Category: Contributing Editors
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glitter-stoked fractals splintered, reflected
Happy winter solstice, friends in poetry. I’ve enjoyed getting to know your work this year. Thank you for touching my creative life in so many ways. A celebration of winter in the hill towns, typeset with love for winter solstice 2021. This is an old poem that’s been lingering in my mind. I cut it […]
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booklove for all our loves
Should you trust a vispo holiday shopping post from a woman who previously tried to cancel Christmas? (In short: In 2015 because of extended travel I saw a chance to do what I’d long hoped for — cancel Christmas. I had many sound cynical reasons in support of my plan! I was defeated though, by […]
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Visual Poems of Life
We’re building a studio for my husband and he’s created all the plans. I noticed a visual poem when I was standing by his desk for a moment, in a diagram for heated floor tubing that was on top of a pile of papers. Then I found another as below, and two more in the […]
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THE LISTENING ROOM. Margaret O’Brien ~ Writing Changes Lives
This painting, The Listening Room by Rene Magritte (1952), fascinates me. It pushes against the boundaries of the known, of relativity, of reality, of perception. What is too big, too small, what can fit where? It’s an odd one, this painting but I’m around long enough to know that when something gives me that little […]
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Heal The Wire
Typographic experiment here: loosely translating deliberate illegibility in the original cut-up book “Heal The Wire” (such as by reversing words, or taking advantage of printer smears) ➾ to regular inline text. T̵̡̹̙̦̍̓͌̾͊ime is a fraying tape of ɔ̷̹͔̹͔͇̀̓̒̏͋o̵̯͙͚͑ɿ̶̨͙͒͋̇o̵̙̍̕͘n̵̡̻̱̮͊͋̏͋͗ɒ̸̼̗͘v̵̧̩̱͑́î̶̡̜̳̿̓̈̕ɿ̴̥̪͈̭̊̆υ̷̪̖̰͔͔̾̾̈́ƨ̴̲͌̍ lessons and it twists off-again, on-again, T̸̟̬̉͒esting T̵̡̹̙̦̍̓͌̾͊esti̵͙̘̋̀͒͜n̷̛̝͓̋͑͠g̶̳͚͎͠ Ş̶̩̱̰͓͉͚̣̲̤͍̤̱̜̋̆̇̈́̑̐͗̓̕ing Ș̵̨̃ing̴̘̲͙̫̪̫̝̱̖̗̅͐̀̿̽̃͘ As we tip̷̨̨̗̯̩̠̈́̏toe the same ḅ̴͔̤̃́͠ranch, a […]
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Optimism of the Pessimists! Dave Lordan
Optimism of the Pessimists! ‘What kind of monster is she who has eyes to see & ears to hear, and yet walks straight and does not despair?’ Killian Turner, Berlin Notebooks (1982) ****** As a thought experiment, imagine yourself in a mass of lemmings headed for the Cliffs of Moher. If it helps, imagine the […]
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