"THE OUTSIDER'S DILEMMA"

Thanks to curator Ian Whistle for including my asemic series, "The Outsider's Dilemma," in h&, a journal of visual/concrete poetry.  Go HERE to see how my white hairs are mischievous; here's an example:

THE ASEMIC GETS TOUCHED BY MIDAS

Interesting how I came to refer to the work as "the asemic" -- like it's a creature.  Anyway, here it is golden-ed. And I think it's birthing something more solid than it is -- like the effect of reading?

"LYRIC FERAL"

After creating a manual Poetry Generator whose total poems is a number with 3,110 digits, I had/have a spell of wondering why I'd write another poem.  It's still a productive period; I just wrote in other forms, e.g. an essay, as well as returned to reviewing a short story manuscript. This week, I also turned to the art of wordless writing, asemics.  It seems to be getting positive feedback so far, with the first six of the series finding publishing homes.  Here's another one reflecting a new direction within that series--a new direction I might articulate as turning feral:

MORTALITY ASEMICS

I started thinking about this particular project about five years ago. Underlying conceptualization: mortality. Yesterday, I began it -- an asemics series.  Today, the first three got published by The New Post-literate: A Gallery of Asemic Writing curated by Michael Jacobson.  You can see all three HERE but here's one: