produces literature / visual poetry / Intersemiotic / experimental since 1979, his works have been printed in more than 300 magazines, newspapers and anthologies on all continents. The author has several works in textbooks and on dozens of sites in the Internet.Archive in Mail Art or Postal Art in the 70s, 80s and 90s. His work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca.

Ben Ladouceur was an editor for In/Words magazine during the 2008/2009 academic year. His poetry has been featured in several publications including The Moose & Pussy, Ottawater, Sugar Mule and Cake Magazine (forthcoming). He was shortlisted for the John Newlove Poetry Award (2008) and was runner-up for the George Johnston Poetry Prize twice (2007 and 2009). His two chapbooks, Alert (Angel House Press) and The Argossey (Apt. 9 Press) were both released in September 2009.

Beverly Cummings was born and lives in Ottawa, Canada.  She has previously published poetry in a number of little magazines most recently the online journals The Steel Chisel,  Monday’s Poem, Dead Flowers: A Poetry Rag and CMHA Saskatchewan Division magazine Transition.  She has been a frequent contributor to The Voice and Open Minds Quarterly.  She has three times placed as an Honourable Mention in Open Minds Quarterly’s annual Brainstorming poetry contest.  She has five self-published chapbooks  and two trade books:  Keep it Terse and A GOOD DEATH. Her poetry appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2016.

Billy Mavreas  (he/him) Montréal based poet and artist making visual poems, collage, comics and paintings.

His work has appeared in NationalPoetryMonth.ca and Experiment-O Issue 12

Having recently turned 70, Bob Grumman is now the world's oldest apprentice Force-to-be-Reckoned-With. He is most prominently an apprentice Force in three fields, poetry, literary criticism and theoretical psychology. In the first he specializes in visio-mathematical poetry although he also has two collections of more or less conventional linguexclusive poems in print about an alter ego named, "Poem," Of Poem (dbqp press) and Poem, Demerging (Phyrgian Press). April to the Power of Pythagoras Times Now (Otoliths) contains most of his best visio-mathematical poems.

Bola Opaleke is a Pushcart Prize nominee. His poems have appeared or forthcoming in a few journals like Frontier Poetry, Rising Phoenix Review, Writers Resist, Rattle, Cleaver, One, The Nottingham Review, The Puritan, The Literary Review of Canada, Sierra Nevada Review, Dissident Voice, Poetry Quarterly, The Indianapolis Review, Canadian Literature, Empty Mirror, Poetry Pacific, Drunk Monkeys, Temz Review, St. Peters College(University of Saskatchewan) Anthology (Society 2013 Vol. 10), Pastiche Magazine, and others. He holds a degree in City Planning, and lives in Winnipeg MB.

Brad Vogler's poems have appeared in various places, most recently in CutBank and Bestoned. Brad builds and maintain the website for Delete Press (www.deletepress.org), and is the editor/web designer of Opon (www.opon.org). His first chapbook, Fascicle 30, was published by Little Red Leaves Textile Series.

Brenda Dunn has a B.A.H in Fine Art and English and an M.A. in English literature and has decided she prefers the visual to the verbal when it comes to communication. She currently works and plays in Ottawa.

Bridget Nutting is a poet, writer, visual artist, and teacher who passionately seeks to discover new and innovative styles of expression through words, objects, and experiences. She enjoys encouraging people of all ages to rediscover their own creative spirits. Her favorite muses include music, nature, people, and personal experiences – past, present, and yet to come. She calls the Pacific Northwest home.

bruno neiva is a Portuguese text artist and poet. Author of ‘washing-up’ (zimZalla), 'dough' (erbacce press) and ‘averbaldraftsone&otherstories' (Knives Forks and Spoons Press), amongst other titles. More of his work can be found in several magazines worldwide. He’s currently working on a collaborative poetry and performance project with English poet Paul Hawkins, Servant Drone.  His work appears in Experiment-O Issue 8.

Some links to his work: 

http://umaestruturaassimsempudor.tumblr.com/

http://servantdrone.tumblr.com/

C.R.E. Wells (a.k.a. "Chris") is an artist, teacher, and information technologist. He lives in the midwest with his wife and animals. Although he has primarily been a writer and musician since childhood, he has been creating mostly mixed media works, collages, and visual poetry since 2015. He regularly posts his art on his blog at https://faintpress.tumblr.com. His 

work appears in Experiment-O Issue 13 (AngelHousePress, 2020).

Caleb JW Brasset lives in Toronto.

Cameron Anstee lives in Ottawa, ON, where he runs Apt. 9 Press. Water Upsets Stone recently appeared from The Emergency Response Unit (2009).

Camille Martin is the author of four collections of poetry: Looms (Shearsman Books, forthcoming in 2012), Sonnets (Shearsman Books 2010), Codes of Public Sleep (BookThug, 2007), and Sesame Kiosk (Potes & Poets, 2001). She has performed her poetry in over twenty-five cities in the United States, Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and France.

 

Of Sonnets, Rae Armantrout observes that “in some ways, these poems are almost traditional," yet "in these taut, fast-paced, self-aware poems, the lyric meets 21st-century paranoia and sparks fly.” Carol Dorf writes that Martin creates “a world where science and myth intersect,” a “world of a mind reflecting on itself, the natural and built environments, time, and language.” And Jordan Scott speaks of “the magnificence in these poems, a poetic magnetic, propelling you to turn the page.”

 

She blogs at Rogue Embryo, and her website is camillemartin.ca

 

Photo by Michael Kelleher.

Candace Makowichuk 

The medium I work in is historical photographic processes including: Cyanotype, Bromoil, Gum Bichromate, and Silver Gelatin.  I do photographic work because quite simply I have to. It is a part of me and who I am. My art is made solely by hard work, patience, and quiet observations, using primarily a historic bellows sheet film camera, and 19th century printing processes. In our digital age of rapid fire cameras and gigabytes I believe my methodology and approach projects my contemporary vision forward, while at the same time celebrating the roots of photography in its purest form.

Our life in and around the structure of architecture and our environment is a platform for creating, living and experiencing. The way in which we engage with our contemporary urban landscape is unique and encompasses places that we may pass by daily, taking no notice, while others we remember vividly.  Our environment offers services, entertainment, comfort, and transportation and how we participate with this landscape can be very personal. By using photography, I take snapshots to reveal themes and memories of everyday life.  Referencing common locations, I capture an element of time and space and the intersections between urban site, memory and the human impulse to connect.  Long after one has interacted with the permanence of these ever-changing yet recurrent spaces, the photos - like souvenirs - offer a moment to reminisce, supplying the imagination with a place to go.  As intentionally artificial constructions, my photographs convey experiences of the truth but they also communicate a single view. The subjects and moments I choose to photograph are very intuitive and are found in my daily movements through the world – they are at home, on a walk, in the car, at work, at my children’s schools, and anywhere else that happens to be a part of my day. This work is simply the city as seen through the eyes of a single individual, a trace of the way in which I walked through it. As an involved urban dweller using a variety of public spaces, I coninue to investigate the many aspects of the city I live in.  

Candace's art appears in Experiment-O Issue 10.

carlyle baker is an apostate and now wanders among the misbegotten, he has hardly a penny to his name and lives in the future perfect tense,
he has recently appeared at wordfor/word and soon at signs&symbols.

Carmen Racovitza lives in Bucharest, Romania. A former university teacher and translator, she turned to writing poetry and literary criticism in Romanian magazines. She has written eight books so far. Racovitza has been a member of the Romanian Writers’ Union since 2006. She is an artist with a rich portfolio of digital works (GIFs, video etc), asemic pieces, clay art, collage and mail art.  She is also active in the field of experimental painting, digital graphics, and generative art. She has made collaborative works with young artists and writers from all over the world, on and outside the net. Her work appears in Experiment-O Issue 16, published in November 2023. Email: carmenracovitza@yahoo.com

Carol Barbour is a visual artist, poet, and art historian. Poems are published by The Fiddlehead, Canthius, The Ekphrastic Review, The Toronto Quarterly, and Transverse Journal. She has produced four artist books, which are collected by libraries including The British Library, The National Gallery of Canada, Artexte, Goldsmiths Art Library, and The Museum of Modern Art (Franklin Furnace Archive). A new book of poems is forthcoming from Guernica Editions. Her poetry appears on NationalPoetryMonth.ca.

Carol Stetser has been making visual poetry for 30 years. She makes her paper collages the old-fashioned way with scissors and glue-sticks. Her vispo is published in "C'est mon Dada", "This is Visual Poetry" and the anthologies "Writing to be Seen" and "The Last Vispo Anthology".  She lives in Sedona, Arizona.

Carol White is an American collage artist living in Ireland.  She has been making collages since childhood.  Growing up in museums, both via her father's job and living in the metropolitan area, utilising imagery from arts and cultural histories, White's work has the feeling of time travel.  Merging contemporary imagery with Northern Renaissance interiors with figures, she evokes a nebulous feeling of peeling oneself from a colorful dream.

 

White has taught English at Secondary Level in Ohio, USA; was an AAM tour guide at The Newark Museum where she worked as Head of Junior Gallery and Junior Museum Department.  Museum Educator and teacher she transferred skills moving to Ireland with her husband and 2 children in 1987.

 

For the past 20 years, White taught at Further Education Level where she ran an Arts Administration course for 17 years and taught Art Appreciation, Collage Techniques and Communications.

 

A practicing collage artist, White has exhibited extensively in America,  the EU, Japan, Canada and Australia. Her work appears in Experiment-O Issue 8 and NationalPoetryMonth.ca .

Carrie Hunter received her MFA/MA in the Poetics program at New College of California, edits the chapbook press, ypolita press, is on the editorial board of Black Radish Books. Her chapbookVice/Versa recently came out with Dancing Girl Press, her full-length collection, The Incompossible, was published in 2011 by Black Radish Books, and another, Orphan Machines, came out in 2015. She lives in San Francisco and teaches ESL. Her poetry appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2016 and Experiment-O Issue 9.0.

Cat Chong is a poet, PhD candidate, co-founder of the CTC collective, and proud queer crip working at the intersections of disability, gender nonconformity, and lyric intervention. Their debut pamphlet

Plain Air: An Apology in Transit was published by Broken Sleep Books in July 2021.

A member of dis/content, appearing in Experiment-O Issue 14, AngelHousePress, 2021.

Winner of the IFOA’s Poetry NOW, Catherine Graham is the author of six poetry collections including The Celery Forest, a CBC Books Top 10 Canadian Poetry Collection of 2017 and Her Red Hair Rises with the Wings of Insects, a finalist for the Raymond Souster Award and CAA Award for Poetry. Author of the debut novel Quarry, she teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto SCS where she won an Excellence in Teaching Award. www.catherinegraham.com @catgrahampoet. Her poetry appears on NationalPoetryMonth.ca. Photo credit: Eduardo Martins

Catherine Vidler's recent publications include Lost Sonnets (third iteration) (edition taberna kritika, 2019),  Keyboards, 14 visual/textual poems for Tom Jenks (The Blasted Tree, 2019), Repetitive Poems (Simulacrum Press. 2019), stamp sonnets: 28 poems created from material contained in hartmut abendschein's 'stamp stories' project (SOd press, 2019), 2_154_77_79_38_118_41_115_19_137_60_96_21_135_58_98_9_147_70_86_31_125_48_108_12_144_67_89_28_128_51_105_4_152_75_81_36_120_43_113_17_

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91_26_ 130_53_103 (Hesterglock Prote(s)xt, 2019), deleted sonnets (Penteract Press, 2019), 78 composite lost sonnets(Hesterglock Prote(s)xt, 2018), Lost Sonnets (Timglaset, 2018), collected composite lost sonnets (SOd press, 2018),lost sonnets (Spacecraft Press, 2018), table sets (no press, 2017), lake labyl (Penteract Press, 2017), table set poems (Penteract Press, 2017), table set poems (Spacecraft Press, 2017), lake labyl (SOd press, 2017), chaingrass errata slips (SOd press, 2017), chaingrass night and unresolved chaingrass tiling (SOd press, 2017), chaingrass (SOd press, 2016) and chaingrass (zimZalla Object 039, 2016).Her work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca and Experiment-O Issue 12.

Cecil Touchon born February 7, 1956 Austin, Texas USA - touchon.com. Touchon is widely known as a master of collage art, a painter and visual poet through his work with cut up text. Touchon is co-founder and director of the International Post-Dogmatist Group and the founder and director of the Ontological Museum and its wings, The International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction, The Archives of the Eternal Network, The Fluxmuseum and the Museum of Snapshot Photography and the Museum's publishing arm Ontological Museum Publications. See ontologicalmuseum.org.

An active internet organizer with a strong interest in bringing together and working with international communities of artists, Touchon is a member of the Massurralist Society and The International Union of Mail Artists and founder of The International Society of Assemblage and Collage Artists, the Cut and Paste Poets and the Fluxnexus, a contemporary Fluxus group. Touchon is also the founder of Fluxus Laboratories and Fluxus Institute.

Works or publications by Touchon can be found in the following public collections: MOMA New York, MOMA Library, New York, Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, Mela Foundation, New York, Studio One, New York, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Conn., Fogg Museum of Art Archive, Cambridge, Mass., Los Angeles County Museum of Art Research Library, Los Angeles, Ca, The Getty Research Institute Los Angeles, Ca, Modern Realism, San Francisco, Ca, Chicago Art Institute Chicago, Il.,Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Il. Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, Il., Saint Louis Art Museum, Library, Saint Louis, Mo, Iowa State University, Fluxus Collection Ames, IA, ATCA Special Collections, Iowa State University, Iowa City, Iowa, Avant Writing Collection, Rare Books & Manuscripts Library at Ohio State University, Ohio State University Libraries, Rare Books and Manuscript Libraries, Columbus, Ohio, Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, Miami, Fl, Ontological Museum, Fluxus Collections, Fort Worth, Texas, Longview Museum and Art Center Longview, Texas, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Mn, The Tate Modern London, UK, Tate Britain (Archive), London, UK, Museum Fluxus + Potsdam, Germany,Artpool Art Research Center, Budapest, Hungary, TAM Archive, Breda, Netherlands, Szuka Fabryka Archive, Tielrode, Belgium, Knud Pedersen Archive, Copenhagen, Denmark, E.O.N. Archive, Viareggio, Italy,Archivo Francesco Conz, Verona Italy,Sellem Archive of Experimental amd Marginal Art, Lund,The Museu Brasileiro da Escultura in Sao Paulo, Brasil

Chad Lietz lives in Minneapolis, MN where he co-edits Erg and Cricket Online Review. Recent publications include vizio-linguistic work in SAGINAW and a phonephonic score for tarot and war in Conversations at the Wartime Café: A Decade of War 2001-2011 (CreateSpace, 2011). A modest archive of Lietz’s phonephonic recordings is available on Soundcloud.

Charlotte Henay is a mother, daughter, teacher, storyteller and researcher. She works to counter extinction myths through storywork, and relationships of imagining. Charlotte writes about cultural memory and grandmothers’ gardens, as an activist for Afro-Indigenous futurities. She has a background in critical race theory, and being exiled. Her work has been published in Feral Feminisms; Decolonization, Indigeneity, Education and Society, and is forthcoming in a Demeter Press anthology, Mothers and Daughters. Charlotte’s visual artwork has been shown at FAC: Toronto’s Feminist Art Conference, York University’s Crossroads Gallery and 416 Gallery for MIXEDArtTO. Her moving poems in the series All of My Peoples’ Bones Are Here, are part of the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas’ National Exhibition 8 in Nassau, Bahamas. Charlotte has been a teacher, administrator and consultant in First Nations, mainstream and international education contexts, and co-founded Nusdeh Yoh, BC’s first Aboriginal Choice School. She is currently a Ph.D. student in Comparative Perspectives and Cultural Boundaries, at York University. Her video poem, “Genogram” appears as part of NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2017: A Celebration of Women.

Charlotte Jung  is originally from Stockholm, Sweden and today  she divides her time between the Stockholm countryside and Chicago.  Charlotte's minimalist poetry aims to highlight the defining power of  structure on one hand, and the life enhancing force of movement on the  other. Charlotte's poetry has been published by (among others); Puddles  of Sky Press, Molecule - Tiny Lit Mag, Ad Lucem, ToCall, NationalPoetryMonth.ca (AngelHousePress), Popular Poetry and Timglaset.  Please see www.vandblad.com for more information about Charlotte and her work. 

Chaya-Malkah Frank

b. 1953

schooled

loved

married

blessed

now

Work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca and Experiment-O Issue 12.

Chris Tănăsescu is a Romanian poet, performer, critic, and translator who has performed, lectured, and launched books in the US, SE Asia, Australia, and Europe. His pen-name--MARGENTO--is also the name of his multimedia cross-artform band that won a number of major awards including the Romanian Gold Disc in 2008 and The Fringiest Event Award, UK, 2005. As recent recipient of a 2-year SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) grant he will continue to develop his Graph Poem project and other related graph theory and computational applications in poetry at an academic level as an Adjunct Professor in the Computer Science Department at University of Ottawa—together with Prof. Diana Inkpen and her graduate students—a project that will involve many other poets and academics in North America and worldwide. MARGENTO is Editor-at-Large for Asymptote.

Chris Turnbull lives in Kemptville, Ontario. She has been published in Ottawater, Convergences, How2, ditch, and Dusie, among others. In 2010, above/ground press published a chapbook of her ongoing visual and multi-performative piece, continua. She is currently putting poems on trails as part of a small press publication, rout/e.

Christina Hennemann is the author of the poetry pamphlet “Illuminations at Nightfall” (Sunday Mornings at the River, 2022). She won the Luain Press Poetry Competition and her work is published in The Moth, Brigids Gate Press, Tír na nÒg and elsewhere. She is based in Ireland and currently working on a novel. Christina's poetry appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca www.christinahennemann.com

Christine McNair's work has appeared in The Antigonish Review, Prairie Fire, ditchpoetry.com, CV2, the Bywords Quarterly Journal, Descant, Arc, and a few other places. She was shortlisted for the 2011 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry and is one of the hosts of CKCU's Literary Landscapes program. She works as a book doctor in Ottawa.

Christine Sung lives and writes on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe people. She has been published by Bywords.ca, Corporeal Lit Mag, Autofocus and elsewhere. She usually writes from lived experience, but occasionally she can dream. Her poetry appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca and Experiment-O Issue 16, published in November 2023.

A lifetime can seem like a patchwork affair. Sure, year follows upon year, but where’s the clear-cut story? Early on in hers, Cindy Deachman became a cook. Made a living. (Meanwhile making art.) Switching gear from working restaurants, Cindy turned arts administrator for museums and galleries. Somewhere along the line, she morphed into a writer. (She still is, food & art her beat.) Cindy founded the food/art magazine Burnt toast in 2000 (more food, more art!) which continued for a solid four years. Collaboration with her husband Tony Fouhse in 2014 resulted in the hybrid book Same Old Story, setting Cindy’s short story alongside his photo sequence. Both echo the never-ending feeling of being human in this world. In her latest book, On the Origin of Species, science-related images (historical works and her own) are laid upon pages of Darwin’s revolutionary classic, poetic data of scientific discovery. Cindy's art appears in Experiment-O Issue 10.

 

Photo credit: Tony Fouhse

Claire Lacey (they/them) is a writer and performer from so-called Canada who currently lives and works in Ōtepoti, Aotearoa New Zealand. They have authored a book of poetry, Twin Tongues, a graphic novel, Selkie, and an essay in the anthology Impact: Women Writing After Concussion. They hold a PhD in poetry and brain injury from the University of Otago. Claire’s work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca. You can find Claire online at clairelacey.ca 

Clare S. Dygert (she/her) is a queer, fem, emerging artist and poet who explores the themes of feminine beauty and power, impermanence and devotion, using paint, ink, photography-based images, and asemic writing. Her work is conceptual, intuitive, and atmospheric, and relies on the collaboration of the viewer/reader, to give meaning to the images. She is experiencing progressive blindness, and although this is not something a visual artist would seek out, Clare uses her blindness as a way to deeply explore how what is seen shapes our world view and finds this to be an amazing support to her art and poetry. Her work has appeared in the AngelHousePress publications NationalPoetryMonth.ca, and Experiment-O Issue 15 . Her website is www.claredygert.com.

Claude Smith: "I have had a lifelong relationship with writing, drawing, and writing as drawing. My father, Sid Smith, was a painter, classically trained draughtsman and calligrapher, so an appreciation for beautiful writing and art was instilled in me from an early age. Growing up in N.Y.C. in the heyday of abstract expressionism certainly had a powerful influence on me as well.

After earning a B.F.A. from Pratt Institute in 1971, mark-making, calligraphy, zen brushwork, scribbling and writing began appearing as regular features in my work. Music, and in particular the rigor of jazz improvisation, has been a guiding force in my working methods, discipline and creative spirit. As an artist-in-residence at KALA Institute in 2003-2004, I was able to integrate printmaking as a means of expanding the possibilities of both painting and drawing. In 2005 I began a three year study of graphology with Janice Klein and mentorship a with Roger Rubin that had a profound influence on my understanding of human personality, behavior and the way it expresses in writing.

Years ago, discovering the art of Antoni Tapies and Cy Twombly was revelatory, inspiring and somewhat daunting in that they had so thoroughly mined the territory of contemporary mark-making. That said, I have been committed to finding my own way with it and have persisted in exploring different media, concepts and expanding my visual vocabulary over the last five decades." Work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca and Experiment-O Issue 12. www.claude-smith.com Photo Credit: Grant Taylor

Clelia Scala is a visual artist whose work includes mask and puppet design, illustrations, installations, collage, and other forms of assemblage art. Her explorations into the fantastic and uncanny stem from a lifelong engagement with tales and myths and her interest in the theme of human interaction with the natural world. Publications include a series of 42 collages for the book Alice in Plunderland (BookThug, Toronto 2015) by Steve McCaffery and 11 collages for I Can Say Interpellation (BookThug, Toronto 2011) by Stephen Cain. Her work appears in Experiment-O Issue 16, published in November 2023. Clelia is the recipient of the 2019 Established Artist Award for the City of St Catharines. She teaches design in the Dan School of Drama & Music at Queen’s University. www.clelia.ca

Colin Herd lives, writes poems, and works in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is currently completing a PhD on the poetry of Charles Bernstein, and maintains a blog at http://colinjherd.blogspot.com. Work is forthcoming in dogmatika.

Concetta Principe is a writer of poetry, non-fiction, and fiction, as well as being a scholar on Lacan, trauma and culture. Her personal non-fiction essay “Who Shot Meriwether Lewis?” was long-listed for The New Quarterly’s Edna Staebler Award for 2019. Her latest publication is a chapbook of poems with Frog Hollow Press titled Conversion- or a Theory (2019). Her most recent book-length collection of poems This Real (Pedlar Press) was long-listed for the League of Canadian Poet’s Raymond Souster Award in 2018. She has three other books of poetry, the first of which won the Bressani Award for poetry in 2001, a book of fiction, and an academic monograph. Her creative work has appeared in a variety of literary journals including The Malahat Review, Matrix, Grain, The Capilano Review and is forthcoming in Hamilton Arts and Literature Review. She teaches literature, theory and creative writing at Trent University. Her work appears in Experiment-O Issue 12.

Conyer Clayton is an Ottawa based artist who aims to live with compassion, gratitude, and awe. Her most recent chapbooks are Trust Only the Beasts in the Water (above/ground press, 2019), / (post ghost press, 2019), Undergrowth (bird, buried press, 2018) and Mitosis (In/Words Magazine and Press, 2018). She released a collaborative album with Nathanael Larochette, If the river stood still, in August 2018. She won Arc's 2017 Diana Brebner Prize, performs sound poetry with Quatuor Gualuor, and writes reviews for Canthius. Her debut full length collection of poetry, We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite, is forthcoming Spring 2020 with Guernica Editions. Conyer's poetry appears in Experiment-O Issue 12 (AngelHousePress, 2019).

Crag Hill is co-editor, with Nico Vassilakis, of The Last Vispo Anthology (Fantagraphics, 2013). His most recent book of poetry is 7 x 7 (Otoliths, 2010). He teaches English Education and Creative writing at Washington State University.

Craig Calhoun is originally from Tucson, Arizona and moved to Canada in 2008. His work had been published in Descant, Zouch, The Incongruous Quarterly, Liars’ League NYC, Liars’ League London, In/Words, bywords.ca. and Steel Bananas Quarterly (upcoming). He is the winner of the 2014 Broken Pencil Literary Deathmatch and won 1st place in the 2014 Maisonneuve Genre Fiction Contest (mystery). Currently, he resides in Ottawa.

D.S. West is a writer, artist, and hopelessly lost pedestrian, presently and hopelessly lost in sunny Boulder, CO. For a list of his publications and projects, visit https://icexv.wordpress.com/. His visual poetry appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2016.

Dag T. Straumsvåg  was born in 1964 and grew up on the west coast of Norway. He is the author and translator of six books and chapbooks of poetry, most recently Eleven Elleve Alive (with Stuart Ross and Hugh Thomas, shreeking violet press, 2018), Nelson (Proper Tales Press, 2017), and The Lure-Maker from Posio (Red Dragonfly Press, 2011), translated by Robert Hedin and Louis Jenkins. A selection of his poems is included in Robert Hedin: At the Great Door of Morning: Selected Poems and Translations (Copper Canyon Press, 2017. His poems have appeared in numerous journals in Norway and North America. He lives in Trondheim. His poetry appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2020 Ode to the Small

Dan Waber is a Kingston, Pennsylvania poet, publisher, and multimedia artist. The hub of the online portion of his activities is logolalia.com.

Daniel f. Bradley – hi, I live in Toronto, I write poems and have been known to take photos of street writing and goings on. I have an entirely ridicules thingy here- https://fdriveshsaid.tumblr.com/ . I will try to work on it this year. Daniel's work appears on NationalPoetryMonth.ca

Danny McLaren is a queer, trans and non-binary writer and poet living in Katarokwi, what is colonially known as Kingston. They have an MA in Gender Studies from Queen’s University, with research focusing on trans and queer world-making in independent video games. They write about living queerly, loving their friends, and their own trans body. Their second poetry chapbook, titled The Enby Manifesto, is available from Porkbelly Press later in 2023. They have work in Experiment-O Issue 16, published in November 2023. Keep up with them on twitter @ dannymclrn.

David Chirot: I make rubBEings, spray paintings, collages; write essays, poetry, reviews; participate in Mail Art/Visual Poetry Calls since 1997. Eyerhymes Visual Poetry Conference in Edmonton gave talk & met Visual Poets from many countries, a meeting with Bob Cobbing changed my life. I work almost entirely with Found materials:  I have a Profound Faith in the Found, everywhere to be Found. Documentary re Chirot & work on You Tube; search will link to my Visual Work and writings on line. Began making asemic work in mid 1980's, though didn't know of word "asemic."  In late 1990s did asemic work & exchanges with Tim Gaze; until 2017 made asemic work without thinking of it by that name. Since then, sending work as "asemic" and writing essays, commentaries re it.

         Born Lafayette, Indiana, grew up in Vermont. Lived and worked in Germany, Arles & Paris France, Wroclaw, Poland, Tagarps Skola Sweden with Jazz Musician Don Cherry and family, Boston, currently live in Milwaukee. I work a lot outdoors, in the street, alleys, parks as well as bringing home objects Found in trash, in streets to use for work. Work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca.

David Emery lives in Vancouver, but still visits Ottawa once or twice a year for old time’s sake. He is the publisher and editor of The Steel Chisel, launching March 13 at www.thesteelchisel.ca and bringing the total literary mag count to a billion and one.

Dawn Nelson Wardrope is a poet,a visual poet and a collage/dada artist.

She also does asemic writing and is a mail art enthusiast.Dawn has been published is Renagade,Utsanga,Otoliths,M58,A-minor,cover artist for Sonic Boom and is forthcoming in Fanzine Timglaset.She can also be seen widely on facebook.

Dawn stays close to nature and is devoted to her two rescue grey hounds.

Her work appears in Experiment-O Issue 10.

Debbie Strange (she/her) is a chronically ill short-form poet, visual artist, and photographer whose creative passions connect her more closely to the world, to others, and to herself. Thousands of Debbie's poems and artworks have appeared in leading journals worldwide. Her work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca. Please visit her publication archive for further information. https://debbiemstrange.blogspot.com/

Twitter: @Debbie_Strange

IG: @debbiemstrange

Derek Beaulieu is the author/editor of over twenty collections of poetry, prose, and criticism, including two volumes of his selected work, Please, No More Poetry (2013) and Konzeptuelle Arbeiten (2017). His most recent volume of fiction, a, A Novel was published by Paris’s Jean Boîte Editions. Beaulieu has exhibited his visual work across Canada, the United States, and Europe and has won multiple local and national awards for his teaching and dedication to students. Derek Beaulieu holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Roehampton University and is the Director of Literary Arts at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. His visual poetry appears in Experiment-O Issue 3.0 and NationalPoetryMonth.ca.

Portrait by Austrian artist Anatol Knotek.

Dhaatri Vengunad is an artist, book illustrator and visual communicator who loves cats, colours, words, and tea.  She would like to see the end of bullying (of any sort)  and wants to see a world that is kinder to the neurodiverse community. Dhaatri's work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca.

Diana Manole is a Romanian-Canadian writer, translator, and scholar. In her native Romania, she has published 9 books (poems and plays), won 14 literary awards, and contributed to numerous anthologies and magazines. After publishing numerous academic articles and finishing her doctorate at the University of Toronto, Diana has been finally ready for creative writing in her second language. A Pushcart prize nominee, her poetry in English has appeared in magazines in the US, the UK, Canada, and South Africa, and in translation in several other countries. She’s now working on “love in eXile,” a collection of poems which reflect on the effect of cultural differences on romantic love. Her poetry appears on NationalPoetryMonth.ca

Dianne M. Hunter, Emeritus Professor of English at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, USA, has published studies of Thomas Kyd, Shakespeare, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, LeRoi Jones, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Adrienne Rich, and Juliet Mitchell; she edited the books SEDUCTION AND THEORY (1989) and THE MAKINGS OF DR. CHARCOT’S HYSTERIA SHOWS (1998). http://trincoll.academia.edu/DianneHunter. Her poetry appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2020 Ode to the Small.

dis/content is a multidisciplinary art collective that aims to foster critical art-making informed by a spirit of collaboration and play, pleasure, sincerity, risk-taking and inclusivity in all senses, including means of access, culture/ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality. Its members include  

Joanna Chak, Joy Chee,  Cat Chong, Drew Davis, Reginald James Kent, Sarah Supaat, Marylyn Tan. All members have separate biographies here. dis/content appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca Issue 14, AngelHousePress, 2021.

Dominic Bercier (author) : Dominic Bercier is a Canadian writer-artist-designer. At OCAD in Toronto, he was a finalist in the YTV ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS and worked as a penciling assistant for three different artists on projects for TOP COW, IMAGE, DARK HORSE and more. In 2010, Dominic Bercier co-founded MIRROR COMICS (Publisher) where he was president and publisher. At Mirror Comics, Dominic wrote and drew GHOST KING : A BOOK OF CHANGES, released his 24 Hour Comic Book, LIKE NEVER BEFORE & LIKE NEVER AGAIN, and created TREADWELL (a deeply personal journey into a dream), which garnered him a nomination in the 2015 AURORA AWARDS and in the 2015 JOE SHUSTER AWARDS. He drew five other titles at Mirror, and lettered and designed virtually all of the projects that Mirror created. In 2015, Bercier shut down Mirror Comics, and established MIRROR COMICS STUDIOS, a graphic novel making project where he is sole founder and principal, and is developing a number of projects.

Dominic's work appears in a collaboration with JF Martel in Experiment-O Issue 9.0.

Don McKay has published 8 books ofpoetry, including Birding, or desire(1983), Night Field (1991) which wonthe Governor General’s Award for Poetry; and Another Gravity (2000), Camber(2004) and Strike/Slip (2006), allpublished by McClelland & Stewart. AnotherGravity and Camber were nominatedfor the Griffin Poetry Prize; Strike/Slipwon it in 2007. His work has also received the National Magazine Award and theCanadian Authors Association Award. Since 1975 he has served as editor andpublisher with Brick Books. He taught creative writing and English literatureat the University of Western Ontario and the University of New Brunswick for 27years before resigning to write and edit poetry full time. From 1991 to 1996 heedited The Fiddlehead magazine, andhe has also served as a faculty resource person at the Sage Hill WritingExperience and The Banff Centre for the Arts, where he has held the position ofAssociate Director, Poetry, Writing & Publishing. He now lives inNewfoundland.

Dona Mayoora aka Don May & Donmay Donamayoora is a bilingual/visual/experimental poet and creator of Calligraphy Stories. Occasionally she is a columnist, essayist & short story writer. Her poems have been included in the academic syllabus of universities in India. Dona's published poetry works are Ice Cubukal(2012), Neela Moonga(2019), Listening To Red(2018), Echoes(2019),  Language Lines & Poetry(2020) and Ritu|Season(2022). Her published collaborated visual poetry works are The Antibodies with Terri Witek (2021), Punctum with Gary Barwin(2021) and Phizog... with Gary Barwin(2022). Dona's visual poems were exhibited in group exhibitions several times in Italy, Spain, USA, Poland, Canada, Switzerland and Portugal. Her visual poems has been featured in the international anthologies: A History of Visual Text Art (2019), JUDITH: Women Making Visual Poetry (2021) and WAAVe Global Anthology of Women’s Asemic Writing and Visual Poetry(2021). She has collaborated with poets and artists from Asia, Europe and America, and currently lives in Connecticut, U.S.A.  

Her work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca and Experiment-O Issue 11 (AngelHousePress, 2018).

donna kuhn is a poet, author, dancer, visual and video artist living in northern california. her work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca.

Donna Williams is a Deaf poet who uses English and British Sign Language. Working with such different languages has inspired a deep interest in translation and how her work can be made accessible to both hearing and D/deaf audiences. She has performed at poetry festivals around the UK as well as in America and Brazil, and has appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe. As well as poetry, she has written short plays with Deafinitely Theatre and workshopped others with Graeae Theatre. She has been published in several anthologies and magazines, including Deaf Lit Extravaganza, edited by John Lee Clark. Her poems cover many themes, from bilingualism to identity, to her beloved cats. https://deaffirefly.com/. Her poem, "Bilingual Poet's Dilemma" appears as part of NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2018 and was originally published as part of Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back (Nine Arches, 2017).

Drew Davis, the desert rat of the Arizona valley, received his BFA from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. His work oscillates between Object-Oriented to passionate disinterest in bodies and

A member of dis/content, appearing in Experiment-O Issue 14, AngelHousePress, 2021.

Edward Kulemin (Russia)

 1960 - born in town Yaroslavl (Russia). 1984  - graduated from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute. An artist, poet, author of many  realised and unrealised projects (texts, paintings, art objects, installations, performance, visual poetry, video art, photography, book-art, mail art...). An inspirator and organiser of various communication creative societies (KEPNOS, Group of Unknown Artists, Smolensk School of Appologists, etc.). A participant of many art exhibitions and festivals. An author of the books: “It seems to have begun”(1994), "Odnohujstvenny Ulysses”(1995), "By the artificial way" (1998), Multimatum”(2002), “Lowdown” (2012)..

His works can be viewed at:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/113405210@N03/

http://issuu.com/edklmn

http://www.facebook.com/#!/media/albums/?id=100001784689874

http://www.scribd.com/doc/29101042/Heart-Heat-Hear-Eat-Ear

http://es.scribd.com/doc/39328715/Edward-Kulemin-Artrophonia

http://www.scribd.com/doc/32964165/Edward-Kulemin-Commutation

 

Videoart:

http://www.youtube.com/user/artklmn?feature=watch

Edward's work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca

Eileen R. Tabios has released over 70 collections of poetry, fiction, essays, and experimental biographies from publishers around the world. In 2023 she released the poetry collection Because I Love You, I Become War; an autobiography, The Inventor; and a flash fiction collection collaboration with harry k stammer, Getting To One.  Other recent books include a first novel DoveLion: A Fairy Tale for Our Times; two French books, PRISES (Double Take) (trans. Fanny Garin) and La Vie érotique de l’art (trans. Samuel Rochery); and a book-length essay Kapwa’s Novels. Her body of work includes invention of the hay(na)ku, a 21st century diasporic poetic form; the MDR Poetry Generator that can create poems totaling theoretical infinity; the “Flooid” poetry form that’s rooted in a good deed; and a first poetry book, Beyond Life Sentences, which received the Philippines’ National Book Award for Poetry. Translated into 12 languages, she also has edited, co-edited or conceptualized 15 anthologies of poetry, fiction and essays. Her writing and editing works have received recognition through awards, grants and residencies. More information is at http://eileenrtabios.com. Her work appears at NationalPoetryMonth.ca and Experiment-O Issue 16, published in November 2023. More information is available at http://eileenrtabios.com. 

Elaine Woo is a Jane-of-All-Trades, creating poems, libretto, graphic comics, video, and non-fiction.  Her recent work appears in Grain Magazine, S/tick (CWILA's lit mag), NationalPoetryMonth.ca: A Celebration of Women (AngelHousePress, 2017), h&, and the Ottawa Poetry Newsletter.  The poems appearing in Experiment-O are from her second manuscript.  Elaine is the author of the poetry collection Cycling with the Dragon, Nightwood Editions.

Elee Kraljii Gardiner is the author of the book of poems serpentine loop (Anvil Press, 2016) and the co-editor with John Asfour of V6A: Writing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2012). Elee founded Thursdays Writing Collective, a non-profit organization of more than 150 writers in Vancouver and she is the editor and publisher of its eight anthologies. She is originally from Boston and is a dual US/Canadian citizen. www.eleekg.com. Her poem, “Mash” appears on NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2017: A Celebration of Women.

Born in Toronto, Elizabeth Bertoldi has lived in Ottawa, Montreal, California and Mexico.

Elizabeth dances with paint, paper, canvas and non-traditional materials to create multiple layers of colour and personal meaning. She is influenced by abstract expressionism and colour field painting, and by poets such as John Donne, Leonard Cohen and Terry Ann Carter.  

Elizabeth has been exhibiting in solo and group shows in Ontario and Quebec since 2001. In early 2010, the Shenkman Arts Centre in Orleans presented a solo exhibition of  20 of her paintings, "Harmonies.`` Her work has also been accepted into exhibitions of the Ottawa Watercolour Society, Ottawa Mixed Media Artists, the International Society for Experimental Art, and Art Rental & Sales Services at the OttawaArtGallery.

Recently, Elizabeth has created several one-of-a-kind artist books integrating painting, collage and original poetry. She is now writing haiku. 

Elizabeth Kate Switaj's book, Magdalene & the Mermaids, is published by Paper Kite Press. She edits Crossing Rivers Into Twilight (www.critjournal.com) and serves as assistant editor for Inertia Magazine (www.inertiamagazine.com). Her professional experience includes teaching in cities throughout Japan, China, and the US as well as writing online copy for a kimono import company and conducting media research. For more information visit www.elizabethkateswitaj.net

Ellen Chang-Richardson (they/them) is an award-winning poet of Taiwanese and Chinese Cambodian descent. The author of three poetry chapbooks, their multi-genre work has been published in Augur, The Fiddlehead, and Vallum Contemporary, among others. They sit on the editorial boards of long con magazine and Room; and currently live on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg (Ottawa, ON) where they co-curate Riverbed Reading Series and write collaboratively as part of the poetry collective VII. Find them online @ehjchang and ehjchang.com. Their work appears in Experiment-O Issue 13 (AngelHousePress, 2020) and NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2022 (AngelHousePress). 

Ellen Wiener is a painter, printmaker and book artist whose work often combines text and image in collaborative duets with poets and writers. In additional to traditional media, current work includes mural sized pages, a pair of thirty foot long 'walking scrolls' & a group of bespoke book jackets referencing her interests in medieval iconography, playing cards, the uses of the telescope and the history of the calendar.

Recent work has been shown at Vanderbilt University, The National Academy, PS1/ Moma & The Center for Book Arts in NYC.  Ellen has work in Experiment-O Issue 8 and NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2017: A Celebration of Women.

Ellie Klaus  was born and raised in Montreal. She has lived different selves over several decades: daughter, wildlife biology graduate, vision quest traveler, family life educator, friend, confidante, lover, wife, mother, caregiver and now caregivee, if there is such a word. Each has contributed to a different perspective of living and ample opportunity for reflection. The pieces of the puzzle are coming together, although the final image is yet to be revealed. Writing has become a creative endeavor, and saviour, to release some of the angst that arises from living a confined life.       

 Ellie's poetry appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca.

Elmedin Kadric is a minimalist haiku poet writing out of Helsingborg, Sweden. His first full-length collection, buying time (2017), was awarded second place at the Haiku Society of America Merit Book Awards for excellence in haiku poetry. He has had work appear in many prestigious journals and anthologies, including Noon: journal of the short poem, Modern Haiku, Acorn, Heron’s Nest, is/let, and multiple volumes of the Red Moon Anthology, which assembles each year the finest haiku and related forms published around the world. His work appears in Experiment-O Issue 14, AngelHousePress, 2021.

Emily Carr is recently inspired by feral cats, Indian wolfgirls, pirate lifestyles, the world wiped clean of answers (it’s where we’re at), the stars (you see they’ve been clear dead for years), countless continental moves & romping with the cat named Dirt, as well as the ability to comprehend beauty, which is poetry, & as to listen. & change, or be changed.

 To that end: Emily is collaborating with a volcanologist & a cognitive psychologist on a series of vintage earthly curiosities, which will collect the science, metaphysics, & poetry of the world we think of as earth. Why? Because it’s okay to be bewildered, run wild, or dwell like Robin Hood, outlawed & at home.

Emily directs the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing at OSU-Cascades. She has a doctorate from the University of Calgary, a master’s from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, & a bachelor’s from the University of Missouri. She’s received fellowships from Camac Centre d’Art, Vermont Studio Center, Writers in the Heartland, & the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her second book of poetry, 13 ways of happily: books 1 & 2, was the winner of the 2009 New Measures Poetry prize. whosoever has let a minotaur enter them or a sonnet—, a collection of fairy tales, is forthcoming from McSweeney’s in August 2015.

Artist Statement:

footnote to forfeit is ransom notes on top of love poetry on top of rumors. The two particular adaptive techniques I used in composing footnote to forfeit are Wite Out & collage. I used Wite Out to obliterate the poems collected in the 1927 Peter Pauper version of Emily Dickinson’s love poetry. Then, I (like the author of a ransom note), collaged short lyrics[1] over the Wite Out by cutting & pasting individual letters from a variety of printed media.

