And then there was Lost & Found Times, started in 1975 - which included vispo and lots of other stuff.
john Dr. John M. Bennett Curator, Avant Writing Collection Rare Books & Manuscripts Library The Ohio State University Libraries 1858 Neil Av Mall Columbus, OH 43210 USA (614) 292-3029 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.johnmbennett.net ----- Original Message ----- From: Clemente Padín <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 6:36 am Subject: Re: a new essay on Visual Poetry, by Karl Kempton > You should know the OVUM 10 on experimental poetry magazine > published by me in Montevideo, Uruguay, towards the end of the > decade of the 60s. > > Fraternally, > ----- Original Message ----- > From: mIEKAL aND > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 1:55 PM > Subject: Re: a new essay on Visual Poetry, by Karl Kempton > > > Julian Blaine's Doc(k)s started in 1976 as well & is still going tho > not as strong as the 80s... > > On Mar 21, 2006, at 10:43 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote: > > > Ive only got as far as the intro here. He also says > > > >> Karl Kempton published Kaldron magazine on paper between the > years >> 1976 and > > 1990. This was the world's first regularly published magazine that > > strove to > > include all modes of visual poetry. > > > > Now the operative word here is *regularly because I immediately > > think of > > Stereo Headphones and Kroklok - and grOnk was fairly wide in > its range > > > > L > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Dan Waber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 12:50 PM > > Subject: a new essay on Visual Poetry, by Karl Kempton > > > > > >> The minimalist concrete poetry site at: > >> > >> http://www.logolalia.com/minimalistconcretepoetry/ > >> > >> has been updated with a new essay by Karl Kempton, "VISUAL > POETRY: A > >> Brief History of Ancestral Roots and Modern Traditions". > >> > >> From the Introduction, by Karl Young: > >> > >> "In surfing the web today, you have probably passed through at > >> least a > >> dozen examples of word and image working together. Stated another > >> way, > >> you have been observing the results of prophecies and > examples from > >> the earliest petroglyphs to the visual poets who distributed > their >> work through the mail art network when other avenues of > publication >> were closed to them. Given changes in > communications technology, it > >> seems unlikely that visual poets will ever again be shoved > back into > >> the position of the Haitian boat people of American poetry. > At the > >> present moment, the interaction of graphics and text is so > pervasive >> in society that you can find it in everything from > warehouse tracking > >> systems to the most sophisticated medical diagnostic techniques. > >> Given > >> the now ubiquitous interrelation of word and image, it would be > >> absurd > >> to imagine that a new generation of poets could be kept from > >> exploring > >> this interface of media. And it would be tragic if their > predecessors >> would continue to be excluded from serious > consideration." >> > >> Enjoy, > >> Dan > >> > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.2.5/284 - Release Date: > 17/03/2006 >
