Illegitimate pREscriptIONS

Blueprints by Andrew Topel

2012-02-01T15:00:00.000-08:00

Blueprints by Andrew Topel

Andrew Topel sent me a copy of the loose leaf Blueprints, printed on tracing paper, in exchange for Cr ch. The envelope reads, "plans for a future poetics...". I've made some scans revealing images of the scanner itself (the titles of the works below are my own). Mostly printed in black, some of the pages include brown-tone images of men & women building things. An actual blueprint for a type of stretcher is included as well. Perhaps it is also a blueprint for future poetics or a map. The clip-art-like figures are obvious & humorous; the words at first glance are likewise stark, curiously, as if words were clip-art, in comparison with the design, repetition of single letters & overlapping text. Reading becomes reconstruction & therein perhaps meaning. A spoken performance of some of the works would be interesting.

nowhere from Blueprints

skeleton from Blueprints

Blueprints:

    ISBN
        ISBN 13: 9781907570063
        ISBN 10: 1907570063

    Publisher
        zimZalla
    Imprint name
        zimZalla
    Publication date
        01 November 2010
    Publication City/Country
        Sale/GB

Two new ebooks @ differxhost: collab works by John Bennett, Matthew Stolte, C. Mehrl Bennett

2012-01-31T17:02:00.000-08:00

JMB/MTS 2011

On Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc/79948201/John-M-Bennett-Matthew-Stolte-2waycollabS-2011

2waycollabS 2011

3waycollabS 2011

http://www.scribd.com/doc/79948056/John-M-Bennett-Matthew-Stolte-C-Mehrl-Bennett-3waycollabS-2011

JMB/MTS/CMB 2011

diyfferx 2012

Sheila Murphy Works & Collaborations

2012-01-30T15:33:00.000-08:00

Work 1/24/12 & Zazzle Card 2011

SEM/MTS Collaboration JAN 2012


SEM/MTS Collaboration JAN 2012

Today I received the above collection from Sheila Murphy. I first became familiar with her visual poetry during the MaOAS 2009 Visual Poetry Exhibition I hosted with C. Mehrl Bennett in Madison, Wisconsin. She offered a series of works titled (from) Asemiatrices 1 - 4. I worked on some pieces after the event, making "letter clouds" bearing Shelia's works in mind. Over a year later I sent a couple to Shelia & she abruptly returned the above two collaborations, adding her silver writing to the 1st work & green, cut-up writing to the next, appropriately taking the work to the level intended.

(from) Asemiatrices #4

A Couple of Colabs with John M. Bennett

2012-01-14T10:07:00.000-08:00

JMB/MTS Colab - Twisted

Cardboard JMB/MTS Colab

Commentary: Working hard on several projects simultaneously. Collaborative works with John M. Bennett (& some 3-way collaborations with C. Mehrl Bennett as well) is one of them. The cardboard above (with skulls) was sent to me dated 10/28/11. I worked on it several times after weeks of appreciating it as it was. During our last session together (January 2nd) I believe John worked on it again, as did I several times thereafter. I've dated the reverse 1/14/12.

JMB/MTS Colabs

2012-01-11T14:36:00.000-08:00

Studio Pic - Raw Colabs

De Villo Sloan on Cr ch from IUOMA

2012-01-08T14:15:00.000-08:00

Cr ch by Matthew Stolte

Visit IUOMA for De Villo Sloan's blog post about Cr ch.

Mail Art from Kerri Pullo

2012-01-08T12:12:00.000-08:00

Commentary: This letter came with a ticket for a free Magic Couch Ride. Magic Couch included.

This piece was also included in the above envelope.

JMB TLPs

2012-01-08T12:09:00.000-08:00

$witch

2012-01-04T13:48:00.000-08:00

Commentary: I saw this image on Facebook & posted it to Facebook with - "from a phone company ad - as always using the $ to only mean savings - what about those witches?"

Value is a better term to describe what the use of the dollar sign in advertising is for. Value is the idea I mean in juxtaposition with (most often) the other two words in the word/ dollars & cents poems.

I will be putting out the 2nd edition of Concrete $ & Cents Poems this year! I doubt $witch will be included. The poems, like mini haiku, gotta twirl around in my head like butterflies, alive, in order to exist beyond solid equations.

Cricket Online Review

2011-12-31T06:10:00.000-08:00

Visit Volume VII, Issue II

Mail Art from Ross Priddle

2011-12-30T15:22:00.000-08:00

Envelope from Ross Priddle

Zines from Ross Priddle

Commentary: This collection includes an envelope with blue stamping such as the repeated "cLuster". Aside from some stamped mail art & assorted works are two zines (labeled in part: http://bentspoon.blogspot.com - fluxus canucks - fifty copies - imp press). They include works by Reed Altemus, Michael Basinski, John M. Bennett & many others often opposite a page of handwritten long poems & some with artist information. "free space" with covers by Gustave Morin & "fluxus mt" with cover by Matt Taggart are the titles.

Mail Art from Guido Vermeulen DEC 27, 2011

2011-12-27T15:43:00.000-08:00

Guido Vermeulen Collage from my work +

Guido Vermeulen envelope

Guido Vermeulen envelope address side

Commentary: The original two copies I sent to Guido were of a single concrete poem $PACE & a "K" under the moon construction paper work. I like how Guido (or I wonder if this is x "Charlotte") added a mostly crazy dance/ juggling energy to works I had intended the originals to bear. Plus I got into crazy scissors lately, the type of which has been employed here. The envelope itself is beautifully painted with collage.

Big Black Truck 12/26/11

2011-12-26T12:01:00.000-08:00

Big Black Truck

New Work - DEC 24, 2011

2011-12-24T13:35:00.000-08:00

WI Trilobite Project x M.T. Stolte

Happy Solstice & New Year!

Vispoets.com to Expire Soon

2011-12-23T10:52:00.000-08:00

http://vispoets.com/

Thanks to Dan Waber for keeping the site going for awhile. Here are two pictures made with paint from the site:

Issue 23 of Otoliths

2011-12-23T06:46:00.000-08:00

http://the-otolith.blogspot.com/

As always, the southern spring, 2011 issue is chock full o' nutrition, with work across a number of media from Paul Siegell, Anny Ballardini, Ed Baker, Michael Farrell, Corey Mesler, Zev Jonas, Howie Good, Joseph Veronneau, Ana Viviane Minorelli, Kyle Hemmings, Peter Ganick, Geof Huth, Heller Levinson, Scott Keeney, Jim Meirose, Keith Higginbotham, Yonah Korngold, Dylan Fettig, Philip Byron Oakes, Sue Fitchett, Sheila E. Murphy & John M. Bennett, John M. Bennett, John M. Bennett & Thomas M. Cassidy, Michael Andrew, Steven Alvarez, Changming Yuan, Raymond Farr, Melissa Eleftherion, Caleb Puckett, Julian Jason Haladyn, Jen Besemer, Dale Wisely, Tyler Cain Lacy, Eleanor Leonne Bennett, Awa Loizeaux Zag, SJ Fowler, Jill Chan, James Cervantes, Adam Fieled, Márton Koppány, Jim Leftwich & Márton Koppány, Lakey Comess, David Herd, J. D. Nelson, Felino A. Soriano, Jeff Harrison, Adam Trawick, Bobbi Lurie, Tim Wright, George McKim, Scott Metz, Sheila E. Murphy, Vernon Frazer, Dysphasia Press, Grzegorz Wróblewski, Jo Langdon, John Pursch, Megan Anderson, Eryk Wenziak, Katrinka Moore, Charles Freeland, Steve Johnson & Cecelia Chapman, Scott Bentley, sean burn, Bob Heman, Michael Brandonisio, Zoe Dzunko, Paul Pfleuger Jr., Bill Drennan, Javant Biarujia, & Bill DiMichele.

state DEC 21, 2011

2011-12-21T16:28:00.000-08:00

state 12/21/2011

Commentary: This piece was made from a cut-up painting on 8.5x11 cardstock run through a printer. The trilobites are from a book titled Fossils (1962) & are in part a reference to mIEKAL aND's book Trilobite. Asian characters & Roman letters were used in the printing process.

Trilobite School for mIEKAL aND

2011-12-20T16:01:00.000-08:00


Trilobite School for mIEKAL aND

Two Stickers by McMurtagh

2011-12-20T15:58:00.000-08:00

Two Stickers by McMurtagh

Acquired during the 2010 Avant Writing Symposium in Columbus, Ohio.

New Titles from Tonerworks DEC 2011

2011-12-20T07:57:00.000-08:00

Cr ch by Stolte

Matthew Stolte- Cr ch
5.5x8.5" booklet, stitched w/staples, edition of 75 copies
16 full color pages of visual poetry by Matthew Stolte of Madison Wisconsin
$8.00US postage paid

Carla Bertola- 16
5.5x8.5" booklet, stitched w/staples, edition of 75 copies
16 full color pages of visual ruminations on the numbers
1 through 16 by the Italian poet and editor of Offerta Speciale magazine
$8.00US postage paid

Susanna Lakner- The Papertailor of Susannia
5.5x8.5" booklet, stitched w/staples, edition of 75 copies
16 full color pages of works by the collage diva from Stuttgart Germany
$8.00US postage paid

all titles available from:
reedaltemus.org/publications
or order by mail from:
Reed Altemus
Tonerworks
P.O.Box 5052, Portland,ME 04101 USA
to reserve copies write: reedaltemus@gmail,com

ALSO: forthcoming titles by Brandstifter, Bill DiMichele, Tizianna
Barracchi, Vanci Stirnemann, and Matthew Taqggart will be available in
the coming months

The Bleed 0.2

2011-12-15T07:38:00.000-08:00

the bleed 0.2: asemic writing

The Bleed 0.2 features 54 pages packed with gorgeous asemic writing, including work by:

Jakub Niedziela.
Billy Mavreas.
Tim Gaze.
Marco Giovenale.
Bruno Neiva.
Vaiva Cyvaite.
Keith Higginbotham.
Massimo Sannelli.
Alice Young.