 The layering (like sediment) of texts foregrounds the processes of intervention & interpretation involved in any reading—of self, of sex, of history, of memory. The combination of Wite Out & collage is, as I practice it, a particularly powerful way of accounting for life’s essential incoherence: the way our experiences misstep or mistake, mishear & get lost in “what might have happened” or “what never happened” or even “what should have happened.” 

Originally from Nova Scotia, Emily Falvey is currently an Ottawa-based independent curator, art critic, and fiction writer. Her poetry and prose have appeared in Descant, Decalogue 2: Ten Ottawa Fiction Writers (Chaudiere Books, 2007), Departures (above/ground press, 2008), and experiment-o. In 2006, she received the Contemporary Curatorial Writing Award from the Ontario Association of Art Galleries. Her essays and art criticism have appeared in Canadian Art, BorderCrossings, and esse arts + opinions, as well as catalogues published by galleries and museums across Canada. She was Curator of Contemporary Art at the Ottawa Art Gallery from 2004 to 2008.

Emily Hockaday’s first full-length collection, Naming the Ghost, will be out with Cornerstone Press in November 2022. She is the author of the poetry chapbooks Starting a Life, What We Love & Will Not Give Up, Ophelia: A Botanist’s Guide, and Space on Earth. Her poems have appeared in a variety of print and online journals. Her poetry appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2022 (AngelHousePress). You can find Emily on the web at www.emilyhockaday.com or @E_Hockaday.

Enzo Patti is a drawer, painter and set designer. He lives and works in Palermo, Sicily.

He is currently drawing and painting “manuscripts” and “asemic landscapes” on wood or paper.  He has decorated both private and public spaces and has designed scenes

for the most important Greco-Roman theatres in Sicily.

He is the author of object books and of  book art objects unique or in numbered copies. He has illustrated divulgation books on the legends and histories of the mafia in Italy. He has made only a few solo exhibitions related to his artistic search but has participated in many collective national and international venues, particularly on the themes of art books and writing.

He has taught scenography at the Academy of fine arts in Palermo and still cooperates with the Academy for the realization of “Liber Fare” – a collection of art books – and for the projects “Rambla Papireto” and Throughout Danisinni”. His work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca. Photo credit: Ettore Magno

Eric Zboya is an experimental poet and visual artist who lives and works in Calgary. His works have appeared in such publications as Canadian Literature Quarterly, Filling Station Magazine, Western Humanities Review, Lana Turner, and Rampike Magazine. His works have also been showcased at the International Text Festival in Bury, UK; the Convergence: Literary Art Exhibition in Belfast, UK; the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London, UK; and will be a part of the Postscript Exhibition at the MCA in Denver, CO.

Evelyn Eller was born in New York City and has lived there most of her life. She has worked in various mediums, oil and acrylic paintings, and printmaking, but her primary medium is now collage and artist’s books. She attended the Art Students League, NY for three years on a scholarship. She later studied in Rome, Italy on a Fulbright Fellowship. She has exhibited widely, nationally and internationally, at the Whitney, Queens and Brooklyn Museums in New York City, the Smithsonian, Corcoran Gallery of art in Washington, D.C. and in Mexico, Hungary, Italy, India, Germany and other exhibition spaces. She is represented in numerous public and corporate collections, including the Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, MOMA Library, NY, The Museum of the City of New York, Brooklyn Museum, NY, the Queens Museum, NY, Indianapolis Museum of Fine Art, Ind., Tyler Museum of Art, Texas, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Wash. DC, King Stephens Museum, Hungary, and El Archivero in Mexico. Her 

work appears in Experiment-O Issue 13 (AngelHousePress, 2020).

Ewan Whyte is a writer and translator. He has written for the Globe & Mail and The Literary Review of Canada. His poetry, short stories, essays, art criticism and translations have been published in journals and magazines and he has read his translations of Catullus on public radio in the U.S. His translation of the poetry of Catullus was published in 2005. He has recently completed a translation of the odes of Horace and an original book of poetry. He lives in Toronto.

Exsanguine Hart lives somewhere in Ontario, where they write poetry and draw pictures. They sometimes (usually) see the dragons before they creep up behind them. IG: @exsanguine_hart Website: exsanguinehart.com.  Exsanguine's work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca

Faizal Deen is the author of Land Without Chocolate, a Memoir (2000), Guyana’s first LGB poetry collection. His work appears in numerous journals, magazines, and anthologies, including Thomas Glave’s Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles (2008). As a scholar, Deen’s work addresses topics in representational violence and the politics of beauty in Caribbean, Canadian, and Caribbean-Canadian cultural contexts. His most recent collection, The Greatest Films (2016), introduces, through lyric fragments, notions of “creole Islam,” which are specific to histories of Caribbean syncretic identity. Deen lives in Ottawa with Sabrina, a cocker spaniel. Faizal's poetry appears in Experiment-O, Issue 10.

 

TWITTER: @faizalbynight

Fatima Queiroz was born in Rio de Janeiro, lives in Santos and is a teacher (Letters). She is self-taught in painting, sculpture, digital art and fractals. She has published papers in several sites in Brazil and abroad. For more of her work, visit her blog, X/Y/Z/.  Her work appears on NationalPoetryMonth.ca

Federico Federici is a physicist, a translator and a writer. He lives and works between Berlin and the Ligurian Apennines. His texts have appeared in «3:AM Magazine», «Jahrbuch Der Lyrik», «Raum», «Sand», «Trafika Europe», «Magma» and others. Most recent books: Dunkelwort (2015), translated into Catalan by Marta Vilardaga (Paraula de tenebra, 2018); Mrogn (2017, Elio Pagliarani Prize); Requiem auf einer Stele (2017); On a certain practical uncertainty (2018) dedicated to W. K. Heisenberg and the asemic album Liner notes for a Pithecanthropus Erectus sketchbook (2018), with a foreword by SJ Fowler. In 2017 he was awarded the Lorenzo Montano Prize for prose. His work appears on NationalPoetryMonth.ca.

Ferran Destemple: born in Barcelona. Spain. He has a degree in Spanish literature from the University of Barcelona and has contemporary art studies. He has published experimental texts since 2012 and is an active participant in the international mail art network. He has published his texts in different international journals and is co-editor in "La Rita Cooper edita". The year 2019 has launched the project " Las escrituras del tío Bill " which is dedicated to the asemic writings. His work can be consulted on the web: www.autismosautomaticos.net. Work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca.

Francesco Aprile (1985-06-03, Lecce, Italy): Freelance journalist, poet and visual-poet, critic (literary, contemporary languages), essayist. In 2010 he became member of the literary movement called New Page - Narrativa in store founded in 2009 by Francesco Saverio Dòdaro and for which he published 35 brief novels and 6 poetry – in store; he worked as a press agent, secretary, editing exhibition and critical works of the authors belonging to this movement. Since march 2013 the cure of this movement is at two voice: F. S. Dòdaro - F. Aprile. In April 2011 he founded the group of artistic research Contrabbando Poetico, subscribing the first manifesto. In 2012 the group Contrabbando Poetico is intertwined with Unconventional Press (research on the media, independent editions founded by Aprile – Caggiula). He have founded in 2014, with Cristiano Caggiula, the experimental magazine www.utsanga.it. His works and books of visual-poetries are archived in libraries, center of documentations, italians and strangers, like the Poetry Library (London), Tate Library (London), MACBA-Center of documentation (Barcellona), the Akademie der Künste (Berlin), ArtPool Art Research Center (Budapest) and private collection like the Imago Mundi-Visual Poetry in Europe (Fondazione Benetton-Fondazione Sarenco). Her research is documented on An Anthology of Asemic Handwriting (edited by Tim Gaze and Micheal Jacobson for Uitgeverij Ed. in 2013), and international journals. Last publications: "Dietro le stagioni" (iQdB Ed., 2015, with text by Cristiano Caggiula), "Exegesis of a renunciation" (Uitgeverij, 2014, with texts by Bartolomé Ferrando and Cristiano Caggiula). His work appears on NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2016.

Francesco Levato is a poet, a literary translator, and a new media artist. Recent books include Arsenal/Sin Documentos; Endless, Beautiful, Exact; Elegy for Dead Languages; War Rug; Creaturing (as translator); and the chapbooks A Continuum of Force and jettison/collapse. He has collaborated and performed with various composers, including Philip Glass, and his cinépoetry has been exhibited in galleries and featured at film festivals in Berlin, Chicago, New York, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA in Poetry, a PhD in English Studies, and is currently an Associate Professor of Literature & Writing Studies at California State University San Marcos. His chapbook "jettison/collapse" is published with AngelHousePress in autumn, 2015, and his work appears in Experiment-O Issue 14, AngelHousePress, 2021.

Francis Raven is a graduate student in philosophy at Temple University. His books include 5-Haifun: Of Being Divisible (Blue Lion Books, 2008), Shifting the Question More Complicated (Otoliths, 2007), Taste: Gastronomic Poems (Blazevox 2005) and the novel, Inverted Curvatures (Spuyten Duyvil, 2005). Francis lives in Washington DC; you can check out more of his work at his website: http://www.ravensaesthetica.com/.

Frank Lepold is a German artist. His work appears in Experiment-O Issue 13 (AngelHousePress, 2020).

Please visit the following links: 

https://twitter.com/andyamholst

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http://andyamholst.com/ (blog)

http://franklepold.de/

freygl gertsovski is a queer, nonbinary multiply crip/mad, white settler Jewitch whose people are Ashkenasi from present-day Moldova. fae is a writer, artist, crafter, homesteader, and community organizer living, dreaming, working, co-creating, praying, and healing in Tkaronto (toronto). freygl has published 5 chapbooks of poetry in a series titled Growing Roots, Healing Wounds and has performed spoken word in Tkaronto (toronto), Metula (victoria), and elsewhere since 2012.. Faer poetry appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2020 Ode to the Small.

Geof Huth's poetry consists of one-word poems, poems written in unintelligible scripts, poems painted onto canvas or assembled within boxes, poems spoken or sung and audio- or video-recorded during the moments of their creation, poems created within nature and left to disappear back into it, and even syntactic text separated into lines. He writes frequently about poetry, visual and otherwise, at his blog, dbqp: visualizing poetics. His latest book is AUTION CAUTION, a set of found and manipulated photopoems published by Redfoxpress of Ireland.

Ghazal Mosadeq is a  poet and translator based in London. She is the founder of Pamenar Press, an independent cross-cultural, multi-lingual publisher based in the UK, Canada and Iran. Her writings have appeared at Words Without Borders, Poetry Wales, Boiler House Press, Erotoplasty, Hesterglock Press, Plumwood Mountain, Gorse and Oversound. She has published three poetry collections, Dar Jame Ma (2010), Biographies (2015), and Supernatural Remedies for Fatal Seasickness (2018). She appears in Experiment-O Issue 14, AngelHousePress, 2021.

Gil McElroy is a poet, artist, independent curator, and freelance art critic living in the village of Colborne, Ontario with his wife Heather.

Gregory Betts is the author of five books of poetry, including If Language and The Others Raisd in Me. He recently published Avant-Garde Canadian Literature: The Early Manifestations. His next book is scheduled to be published by Make Now Press in 2014. 

Guillaume Morissette is the author of The Original Face (Véhicule Press, 2017), one of The Globe & Mail’s best books for 2017, and New Tab  Véhicule Press, 2014), a finalist for the 2015 Amazon.ca First Novel Award. He lives in Montreal. If you can, adopt a senior dog from a rescue centre near you.

 gustave morin attempts a new bio about "himself" (whatever that is!) every time he is asked, and though he tries his best to make it interesting, there is never really anything terribly new to add that hasn’t already been said elsewhere. while it is true that he eschews most of the coordinates that other writer-artists pledge their lives by, it is not too much to add that although he has formally risked his life for the sake of his art for a very long time and its barely done a thing for him in return, he nevertheless wouldn’t have it any other way. his is a good life, and a full one -- with lots of play, and with lots of danger -- two elements that he has found through the years to be very healthy to both "he" and "his art".

Heikki Saure is a writer and artist living in the city Lahti, Finland. Kirjoituksia Maasta (Writings off the Ground) is an ongoing project in which I have collected various bits of paper and objects off the streets and ground for over twenty years. All the found items have handwritten text, figures or other handmade marks on them. Some of them resemble asemic writing. Heikki's work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2016

Helen Hajnoczky is the author of Poets and Killers: A Life in Advertising (Snare—Invisible Publishing, 2010), and Magyarázni (Coach House Books, forthcoming 2016). She is the winner of the 2015 John Lent Poetry-Prose Award. Helen's work appears in Experiment-O Issue 8.

Helena Pantsis (she/they) is a writer, student, and artist from Naarm, Australia. A full-time student of creative writing, they have a fond appreciation for the gritty, the dark, and the experimental. Her works have been published in Overland, Island, Going Down Swinging, and Meanjin. Helena's poetry appears on NationalPoetryMonth.ca. More can be found at hlnpnts.com. Social media: @hlnpnts on Instagram and Twitter.

Hiram Larew's poems have recently appeared in Experiment-O Issue 15 (AngelHousePress, 2022), Wild Greens, Iowa Review, Contemporary American Voices and Poetry South.  His most recent collection, Mud Ajar, was published in 2021 by Atmosphere Press.  Founder of Poetry X Hunger, he lives in Maryland, USA. www.HiramLarewPoetry and www.PoetryXHunger.com

hiromi suzuki is a poet, fiction writer and artist living in Tokyo, Japan. She is the author of Ms. cried - 77 poems by hiromi suzuki (Kisaragi Publishing, 2013), logbook (Hesterglock Press, 2018), INVISIBLE SCENERY (Low Frequency Press, 2018), Andante (AngelHousePress, 2019), Found Words from Olivetti (Simulacrum Press, 2020), Ephemera (Colossive Press, 2021). Double solo exhibition with Francesco Thérès【visual HAIKU | OLIVETTI poems】 was held in Rome, 9 ～30 September 2021. hiromi's work appears in Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry (Timglaset Editions, 2021).

Web site: https://hiromisuzukimicrojournal.tumblr.com/

Twitter: @HRMsuzuki. hiromi’s work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca (AngelHousePress).

Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of Dangerous Acts Starring Unstable Elements, winner of the 2015 Press Americana Prize for Poetry. His other books  include A Ghost Sings, a Door Opens (2016) from Another New Calligraphy. He co-edits White Knuckle Press with Dale Wisely. His chapbook, "Robots vs Kung Fu" is published by AngelHousePress.

Hugh Tribbey's poetry has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in Sugar Mule, Otoliths, Peter Ganick's Archive Project, Spaltung, We, and Moria. He is the author of four collections of poetry: Finish Your Sentence, Juvjula Detours, Asteroid, and Waitinale Glasses. Hugh holds a Ph.D. in Practical Poetics and Contemporary Literature from Oklahoma State University and teaches literature and creative writing at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma.

Ian Whistle has published in filling Station, CRASH: a litzine, Moss Trill, and the Shadowy Technicians: New Ottawa Poets (2000). He has had small poetry publications appear with jwcurry’s 1cent and Ken Hunt’s Spacecraft, and occasionally blogs at http://ianjwhistle.blogspot.ca/

Imogen Reid completed a practice-based PhD at Chelsea College of Arts, her practice being writing. Her thesis focused on the ways in which film has been used by novelists as a resource to transform their writing practice, and on how the non-conventional writing techniques generated by film could, in turn, produce alternative forms of readability. Among the writers explored during the course of her research were: William S. Burroughs, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Marguerite Duras, Don DeLillo, and Michel Butor. Her work has appeared in: Hotel Magazine, LossLit, gorse journal, Zeno Magazine & Grey Anthology, Elbow Room, Sublunary Editions, ToCall Magazine, IceFloe Press, & Erotoplasty Magazine. She has participated in Steven J. Fowler’s Poem Brut events and exhibitions and has a pamphlet with Gordian Projects. Her 

work appears in Experiment-O Issue 13 (AngelHousePress, 2020).

Inma Bernils: I am an experimental poet. I write. I also do collage, objects, installation, performance, vocal and sound improvisation... My work is in constant search and evolution.

 

I explore the application of art in processes of trauma and mental illness. I believe in the creative process as a tool for transformation and growth. Inma's work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca and in Experiment-O Issue 14, AngelHousePress, 2021.

Irene Marques is a bilingual writer (writing in English and Portuguese) and Lecturer at Toronto Metropolitan University in the Department of English, where she teaches literature and creative writing. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature, Masters in French Literature and Comparative Literature and a BA (Hon.) in French Language and Literature from the University of Toronto, and a Bachelor of Social Work from Ryerson University (currently Toronto Metropolitan University). Her creative writing publications include the poetry collections Wearing Glasses of Water (Mawenzi House, 2007), The Perfect Unravelling of the Spirit (Mawenzi House, 2012) and The Circular Incantation: An Exercise in Loss and Findings (Guernica Editions, 2013), and the novels My House is a Mansion (Leaping Lion Books, 2015), Uma Casa no Mundo (Imprensa Nacional, 2021) and Daria (Inanna Publications, 2021). Uma casa no mundo won the Imprensa Nacional/Ferreira de Castro Prize (Portugal). Her academic publications include the manuscript Transnational Discourses on Class, Gender and Cultural Identity (Purdue University Press, 2011) and numerous articles in international journals or scholarly collectives. Irene's work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca. http://www.irenemarques.net/   

Iulia Militaru has a B.S. in Medicine and a B.A. in Literature from the University of Bucharest, where she earned a M.A. in Literary Theory in 2006 and is currently pursuing a PhD in Romanian Literature.

She lectured at the University of Bucharest, department of Theory of Literature, Faculty of Letters. She worked as Editor at the ART Publishing House and the Noriel Maxim Publishing House, in Bucharest. She was a curator of a series of readings at Tramvaiul 26, in Bucharest. She is a co-founder and the Chief Editor of frACTalia Publishing House and the Editor in Chief of InterRe:ACT magazine.

After a few children’s books and her study Metaphoric, Metonimic: A Typology of Poetry, her first poetry collection came out in 2010, Marea Pipeadă (The Great Pipe Epic), receving two major awards at the “Young Writers Gala”. Dramadoll, co-authored with Anca Bucur, designs by Cristina Florentina Budar, is part of wider inter-art-and-author (poetry/graphic art/video/sound) project; a part of this video project (Images of the day number 8, directed by Cristina Florentina Budar) was selected in Gesamt 2012 (DISASTER 501 What happened to man?), a project coordinated by Lars von Trier and directed by Jenle Hallund. The installation was fitted at Copenhagen Art Festival, Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Her collection of experimental poetry: Confiscarea bestiei (o postcercetare) (The Seizure of the Beast. A Post-research) will be launch in May, 2016. Her visual poem TECHNOVERTURE was published in MAINTENANT, A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art (#9). Her work appears on NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2016.

J. Ellen Cooper is an ecologist by trade. Her written word is a reflection of the world through a lens trained to pick up on the web between fine details. She lives on the shore of Sydney Harbour with her children and bunny. Delighting in anarchy, she transcends pigeon holes by using art and imagination to stimulate scientific education in her community, and science to inspire art. Her poem, “lamenting one more Jupiter,” appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2017: A Celebration of Women.

J. Michael Mollohan was born in a log cabin. Well, not quite. He was born in 1947, which from 2010, seems like a log cabin. He has been interested particularly in those arts which push envelopes. He wrote his first poem between first and second grade. He's lived in Charleston, WV since 1975. He's worked for government, trade unions, bookstores, pizza places, software firms, and other non-poetic places. His website is: www.naplesyellow.com.

j/j hastain is a queer, mystic, seer, singer, photographer, lover, priest/ess, gender shaman and writer.  As artist and activist of the audible, j/j is the author of several cross-genre books and enjoys ceremonial performances in an ongoing project regarding gender, shamanism, eros and embodiments. That project is called: you make yourself your own tilted stage.

Artist and poet Jacqueline Dee Parker was born in New York City and raised in New Haven, CT.  She presently lives in Louisiana, where teaches in the College of Art & Design at LSU. Her poems appear in
literary journals and anthologies, including Cortland Review, The Southern Review, Chelsea, Spinning Jenny, and Eratio Poetry Journal, among others. Parker’s vintage paper collages and mixed media paintings are exhibited throughout the US and can be seen in private and corporate collections internationally.  Devin Borden Gallery (TX) and Ann Connelly Fine Art (LA) represent her work, and she is an artist member of the Baton Rouge Gallery Center for Contemporary Art. Website:    www.jacquelinedeeparker.com Instagram:  @jacquelinedeeparker. Her work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca

Jacqueline Valencia is a writer and critic. She is the author of There Is No Escape Out Of Time (Insomniac Press, 2016) and is the founding editor of These Girls On Film, a literary editor at The Rusty Toque,and staff film critic at Next Projection. Jacqueline is a board member of CWILA (Canadian Women In Literary Arts). jacquelinevalencia.wordpress.com. Her poetry appears in Experiment-O Issue 10.

James Bremner has worked as a mathematician and software engineer in Europe, Africa and North America for the mining, medical and telecom industries. "Ngulube's Engine", tales based on his experiences in Africa, is available through amazon.com http://amzn.to/qg1u96.  His writing has been published by the University of Nevada Press, the Globe & Mail, the Ottawa Citizen, and Storyteller Magazine.   He now lives near Ottawa.

Jamie Bradley's poetry appears most recently in Contemporary Verse 2, Rattle, and Poetry is Dead. His chapbook "Compositions" was published in 2008 by AngelHousePress.

Jane Eaton Hamilton is the disabled, genderqueer author of 9 books, and the two-time winner of both the CBC and Prism fiction awards. Jane's poetry appears on NationalPoetryMonth.ca.

 Janice Tokar’s poetry has been published in the Bywords Quarterly Journal, The Peter F. Yacht Club, The Dusty Owl Quarterly and Ottawater 6.0, as well as at Bywords.ca. Her manuscript, Arrhythmia, placed second in the 2012 Tree Press Chapbook Contest.  She has been a guest reader for The A B Series, the Tree Reading Series, and above/ground press.  Forecasting What Came Before, pas     de deux, and Oneiromancy have appeared in The Peter F. Yacht Club, and vertiginous bloom was previously published in the Bywords Quarterly Journal and at Bywords.ca.

Janis Butler Holm has served as Associate Editor for Wide Angle, the film journal. Her prose, poems, and performance pieces have appeared in small-press, national, 

and international magazines. Her plays have been produced in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. Her poetry appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2020 Ode to the Small.

Jason Camlot is the author of four collections of poetry, The Debaucher (2008, Insomniac Press) Attention All Typewriters (2005, DC Books), and The Animal Library (2001, DC Books), and most recently, What the World Said (Mansfield, 2013).  His critical works include Style and the Nineteenth-Century British Critic (Ashgate, 2008) and the co-edited collection of essays, Language Acts: Anglo-Québec Poetry, 1976 to the Twenty-First Century (Véhicule Press, 2007). His recent research projects have focused on the history of literary sound recordings, the digital presentation of analogue documentary poetry readings (see, for example, http://spokenweb.ca), as well as digital poetry projects (http://tickertext.concordia.ca) and game design projects (http://ludicvoice.concordia.ca).  He is Associate Professor of English and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Science at Concordia University in Montreal. His poetry appears in Experiment-O.com Issue 8.

Jason Christie is the author of four books of poetry: Canada Post (Invisible), i-ROBOT (EDGE), Unknown Actor (Insomniac), and Cursed
Objects (Coach House Books). His work appears in Experiment-O Issue 8 and in NationalPoetryMonth.ca.

JC Bouchard’s poetry has appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, Hart House Review, untethered, and (parenthetical). He is the author of two chapbooks: Portraits (In/Words Press) and WOOL WATER (words(on)pages). He lives in Toronto. 

Jeff Kirby’s newest is She’s Having a Doris Day (knife fork book, 2017). Earlier chapbooks include Simple Enough, Cock & Soul, Bob’s boy, and The world is fucked and sometimes beautiful. Their work appears in numerous anthologies beginning with the letter Q, and most recently online at The Rusty Toque, Matrix Magazine and Bandcamp. Kirby is the owner/publisher of knife | fork | book. Jeff's poetry is published on NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2018.

Jenna Jarvis was born in Ottawa and lives in Kaohsiung. Her writing has appeared in Word and Colour, Sea Foam, Keep This Bag Away From Children, and other digital and print publications. Her poem "syndical not synecdochal" secured an honourable mention for the Puritan's 2014 Thomas Morton Prize. Her poetry appears on NationalPoetryMonth.ca

Jennifer Footman: Originally from India, I spent most of my  life in Edinburgh and am a graduate of that university, coming to Canada in 79. My  poetry and fiction have  been in most Canadian literary magazines and many US and UK ones.

I have  four collections of poetry, have  won several competitions including the Canadian Authors Okanagan Award, the Envoi poetry award, the LNN short fiction award and the Alumnus\Scotia McLeod Award.

 I have several novels and a collection of short fiction hunting a publisher. I live in the wilds of Caledon deep in the trees. “The Tarbrush” appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2017: A Celebration of Women.

Jennifer K. Dick grew up in Iowa City, Iowa and currently lives in Mulhouse where she teaches at the Université de Haute Alsace. She is the author of  Afterlife (forthcoming with Angel House Press, 2017), No Title (Estepa, 2015), Conversion (Estepa, 2013), Circuits (Corrupt 2013), Betwixt (Corrupt 2011), Tracery (Dusie Kollectif, 2012),  Enclosures (Blazevox ebook, 2007), Retina / Rétine (Estepa, tr Rémi Bouthonnier, 2007), Florescence (University of Georgia Press, 2004), as well as 3 manuscripts: CERN, Lilith and That Which I Touch Has No Name. She also co-edited 2 critical books on the theme of translation in the Humanities and is currently finishing a critical book on issues of  text and image in contemporary poetry. An interview in French with Jennifer K Dick recently appeared in Diacritik (on the theme of creation and politics) https://diacritik.com/2016/10/17/jennifer-k-dick-le-spectre-des-langues-possibles-creation-et-politique-7/ .

 

Jennifer has curated for over 11 years now a bilingual reading series Ivy Writers Paris : http://ivywritersparis.blogspot.fr, was one of the poetry editors at Versal magazine (Amsterdam) until Dec 2016 when she left to pursue other activities, and an editor of Upstairs at Duroc for 4 years. She co-organizes « Ecrire l’Art » mini-residency for French authors at la Kunsthalle-Mulhouse and keeps a personal blog at: http://jenniferkdick.blogspot.fr

 

Jennifer was writer in residence with both the Kunsthalle-Mulhouse centre d’art contemporain and Kunsthausbaselland in Basel, Switzerland during the Regional 2016 show 24 November-8 January 2017. During this period, she had an installation of texts at the « Buffet » at the SBB train station (French side), Basel, Switzerland and she posted on a blog for the show various texts written on the art and the themes of the exhibition. https://2016urbanbuffet.blogspot.fr/

 

Her piece from the installation, “Buffet” on the border of France and Switzerland appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2017: A Celebration of Women.

Jennifer MacBain-Stephens went to NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and now lives in the DC area. Recent chapbooks are out or forthcoming from Grey Book Press, Dancing Girl Press and Shirt Pocket Press. Her first full length collection is forthcoming from Lucky Bastard Press.  Recent work can be seen at Jet Fuel Review, Pith, Freezeray, So to Speak, Entropy, Right Hand Pointing, and decomP. Visit: http://jennifermacbainstephens.wordpress.com/. Her poetry appears in Experiment-O Issue 9.0

Jenny McMaster's art practice encompasses fibres, encaustic painting, and performance. Her recent work has involved experimentation with paper, pulp painting and embroidery.  She has always been inclined to break the picture plane, be it through a line of blanket stitches holding together canvas and upholstery fabric, or an eyelet cut into handmade abaca. The series Ruptured Plains (Espace Pierre-Debain, 2019) is all about this inclination to both breach and repair.

 

Jenny is beginning the second year of her MFA at the University of Ottawa this fall. Her work is frequently concerned with mapping, be it through maps of a more literal sort such as those of Almonte and Ottawa (Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, Almonte, 2017), or haptic maps of the human body written in the creases and folds of clothing (Centre Point Theatre, 2013). She has also facilitated the mapping of conversations through the leaking of social beverages from faulty receptacles (Nuite Blanche, 2013). In her performances trickster figures upturn formal events. Food and drink, which generally act as a social glue, end up spilled on the table or laid out on the floor (Gallery 101, 2016). Her 

work appears in Experiment-O Issue 13 (AngelHousePress, 2020).

Jenny Sampirisi writes poetry and fiction. She's variously involved in lit stuff including BookThug, the Scream Literary Festival and the Ryerson Reading Series. Her first book is/was is forthcoming from Insomniac press November 2008 (maybe that date has passed by the time you read this and in that case, it's out). She exists mostly in Toronto.

Jesse Glass’ recent work has appeared in Golden Handcuffs Review, in the on-line “Journal of Poetics Research”, in Otoliths, Galatea Resurrects, Zimzallah, and other venues. Glass has also created a series of painted books or (‘theaters’ as he likes to call them), copies of which are available through The Knives Forks and Spoons Press.  You can hear Glass read his work at the Penn Sound site. http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Glass.php

 

“[two impressive readings]…the second by the American poet Jesse Glass, who had arrived that morning from Japan (where he teaches) and, clobbered by jet lag and with only ten minutes in which to make a big impression, made a big impression. His voice was a modulated growl reminding me of the late Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart. Between poems he scrabbled intermittently in a briefcase for more sheets of his dense cryptic verses, which he delivered like a tub-thumping preacher man.   

 

After the reading I bought his latest collection Selections from The Life and Death of Peter Stubbe (weirdly dated 2015 by his publisher, Knives Forks and Spoons Press), which includes colour reproductions of the author's unsettling Blake-inspired paintings (now in the Tate [Britain’s] collection). The title is a reference to the 'Werewolf of Bedburg', a ghastly 17th century tale of lycanthropy, and is a redacted and reworked version of a poem originally written in the early 1980s. Also on sale was his Play [Day] for [Of] the Dead: A [Decryptive] Dance For Mirror and Word ('Inverted text to be read with a mirror. Comes in a miniature wooden or cardboard coffin with book, image, gold mirror, skeleton and skull bracelet.') Tempting, but I'd already overspent my modest budget on a dozen generously discounted books and pamphlets.”

 --David Collard (TLS writer) on Free Verse Festival 2014 (London). 

Jesse's work appears in Experiment-O Issue 10.

Jessi MacEachern (she/her) is the author of the poetry collection A Number of Stunning Attacks, as well as the chapbooks Television Poems, You Do Not Like Animal Sounds, and Ravishing the Sex into the Hold. Her new chapbook When a Folk, When a Sprawl is forthcoming with Above/Ground in 2023 and her new poetry collection Cut Side Down is forthcoming with Invisible in 2025. Her work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca.

JF Martel is a writer and filmmaker based in Ottawa, Canada.

His collaborative work with Dominic Bercier appears in Experiment-O Issue 9.0

Jill Zheng is a multimodal poet, who works with language as a primary material, oftentimes marrying modes of graphic arrangements, sound, image, translingualism, somatic experience, etc. Her poetics takes its inspirational root from the concreteness of Chinese characters, and seeks to embody cultural hybridity as to traverse linguistic boundaries for re-imagination and reading re-orientation. She also collaborates with visual and sound artists on multimedia poetry and sound-art performances in Shanghai. Her work has appeared in Nationalpoetrymonth.ca and Experiment-O Issue 15 (AngelHousePress, 2022), on POETRY magazine, streetcake magazine and ctrl + v journal.

Joanna Chak is a whimsical collaborative soul in search of meaningful fun. Ex-peripertatic. Loves. BAFA Parsons/The New School. A member of dis/content, appearing in Experiment-O Issue 14, AngelHousePress, 2021.

Professor of Art & English at the University of Toledo, Joel Lipman's poetry has been published since the 1960's. His infrequent, independent press books include Machete Chemistry/Panades Physics [Cubola New Arts, with Yasser Musa], the Luna Bisante Prods chapbook The Real Ideal and Ransom Notes [Obscure Publications, 2006]. Among his bookworks, mail art and visual poems are the lengthy sequences, Jesse Helms' Body, and Origins of Poetry, a selection of which was published in Poetry [November 2008] and republished in Harper's [January 2009]. Examples of his work are on-line at the Light & Dust Survey.

Johannes S. H. Bjerg: a Danish writer and visual artist. 1 of 3 of the editors of Bones - “Journal for contemporary haiku” (http://www.bonesjournal.com), and sole editor of “the other bunny - for the other kind of haibun” (http://theotherbunny.wordpress.com) and “One Link Chain” - a blog for solo linked verse and haiku sequences (http://onelinkchain.blogspot.dk/) Has published several books: http://megaga.dk/?page_id=530 .

Recent releases:

 19 Gestures and Their Corresponding Words - Timglaset / Timglaset.com (limited edition), 2018

 6 Palimpsests / 6 palimpsester (ebook) 2018

 Litanies / Litanier (ebook) 2017

 Apple / Æble - a poem / et digt, ebook 2018, Amazon 2019

 The Ear / Øret - a poem / et digt -Amazon 2019 and ebook 2018

 Work also appears on NationalPoetryMonth.ca.

John C. Goodman lives in the Gulf Islands in BC. Besides a novel, Talking to Wendigo (Turnstone Press) - which was short-listed for an Arrthur Ellis Award - and a book of poetry, naked beauty (Blue & Yellow Dog Press), his short fiction, poems and essays have appeared in The Fiddlehead; Otoliths; experiment-o; BlazeVOX; Istanbul Literary Review and numerous other magazines. Work is included in the print anthologies Gulch (Tightrope Books), Abandon (edits all over press), and Maintenant 3 (Three Rooms Press, NY). He is the editor of ditch, an online poetry magazine.

John Gillies makes short films and writes songs, poems, stories and novels, and works as a teacher, writer and editor in Ottawa.

John M. Bennett has published over 400 books and chapbooks of poetry and other materials. 

www.johnmbennett.net

http://library.osu.edu/sites/rarebooks/avantwriting/

http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/lunabisonteprods

http://johnmbennettpoetry.blogspot.com/

John Nyman's verse and concrete poetry has appeared in Rampike, (parenthetical), Steel Bananas, ditch, and Hamilton Arts and Letters, along with other print and online publications. Originally from Toronto, he is currently completing a Ph.D. in Theory and Criticism at Western University in London, Ontario. He occasionally produces experimental chapbooks and less classifiable book objects.

Joseph Kuchar is a student at the university of Ottawa.

Josephine Corcoran is a UK-based writer and artist. She enjoys working with found natural materials, as well as paper, paints and glue she finds being given away in boxes outside people's houses. Josephine's work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca.

website www.josephinecorcoran.org

Joy Chee escaped back to Singapore, after three years working in Tokyo, to pursue her dream of extreme gardening and bread-baking. When she’s not preparing for the apocalypse, she’s either

A member of dis/content, appearing in Experiment-O Issue 14, AngelHousePress, 2021.

JP Seabright(she/they) JP Seabright (she/they) is a queer disabled writer living in London. They have two solo pamphlets published and two collaborations, encompassing poetry, prose and experimental work.  JP's work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca and Experiment-O Issue 15 (AngelHousePress).More info at https://jpseabright.com and via Twitter @errormessage.

Judith Copithorne: I still live in Vancouver where I was born.  

Art and literature have been very important in my life.  I'd like to thank all the people who have helped to keep such interesting things within my reach.  I ardently hope that this will continue.

Judith's work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca

 Judy Dougherty’s work is the result of a lifetime fascination with the fantastic, the childlike, the sinister and the kinetic. It is inspired by children’s art, outsider art, and the advertising, illustration and comic-strip art of the early twentieth century.

Julia Rose Sutherland is an emerging interdisciplinary artist who resides in Calgary Alberta. Her practice focuses on ideas of place, identity, perception, and family dynamics using a large range of mediums such as large-scale sculpture, video, painting and textiles. She completed my Bachelors of Fine Arts in Craft and New Media with a specialty in Textiles at the Alberta College of Art and Design in 2013. Her art appears in Experiment-O Issue 10.

Much of K.S. (Kathy) Ernst’s work is painted, collaged, or digital. In addition, she uses three-dimensional letters in freestanding sculptures. Recent books include Drop Caps and The Last Vispo Anthology. Books with Sheila E. Murphy are Permutoria (Luna Bisonte Prods) and 2 Juries + 2 Storeys = 4 Stories Toujours (Xexoxial Editions). Among places Ernst’s work can be found are The Brooklyn Museum, Ohio State University, The Sackner Collection, SUNY Buffalo, and Yale University. Website: www.ksernst.com. Her work appears in Experiment-O Issue 2 and NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2020.

Kane X Faucher author of Urdoxa (2004) Codex Obscura (2005) Fort & Da (2006), Calqueform, Astrozoica, De Incunabliad (2007). Jonkil Dies, Tales Pinned on a Complete Ass: Travel to Romania (2009) The Vicious Circulation of Dr Catastrope (2009)

Karen Massey writes and makes things in Ottawa, Canada. Her poetry and found poems have been published in nearly 2 dozen print anthologies, and online and in print publications in Canada, the US and UK, including in Aesthetica, Arc Poetry Magazine, subTerrain, Literary Review Canada, Ottawater and Experiment-O. Both of her chapbooks are from above/ground press, bullet and Strange Fits of Beauty & Light.

Her poetry has been published in  NationalPoetryMonth.ca 

Karenjit Sandhu  is a poet and artist. She is a Lecturer in Art at the University of Reading. Her publications include Poetic Fragments from the Irritating Archive (Guillemot Press, 2022), young girls! (the 87 press, 2021) and a forthcoming publication Baby 19 (intergraphia, 2023). Her work is anthologised in Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry, Writing Utopia and Magma. Karenjit’s performance work has led to collaborations with the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Flat Time House and Barbican (London), Arnolfini (Bristol) and Galerie Eric Dupont (Paris). Karenjit's work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca and Experiment-O Issue 16, published in November 2023. @k_ren_sandhu

Karl Kempton lives happily with his wife Ruth in Oceano California consciously removed from literary centers. He conceived & co-founded a poetry festival in San Luis Obispo in 1983; it continues without him. His lexical & visual poems have been widely published & exhibited since the 1970’s.

Kate Siklosi lives, thinks, and creates in Dish With One Spoon Territory / Toronto, Canada. Her work includes leavings (Timglaset Editions,2021), selvage (forthcoming, Invisible 2023), and six chapbooks of poetry. Her critical and creative work has been featured in various magazines, journals, and small press publications across North America, Europe, and the UK. She is also the curator of the Small Press Map of Canada and a co-founding editor of Gap Riot Press. Her visual poetry is published in Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry (Timglaset Editions, 2021). Her work appears on NationalPoetryMonth.ca and Experiment-O Issue 11.

Kate Sutherland lives in Toronto where she writes poems, makes collages, and teaches law. She is the author of four books, most recently a collection of poems titled The Bones Are There published by Book*hug Press in Fall 2020. Her stories and poems have appeared in various magazines and anthologies including Best Canadian Poetry 2016 and Best American Experimental Writing 2018. 

 Her work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca

Katy Wimhurst’s  first collection of short stories, Snapshots of the Apocalypse, was published by Fly on the Wall Press. Her fiction has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies including The Guardian, Writers’ Forum, Cafe Irreal, Magic Oxygen Literary Prize, Ouen Press, and ShooterLit. Her visual poems have appeared in magazines like 3AM, Ric Journal, Experiment-O, and The Babel Tower, and her first book of visual poetry will be published by Trickhouse Press in 2023. She interviews other writers for 3AM Magazine and blogs at https://whimsylph.wordpress.com. She is housebound with M.E.   Katy has work in Experiment-O Issue 15 and NationalPoetryMonth.ca. @Sylphsea on Twitter.

Katy Wimhurst’s first collection of short stories, Snapshots of the Apocalypse, is to be published by Fly on the Wall Press. Her fiction has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies including The Guardian, Writers’ Forum, Cafe Irreal, and ShooterLit. Her visual poems have appeared in Ric Journal, Steel Incisors, The Babel Tower, Dreampop Press, Talking All the Time About Strawberries, and Seaborne Magazine. She is housebound with the illness M.E. Her work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca

In 1980 Kaz Maslanka received his BFA in Sculpture from Wichita State University where he also studied music, mathematics and physics. He has been involved in the arts for more than 35 years and has been pioneering mathematical poetry since the early 1980’s. He has a strong international presence not only on his blog “Mathematical Poetry” but also with exhibitions of his work. He currently lives in San Diego California and works as an artist as well as an aerospace engineering consultant for a technology company where he leads a group of engineers creating leading edge computer modeling techniques for aerospace manufacturing.  He is on the board of directors for the San Diego based “Sonic Arts Studio” a group of composers and musicians devoted to the development and proliferation of microtonal music. He also serves on the advisory board of the Bronowski Art and Science Forum in Del Mar, California. His work can be seen on his website http://www.kazmaslanka.com

Kemeny Babineau  works as a cook in a restaurant and operates an out-of-print bookstore Laurel Reed Books. His creative output is an extended effort to not finish anything. He lives in Stratford Ontario with his partner. His poetry appears in Experiment-O Issue 5 and NationalPoetryMonth.ca.

Kerry Jo Bell: "Escaping into reimagined worlds of my own creation has always been my outlet to express my deepest thoughts and feelings. This helped to shape me as a person, a poet and a writer. I like to say that while I have always been shy and awkward in person, I am brave and unbridled on the pages. It wasn’t until five years ago however, that I got an inkling to write ‘professionally’. Since then, my works have been published in multiple literary journals and magazines. A byproduct of all that writing was earning a spot as one of 25 emerging artists welcomed into the folds of The Writers Union of Canada’s BIPOC mentorship program in fall 2020 as well as becoming an associate membership with the League of Canadian Poets. I self describe as a multi-disciplinary writer, crossing over seamlessly from poetry to fiction to essays, creating anything from full length novels to short human interest pieces. I enjoy creating worlds around people who are flawed and messy as I believe fiction and poetry alike resonates best when rooted in reality and authenticity. As of May 2022, my primary focus has been completing my full length projects that were generously awarded grants by the Toronto Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts." Kerry's poetry appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca.

kevin mcpherson eckhoff hugs Moez Surani who hugs Linda Besner who hugs Helen Guri who hugs Kyle Buckley who hugs Evan Munday who hugs Mitsou who hugs Leigh Kostelidis who hugs Jon Paul Fiorentino who hugs Forge which hugs Vanna White who hugs Jake Kennedy who hugs Laurel Eckhoff McPherson. 

