2. Your Poetry Ain’t Mine

Bionote: Ko Vaughan Rapatahana te ingoa. Ko Te Atiawa te iwi. Ko Aotearoa te turangawaewae engari ko toru nga kainga inaianei: i roto i Piripaina, Haina me Aotearoa. I am fortunate to be published in array of genre worldwide. English Language as Hydra, a very significant book decrying nefarious influences of agencies of English, is forthcoming June, 2012.

Bill DiMichele has been a visual poet/painter since 1976, when he worked on an old Smith Corona typewriter.  He grew up in Pennsylvania where he insists that he was taught the arcane techniques of sand painting by the shaman of an East coast Native American tribe.  After moving to San Francisco in 1980, he experimented with numerous technologies, media and philosophies.

The pieces here, Ladies of the Road, done in children’s crayons under the influence of LSD,  have an unusual history;  the basic layers were done +/- 1988, and the overlaying glyph forms done years later, 2010 or 2011, after a sudden crayon satori.

Please view:

Bill’s latest painting exhibit, Alphabet of Everything in San Ramon, CA.

Cross-Section of a Moment exhibit.

And his work at Tip of the Knife Magazine.

Stephanie Christie lives in the Waikato. She performs her work and makes it into zines, and has recently been included in Brief and in Landfall. Here is her latest video poetry collaboration: http://vimeo.com/30967191. She is interested in tactile language, abstraction and feelings.

My art life keeps eating
And calling me up at 3 am

To say “chocolate mint ice cream,
Chocolate sauce & almonds”

As though I had a mania
For phrases in which poetry
Is cocoa-flavored

The result is—
I am not reassured

I am taking my world view

Into the barber shop
And changing my outlook

II.

At Filene’s Basement
I corner the imaginary poetry dog
“on the basement stair

& coming up”

The Russians keep him secretly engaged

All he desires is a thing he can love—
A fire to put out
An absence he feels deeply about

& more deeply
With every pared down line that he barks

I think he thinks it exultant labor

This explains inanimate objects

Raymond Farr lives in Ocala, FL. His poems appear both on line and in print in numerous publications. His 6th book ECSTATIC/.of facts was recently published by Otoliths Books. He is editor of Blue & Yellow Dog (http://blueyellowdog.weebly.com)

untitled, digital drawing, 2011

Massimo Sannelli was born in 1973. He lives in Genoa, Italy where he works as a linear and visual poet, freelance translator and editor in the field of medieval studies, and as an actor. His most important work for cinema is related to La bocca del lupo, directed by Pietro Marcello (Caligari Preis, Berlin Movie Festival; David di Donatello; Nastro d’Argento), 2009. He published This Is Visual Poetry by Massimo Sannelli for Chapbookpublisher.com (Kingston PA, 2011) . Please visit his blog: www.massimosannelli.splinder.com.



‘my floody thought dump’ is included in his just-published book, THE GNAT’S WINDOW, available at
http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/lunabisonteprods.  Visit his website at http://www.johnmbennett.net/