-- John Moore Williams

non-corgi Mail Art from Angie (sans Snooky?!)

2011-12-08T19:01:00.001-08:00

experimentation with non-corgi art by Angie

Sans Snooky? Is that possible? This 4x6 postcard size bears a traditional flip side - message & address on the right with stamps above - unusual for me to receive since joining the IUOMA little over a year ago. A piece from Angie was among the 1st I received (below, stamp-dated 28 MAR 2011) - from a 7up box. The 7up side is completely raw, as is; the address side is decorated with a corgi stamp & some color. The same corgi stamped image appears as a made USPS-type stamp next to the USPS one on the mostly non-corgi piece. Though faint, as it appears to me, asemic writing is all but completely obscured by familiar, basic geometric shapes arranged in a manner suggesting a geometric equation or map. I dig it, Angie! Mail art never disappoints. It is not a burden or time consuming for me to make but a complement to creating visual poetry - a way to explore ideas or other materials outside of vispo, a break (but not quite Art-Detox!). Or if overflowing with vispo, mail art can provide another stream for it, another venue. & as the message on the address side of this work states, Angie & I will be working on a collaborative book project of Visual Poetry with 20-30 other artists or so. Perhaps her above piece is just an inkling of what she will create. Corgi Vispo? Nothing can escape corgi.

Address side of Angie's 7up mail art 4 3/4" x 8 1/2"

David Baptiste Chirot Exhibition - Smokensk

2011-12-07T16:01:00.001-08:00

View the 70 page David Chirot in Smokensk catalogue from Scribd.

Commentary: It has been a great pleasure to visit David Chirot. This catalog is well worth one's time to view & ponder. Indeed, I have held some of these works, smelled them, stared, shocked by the few that bear a singular quality (as on page 20 - "openned eye" - in which the 8 1/2" x 11" page is completely boxed & contains individual scenes) seen stacks slipping across a mountain of books, jamming up against a crate of found materials David sometimes uses within his modest studio & remain endlessly informed & inspired. But I provide vague & cheap images here, someday to perhaps really get it down, my experiences learning from David & his work - the texture, mashed concrete, spray paint, fence grime fragrance of Milwaukee of many pages - pages like letters from a particular inner city back to anyone anywhere. "You gonna get something better, huh?" "No, I got carrots." - vacant green grass lot strewn with litter corner to corner/ young new sneakers; bombs, torture, barbed wire, prison - One would be uniquely privileged to experience the show itself.

POETICKS

2011-12-06T21:36:00.001-08:00

POETICKS

Many Thanks to Bob Grumman for blogging about this blog, eMTeVisPub & the other "Internet Samplings" in the following POETICKS post, titled: Column 106 — July/August 2011/Internet Samplings, Part Three/Small Press Review,/Volume 43, Numbers 5/6, May/June 2011

The above post also includes words on:

Serif of Nottingblog
Blogger: Gary Barwin

The Art of K. S. Ernst
Webmaster: K. S. Ernst

Otherstream Unlimited
Blogger: Jake Berry

staring poetics
Blogger: Nico Vassilakis

& beginning with - Text, Textile, Exile
Blogger: Maria Damon

Commentary: Grumman calls for more commentary, "for having many discussions of art as well as art, and I feel we need more discussions of art than art. That is, we have too much art, and not enough anchoring discussion of it." Anchors Aweigh! At least for this entry. Well, some. Isn't this enough already? I agree - though I am forgiven. I can do better. (All I want to do is paint in the sun - What a dream van Gogh Museum [from the song "Modern Dance" by Lou Reed] - with apps, crafting crazy scissors, electrical tape, bumper stickers, jpeg & rechargeable batteries. What a dream...)

e nom le nom mon e mon e by John M. Bennett

2011-12-06T17:06:00.001-08:00

from a letter from i'm a superhero

2011-12-05T14:08:00.001-08:00

Connie S. Tettenborn, Ph.D.

2011-12-02T02:56:00.001-08:00

by Connie S. Tettenborn

Visit the new site by Connie S. Tettenborn, Ph.D. of visual poetry, mathematical poetry & paintings.

& visit her public Facebook album & comment!

"It is not about penmanship, actually." - CFE

2011-11-30T16:26:00.001-08:00

John Mountain & DKA OCT 2011

experiment-o #4

2011-11-27T12:51:00.001-08:00

http://experiment-o.com/

AngelHousePress is pleased to announce the publication of the fourth issue of experiment-o.com, an annual pdf magazine that celebrates the art of risk.

this year's issue features poetry and visual poetry by Cameron Anstee, Caleb JW Brasset, Stephen Brockwell, Marco Giovenale, Mark Goldstein, Phil Hall, Marton Koppany, Ben Ladouceur, Joel Lipman & Francis Raven.

thank you to our first guest curator, Jamie Bradley & our designer & site guru, Charles Earl.

meshwards by Maria Damon

2011-11-22T21:40:00.001-08:00

View a pdf of meshwards by Maria Damon - a colorful chapbook of a collection of woven works. A collection I've long awaited!

2011 dusie kollektiv - www.dusie.org

Verse Wisconsin 107 Online & Print

2011-11-22T05:34:00.001-08:00

VW 107 Available Online & Print

Includes a series of four Earthwork Visual Poems on grocery bags by Your Blogger!

C. Mehrl Bennett sent to me:

2011-11-19T11:59:00.001-08:00

Give Me More BAWA - Portrait of CMB by The Blaster October 2011

Tom Cassidy Matthew Stolte C. Mehrl Bennett November 2011

The Gnat's Window by John M. Bennett LBP 2011

2011-11-17T00:20:00.001-08:00

Disappointed the book does not contain more collaborative works (Cover art by John M. Bennett & Diane Keys) - glossy, colorful, replete with textile - as wrapped, this tomb otherwise provides blocks uncut mazes snot bacon behind. raw poem. chew on it like it's yr boss's face.

from http://johnmbennettpoetry.blogspot.com/:

THE GNAT'S WINDOW
By John M Bennett
John M. Bennett’s The Gnat’s Window shows the evolution of a new form combining the textual, the oral, the visual, and even the artifactual, as the pieces can be seen as windows, or televisions, or computer screens. The poems can be read left-to-right as traditional texts, or up-and-down, or in-and-out, or in any number of other configurations, and thus have participatory and even performative dimensions within what at first glance seems to be a closed form. They are “dreams’ doubled crust” indeed: shaped and emotional, conceptual and somatic, sparklingly clear, and enigmatic.

Book available at: http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/the-gnats-window/18165060

Download at: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_LQDMnQx57QNWQyZDA0ZTAtODFjOS00ODkzLThhMDUtM2EwYTUyODc1YWZm

Tip of the Knife #7

2011-11-14T16:49:00.001-08:00

Each issue of Tip of the Knife includes a few works by a handful of visual poets. This issue includes some of my work!

Tip of the Knife #7

OAS Artists Exhibition

2011-11-13T14:51:00.001-08:00

See this work until this Saturday at the show!

WI ProTestPo - eMTeVisPub #6

2011-11-05T23:27:00.000-07:00

WI ProTestPo - 16 B&W 8.5 x 11 Pages, cardstock cover - Limited Edition of 25 - made with literature, signs & art from the Feb - March protests, photos & work from solidARTity, Poems About Wisconsin Protests from Verse Wisconsin, facts, journal entries, letters from Government & Kill the Bill Babies! - by Matthew Stolte & The People of the Wisconsin Protests - eMTeVisPub #6.

Visit the colorful WI ProTestPo album on Facebook.

Request a copy from me or if in Madison visit Avol's Books, Rainbow Coop, Good Style Shop & Amsterdam.

John M. Bennett Cardboards

2011-11-04T02:29:00.000-07:00

JMB Cardboards

Cr ch by Matthew Stolte

2011-10-24T15:13:00.000-07:00

5.5x8.5" booklet, stitched w/staples, edition of 75 copies

from Tonerworks/ P.O. Box 52/ Portland ME, 04112

Visit http://free-art-foundation.blogspot.com/2011/10/cr-ch.html to view Cr ch in its entirety! Many Thanks to i'm a superhero for blogging.

Cr ch on bentspoon

Also available from Rainbow Book Co-op.

Stoneboat Fall 2011

2011-10-23T18:29:00.000-07:00

2.1 Fall 2011

Check out the new issue which includes a visual poem by yr blogger.

http://stoneboatwi.blogspot.com/

Caliban Issue 5

2011-10-23T18:25:00.000-07:00

Check it out!

Issue #5 is up at www.calibanonline.com. Hope you enjoy the exciting art,
writing, and outstanding interview with Maxine Hong Kingston. Please
continue to spread the word. As well as we have done, some people still
express surprise that Caliban is back.

Best,

Larry Smith

Works made @ Madison Zine Fest

2011-10-22T17:27:00.000-07:00

Series A

Series B

Works from John M. Bennett

2011-10-20T06:27:00.001-07:00

as if ... 10/19/11

2011-10-19T08:05:00.001-07:00

Madison Zinefest 2011

2011-10-13T07:06:00.000-07:00

Madison Zinefest 2011 will take place during the Wisconsin Book Festival this October.

WHEN: Oct. 22, 2011, 10:00 AM

WHERE: Varsity Hall at Union South in Madison, WI

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU: Gawk at Zines, celebrate Zines, learn about Zines if they are new to you, meet authors, see Zine Presenters, sign up for a table to sell your Zines.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: ‘Like’ our Facebook page and follow this site.

The Wisconsin Book Festival is a program of the Wisconsin Humanities Council.

Drawing by Gisela Giardino on a CC BY-SA 2.0 license

I'll be there with a few of my books, zines & art! Float me a buck or two & walk away with some of my concrete & visual poetry, words, collage, paint & happy madness!

$OIL - 4/21/09

2011-10-11T14:11:00.000-07:00

$OIL - 4/21/09

I touched this one up Sunday - 8 x 10 inch on stretched canvas.

Object Poems November 4 - 26, 2011

2011-10-09T05:42:00.000-07:00

Object Poems

November 4 - 26, 2011

23 Sandy Gallery
623 NE 23rd Avenue
Portland, Oregon
23sandy.com

Opening Reception: Friday, Nov. 4, 5:00-8:00 pm
Reading/Performance: Saturday, Nov. 5, 4:00 pm

Object Poems brings together striking and varied works
by more than thirty contemporary artist-poets and poet-artists:
      poems in three dimensions
      found poems
      sculptural and utilitarian poems
      conceptual poems
poems that depart in myriad ways from the familiar form of the printed page.

Participating Artists:
Drew Kunz     Alison Knowles     Joseph Keppler     Nico Vassilakis     Harriet Bart
Michael Basinski     Bill Berkson     Jen Bervin     Kristin Prevallet     Clemente Padin
James Yeary     Alec Finlay     Steve McCaffery     Eric Magrane     Jim Clinefelter
Norma Cole     J. A. Lee     Leo & Anna Daedalus     Marilyn R. Rosenberg     Geof Huth
Mary Ann Hayden     Alan Halsey     Buzz Spector     Kyle Schlesinger     Kaia Sand
Curtis Steiner     Mark Owens     David Abel     Andrew Topel     K. S. Ernst

Wish I could attend!

3-Ways - JMB CMB MTS

2011-10-05T14:30:00.000-07:00

These works were created by the 3 of us - John & Cathy Bennett et moi. They are scans of prints. The works I did with John amaze me - these works go a step further.

Colab X JMB, MusicMaster, Victor Dada & C.Z. Lovecraft

2011-10-02T12:39:00.000-07:00

Dia de los Muertos - Gallery 99

2011-10-02T06:41:00.000-07:00

Dia de los Muertos and The Birth of a New Art Aesthetic

Opening October 8, 2011
9 a.m.-3 p.m.
Over the past several decades the Latin and South American celebration known as The Day of the Dead has gained significant popularity in Mexico and America. This exhibition discusses the formation of a contemporary art style inspired by the celebration.

Write Now - Artists & Letterforms - Chicago

2011-10-02T06:35:00.000-07:00

Ryosuke Cohen Brain Cell

2011-09-30T04:13:00.000-07:00

Zombiesemics by i'm a superhero

2011-09-19T16:52:00.000-07:00

Check out http://deadmailart.blogspot.com/.

Rosemaling and Day of the Dead Art

2011-09-18T19:15:00.000-07:00

Coming soon to Gallery 99 in Sauk City Wisconsin

October 2011

Works & Collaborative Day of the Dead art by

Carla Grzybowski
Mary Jane Connor
Erin Schneider
John Hitchcock
& yr blogger Matthew Stolte

from JM Bennett/ Stolte Clabs

2011-09-16T14:57:00.000-07:00

Received a 2nd package of prints from John today of our collaborations - made in Madison WI & Columbus OH. Had to share some. - oh - there are 3-Way colabs with C. Mehrl Bennett too! I'll post one or two of those next time!

3 new works

2011-09-13T13:28:00.000-07:00

Tip of the Knife Issue 6

2011-09-09T10:20:00.000-07:00

Tip of the Knife Issue 6

With works by BERND REICHERT BILL CARMEL JOHN BENNET PAUL PACAK MARILYN R. ROSENBERG REED ALTEMUS JIM LEFTWICH

New Work

2011-09-01T07:50:00.000-07:00

Sending this out as mail art.

Sending this out as mail art also.

Vispoets.com is fading out!

2011-08-27T07:25:00.000-07:00

Visit http://vispoets.com/ while it is still up & running!