Formerly working in film and TV, Khaled  Nurul  Hakim has claims to being the first homegrown British-Asian experimental poet, working with semi-improvisatory performances in the 1980s and 90s. Largely refusing to publish at the time, he abandoned both writing and film in the new millennium to become a Sufi student and musician. He returned to writing after a decade and has published Letters from the Takeaway (Shearsman 2019), The Book of Naseeb (Penned in the Margins 2020) and The Routines: 1983-2000 (Contraband Books 2021). His work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca.

Khashayar Mohammadi is a queer, Iranian born, Toronto-based Poet, Writer, Translator and Photographer. He is the author of poetry Chapbooks Moe’s Skin by ZED press 2018,  Dear Kestrel by knife | fork | book 2019 and Solitude is an Acrobatic Act by above/ground press 2020. His debut poetry collection Me, You, Then Snow is forthcoming with Gordon Hill Press.  His 

work appears in Experiment-O Issue 13 (AngelHousePress, 2020).

 (1983, Sárvár, Hungary) writes and publishes poems, fiction, and drama pieces in Hungarian,  German and English. She is a musician, extensive vocalist, visual and sound-poet, translator,  shape artist and has presented her work in performances, exhibitions, and international  installations, such as MANIFESTA 11 Zürich; Palais de Tokyo Paris, CROWD; OFF Biennale;  Wechselstorm Galerie; Off-Gallery and Akademie Schloss Solitude. She is also a philologist and a teacher and has worked as a journalist and copy editor of art magazines and as a cultural program organizer. Tóth’s international publications include the poetry collections Maislieder, PARTY, All  Machine, Village 0-24, Wir bauen eine Stadt, and the visual-art catalogues Textbilder and Flugschrift. Her novel, The Moonlight Faces, won the Hazai Attila and the Best Novel Special Prize in Hungary. With the English and German manuscripts of the book, she joined the  International Writing Program at Iowa, the LCB, GEDOK, and the Bosch program in Germany.  Currently she is the city writer of Graz and later in Switzerland. Her work has been published internationally in many magazines and journals including Solitude Art Yearbook, Stuttgart and Europoe anthology, Heimat anthology, Die Welt ist nicht erfunden, Huellkurven, tapin2, Colony, POETRY, Lyrikline, Wretched Stranger anthology, Arkansas International, Nazis and Goldmund discussion and Stadtsprachen, Words without Borders. In addition to her art work she gives lectures and workshops and is a member of many international art- and literature organisations. Currently she is a guest writer and artist in Zug, Switzerland and working on her new multimedia art book. For her multimedia literary work she receives 2020 the Hugo Ball Förderpreis. 2021 she is a guest writer-artist by Lyrikkabinett München and Villa Waldberta in München-Feldafing and her visual poetry works are presented in Center Pompidou, Paris.

Her work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca and Experiment-O Issue 14, AngelHousePress, 2021.

kjmunro cultivates poetry in the incomparable Yukon. Her debut poetry collection is contractions (Red Moon Press, 2019). kjmunro's poetry appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca

Kristen Szumyn: When words are beyond me, I take to the typewriter for the sounds between characters, and I find poetry there. 

 Lark Fox is a writer, herbalist, intuitive energeticist, and photographer. She lives a life connected to the earth, makes her own yogurt, and is devoted to beauty in all its forms. Some of her recent writing can be found in Summer Stock 2012, Common Ground Magazine and The Lit Pub.

Larkin Higgins is a poet/artist/educator who traverses genres in text-based explorations. Her poetic pieces can be found in Diagram, Eleven Eleven (California College of the Arts), Visio-Textual Selectricity (Runaway Spoon Press), The L.A. Telephone Book, Vol. 1, & Vol. 2 & elsewhere. Mindmade Books published Of Traverse and Template (poems & logographic drawings), & with Dusie Kollektiv she has two chapbooks: Of Materials, Implements & most recently, c o m b - i n g  m i n e - i n g s.  Higgins’ visual poetry is included in the Avant Writing Collection/The Ohio State University Libraries and has been exhibited at Skylab Gallery (Columbus, Ohio), New Puppy Gallery (Los Angeles), Counterpath (Denver, Colorado), & Otis College of Art & Design. She has also created performance text-driven art for venues such as Highways Performance Space (Santa Monica, California), BC Space (Laguna Beach, Calif.), Counterpath (Denver, Colo.), The World Stage (Los Angeles), & Beyond Baroque (Venice, Calif.).  Her work appears on NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2016.

Laura Ortiz is a multimedia Canadian artists member of the avant-garde art movement: International Novatrice Internationale -INI founded in 1980 by Gabriel Aldo Bertozzi. Laura’s works have been featured in exhibitions at contemporary art venues around the world, such as Asemic Writing Exhibition Mappature del Contemporaneo at Parco Archeologico in Scolaciumin, Italy; Concreta-Fetapoesia Asemic and Concrete Poetry Exhibition in Rome; Asemic Writing off line & in the Gallery at Minnesota Center for book art in USA; Muestra Latinoamericana de Poesia Visual Hotel Dada in the Museum of Contempary Art of Junin, Argentina; Asemic Tech Exhibit in Barcelona, Spain; and L’Aquila concrete and asemic exhibition in Italy; Arte in Dimora – Discovery of Urban Sites, Italy.

 

Also, she has been published in many of the major, influential visual poetry journals such as Berenice, Utsanga, Angry Old Man Magazine, Frequenze Poetiche, Dialogue, NationalPoetryMonth.ca, Experiment-O, Brave New Word Magazine, Hotel Dada Magazine, Aura Poesia Visual, and Women Asemic Artists & Visual Poets // WAAVe Global as well as blogs including Michael Jacobson’s Asemic: The Post New Literate, Marco Giovanele’s Differx_it, and De Villo Sloan’s Asemic Front.

 

Her book Unwritings- A Journey into Visual Poetry was published in August, 2021 by Post-Asemic Press, USA.

 Her work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca and Experiment-O Issue 14, AngelHousePress, 2021.

Laurie Koensgen (she/her) lives and writes in Ottawa, Canada. Her poetry has appeared in journals, anthologies and online magazines across North America and in the UK. Recent and forthcoming publications include flo. Literary Magazine, Pinhole Poetry, Literary Review of Canada, Poetry Pause, The Madrigal, and Contemporary Verse 2. Her latest chapbook, Blue Moon/ Orange Begonias, is with Rose Garden Press.  Laurie's poetry appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca.

 

Lily Robert-Foley lives in Paris, France where she is currently writing a doctorate in Comparative Literature at the University of Paris VIII. She participates in conferences and colloquiums abroad and in France. Her creative and scholarly work has appeared most recently in Critiphoria, Omnia Vanitas Review, Digital Artifacts, and Bathhouse. She is the author of the annotations to the North Georgia Gazette published by Green Lantern Press in September of 2009 and of Xerolage #47 forthcoming from Xexoxial Editions this year.

Lin Lune is a Toronto based generator of art with words. Her/their work invokes deep thought about the human condition. Lin's work appears in Experiment-O Issue 15 (AngelHousePress, 2022).

Lin Tarczynski is an artist/poet with a foundation in illustration and graphic art. Influenced by Oulipo, Dada and collage, Lin is currently exploring a synthesis between three heirs of Dadaism: asemic writing, abstract comics, and visual poetry. Her piece, “More Comics from Mars” appears as part of National PoetryMonth.ca 2017: A Celebration of Women.

Liz Worth is a Toronto-based author. Her debut book, Treat Me Like Dirt: An Oral History of Punk in  Toronto and Beyond, was the first to give an in-depth account of Toronto’s early punk scene. Liz’s first poetry collection, Amphetamine Heart, was released in 2011, and her first novel, PostApoc, was released in October 2013. She has also re-written Andy Warhol’s a: A Novel as poetry. You can reach her at www.lizworth.com

Louise P. Sloane

web:    www.louisepsloane.com

             

EDUCATION   School of Visual Arts, New York, NY (BFA 1974)

Most recent exhibitions include

           

2015    “Louise P. Sloane– Recent Paintings”

            Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY

            Curator:  Andre Zarre

2011    “Louise & Randy (“Hotter Than ‘El)”(catalog)

            Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

            Curator:  Richard Timperio

2005    “Louise P. Sloane-Paintings” DMContemporary

            Mill Neck, New York

            Curator:  Doris Mukabaa

 

Her piece, “Sacrificial Invocation” appears on NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2017: A Celebration of Women.

LS Smith currently resides in Nova Scotia. She ‘paints’ using Procreate, Sketches, Drawing Desk and Phonto as well as working with her own photographs.  If she didn’t live in a shoe box she’d try her hand at ‘real’ paint again - she dabbled in water colour at one time - but for now, she is having too much fun and is enjoying not having to clean up after herself...Her work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca.

M.P. Pratheesh is a poet and artist who lives and works in Kerala, India. He has published ten collections of poetry in Malayalam language. His poems and object poems have appeared at various places including anthologies Singing in the dark (Penguin), Greening the earth (forthcoming from Penguin, 2023) RlC journal, Tiny seed, Indianapolis Review, kavyabharati, NationalPoetrymonth.ca(AngelHouse Press, 2022), The bombay Review, Keralakavitha, Guftugu, Acropolis, Osmosis, True copy, Indian Literature and elsewhere. His recent books of object poems include Transfiguring places (Paper View) and Charam-Acharam (Notion press).  His work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2022 and Experiment-O Issue 15 (AngelHousePress).

Mado Reznik is a visual artist and writer from Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she currently lives. She studied Linguistics and got a Ph. D. from Universidad Complutense of Madrid, Spain. She works with etchings, collages, ink and encaustics. All these techniques are a reflection and a seeking journey through paper as a medium. Her main interests are memory and language.  Mado Reznik has several Artist Books that have been shown in the U.S., Argentina, Spain and Uruguay. She also wrote several books going from fiction and poetry to testimonials. Her work appears in Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry (Timglaset Editions, 2021). Her visual poetry was published in NationalPoetryMonth.ca and Experiment-O Issue 9.0. 

Maija Haavisto (she/her) has had two poetry collections published in Finland: Raskas vesi (Aviador 2018) and Hopeatee (Oppian 2020). In English her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in e.g. Moist, Capsule Stories, ShabdAaweg Review, The North, Streetcake, ANMLY, Eye to the Telescope, Shoreline of Infinity and Kaleidoscope. Follow her on Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/DiamonDie She has many poetry readings available on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/user/DiamonDie. Her work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2022.

Manahil Bandukwala is a writer and visual artist originally from Pakistan and now settled in Canada. She is the author of MONUMENT (Brick Books, 2022) and Women Wide Awake (Mawenzi House, 2023). See her work at manahilbandukwala.com. Her poetry appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca and Experiment-O Issue 16, November 2023. See her work at manahilbandukwala.com.

Marco Giovenale lives and works in Rome. He’s editor of gammm.org, puntocritico.eu, bina, Argo, Or, and several websites. An ever-changing draft of his English prose can be seen at differx.blogspot.com. He’s author of books and ebooks of linear poetry, asemic stuff, photography, experimental prose. Among others, these ones (in English): A gunless tea (Dusie, 2007), and CDK (Tir aux pigeons, 2009: http://tir-aux-pigeons.blogspot.it/2009/03/cdk-marco-giovenale.html). In 2011 he took part in the Bury Text Festival (Manchester); see http://otherroom.org/2011/05/22/marco-giovenale-some-texts. His blog is http://slowforward.wordpress.com. News and infos about his art are at http://slowforward.wordpress.com/art/

 

Marcus McCann is the author of Soft Where (Chaudiere Books, 2009) and eight chapbooks, most recently The Glass Jaw (Bywords, 2010) and Town in a Long Day of Leaving (above/ground 2010). A journalist by day, McCann is also an avid quilter.

Raised in Scotland, Margaret Malloch Zielinski now lives in Ottawa.  Her work has been published in various anthologies and literary journals including A Crystal through which Love Passes, Soundings ( both Buschek Books), Untying the Apron (Guernica),  Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual, 2014 (UK), The Antigonish Review, Bywords, Contemporary Verse 2, the Dalhousie Review, Geist, The Montreal International Poetry Prize Long List  2011, Quills, and Room. Together with five other poets she published, Whistle for Jellyfish. (Bookland Press, Toronto)

Margaret Viboolsittiseri is a multimedia artist from Richmond, Virginia. Her most recent experimental pieces are inside the anthologies AWW-STRUCK: Poetic and Critical Responses to the Theme of Cuteness (Poem Atlas, 2021), the mouth of a lion: apocalyptic visual poetry (Steel Incisors, 2021), Fevers of the Mind Press Presents The Poets of 2020 (2021), and My teeth don’t chew on shrapnel, an anthology of poetry by military veterans (Oxford Brookes, 2020). She tweets @maggsvibo and her website is https://www.maggsvibo.com/. Her work appears in Experiment-O Issue 14, AngelHousePress, 2021.

Mariah Lynne Dear is a majestic woman who lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is a poet, a fiction writer, a feminist, a nanny, and a writing workshop facilitator. Since her spoken word poetry debut at age seventeen, she has travelled across Canada competing both individually and as a team representing the city of Vancouver. She was pleased to be crowned the Grand Slam Champion of UBC in 2014 and the Youth Grand Slam Champion of Vancouver in 2015. Her poem, “N” appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2017: A Celebration of Women.

Marianne Apostolides is the author of four books, including Voluptuous Pleasure: The Truth about the Writing Life (BookThug, 2012) and The Lucky Child (Mansfield Press, 2010), which was long-listed for a ReLit Award.  She is a recipient of the 2011 Chalmers Arts Fellowship.

Marilyn Irwin (photo credit Rachael Simpson) is a graduate of Algonquin College’s Creative Writing program, winner of the 2013 Diana Brebner Prize, and a 2014 Hot Ottawa Voice. Her work has been published by above/ground press, Arc Poetry Magazine, Bywords, In/Words, New American Writing, Matrix Magazine and others. Her sixth and most recent chapbook, transecure, was published by Puddles of Sky Press in 2016.  She runs shreeking violet press in Ottawa. Photo credit: Rachael Simpson. Her poetry appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2016.

Marilyn R. Rosenberg, as usual, with actual and virtual collage, with pen and brush, stencils, ink, and gouache, is making unique and edition images, and/or using the mouse, the Mac, and scanner to make these marks. Since 1977, MRR has been in very many international group exhibits. Her work is part of early mail art and in current interactions. Find her images of artists’ stamps, bookmarks, artists’ books, visual and asemic poetry and other works on the web. A small percentage were created with collaborators. Many unique sculptural bookworks, and her published edition works, and images of them in catalogs, in zines and in anthologies are found in university, college and museum library and archive collections. Her work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca.

 

Painter, sculptor, ceramist, mosaic artist, poet, MARINO ROSSETTI was born in Sulmona (AQ) 14, 09, 1944. He studied at the local Art Institute.  Professor of painting subjects, taught Drawing from life, Planning and Design Professional Decoration painting at the State Institute of Art in Rome 1 Via Argoli, 45 Rome. He currently teaches drawing, painting and mosaic courses in Continuing Education managed by the Association. Cult. FO.RI.FO - Ostia. Resides in Via Giuseppe Botti, 65 Rome 00119.

 E-mail: marino_rossetti@hotmail.it

Mario José Cervantes (Barranquilla, Colombia, 1971)

Studies in Philology and Modern Languages and Philosophy. He has collaborated in print and digital magazines in Argentina (La Hoja M, La Tzara, Tse-Tse), Brazil (Zunai), USA. (Word for Word), Cuba (Desliz), Portugal (Big Ode), Spain (Veneno), Hungary (Nyugat Plusz). He also participated in several international exhibitions of visual poetry in Chile (La Universidad Desconocida, 2009), France (Biennial of Visual Poetry in Ile sur Tet, 2015 and 2017) and Colombia (I National Salon of Visual Poetry, 2014). It has been included in the digital anthology Gramma Visual (Spain, 2006). He published his first book of visual poetry Magma (Spain, 2016). Work published in Experiment-O 12, November, 2019.

Toronto writer Mark Goldstein is the author of three books of poetry published by the award-winning BookThug: Form of Forms (2012); Tracelanguage (2010); and After Rilke (2008). His poetry and criticism has also appeared in periodicals such as The Capilano Review, Open Letter and Jacket2. 

He has taught transtranslation workshops at the Toronto New School of Writing, SUNY Albany and lectured on translation in Paris at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales.

Before becoming a full-time writer, Goldstein played drums alongside Leslie Feist and Broken Social Scene’s Brendan Canning in the indie rock band By Divine Right.

 

 Mark Young has been publishing poetry for nearly fifty-five years. His work has been widely anthologized, & his essays & poetry translated into a number of languages. He is the author of more than twenty books, primarily poetry but also including speculative fiction & art history. He is the editor of the ezine Otoliths & lives on the Tropic of Capricorn in Australia.Other chessboard pieces by Mark Young can be found at or in The Poetry Foundation, Ditch, Word for / Word, The Last Vispo Anthology, & on the cover of Otoliths, the journal he edits. 

Martina Stella was born in Trieste in 1992. Graduated in Photography and Contemporary Art at the University of Paris 8, she currently works as an artist and audiovisual technician. She is specialized in video projection techniques: Video mapping as a symbolic form (Published in L'image au-delà de l'écran, Editions ISTE, 2019) was the subject of her master research.

Stella's work sees drawing interacting with other media: photography, projection or, through installation, with the exhibition space. The state of in-betweenness and the interdependent relationships between heterogeneous media play a fundamental role: her attention is drawn to what happens between the drawing and the medium, between the image and the environment. She reflects on images of the unspeakable and the inexpressible, affirming and claiming the impossibilities of language. In asemic writing, the abstract calligraphy that Stella practices, signs are illegible and yet charged with meaning: between writing and drawing, the limits of the image are linked to the limits of language. The written sign becomes the fundamental unit, an actual medium to question our relationship to time and space.

Stella lives and works between Italy and France. She has participated in many international exhibitions and festivals such as Scrivere disegnando at the CAC in Geneva, the biennale See Djerba (TU), Art Verona and Wopa Art Fair in Lugano represented by the Rizomi Gallery in Parma, Italy. She has also published an asemic poetry comics in the collective artwork and book Dorso Mondo (Squilibri Ed. January 2021). Martina's work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca.

Márton Koppány  is a visual poet living in Budapest, Hungary. His latest book is The Seer, Redfoxpress, Ireland, 2017.  Forecast, published on NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2018 was first published in Otoliths Magazine, in 2017.

Marvyne Jenoff is a senior woman, whose poems of love and age feature in her new collection, Climbing the Rain, Silver Bow Publishing, Spring, 2022. She is the author of three previous books of poetry and one of experimental fiction. Born in Winnipeg, she began publishing her poetry in literary magazines as a student at the University of Manitoba. Now she is a long-time Toronto resident, with a career in the visual arts, as well. See her website, www.marvynejenoff.org. Her poetry appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca (AngelHousePress).

Mary Kasimor has been writing poetry, regardless of the month, but she is very
happy that there is a month dedicated to poetry. She has had many poems published
in online and print journals, including Big Bridge, moria, MIPOesias, BlazeVox2k3,
Cannot Exist, Reconfigurations, GutCult, Otoliths, among others. She has written
book reviews for Jacket. She has two books of poetry, silk string arias (BlazeVox Books) and & cruel red (Otoliths).

Marylyn Tan, is a queer, delicious, slutty, large-beasted, linguistics graduate, poet, and artist, who has been performing and disappointing since 2014. Her first volume of poetry, GAZE BACK

A member of dis/content, appearing in Experiment-O Issue 14, AngelHousePress, 2021.

Mathias Jansson is a Swedish art critic (AICA-member) and poet. He is mainly focused on new media art and specially Game Art. Writing for Swedish and international magazines and blogs as DigiMag, Gamescenes, Konsten.net and Konstperspektiv. He write horror poems, visual poetry, and meta-fiction.

Matthew Stolte  is an American concrete and visual poet, head of micropress eMTeVisPub, in Madison WI. His work has been included in Score, Lost and Found Times, Anthology Spidertangle by Xexoxial Editions, online versions of Verse Wisconsin & elsewhere. Tonerworks produced the chapbook in 2011.\Luna Bisonte Prods published Magnetic Poemsin 2011 &Drilling for Suit Mystery in 2012, a collection of collaborations with John M Bennett & C. Mehrl Bennett. Jem Tabs, a companion to DfSM, as well as Jem Tabs Dose & deal with Angie Cope are further collaborations published by eMTeVisPub in 2015. Construction Sea is his blog of Mail Art & Visual Poetry. Matthew's work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca.

Megan Moye Zacher is a graphic designer and owner of Zebra Graphics LLC, a Denver-based design firm specializing in non-profits and small businesses. Zebra Alphabet Art are collages created from thousands of letters with many hidden words and phrases, so each is custom-made. 20% of all profits from Alphabet Art are donated to Denver-area literacy programs.

melanie brannagan frederiksen (she/her) lives and writes in Winnipeg, on Treaty One territory. She is the author of the chapbook poseidon's cove, athena's cave (Model Press 2021). Her poems have been published in +doc: a journal of longer poems, The Winnipeg Free Press, Contemporary Verse 2, and Prairie Fire. melannie's work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca.

Melissa Beek is from Metepenagiag First Nation and currently lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick. She is imbedded in her indigenous roots as she heals herself from personal and inter-generational trauma through poetry, traditional Mi'kmaq teachings and exploring the traditional lands of her people. Her poetry appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca.

Melissa Carey is a poet from Windsor Ontario Canada and a fierce protector of her city. She is a volunteer, a photographer, advocate, loves the industry she works in, and has a big nature loving spirit. Nope. Bigger! Her poetry appears on NationalPoetryMonth.ca.

Ginny O’Brien is Curator of Education of the University at Buffalo Art Galleries. Michael Basinski is the Curator of the Poetry Collection of the University Libraries, University at Buffalo. They live in western New York and have published their collaborative work in BAU, Boo, Western Humanities Review, The Unbearable’s Big Book of Sex, Damn the Caesars,  and in the ubiquitous other places. 

Michael e. Casteels has self-published over a dozen chapbooks of poetry and artwork. He lives in Kingston, Ontario where he runs Puddles of Sky Press. www.puddlesofskypress.com

Michael Jacobson is a writer and artist from Minneapolis, Minnesota USA. His books include The Giant’s Fence, Action Figures, Mynd Eraser, and The Paranoia Machine; he is also co-editor of An Anthology Of Asemic Handwriting (Uitgeverij). Besides writing books, he curates a gallery for asemic writing called The New Post-Literate, and sits on the editorial board of SCRIPTjr.nl. In his spare time, he is working on designing a cyberspace planet named THAT. Recently, he was published in The Last Vispo Anthology (Fantagraphics), had work in the Minnesota Center for Book Arts exhibit: Directed, and was interviewed by SampleKanon and Asymptote Journal.

michèle provost is a visual artist enjoying life in gatineau, québec. her work resides at http://www.micheleprovost.ca/

zachary robert is a tree planting rock climber who has been known to write the odd song or two. their work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2018.

michèle provost intercepts elements of her social environment and reprograms them into more relatable modes. Feels nice to share. Her work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca and Experiment-O.

Michèle Provost and Grant Wilkins share a fascination for letters and words, sounds and visuals, and combinations thereof.

Michelle Lynn Dyrness work as a visual artist explores accident, intuition and suggestive imagery revealed in the unexpected. She works across mediums, and is interested in the various ways different methods inform one another within the same work. Michelle's work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca. You can find out more at michellelynndyrness.com.

mIEKAL aND is the author of numerous books, many available via Xexoxial Editions (http://xexoxial.org). After many years working in the realms of digital poetry and video, he has surrendered his role as author and focused exclusively on interactions that allow the author to be reconfigured by the mysteries of the collaborative process, including books with Maria Damon, Sheila Murphy, Geof Huth & now Robin F. Brox. 

Mimi Ramos Lebuffe is a young queer poet with no fixed address originally from the Maritime provinces. Her experimental and concrete poems have appeared in magazines and zines such as Vallum and Pahkakuhtak. Mimi's poetry appears on NationalPoetryMonth.ca. 

mimilebuffe@gmail.com

Miriam Midley is a visual artist graduated from Prilidiano Pueyrredón National School of Arts. Her focus is upon a textil metaphor that involves both language and calligraphy without any semantic meaning. Her artwork has been selected to be displayed at several arts Centers and exhibitions. Her work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca.

Miriam lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Molly Gaudry is the author of the verse novel We Take Me Apart, which was shortlisted for the 2011 PEN/Joyce Osterweil and named 2nd finalist for the 2011 Asian American Literary Award for Poetry. She teaches at the Yale Writers' Conference and is the creative director at The Lit Pub. 

Namitha Rathinappillai (she/they) is a Tamil-Canadian spoken word poet, artist, and writer who has entered the poetry community in 2017. She has been involved with Urban Legends Poetry Collective (ULPC) ever since her engagement with the Ottawa arts community, and made ULPC history as the first female and youngest director.  They are a two-time Canadian Festival of Spoken Word (CFSW) team member with Urban Legends Poetry Collective, and they published their first chapbook titled ‘Dirty Laundry’ with Battleaxe Press in November of 2018. They have been involved as a performer and a workshop facilitator within the Ottawa community at spaces such as Tell em Girl, Youth Ottawa, the Artistic Mentorship Program, Carleton Art Collective, The Fembassy, Youth Services Bureau, and more. You can find more at namitharathinappillai.com. Namitha's poetry appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca

natalie hanna (she/her) is a queer, disabled, lawyer of Middle-Eastern descent, working with low income populations and author of 12 chapbooks (including three with above/ground press), most recently infinite redress w/Baseline Press, and machine dreams,  a collaborative chapbook with Liam Burke, with Collusion Books. Between 2016-2018, she was Administrative Director of the Sawdust Reading Series and served on the board of Arc Poetry Magazine. Her poem, light conversation received Honourable Mention for Arc's 2019 Diana Brebner Prize. Her work been published in Canada and the U.S.. Hanna is working on her first full length poetry manuscript. She runs battleaxe press (small press poetry), and lives in Nepean, Ontario, on unceded Algonquin Anishinaabe land. Her work 

appears in Experiment-O Issue 14, AngelHousePress, 2021.

The last two letters of nathan dueck's first name & the first letter of his last spell "and." Only, he prefers to write it "&." He is the author of king's(mère) (Turnstone Press, 2004) and he'll (Pedlar Press, 2014). He lives in Cranbrook, BC.

A graduate of OCAD University, Neda Omidvar started her work at Barbara Edwards Contemporary in 2010. In her current role as Gallery Director, Neda brings several years of experience within the commercial art world by facilitating client relations, coordinating logistics of events and fairs, conducting artist studio visits, mentoring interns and developing artist careers through curatorial projects. She spends her spare time collaborating with writers and artists on illustrations and creative writing projects. Her work appears in Experiment-O Issue 13 (AngelHousePress, 2020).

Nelson Ball (1942-) is a poet and bookseller living in Paris, Ontario. He operated a small mimeo poetry press, Weed/Flower Press, from 1965 to 1974. He was married to artist and writer Barbara Caruso until her death in 2009. They lived in Toronto for many years prior to moving to Paris.

 

Scheduled for publication in 2016 are a full-length book of poems from Mansfield Press titled Chewing Water, a selected poems titled Certain Details from Wilfrid Laurier University Press, and A Vole On A Roll, a book of rhymes for children.

 

Photo by Catherine Stevenson.

Nelson's poetry appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2016.

Nicholas Lea's first poetry book, "Everything is Movies" is available through Chaudiere Books.

Nicholas Michael Ravnikar holds an MFA from Naropa University, a BA from the University of Wisconsin, and teaches writing and communication courses at Gateway Technical College's Racine, WI campus. He also publishes, edits and designs The Bathroom, a small press comprising many projects, most recently two chapbooks by Steve Timm and Ryan Philip Kulefsky and an upcoming racquetball chapbook tournament. Nicholas' poems have recently appeared or will appear in Cannot Exist, West Wind Review, Unsplendid, Unarmed, Boo, and BlazeVOX.

NICHOLAS POWER is a founding member of the Meet the Presses literary collective, and has performed with the storytelling duo The Wordweavers and the sound poetry ensemble Alexander’s Dark Band. He has been published by Teksteditions (Melancholy Scientist), Underwhich Editions (wells), The Writing Space (a modest device), and Battered Press (No Poems). He has been editing and publishing with his own Gesture Press for 30 years. His latest chapbook with Gesture is these molecules. His poetry appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2016.

Nico Vassilakis works with both textual and visual alphabet. Recent books include  Staring @ Poetics (Xexoxial Editions, 2011), West of Dodge (redfoxpress, 2010), Protracted Type (Blue Lion Books, 2009), staReduction (Book Thug, 2008), and Text Loses Time (Many Penny Press, 2007). His Vispo videos have been shown at festivals and exhibits of innovative language art. He was a founding member of the Subtext Collective. Nico, along with Crag Hill, edited THE LAST VISPO: A Visual Poetry Anthology 1998 - 2008 from Fantagraphics Books. Samples of Nico's work can seen at http://staringpoetics.weebly.com.

nina jane drystek is a poet, writer and performer, and arts organizer based in Ottawa, unceded Algonquin Anishinaabe territory. she is author of knewro suite (Simulacrum Press, 2019) and was shortlisted
for the 2020 Bronwen Wallace Poetry Prize. her poems have appeared in numerous journals, as well as in chapbooks and broadsides, and her original sound poem recordings are available on bandcamp. she is the co-founder of Riverbed Reading Series, writes collaborative poetry as a member of VII, and performs sound poetry with the ensemble quatuour gualuour. in her day-to-day life she is a writer, strategist and project manager at Spruce Creative, a marketing a design agency. Nina Jane's work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca.

Norma Kerby has been published in a range of journals, magazines, e-zines, and anthologies, most recently, the anthologies, "Heartwood" (League of Canadian Poets), 

"Another Dysfunctional Cancer Poem" (Mansfield Press), "(M)othering" (pending - Inanna Press), "Somewhere My Love" and "The Golden Oracle" (Subterranean Blue Poetry), 

and "Seed Dreams" (Writers North of 54), as well as the chapbook, "Shores of Haida Gwaii" (Big Pond Rumours Press). Her poetry appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2020 Ode to the Small. 

My name is Oakley and I use they them pronouns. I'm a white, disabled and queer/non-binary Pro intersectional feminist. I'm a pretty Fierce an Unapologetic person! I'm a self-taught DIY artist who values  prioritising making and holding a lot of space for  myself and fellow disabled, queer and trans and marginalised folks in  my personal life and in my work. I've been in the Poetry / artist and Music Ottawa scene for almost a decade  now off and on. Being in this industry / communities for so long while being disabled means that I have had to do a lot of resetting and self-reflection over the years, it's a lot about putting myself out there and being vulnerable and I love exploring  and reclaiming my body mind  through writing and sharing my work with others. My writing / poetry is very  personal, healing visceral, sensual and unapologetic. My essay is me explaining my creative process and what that feels like to me in my disabled body through analogies and metaphors. I'd love to be published on Angel House Press because I believe that we share similar values and missions in prioritising , making and holding space for  ourselves and fellow marginalised folks! Oakley's essay, The Power Of Metaphors And Analogies And A Disabled Body was published in the AngelHousePress essay series in September, 2019.

Patrick Edwards-Daugherty was born in North Carolina in 1974 and grew up in Nova Scotia, Canada. He studied physics at McGill and at Cambridge. He founded a software company, Pleiades, in 1999. He writes fiction and poetry as well as a web comic, Secret Vespers. He lives in Montreal.

Paul Nelson is co-founder of the Northwest SPokenword LAB, and Founder of Global Voices Radio. Author: Organic Poetry (Oct. '08, VDM Verlag, Germany.) Poems/Essays in: Golden Handcuffs Review, Jacket Magazine, Fulcrum, OlsonNow Blog, The Argotist, Raven Chronicles, elsewhere. During 26 years in radio, interviewed Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Anne Waldman, Robin Blaser, Sam Hamill, Wanda Coleman, Eileen Myles, Jerome Rothenberg, George Bowering, & others. A Time Before Slaughter (Apprentice House, May '09) is his first book of poetry and he writes one American Sentence every day.

Paulette C. Turcotte has been involved in the arts for more than 40 years as an artist and poet.

Her last major show was in 2006, a retrospective and book launch at The Arts Connection, Victoria. Since then she has exhibited her work online. Her art was discovered by a patron who purchased more than 200 pieces in the early 80s. Paulette has taught painting in various private locations including  Algonquin College in Pembroke, and supply teacher at Opeongo High. She is editing her poetry manuscript and her forthcoming memoir, Taboo, as well as a non-fiction book on Shamanism and Schizophrenia.

Her art can be found at: http://pauletteturcotte.wix.com/turcottewordandimage     http://www.bannedpoetry.com/  

Pearl Button lives in the Salishan Territories of western North America and obsesses over the differences between being, communication, language and world. Pearl’s work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca.

"aphasia" is an asemic piece created in response to a poem of the same name I wrote some years ago. The poem was published in Posit a journal of literature and art. I'm neurologically divergent; I have "episodes" in which language distorts past the place of syntatic meaning, although I retain a sense of "knowledge".

Pearl Pirie’s taken up the brush instead of just the rush. 3rd collection is the pet radish, shrunken (BookThug, 2015) follows been shed bore (Chaudiere Books, 2010) and Thirsts (Snare, 2011). Pirie’s recent chapbooks include today's woods (above/ground, 2014) & polyphonic choral of civet tongues and manna (unarmed, 2014). 

Peter Ciccariello lives and creates on the edge of a forest in Northeastern Connecticut, he is astounded by the way the world changes and that he wakes up every morning and it is all still there. His cross-genre, interdisciplinary artwork has been exhibited at Harvard University, Boston, MA , Brown University in Providence, RI, The University of Arizona Poetry Center, Tucson, AZ, and recently at Texas A&M International University. Ciccariello’s writings have appeared in print & online, in amongst other places, Poetry Magazine, Ocho #19, Fogged Clarity, Hesa inprint, MAINTENANT , A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art (#5 and #7) , Leonardo On-Line, National Gallery of Writing, and Word For/ Word – A journal of new writing.

Petrichor ArtLab represents the collaboration of poet Heather Ferguson and artist Jeffrey Lipsky.

Heather Ferguson was a co-director of the TREE Reading Series in Ottawa, Canada, from 1985 to 1990 (Grant Savage was co-director also). During that time, with the assistance of Seymour Mayne of the University of Ottawa, input from poet John Barton of Ottawa and the efforts of UofO students, she helped establish Bywords, a small monthly literary magazine. Heather is the author of the chapbook A Mouse in a Top Hat (Rideau Review Press) and The Lapidary, which appeared in Ygdrasil, A Journal of the Poetic Arts, produced by Klaus J. Gerken. This work was translated into Spanish and also French, and was published as The Lapidary / Le Lapidaire, translated by Andrée Christensen and Jacques Flammand (Vermillon). Heather collaborated with Jack Wesdorp on The Bestiary, a special issue of Ygdrasil, and on two readings for the Appearances Green Arts Festival in Provincetown, Cape Cod, in 2012 and 2013. She is continuing collaborative work with Jack Wesdorp in the form of plays and a collection of poems. Heather ran Agawa Press and published a series of broadsheets for the TREE reading series, an anthology called Open Set: A TREE Anthology, and Foreign National, poems by Laurence Hutchman.

 

Jeffrey Lipsky is an artist living in Lowell, Massachusetts who makes abstract narrative paintings and drawings about people, places, sounds and words.  His artwork has been exhibited and collected by galleries, museums and individuals from around the world.  He has been the focus of many articles in print and on the web such as New York Times  Magazine, Art Calendar Magazine, Artnet, Artinfo.com, the Boston Globe, Art Magazine Germany, and many more.  Lipsky also has been a contributing writer for Art Calendar Magazine and writes about how artists can embrace online technologies to expand their audiences and find inspiration for their work. He graduated from Montserrat  College of Art in Beverly MA with a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in 1999.

The art and poetry of Petrichor ArtLab appear in Experiment-O Issue 10.

Phil Hall lives near Perth Ontario. His most recent books are The Little Seamstress (Pedlar, 2010) and Killdeer (BookThug, 2011). Killdeer is the 2011 winner of the Governor General's Award for Poetry in English. 

Philip Meersman saw the light at the beginning of the first oil crisis on May 5th, 1971. Born a Taurus, he was destined to sensually love good food, good life, good wine and good sex. And his pursuit has been to experiment with them.

Art for Philip is making love with all senses. In his 3rd year of age you could find Philip in an art school, drawing. 33 years later you could find him in a cage, reciting poetry. He is desperately fond of Hieronymus Bosch, James Ensor, Surrealism, DaDa (the latter since he was a baby) and Zaum. You may not guess, but Philip is almost blind in one eye and has the gift of seeing things more like a picture than in 3D. That is why he loves photography and movies; they are very close to his kind of reality.

Next to writing and creating different forms of art Philip works as a civil servant (where he's not allowed to experiment). He's a true pacifist. He doesn't fight, so he's been beaten up, and now his glasses fit better on a broken nose. He's very naive and a true revolutionary, as long as the fighting is done only with words.

He married on 7/7/7 Rozalina, a Bulgarian beauty and also a Taurus. She's his muse and his Ariadne. She's Philip's constant source of inspiration. Together they follow their mutual thread of love and life.

A graduate of Trent University and Ryerson University, Philip Quinn lives in Toronto and online at www.philipquinn.ca.

Published Books: Dis Location, Stories After the Flood (Gutter Press 2000), The Double, a novel.  (Gutter Press 2003), The SubWay (BookThug 2008), 

The Skeleton Dance, a novel (Anvil Press 2009). Philip is the author of Bird, Most Likely (DevilHouse, 2015). His fiction also appears in Experiment-O Issue 8.

 

Ptrzia(TICTAC).Primarily a conceptual contemporary Silversmith and metal Artist. Works in mixed media. She has numerous internationl exhibits to her credit.  Artistamp artist and Visual Poet influenced by Fluxus,  her work covers a wide range from concrete poetry, assemblages, collages to Artists books . Participated in various art events .Currently active in mail art network known as Ptrzia(TICTAC) and as a founder and editor of sPMATSzine and Zine in a Box, international assembling zines. Originally from Italy, lives in Starnberg(Germany). Her work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca.

https://zineinabox.blogspot.com

https://stampzine.blogspot.com

https://tictac-tictac.blogspot.com

https://tac-tictac.blogspot.com

Media: Orange, asemic visual poetry paint, pigment liner and collage elements.

Rachel Small (she/her) writes outside of Ottawa. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in magazines, including Bywords.ca, Thorn Literary Magazine, blood orange, The Hellebore, The Shore, The Daily Drunk, Anti-Heroin Chic Magazine, and other places. She was the recipient of honourable mention for the John Newlove Poetry Award for her poem “garbage moon and feminist day”. You can find her on twitter @rahel_taller. Her 

work appears in Experiment-O Issue 13 (AngelHousePress, 2020).

Rachel Smith is an artist with a practice across Drawing, Photography, and Writing. She completed her PhD at Sheffield Hallam University in 2020, which explored Conceptual Poetics, and the materiality of language. She is interested in the production of artist books, using the page space to explore hybrid image and text experiments. Her work meanders through existing texts, fragmenting narratives, appropriating text, using association, error, and distraction to visualise how sense might be sought, rejected, and re-fused. Her latest book read(writ)ing words is available from Penteract Press. For more information visit www.rachelartsmith.com. Her work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca.

Rae White is a non-binary transgender writer, educator and zine maker. Their poetry collection Milk Teeth (University of Queensland Press, 2018) won the 2017 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, was shortlisted for the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and commended in the 2018 Anne Elder Award. Rae’s second poetry collection Exactly As I Am is out now through UQP.

 

In 2022, Rae’s Bitsy poem-game ‘stand up’ won the Woollahra Digital Literary Award for Digital Innovation. They have two poems published in Nothing to Hide – Voices of Trans and Gender-Diverse Australia (Allen & Unwin, 2022). Rae is the editor of #EnbyLife, a journal for non-binary and gender diverse creatives. They are the Events and Marketing Manager at Queensland Poetry.

Rae's work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca.

Raluca Tănăsescu is a PhD student in Translation Studies at University of Ottawa and an Ontario Trillium Scholarship recipient. She is also the translator of 11 volumes (fiction and non-fiction), as well as of many poetry selections. She is currently working on her doctoral research project titled “Songs of Globalization: Translating and the Power of Small Nations,” which tests the hypothesis of irrelevance of the biased major vs. minor dichotomy in translation studies and argues for the benefits of examining more consistently and programmatically translations produced in small countries.

My name is Raquel Gociol, I live and work in Buenos Aires - Argentina.

Many years ago, with the purchase of my first SLR camera, I began to travel the path of art through photography, becoming my way of expressing myself.

In recent years I felt the need to experiment with my photographs, which are the matrix of all my works.

From the mixture of images, techniques, resources and languages came my approach to mail art, visual poetry and asemic writing. Work is published in NationalPoetryMonth.ca

Reed Altemus, born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania 1961, is a new media and intermedia artist working in visual poetry, copy art, small press publications and performance. His work has appeared in the following magazines since 2002: Rampike (Canada), Offerta Speciale (Italy), Unarmed(USA), Open World (Serbia), Otoliths (Australia), Lost & Found Times (USA), Boxon (France), SCORE (USA), Signal (Serbia), Blackbox (USA),  Moria (USA), Gestalten (USA), Blackbird (USA), Xtant (USA), fhole (Canada), Voce Piena (USA), Generator (USA), Letter Founder (USA),  Communicarte (Brazil), Miniature Forest (USA), Arnyekkotok (Hungary) , Big Ode (Portugal), Wohnzimmer (Germany). He has been a presence on the mail-art scene since 1989 and has participated in the international small press scene since 2002. He has exhibited his work in group shows internationally and has shown his work often in the Portland area in the past few years. He lives and works currently in Portland Maine. In his spare time he enjoys licorice and Captain Beefheart.

Reema is a Toronto based human and a Vancouver based poet. She was recently asked when she started calling herself a poet, and she realized that it was when she started to draw creative inspiration from depression. Honest, bold, and whimsical, she writes about love and her social experience.  Reema’s poem “Stuffing” appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2017: A Celebration of Women. Photo by Patrick Shannon.