Cricket Online Review

2011-08-26T07:29:00.001-07:00

Erg is excited to release Cricket Online Review, Volume 7, Number 1, featuring work from John M. Bennett, Joel Chace, Howie Good, Raymond Farr, Francis Raven, Travis Macdonald and Stephen Dorneman, among others.

See also Erg’s website to view innovative chapbooks from Bennett, Macdonald and others.

NEW PUBLICATIONS FROM TONERWORKS

2011-08-26T07:12:00.001-07:00

NEW PUBLICATIONS FROM TONERWORKS

Keith Buchholz- Middle West
5.5x8.5" booklet, stitched w/staples, edition of 75 copies
16 full color xerox collage works in Keith Buchholz's
inimitable playful and humorous style
$8.00US postage paid

Reid Wood- Funny Money
5.5x8.5" booklet, stitched w/staples, edition of 75 copies
16 full color pages of treated currencies by Reid Wood
$8.00US postage paid

Bernd Reichert- Fluxus
5.5x8.5" booklet, stitched w/staples, edition of 75 copies
16 full color pages of collage works by Bernd Reichert
$8.00US postage paid

Luc Fierens- Crash
5.5x8.5" booklet, stitched w/staples, edition of 75 copies
16 full color pages of re-poesia visiva by the mail-art enfant
terrible of Belgium
$8.00US postage paid

Andrew Topel- Music of the Spheres
5.5x8.5" booklet, stitched w/staples, edition of 75 copies
20 pages of full color visual poems with an intergalactic theme
by the always astonishing visual poet from Florida
$8.00US postage paid

Tim Gaze- Intersigns
5.5x8.5" booklet, stitched w/staples, edition of 75 copies
20 pages of black & white asemic prints by the leading
theorist/practicioner of asemic writing
$8.00US postage paid

Juergen O. Olbrich- If You Pratice Good Mental and Physical
Hygiene Everyone Will Love You
5.5x8.5" booklet, stitched w/staples, edition of 75 copies
20 full color pages of visuals from vintage childrens' exercise
books culled by Olbrich and arranged by the publisher, in German
$8.00US postage paid

all titles available from:
Reed Altemus
Tonerworks
P.O.Box 52, Portland,ME 04112 USA
to reserve copies write: reedaltemus@gmail,com

ALSO: forthcoming titles by Matthew Stolte, Brandstifter, Carla
Bertola and Susanna Lakner will be available in the coming months

A Letter & Renegade from A. Topel

2011-08-19T06:00:00.000-07:00

A Letter from Andrew Topel

Front & Back Cover of Renegade

Colabs with John M Bennett - August 2011

2011-08-18T09:23:00.000-07:00

Recent Mail Art Received Recently

2011-08-18T08:55:00.000-07:00

Cheryl Penn work - received end of July 2011, inside envelope.

Cheryl Penn work - received end of July 2011, envelope & folded piece.

Christine Tarantino - received August 17, 2011 - at my new address!
Paramahansa-Bubba-Dubba for Stolte, collage, 2011

photo postcard sent by i'm a superhero - Zombie Series

Luc Fierens postcard - received at the new address August 2011.

Photo of new works sent to my new address by i'm a superhero...

2011-08-17T06:21:00.001-07:00

zombies don't read poetry...

Cultural Center Poster - Show October/ December 2011

2011-07-21T17:10:00.000-07:00

Cultural Center Poster - October/December 2011 - Chicago - Many Thanks to Picasso Gaglione!

26 fluxneXus scores - C. Mehrl Bennett

2011-07-16T07:24:00.000-07:00

Many Thanks to C. Mehrl Bennett for sending fluxneXus scores. This edition includes 13 scores written in 2011 (some of which are pictured to the left), a composition for 9 voices from 2009 & finally Ten fluxneXus events gleaned from the history of C. Mehrl Bennett from 1961 to the present.

6 Works by Reed Altemus

2011-07-13T16:49:00.000-07:00

Tip of the Knife #5

2011-07-05T14:42:00.000-07:00

Check it out @ http://tipoftheknife.blogspot.com/.

New Poems from John M. Bennett

2011-07-05T14:35:00.000-07:00

(via Spidertangle group)

the ))chur))ning ))curve

the ))dog))gy ))renter

the ))spill))age ))drill

the ))roll))ing ))skull

the ))cloc))k ))natter

the ))ding))er ))cage

the ))spott))ed ))sock

tip of turd a sky of light

spill corner gur gling

ooo like yr sou p

regurged I played the

stool for Johnny

slagwich drooping on

the table flushed like

sp ee ch

:: bubbles and stones ::

dogs and clocks :: drips

and lungs :: loot and corn

:: sweat and thinks :: suit

and pour :: mind and

meatloaf :: blunk and

blink :: shoe :: an seed ::