Reginald James Kent is doing an M.A. in English at Nanyang Technological University, and is working on a collection of short stories. His work focuses on queer forms and the gay experience. He

A member of dis/content, appearing in Experiment-O Issue 14, AngelHousePress, 2021.

 ReVerse Butcher (rVb) is an award-winning VR/AR/XR artist and poet. She creates virtual sculptures, films, music, performances, collages, & unique artists books.

Through creativity, rVb explores the complexity and necessity of existing across multiple worlds. She has a fixation with the surreal and absurd, creating artworks that shock, confuse and entertain while encouraging introspection. rVb’s multidimensional creations and immersive experiences intentionally bend the nature of text and space. She is deeply concerned with crossing digital and traditional boundaries, both technically and philosophically. She is based in Melbourne, Australia. 

Her work appears in Experiment-O Issue 13 (AngelHousePress, 2020) and NationalPoetryMonth.ca.

 

Website || https://www.reversebutcher.com

Twitter ||  https://twitter.com/x_rVb_x

YouTube || https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuFfMIGOWscpeWfatwrEnTA 

Rezia Wahid MBE   -  Artist/Weaver/Educator

Rezia Wahid’s gossamer signature work is like visual poetics which demonstrates breath and combination of ideology, sensual, and visual resources in which she has drawn in the development of her personal aesthetic born chiefly out of the creative interplay of memories, literature, nature, old masters, the art of weaving and concrete experiences of Britain, Islam and Motherhood.

 

Rezia is an award-winning British artist who for over 20 years has been combining teaching with weaving and delivering workshops in museums, galleries, festivals and schools all over Britain, where participants not only learn the tradition and craft of hand weaving but explore the different cultural contents and materials which are Islamic, Eastern and Western. She was awarded the MBE in the 2005 New Year Honours for her contribution to arts in London. Rezia's work appears in Experiment-O Issue 14 (AngelHousePress, 2021). Photo credit: Katherine Green.

Richard Biddle is an experimental poet and visual artist whose work has appeared in numerous zines and anthologies. He has published 2 books of visual poetry: Messages From Elsewhere - An Alien Graffiti (Timglaset Press 2019) and CONSCIOUSNESS (Penteract Press July 2020). His latest book On The Same Page – a collaboration/anthology curated and created by himself

(featuring work from many renowned visual poets) will be published by Timglaset Press this year.  Other examples of his creative practice can be seen here  or you can follow him on Twitter
@littledeaths68. He lives in the UK. His work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca.

Richard Capener's work has been featured in Sublunary Editions, SPAM Zine, Streetcake, Beir Bua and Rewilding: An Ecopoetic Anthology, among others. His debut pamphlet is out from Broken Sleep Books. KL7 will be released in February 2022 from The Red Ceilings. The Voice Without will be released from Beir Bua Press in August 2022.  

 Richard's work appears in Experiment-O Issue 14, AngelHousePress, 2021.

Born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa. The author of more than twenty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, he won the John Newlove Poetry Award in 2010, and was longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2012. His most recent titles include notes and dispatches: essays (Insomniac press, 2014) and The Uncertainty Principle: stories, (Chaudiere Books, 2014), as well as the forthcoming poetry collection If suppose we are a fragment (BuschekBooks, 2014). An editor and publisher, he runs above/ground press, Chaudiere Books, The Garneau Review (ottawater.com/garneaureview), seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics (ottawater.com/seventeenseconds) and the Ottawa poetry pdf annual ottawater (ottawater.com). He spent the 2007-8 academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, and regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and other notices at robmclennan.blogspot.com

Rob Thomas is an Ottawa-based writer. His creative work has appeared in places like Bywords.ca, Grain, SubTerrain, Broken Pencil, and The Feathertale Review. Rob was the recipient of the 2013 John Newlove Poetry Award. His chapbook Brood was published by Bywords in 2014. These poems are excerpts from a free PDF chapbook, which is available from Google Books or from www.robthomas.ca. His 

work appears in Experiment-O Issue 13 (AngelHousePress, 2020).

Robert Swereda is the author of Signature Move (Knives Forks and Spoons 2015) and re: verbs (Bareback editions), as well as three chapbooks: Capture, chicken scratch and ionlylikeitwhenitrhymes.  His writing appears in Canadian and international literary journals.

Robert William Reid has been making Art for 60 years. Such a selfish and compulsive act of ego. Yet still it goes on, in response to what? The Muse, the creative urge, a desire to stop the wheel for just a moment. I take some comfort from the fact that there seem to be many others similarly afflicted, with this benign psychosis.

His work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca

Robin Sinclair (they/them) is a queer, trans writer of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Their debut full-length poetry collection, Letters To My Lover From Behind Asylum Walls (Cosmographia Books, 2018), discusses themes of identity, gender, and mental illness. Their poetry can be found in various journals, including Trampset, Luna Luna Magazine, and Pidgeonholes. Their fiction and nonfiction can be found in Black Telephone Magazine, The Daily Drunk, and Across The Margin. RobinSinclairBooks.com. Their work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca (AngelHousePress).

Roisin Ní Neachtain is an emerging Irish poet and artist with Asperger’s. She was born in Geneva, Switzerland 

and briefly studied at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. 

She runs a blog featuring interviews with women artists and her work is in international private collections. 

She is currently working on her first collection of poetry. Her poetry appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2020 Ode to the Small.  

Roland Prevost : (freehand firebrand brigand) lives and works in Ottawa. His first chapbook, Metafizz (Bywords 2007), was launched at the Ottawa International Writer's Festival last fall. He was the recipient of the John Newlove Poetry Award for 2006 (judge: Erin Mouré). His poetry's also published in Ottawater 3.0 & 5.0, the Variations Art Zine, the Bywords Quarterly Journal, and the Peter F. Yacht Club, as well as in Whack of Clouds, by Angel House Press. He is presently the managing editor for 17 seconds, an online journal of poetry & poetics. He's kept an allsorts lifelong journal, and loves to observe the night sky through his various telescopes.

Rosaire Appel

I live in NYC and create visual books and drawings. My most recent book is Corona Panic Score, drawn in ink on vintage sheet music paper. My work has recently been included in Sand Journal, Covid Magazine and The Big Other.  My website is: www.rosaireappel.com. My blog is: https://rosaireappel.blogspot.com Work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca.

Rose Knapp (she/they) is a poet and electronic producer. She has publications in Lotus-Eater, Bombay Gin, BlazeVOX, Hotel Amerika, Fence Books, Obsidian, Gargoyle, and others. She has poetry collections published with Beir Bua Press, Hesterglock Press, and Dostoyevsky Wannabe. She lives in Minneapolis. Her work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2022 (AngelHousePress). Find her at roseknapp.net and on Twitter @Rose_Siyaniye 

 Roua Aljied is a biomedical engineering student and spoken word poet who is passionate about writing, social justice, and people. Born in Sudan and raised in London, Ontario she is currently living in Ottawa, Ontario. Her poetry focuses on issues such as anti-blackness, human rights abuses, gender-based violence, and Islamophobia. In 2014 she was crowned the Ottawa youth slam champion as well as the women’s Versefest slam champion. She has coordinated with Women in International Security Canada and the 16 Days of Activism Campaign as well as performed for the 2016 International Women’s Day ceremony in Ottawa to speak about issues of domestic abuse. Her work has been taught in classrooms, featured on CBC, as well as screened across Canada, the US, Ukraine, Germany, Ireland and Serbia. The summer of 2016, Roua gave a TEDx talk about intersectionality and accessibility in activism and the subject continues to be her main focus as she believes activism without intersectionality and accessibility is not productive or progressive. She is the cofounder of the Carleton Students for Climate Justice and hopes to create safer spaces for BIPOC, and especially women/femme identifying individuals. As a Black, Arabized, Muslim, immigrant woman she never runs out of words to write, but when she’s not performing, coding, or where she’s supposed to be, Roua can almost always be found in a coffee shop. Through storytelling, she hopes to connect with people in order to collectively cope and heal.

Primary Colours is a cine-poem written and performed by Sudanese-Canadian spoken word artist Roua Aljied, aka Philosi-fire, about the realities of domestic violence and how each step a woman takes is a new colour to paint on the canvass of her life. Roua is an activist and artist who has been featured on A-Plus and CBC Exhibitionists, and has done numerous performances for the 16 Days of Activism to End Gender Based Violence campaign and International Women's Day. Her words tackle subjects of racism, human rights and gender violence. Directed by Derek Price and Produced by Emily Ramsay. Primary Colours appears on NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2017: A Celebration of Women.

To further her interest in the creative process, Ruth E Rollason is embarking on a Masters degree in Fine Art at the University of Creative Arts, Canterbury, England.
Previously, as a Graphic Designer, she worked for various agencies and publishing houses in London. She now runs her own graphic design business in Ramsgate, Kent.

 

Ruth’s current work explores the handwritten and mark making using words, characters and numbers. She uses various media and processes which embody her passion for handwriting, developing the read and un-readability, the palimpsest, the obfuscation, the story, and the rhythm of handwritten words.

 

Her work has been exhibited in various galleries in the UK and published in the US. She has work in private collections in the UK and Ireland. Her work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2016.

Ruth Roach Pierson: I have published four poetry collections: Where No Window Was (BushekBooks, 2002), Aide-Mémoire (BushekBooks 2007), named a finalist for the 2008 Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry, CONTRARY (Tightrope Books, 2011), longlisted for the 2012 ReLit Award, and most recently REALIGNMENT (Palimpsest Press, 2015). I have also edited an anthology of movie poems entitled I Found It At the Movies, published by Guernica Editions in 2014, and the chapbook APERTURE: Poems for Josef Sudek (Rufus Books, 2014). My poems have appeared in The Antigonish Review, ARC, CV2, Event, The Fiddlehead, Grain, The Literary Review of Canada, The Malahat Review, The New Quarterly, Pagitica, Pottersfield Portfolio, Prism International, Queen’s Feminist Review, Quills, Room of One’s Own, Vallum, Word: Toronto’s Literary Calendar, as well as in a number of anthologies. My poem “Equipoise” (Grain 2012) was chosen for inclusion in The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2013. My poem “After Josef Sudek’s ‘Eggshells on Plate’” was nominated by The New Quarterly for the National Magazine Award in Poetry in 2014. “A Woman’s Hair is Her Crowing Glory” appears as part of NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2017: A Celebration of Women.

S Cearley is a former professor of philosophy and AI researcher in computer-derived writing. He

currently lives eighteen inches above a river watching ducks, otters and herons. S Cearley's chapbook

"The Travesties of Plato" was published by Spacecraft Press in Sept 2015; other pieces were previously

published in A Bad Penny, The Los Angeles Review, Your Impossible Voice, NationalPoetryMonth.ca,

Lockjaw, Entropy, and Floating Bridge Review. His manifesto, “the non-Concrete Manifesto of Concrete Poetry,”

 was published as part of the AngelHousePress essay series in January, 2016.

Sabine Remy

www.miriskum.de

https://www.facebook.com/SabineRemyMiriskum

https://www.instagram.com/sabine.remy.collage/

Analog collage artist, based in Germany, mainly using old books and papers.

Several international group and solo exhibitions, publications, contributions to assembling magazines, collaborations with other collagists all over the world, mail artist

 

For many years I have dedicated myself exclusively to the medium of paper collage. I appreciate the unpredictable and the randomness of working with pictorial elements from different sources. The non-linear narration, which creates new, sometimes strange and bizarre pictorial statements, is my main interest.

Sabine's work appears in Experiment-O Issue 12.

Sacha Archer lives in Burlington, Ontario with his wife and two daughters. Most recently he has published Mother’s Milk (Timglaset), Lines of Sight (nOIR:Z) and UMO (The Blasted Tree). His work has recently been included in the anthologies Watch Your Head (Coach House Books, 2020) and Writing Utopia 2020 (Hesterglock, 2020). His work Framing Poems is forthcoming from Timglaset. Archer is the editor of Simulacrum Press (simulacrumpress.ca). His concrete poetry has been exhibited across Europe, the USA and Canada. Find him on Facebook and Instagram @sachaarcher. Sacha's work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca and Experiment-O.

Sandra Alland is a Glasgow-based writer, filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist. Her poetic examination of gender and A.I., Naturally Speaking (espresso, Toronto), co-won the 2013 bpNichol Award. In 2017, Sandra co-edited the anthology, Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back (Nine Arches, UK), and had short stories published in three anthologies from Manchester’s Comma Press, including Protest! Stories of Resistance. Sandra’s story, ‘Equivalence’, was developed into a live performance with film, and featured at Transpose (Barbican, London), Anatomy (Summerhall, Edinburgh), and Who’s Your Dandy? (Edinburgh Filmhouse). www.blissfultimes.ca. Sandra's co-directed film, "Bilingual Poet's Dilemma" by Donna Williams" was published in NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2018 and was originally published as part of Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back (Nine Arches, 2017).

Sandra Ridley is the author of three books of poetry: Fallout (Hagios Press), Post-Apothecary (Pedlar Press), and most recently, The Counting House (BookThug). She lives in Ottawa.

Photo: Christine McNair

Sanita Fejzic is an Ottawa-based writer and past editor of In/Words Magazine and Press. Her novella, Psychomachia, was published by Quattro Books in 2016. An excerpt from the novella appears in Experiment-O, Issue 10

Sarah Hilton (she/they) is a lesbian librarian, or…a lesbrarian! Her work has been featured in several print and online journals including Minola, Untethered, and CV2. She is the author of Saltwater Lacuna (Anstruther Press) and the digital chapbook homecoming (MODEL Press). Sarah's poetry appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca. They live in Toronto, where they work as a children’s librarian. 

Sarah Sarai’s second poetry collection, Geographies of Soul and Taffeta, published in 2016 by Indolent Books, “reminds you of your humanity” according to The Daily Art Source. Poet Melissa Studdard called Sarai’s first collection, The Future Is Happy, “a poetry of luminous, brave transparency” (American Book Review). Journals Sarai’s poems and short stories appear in include Painted Bride Quarterly, Barrow Street, The Collagist, Boston Review, Threepenny Review, Ascent, South Dakota Review, Tampa Review, and others. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College’s MFA in fiction program, Sarah Sarai lives, works, and writes in New York City.Sarah's poetry appears on NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2016 and Experiment-O Issue 9.0. 

Sarah Supaat is a sometime dabbler and full-time paper-pusher. In her previous life, she studied linguistics, and stage-managed on the side.

A member of dis/content, appearing in Experiment-O Issue 14, AngelHousePress, 2021.

Sarah-Jane Crowson’s art and poetry is inspired by fairytales, nature and her personal emotional  landscape. It is informed by ideas of accidental trespass, surrealism and romanticism. Her collages transform images and artefacts from historical popular culture into surreal, theatrical dreamscapes. She works with a mixture of analogue and digital collage techniques and hopes to create small enigmatic treasures that people might find beautiful. She is an educator at Hereford College of Arts, and a postgraduate researcher at Birmingham City University, investigating ideas of the 'critical radical rural'. Sarah-Jane's images can be seen in various UK and US journals, including The Adroit Journal, Rattle, Waxwing Literary Journal, Petrichor, Sugar House Review and Iron Horse Literary Review.  You can find her on Twitter @Sarahjfc, Instagram @Sarah_jfc or on her website at www.sarahjanecrowson.art. Sarah-Jane's work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca and Experiment-O Issue 16, November 2023. You can find her on Twitter @Sarahjfc or on her website at www.sarahjanecrowson.art

Sascha Akhtar is an ACE-supported artist. Engaged in contemplative practice for over 15 years, she holds space for transformation & development via a syncretic & intersectional synthesis of modalities in her teaching & mentoring at universities & centres for writing. Sascha has authored six poetry collections and a work of fiction Of Necessity And Wanting — a short story collection available from The 87 Press. She is a Poetry School tutor and was judge for the Streetcake Experimental Prize U.K. 2019/2020. She is an artist fully committed to form, and no two pieces or books of her are ever the same form. Thus lies her devotion to form.

 

In the words of Dr. Kimberly Campanello (Lecturer Creative Writing University of Leeds & Artist): Sascha Akhtar is a mystic and a poet, for real. Her performances channel the full body (of language) and beyond into a flare, with flair. Her poems chew and spew the necessary wisdoms. Lean in and listen.
Sascha's audio poem appears in Experiment-O Issue 14, AngelHousePress, 2021.

Satu Kaikkonen I'm Satu Kaikkonen (1967) a teacher, a poet and visual poet from Finland. I have always been interested in writing and the relationships between language and image, language and sound & language and movement etc. So my works include tradidional lyrics as well as visual & asemic poetry and sound poetry, abstract comics and poemics ect. I mainly create my visual poems digitally, but I also use concrete objects in my works. Her work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca and Experiment-O.

Sean Braune’s theoretical work has been published in Postmodern Culture, Journal of Modern Literature, Canadian Literature, symplokē, and elsewhere. His poetry has appeared in ditch, The Puritan, Rampike, Poetry is Dead, and elsewhere. His first chapbook, the vitamins of an alphabet, appeared in 2016 with above/ground press. Sean's chapbook, Story of Lilith was published by AngelHousePress in 2017.

Sean Moreland writes poetry (some of which has been published in The Malahat Review, The Puritan, The Ottawa Arts Review, Bywords.ca, ditch and NoD), short fiction (most recently in Pavor Nocturnus, Allusions of Innocence, and Lackington’s) and scholarly non-fiction (he provided chapters to a number of recent books, including Deciphering Poe, Evil in American Popular Culture, and Generation Zombie, as well as co-editing the essay collection Fear and Learning: Essays on the Pedagogy of Horror.) He is founder and a fiction editor of Postscripts to Darkness (PstD), a serial anthology of weird fiction and art.

Selina Boan is a recent English graduate of Carleton University. She has been previously published by In/Words Magazine and won The Claremont Review’s Annual Contest for short fiction in 2008. Her first chapbook entitled “An Act of Distillation” was released by In/Words Magazine and Press in 2013.  

Shawna Lemay is the author of five books of poetry – All the God-Sized Fruit (McGill-Queen’s University Press), Against Paradise (McClelland & Stewart), Still (self-published), Blue Feast (NeWest Press), and Red Velvet Forest (The Muses’ Company). She has also published a book of essays titled, Calm Things (Palimpsest Press). Hive: A Forgery is her first novel. All the God-Sized Fruit won both the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the Stephan G. Stephansson Award. Her blog is Calm Things. Her site is Canadian Poetries. She lives in Edmonton, Canada, with Robert Lemay, a visual artist, and their daughter.

Sheena Kalmakova's work is a blend of abstract and representational style, depicting both natural and urban scenes.  She works in a variety of mediums, focusing mainly in acrylics. The scenes and subject matter she chooses to paint are those that she wants to spend time with, or those that have greatly affected her.  Sheena has explained that, painting is her entry point and method for processing, reflecting, understanding, and connecting to her experiences.  She feels that her paintings are the purest and her most articulate form of communicating these experiences with the outside world. Sheena is currently working on a series called ‘The Crows of Ottawa;’ which blends her fascination of corvids, with her love of this city. Her work appears in Experiment-O Issue 8.

Sheila E. Murphy resides in Phoenix, Arizona, where she pursues a variety of activities she loves: writing poetry, creating visual poetry and asemic drawings, consulting in leadership and organizational development, conducting long- ande short-range studies for public sector agencies, and teaching.

Continuations 2, the second volume of an ongoing poetic collaboration by Douglas Barbour and Sheila E. Murphy, will be brought out this year by the University of Alberta Press, the publisher of the first book in 2006. Murphy's American Ghazals is to be published by Otoliths Press in QLD, Australia in 2012.

Shloka Shankar  is a poet, editor, publisher, and self-taught visual artist from Bangalore, India. She enjoys experimenting with Japanese short-forms and myriad found poetry techniques alike. A Best of the Net nominee and award-winning haiku poet, her poems and artwork have appeared in over 200 online and print venues of repute. In addition, she has edited and co-edited six international poetry anthologies since 2016. Shloka is the Founding Editor of the literary & arts journal Sonic Boom and its imprint Yavanika Press. When she isn't poring over manuscripts, you can find her making abstract art, digital collages, or conducting poetry workshops. Shloka is the author of the microchap Points of Arrival (Origami Poems Project, 2021) and her debut full-length haiku collection, The Field of Why (Yavanika Press, 2022).  Her work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca and Experiment-O Issue 15 (AngelHousePress, 2022).

Website: www.shlokashankar.com

Instagram: @shloks23   

Sneha Subramanian Kanta  is a writer from the Greater Toronto Area. She is a recipient of The 2022 Digital Residency at The Seventh Wave and the 2021 Robert Hayden Scholarship at Stockton University. She has been awarded the inaugural Vijay Nambisan Fellowship 2019. She was the Charles Wallace Fellow writer-in-residence (2019-20) at The University of Stirling. She is the author of the chapbook Ghost Tracks (Louisiana Literature Press, 2020). Recently, her poems are finalists for the 2021 Frontier Open, and the 2022 Foster Poetry Prize. She is the founding editor of Parentheses Journal. Website: www.snehasubramaniankanta.com Her work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca and Experiment-O Issue 12.

sophie anne edwards is a single mom, artist, writer and curator. She lives on Manitoulin Island in northeastern Ontario where she is the Executive Director of the land-based community arts organization 4elements Living Arts. Mostly she prefers to be outside snowshoeing, walking or swimming. Her poem “Liquid wrappings” is published as part of NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2017: A Celebration of Women.