pistol quack the shou

lder bung a neck lick

Johnny planks the tub

and snakes a bath .o

twisty I could sn ort

you him’s a gra te

,grinning at a duck

blabber an molt a dryer

melts his tongue that .pis

tolina y tus güevos coron

ados brisk my rusty sho

vel sneezing in the gar

age his stunned mice

twitching in my shoes

a flake a fog a fact a

flame a fool a flag a

figure in the fist a fake

a flat a form a fuck a

fantod bubbled fin ger

a flood a fumble a

fenêtre fulla forks

pause an crisp .rack he

throne .wrist protrusion fig

ured in his urination .the

pal infacted ,fútil .form of

ven tanal de vortexto vivo

que te comes el tamal de

torbe llino a yellow fly am I

shodden shadow el lamuyo

lamo me tomas la palab ra

tuminfecta it’s his lad der

mitosis slivered en el chile

carmesí y tu cuánto eres un

enjambre de pa nes

grinning under his bed

--
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

Luna Bisonte Prods
137 Leland Ave.
Columbus, OH 43214 USA

Photos from the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Invitational Poetry Marathon

2011-06-27T11:11:00.000-07:00

A three hour reading in three parts with a diverse group of poets from Wisconsin. I enjoyed the event very much (though I was nervous to read for the 1st time). It was great to speak with those I had a chance to. I took a photo of one reader from each 3rd; I recommend checking out their work!

Nichole Rued

Angela Trudell Vasquez

Chuck Rybak

Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Invitational Poetry Marathon

2011-06-21T14:27:00.000-07:00

Visit Isthmus - the Daily Page for more information. I am invited to say a few words & bring books & paintings. June 26th, 1-4 p.m.

The 19th Annual Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Olbrich Gardens Poetry Reading will take place in Madison, June 26th, 1-4 p.m. featuring poets (and one visual poet) from around Wisconsin. Readers include Poet Laureate Bruce Dethlefsen, CX Dillhunt, Adam Halbur, Derrick Harriell, Jeffrey Johannes, Joan Wiese Johannes, Erick Maiden, Nichole Rued, Rusty Russell, Chuck Rybak, Sandy Stark, Matthew Stolte, Angela Trudell Vasquez, and Lisa Vihos. Free Admission. For more info, contact wendyvardaman@gmail.com.

Postcard from i'm a superhero...

2011-06-18T07:30:00.000-07:00

"If only Hitler had known about FLUXUS, none of this would have happened to us!" - from i'm a superhero

Archives of the Eternal Network

2011-06-16T14:01:00.000-07:00

free art

2011-06-14T17:29:00.000-07:00

Check out the mail art postcard above & much more mail art sent to the free art blogger @ free art!

Work in Street Pulse June 2011

2011-06-09T13:26:00.000-07:00

A couple of my visual poems beside a poem by Andrew Krause in the June 2011 edition of Street Pulse - Madison's Homeless Cooperative Newspaper. Visit madisonstreetpulse.org.

Gallery 99

2011-06-05T07:39:00.000-07:00

Visit Gallery 99

Gallery 99 will be showing paintings of mine similar to the ones below:

$oil - 3.10.09 & 11.12.09 - 8 x 10

$ea $ea - 4.27.09 - 8 x 10

Luna Bisonte Prods from J.M.Bennett

2011-06-05T06:56:00.000-07:00

Mail Art

2011-06-05T06:53:00.000-07:00

from Skybridge Studios

from Art Nation - Karen Champlin

Mail Art from Helen Amyes - Exploring C

2011-06-03T13:52:00.000-07:00

CMB Postcard Reworked

2011-06-02T13:41:00.000-07:00

Mail Art from Jesi Yvonne

2011-05-28T13:15:00.001-07:00

$hell Golden

2011-05-27T14:29:00.000-07:00

Mail Art postcard by moi 2 go out 2 qui demain? Dated 4.30.08/ 5.27.11.

Geof Huth Fidgetglyph

2011-05-27T09:49:00.001-07:00

Fidgetglyph Created while Talking on the Phone with Terry Baxter

DrunK - John M. Bennett

2011-05-24T06:01:00.000-07:00

fOg

leak stone

boiled shutter of my

sleep wallet )tooth dr

eamer( nuts sticky on the

burner where I sent an ear my

cow swallowed and my lap spoke

.your eye ... peppered ... with ... gn

ats your pants soaked with ,,,milk,,,,, , ,

DrunK

Four Awesome Mailings Received Today

2011-05-23T16:30:00.000-07:00

YawZa! Above: Postcard from C. M. Bennett; Poem from M. Basinski; envelopes from Picasso Gaglione; Pages from Bernd Reichert FLUXUS TonerWorks 2011 via Reed Altemus. Whew!

Desk Top Painting

2011-05-16T18:59:00.001-07:00

Painted this around '09 - '10 on a rather heavy 53 3/4" x 23 3/4" desk top when I 1st began using stencils. I found the Christian car fish piece riding my bike. I left it in Ohio during the Avant Symposium, August 2010.

D10J11Po by Matthew Stolte

2011-05-13T12:53:00.001-07:00

D10J11Po*20B&WPages*SideStapeledCardstockCover8.5x11*

Visual Poems with some collage created December 2010 - January 2011

Visit eMTeVisPub/Word Work to purchase

or

$6 Post Paid to Matthew Stolte
19 S Franklin St Apt #1
Madison WI 53703

Mail Art Postcard from Bruno Neiva

2011-05-11T15:25:00.000-07:00

eMTeVisPub #5

2011-05-07T11:12:00.001-07:00

...is at the printers!

Typographic abstractions by Cecil Touchon

2011-05-06T09:15:00.000-07:00

from Typography Daily

nico vassilakis - staring index

2011-05-01T05:43:00.000-07:00

Electric Guitar Piece - Reed Altemus 2010

2011-04-25T16:31:00.000-07:00

ditch, anthology 5

2011-04-19T18:15:00.000-07:00

ditch, anthology 5 - big bright amused

big bright amused

responses to work that has appeared in ditch, by contributors to Angel House Press - edited by Amanda Earl. Angel House Press is a conduit for experiments in sound, colour, text.

View big bright amused.

Mail Art from James Chester

2011-04-15T15:37:00.000-07:00

April Vispo - New Works

2011-04-14T15:34:00.001-07:00

The Book of Soles (Souls) Review by Sheila E. Murphy

2011-04-13T12:12:00.000-07:00

The Book of Soles (Souls)

Of new full color collaborative book: THE BOOK OF SOLES (SOULS) by C. Mehrl Bennett (Columbus Ohio) and Marilyn R. Rosenberg (New York City):

Philosophy can be so photogenic when multiplied by two. The Book of Soles begins with the points at which each of us meets earth unthinkingly, via matching soles. At once receiving and leaving impressions, indelible or ephemeral, CM Bennett and MR Rosenberg pair their brilliant visual and textual artistry to delivery a highly appealing, playfully intellectual testament to the power and poise of visual poetry. Having long admired both of these artists in her own right, I am delighted by this excursive, poetically engaging dazzle of twinned antennae venturing through foregrounds and backgrounds, simultaneously discovering the land and its companion sky.

Review by Sheila E. Murphy March 31, 2011

WI Protests Mail Art

2011-04-09T19:48:00.000-07:00

This one is headed to Shanghai!

Protest/exhibit/PROTEST/rally/fun fundraiser

2011-04-07T14:32:00.000-07:00

Time
Friday, April 8 · 5:00pm - 8:00pm

Location
Milwaukee, Wi
9th and National Avenue, Milwaukee

Created By
R.l. Bott

More Info
Friday April 8th, 5pm-?, Milwaukee

Protest, protest exhibit from the Wisconsin State Capitol, art, info, music, poetry and ??? Be a creative protester and attend. Heck don't be a creative protester, be a protester and attend.

BE A VOICE AND SHOUT IT!! With signs, costumes, performance and ???
...Come one, come all and tell us why you hate the BILL and the republican regime.

Protesting will be on 9th and National, starting on the south side and going south to the freeway ramp.

Hosted by:
PI Space ~911 West National Avenue(former WPCA location), with the help of the Borg Ward~823 West National Avenue in Historical Walker's Point.

The show "SolidARTity" has been brought from the Project Lodge Gallery in Madison. It includes items of protest taken from inside the walls of the Wisconsin State Capitol before they were stripped bare. Many of the images and artists have become iconic. Some of the works will be part of the protest and exhibit. All have become a part of history. There will also be an exhibit of featured protest artists. Artists will be in attendance. There will be performances by various acts. The involvement in this is growing and the event is evolving. Anybody with an item of protest or an "act" to be considered/included should contact me ASAP via this page. We are open to more. This is the second stop of what we hope to be many on a statewide tour of what is becoming a state collection of protest.

There may be some special people here.....if you are, that is special enough.

More details to come as we near.....just PLEASE keep this date saved and start making the BEST sign or way in which to protest that you can think of. There may be a contest with prizes. There are many facets to this event, but the main idea is to share the capitol experience and protest.This will also be a fund raising event.

A note from your blogger

All of my works on view at Project Lodge & Verse Wisconsin will be shown!

Saturday I Felt Like Parhh, So I Made This Poem

2011-04-04T07:17:00.000-07:00

Colab Art

2011-04-04T07:12:00.001-07:00

This collaboration art was sent by C. Mehrl Bennett. The reverse is dated JUN 27 2010 with a list of contributors: Tom Taylor, b. b. grimm, John M. Bennett, C. Mehrl Bennett w/ Rod Summer's photo of an Italian Sparrow.