Spencer Gordon is approximately 6 feet tall, weighs 158 lbs., and has brown hair and eyes. He is currently enrolled in the MA in English Literature in the Field of Creative Writing at the University of Toronto. He has recently been published in zaum 11, Departures (above/ground 2008), Alberta Dispatch [an interview with the author, rob mclennan] (above/ground 2008), and The Puritan, which he co-founded and currently co-edits. Upcoming publications will appear in the next issue of The Frequent and Vigorous Quarterly, in the fiction/poetry collection For Crying Out Loud (Alhambra Books 2008), and in the fiction/poetry collection Dinosaur Porn (Emergency Response Unit Press 2009). He can also be found reviewing for Broken Pencil. Check out his interviews with authors such as Robert Kroetsch and Guy Vanderhaeghe at www.puritan-magazine.com. He can be contacted at spencerkjgordon@gmail.com.

Spencer Selby has performed his work in many North American cities and in Europe. He is the author of nine poetry books, five visual compilations and two reference works on film noir. He currently lives in Ames, Iowa. Website: www.selbysart.com

Sreekanth Kopuri is an Indian poet, current poetry editor of Kitchen Sink Magazine, Alumni Writer in Residence, Athens and a Professor of English from Machilipatnam, India. He recited his poetry in University of Oxford, John Hopkins University, Heinrich Heine University and many others. His poems appeared in Two Thirds North,  Contrapuntos, Arkansas Review, Christian Century, A Honest Ulsterman, Chicago Memory House, Heartland Review, Lannang Archives, Tulsa Review, Expanded Field, A New Ulster, The Rational Creature, Nebraska Writers Guild, Poetry Centre San Jose, Underground Writers Association, Atheron Review, Word Fountain, Synaeresis, Wend Poetry, Vayavya, Ann Arbor Review to mention a few. His book Poems of the Void was the winner of Golden Book of the year 2022 & finalist for the Eyelands Books Award Greece, 2019. He is the recipient of the Immanuel Kant Award for his collection of poems on Silence 2020. An independent research scholar in Contemporary Poetry, Silence, and Holocaust poetry, he is presently working on his research work “Silence in Contemporary Ecopoetics of Transcendence”. He lives in his hometown Machilipatnam with his mother. His work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2022 (AngelHousePress).

Stan Rogal's work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies in Canada, the US and Europe, including: Rampike, Grain, The Fiddlehead, Existere, Exquisite Corpse... The author of 19 books: 4 novels, 4 story and 11 poetry collections with a new novel to arrive in May 2016. He is a produced playwright. 

 

Dedicated oeniphile, philatelist, fatalist, fabulist, amateur euthanologist, all-round bon vivant and anthropoid, his interests include the works of writers who use initials in their pen names.

Stan's poetry appears on NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2016.

Stephen Brockwell is the author of The Wire in Fences, Cometology, Fruit Fry Geographic and The Real Made Up. The completion of his current project, Excerpts from Impossible Books, grows increasingly improbable.

Stephen Collis is a poet and professor of contemporary literature at Simon Fraser University. His poetry books include Anarchive (New Star 2005), The Commons (Talon Books 2008), On the Material (Talon Books 2010—awarded the BC Book Prize for Poetry), and To the Barricades (Talon Books 2013). He has also written two books of criticism, including Phyllis Webb and the Common Good (Talon Books 2007), and a novel, The Red Album (BookThug 2013). His collection of essays on the Occupy movement, Dispatches from the Occupation (Talon Books 2012), is a philosophical meditation on activist tactics, social movements, and change. He lives near Vancouver, in Tsawwassen BC.

Steve Venright's most recent book of poetry is Floors of Enduring Beauty (Mansfield Press, 2007). As well as being an author and visual artist, he has released several remarkable recordings through his Torpor Vigil Industries record label, including Songs of Elsewhere (music by Samuel Andreyev), A Natural History of Southwestern Ontario (co-release with Coach House Books featuring voice and text by Christopher Dewdney and soundscapes by Steve Venright) and The Further Somniloquies of Dion McGregor (spoken dreams by the legendary sleeptalker). Steve was born in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada in 1961. During one of the great blizzards of early 1982, he crossed the plains of Southwestern Ontario and has resided in Toronto ever since.

Stuart Ross published his first literary pamphlet on the photocopier in his dad’s office one night in 1979. Through the 1980s, he stood on Toronto’s Yonge Street wearing signs like “Writer Going To Hell,” selling over 7,000 poetry and fiction chapbooks. A long-time literary press activist, he is co-founder of the Toronto Small Press Book Fair and a founding member of the Meet the Presses collective, Editor at Mansfield Press, and for eight years was Fiction & Poetry Editor at This Magazine. Stuart has published several small literary magazines including Mondo Hunkamooga: A Journal of Small Press Stuff and Peter O’Toole: A Magazine of One-Line Poems. He is the author of two collaborative novels, two story collections, eight poetry books, and a novel. He has also published a collection of essays, Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer (Anvil Press, 2005), and co-edited the anthology Rogue Stimulus: The Stephen Harper Holiday Anthology for a Prorogued Parliament (Mansfield Press, 2010). Buying Cigarettes for the Dog (Freehand Books, 2009) won the 2010 ReLit Award for Short Fiction.  His novel Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew (ECW Press, 2011) co-won the Mona Elaine Adilman Award for Fiction or Poetry on a Jewish Theme. His poetry book You Exist. Details Follow. (Anvil Press, 2012), won the Exist Through the Gift Shop Award from l’Académie de la vie littéraire au tournant du 21e siècle. His most recent book is Our Days in Vaudeville (Mansfield Press, 2013), collaborations with 29 other poets. Stuart teaches writing workshops and coaches writers one-on-one. He lives in Cobourg, Ontario and can be reached at razovsky@gmail.com.

Su Rogers paints in her Lunenburg, N.S. studio in her home. She is a graduate of NSCAD and her practice stretches over 30 years keeping an exhibition schedule throughout this time. She has published many cover images with literary periodicals and small presses. She is a hard core rubber boot-er as befits her Nova Scotia heritage. For the past couple of decades her imagery has been related to the fishery and recently Salt Fish Packers - heroic women's portraits at their work. Her piece, “slit, gutted, iced (triptych with piano hinges)” from  Salt Fish Packers, 2016, Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 91.44 cm (h) x 182.88 cm (w) x 3.81 cm (d) appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2017: A Celebration of Women.

Bracken's writing has appeared in the following: GUEST [a journal of guest editors], Hart House Review, Dusie, WEIMAG, The New Quarterly, Another Dysfunctional Cancer Poem Anthology, The Totally Unknown Writer’s Festival 2015: Stories, and elsewhere.

When Centipedes Dream is her debut poetry collection (Tightrope Books, 2018.) Her chapbook 27 is forthcoming from Battleaxe Press. Web site:  Sue's poetry appears on NationalPoetryMonth.ca. www.onegoosehonking.ca

Susan Connolly lives in Ireland. She has published three collections of poetry: For the Stranger (Dedalus Press, 1993), Forest Music (Shearsman Books, 2009) and Bridge of the Ford (Shearsman Books, 2016). Her poems were published recently in Otoliths https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2020/10/susan-connolly.html and in Experiment-O Issue 13 (AngelHousePress, 2020)  http://experiment-o.com/. Her visual poetry also appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca.

Susanne Eules is a German American transdisciplinary artist in the fields of language, music, performance, and visual arts. Their work explores the intersection of culture, identity, nature, and memory across languages. They are the author of nivolog, to be published by Contraband Books, Groningen, Netherlands and by Ethel in Philadelphia, USA as chapbook in April 2022. Two German books of poetry, der kønig.innen hasen hůten (herding the queens' hares) and ůbern růckn des atlantiks/den rand des nachmittags (across the ridge of the atlantic/the edge of the afternoon) were published in Austria (edition art science 63, 2016) and Germany (fixpoetry, 2012). Their chapbook lièvre - a book of hares came out with dancing girl press, Chicago in 2018. Susanne has published in literary and exhibition venues in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the USA. For their poetry and prose, they have received various grants, literary awards and residencies in Germany, Austria, Canada, and in the US.  Their work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca.  www.susanneeules.net

Susie Campbell is a poet and research student at Oxford Brookes University where she is studying Gertrude Stein, prose poetry and experimental grammar. Her poetry has appeared in many UK and international journals, and her most recent publications are I return to you (Sampson Low, 2019), Tenter (Guillemot Press, 2020), Enclosures (Osmosis Press, 2021) and The Sleeping Place (Guillemot Press, 2023). Her visual poetry is included in Seen as Read (Kingston University Press, 2019), The Book of Penteract (Penteract Press, 2022) and forthcoming Seeing in Tongues (Steel Incisors Press, 2023). Her sound poetry includes Echolocation, a collaboration with Chris Kerr, released by Angry Starlings Imprint (Hem Press, 2022). ‘Compulsions’ is part of a series in which she is experimenting with how the structures and behaviours of cloth might offer an alternative language (other than the medical and diagnostic) for engaging with aspects of mental health. Susie's work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca

Suzanna Derewicz is a poet, playwright, and theatre producer. She has featured at various Toronto, Ottawa and Glasgow based reading series. She has recently been published in The Quilliad, (parenthetical), and untethered magazines. Her debut chapbook entitled Maggie Monologues is being published in Fall 2016 by words(on)pages press. She co-facilitates Toronto's Write On Playwright Showcase, @writeonreadings. Her work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2016.

sven staelens is a belgian visual poet, writer & math teacher. In 2009, he began to explore the boundaries of language & literature, resulting in ongoing experiments in visual poetry, poesia visiva, asemic writing, poemics, abstract comics, collage art & regular poetry. His visual work was published in various magazines and on several blogs/sites.

sven staelens is a belgian visual poet, writer & math teacher. in 2009 he began to explore the boundaries of language & literature, resulting in ongoing experiments in visual poetry, poesia visiva, asemic writing, poemics, abstract comics, collage art & flarf. his visual work has been published in various magazines and on several blogs/sites.

 

 Sylee Gore (she/her) has recently been awarded the Lord Alfred Douglas Memorial Prize and the Bird in Your Hands Prize. She translates from the German for museums, publishers, and artists. Her artist’s book, Even Still, is published by Sampson Low. Her work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2022 (AngelHousePress).

Sylvia Van Nooten is an asemic artist living in Western Colorado.  Asemic art, with its pastiche of ‘language’ and images, allows her to merge texts and painting creating a hybrid form of communication which is open to interpretation. Her work has appeared in The South Florida Poetry Journal, local galleries and at the exhibition Mai Piu in Italy.

She will have work exhibited in the gallery Visual Poetry, Green Hope in Salerno, Italy in November. Her 

work appears in Experiment-O Issue 13 (AngelHousePress, 2020).

Tanis MacDonald (she/her) is the author of Straggle: Adventures in Walking while Female (Wolsak and Wynn, June 2022) and Mobile: poems (Book*hug 2019). She lives in Waterloo, Ontario. Her poetry appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2022 (AngelHousePress).

Tatiana Roumelioti is a visionary artist and asemic writer from Athens-Greece.

She names her creations ”Mystcret Codes” which is a large collection of enigmatic designs and writings.

About the creative process she states : ”my head is burning with so much energy ready to take form and structure, ready to be expressed. Releashing it on paper feels something more than liberating and satisfying.  I view the Codes as a portal to provoke deeper imagination and feelings.’

She creates almost on a daily basis and shares her work on social media and her website. Her work appears on NationalPoetryMonth.ca.

Website: http://tatiana9111988.wixsite.com/mystcretcodes

Facebook Page:  https://www.facebook.com/mystcretcodes/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mystcretcodes/

 

Tazeen Fatma is a poet and an engineer from India. Her poems have been previously published by sonicboom, un-stamatic, thewildwordmagazine, tinywords and prune juice journal among others. Her poetry appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca.

Tchello d'Barros is a poet, visual artist and screenwriter. He has published 6 poetry books and have publishing texts in more than 50 books among collections, anthologies and didactic books. It has carried out cultural activities in all the States of Brazil and in more than 20 countries. He have been touring with the individual and retrospective exhibition of Visual Poetry ''Convergencias''. With his visual works, he has participated in about 130 exhibitions, both individual and collective, in Brazil and abroad. He have taken his poetry production in several book fairs, biennials, literature forums, national and international congresses, besides ministering several lectures and literary workshops. He lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca

Tese Uhomoibhi is a Nigerian Performance Poet and Storyteller. She uses fairytales and African folklore to explore childhood trauma. Her work is published or forthcoming in Rewilding: an Ecopoetic Anthology, Mothertongue Anthology, Perverse magazine, and at the National Poetry Library. She can be found on Twitter and Instagram @TeseThePoet. Her work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca 

Poem & Performance by Kylie Supski & ReVerse Butcher, Film & VR Art by ReVerse Butcher, Music by Chris Wenn

ReVerse Butcher is a multi-disciplinary artist with focuses in making unique artist’s books, collages, visual art, VR art in Tilt Brush, writing & performance. She will use any medium necessary to engage and subvert reality until it is less dull and oppressive. When she grows up she wants to be a well-read recluse. She currently lives in Brisbane, Australia.

Kylie Supski is a Polish-Australian poet, playwright, & spoken word artist. She is greatly concerned with using art as a method of speaking out about social, economic and political inequality. Many of Kylie’s poems discuss her experiences as a transgender woman. In 2016 she was the winner of the Melbourne Spoken Word Prize. Kylie is passionate about personal autonomy and exploring the beauty of being alive.

Chris Wenn is a sound designer for theatre and contemporary performance. He was one half of the Punch Drunk DJs, regularly appearing at seminal goth-industrial night Z-1 as The Upstart. His innovative sound designs for The Trouble With Harry (2014) and Rust & Bone (2016) were both nominated for a Green Room Award in the Independent Theatre Category. He is currently the programmer and synth noisemaker for legendary punk nihilists Primitive Calculators. He lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. Find him at: www.chriswenn.com and  https://chriswenn.bandcamp.com/ 

The nth digri is inspired by the African griot tradition, his Caribbean heritage, and hip-hop culture. His poem Rows of Photos was produced as a video and played on Much Music, and included on the audio collection, Word Up. He put together the critically acclaimed compilation CD, WordLife, which featured the best of the emerging African Canadian spoken word movement. His full-length recordings include Return of the Rap Poet, south is north, and Tales of the North Coast, which was nominated for a Canadian Urban Music Award for Best Spoken Word Recording. He has performed in Canada, the US, the Caribbean, and Africa, and delivered workshops and seminars in schools, universities, libraries, and community venues. He produced an urban poetry series in Ottawa, the Golden Star Lounge, and led a contingent to Chicago for the National Poetry Slam, where his poem Sugar Cane was selected for the Best of the 2004 NPS Anthology.  He was also the 2003 Ottawa slam champion, and founder of the 2004 Canadian Festival of Spoken Word. He was recognized as the Festival's Poet of Honour in 2010, as well as inducted into the Ottawa Versefest Hall of Honour in 2013. His work was published in the 2013 collection of stand-out Black Canadian poets, The Great Black North, and in 2016, he published a book of his writing and poetry, Sirius Ting. He is currently working on a record of the same name, to be released in 2018.

 

Website: nthdigri.wordpress.com

Email: nthdigri@gmail.com

Twitter/Facebook: @nthdigri

Todd Swift was born in Montreal on Good Friday, 1966.  Swift's poetry has been collected in seven collections, Budavox (1999), Café Alibi (2002), Rue du Regard (2004), Winter Tennis (2007), Seaway: New and Selected Poems (2008), Mainstream Love Hotel (2009) and England Is Mine (2011).  His 8th collection is out in 2012 from Tightrope Books.  His poems have been published internationally, in places such as: Agenda, The Daily Telegraph, The Globe and Mail, The Guardian, Jacket, Poetry, Poetry London, Poetry Review, Prism International, The SHOp, and Stand.  Swift's poetry has appeared in many anthologies, including Radio Waves (Enitharmon, UK, 2004), Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets (Persea Books, New York, 2005) and The New Canon: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry (Véhicule, Montreal, 2005), as well as The Best Canadian Poetry in English (Tightrope, 2008).  He was  Oxfam Great Britain's Poet-in-residence in 2004, and has since edited several poetry CDs and a DVD for them. He ran the Oxfam Poetry Series from 2004-2011.  His PhD, from the University of East Anglia, is in Creative and Critical Writing, and is concerned with poetic style in the 1940s. Recent publications include Language Acts (a collection of essays on Anglo-Quebec Poetry 1976-2006), Vehicule Press, 2007, co-edited with Jason Camlot and Modern Canadian Poetry: An Anthology (co-edited with Evan Jones). He lives in London, England, where he is Lecturer at Kingston University in the department of English Literature and Creative Writing.

Tom Walmsley (born December 13, 1948 in Liverpool, England) is a Canadian playwright, novelist, poet and screenwriter.

Born in Liverpool, Walmsley came to Canada with his family in 1952, and was raised in Oshawa, Ontario and Lorraine, Quebec. He dropped out of high school and battled addictions as a young adult.

In addition to his plays, Walmsley was the winner of the first Three-Day Novel Contest in 1979 for his novel Doctor Tin. He later published a sequel, Shades, and another unrelated novel, Kid Stuff. Walmsley wrote the screenplay for Jerry Ciccoritti's film Paris, France in 1993. Ciccoritti also later adapted Walmsley's play Blood into a film.

Walmsley's style of writing ranges from the naturalistic to the poetic and, at times, the absurd. He moves easily between dramatic and comedic, and some of his "darkest" work is treated with a cutting sense of humour. His most common themes include sex (both hetero- and homosexual, often involving sado-masochistic fetishes, adulterous affairs, and, in the case of Blood, incest), violence, addiction (to alcohol and heroin in particular), and God (from a Christian perspective). He rarely deals with politics directly, although he openly displays a distaste for middle-class morality. His chapbook, Valentines, was published by DevilHousePress in 2015. His poetry appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca

Tommasina Bianca Squadrito lives in Palermo. He studied Sculpture in Palermo and Aesthetics in Florence with Ermanno Migliorini. She participated in 2011 at Artour Florence of Ellequadro Documenti and at Forfest, a festival of music and contemporary art in Kromeriz, Czech Republic. She has dedicated several works with passion to the philosopher Maria Zambrano (http://tiny.cc/i55dzy). She has participated in international projects such as Living between (Italy-Spain-Portugal) A city for man (Italy-Germany-Czech Republic). Living space (Italy-Germany-Czech Republic). She is interested in the boundaries of the arts and collaborates with architects, musicians, actresses following her passion for a calligraphy without writing that touches words upside down, small and almost invisible signs, other ways published in The new post-literate, Asemic magazine 15, Utsanga 7, Gammm, White bridge, Intuicion esteticaSlova issue 15, Zoomoozophone 8, Brave new word 13. Among the exhibitions Intuicion estetica curated by M. Jacobson at Cultural casa Baltazar, Cordoba, Mexico. In 2019 her text Camico, a wild language, the related video and the worked sheets were proposed, at Nuvole, art meetings, Palermo and the solo exhibition Here, here, there, there - Notes from out of place at Zona Franca, Palermo, Italy.   He has twice proposed Beside, installation of asemic sheets and performances with Eva Geraci on flute. She has developed two web projects: http://monitulipare.blogspot.com and http://siarbariaachidi.blogspot.com. The blog: http://officinapatosq.blogspot.it. Her work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca.

V. Rivers lives in Dundee, Scotland, and makes assemblages with reused, and found materials. Themes include healing, connection, serendipity, challenging notions of normalcy, and the recontextualisation of discarded objects/materials. She won the Art Angel Harvey Holton writing prize in 2020, and her poetry/art has been published in NationalPoetryMonth.ca, Poetry Scotland, and poetry collections in collaboration with University of Dundee and Wyvern Poets.

Her work appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca and Experiment-O Issue 14, AngelHousePress, 2021.

Vanessa Shields:

In 200 words or less

I am no less or no more

than all the best words in the world

the ones that twist tie tickle

your tongue

I am that woman who

bleeds her love and fear

onto pages for you to read

to vampire suck this marrow

in verse    inhale be brave

always turn the page

i am asking you to

look at her me you him us

to feel your breath on

the breath of the wind

call it to you

to listen

so listen

In 200 words or less

I am

Vanessa's poem, "Skin," appears in NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2017: A Celebration of Women.

Vera Hadzic is from Ottawa, Ontario, studying English and history at the University of Ottawa. Recently, her work has appeared in flo., Minola Review, and elsewhere. Her first chapbook, Fossils You Can Swallow, is from Proper Tales Press. Vera's work appears in Experiment-O 16, November 2023. She can be found on Twitter @HadzicVera or through her website, www.verahadzic.com.

Vernon Frazer's most recent books of poetry are Unsettled Music and T(exto)-V(isual) Poetry. Enigmatic Ink has published Frazer’s new novel, Field Reporting. Frazer’s web site is http://www.vernonfrazer.net. Bellicose Warbling, the blog that updates his web page, can be read at http://bellicosewarbling.blogspot.com/, His work may also be viewed art Scribd.com and on YouTube. Frazer is married. 

Willy Palomo is the son of two immigrants from El Salvador. His poems and book reviews can be found in the pages of Vinyl, Waxwing, Muzzle, The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States, and more. For more info, visit www.palomopoemas.com. Willy's poetry appears on NationalPoetryMonth.ca