new work in Tip of the Knife

& curator bill dimichele calls me Queen of the Universe, which is pretty sweet.
take a look at the issue here.

More good press for the Last Vispo

In the Paris Review Daily Blog, managing editor Nicole Rudick discusses the visual artistry of text & the view by writers of writing as a visual activity in a preambule to a note on the Last Vispo. the blog entry features several pieces from the book, including my own "Sun."
i'm very chuffed. it's the Paris freakin' Review!

it's a sweet acknowledgement. now back to our regularly scheduled activity. i haven't been working much with visual poems of late, but i've been mucking about with arcylyic paint on various textures. to get a look at these, if you so desire, you can go here.

published!

my visual poetry has recently been published in two publications:

the Last Vispo Anthology: visual poetry 1998-2008, edited by Nico Vassilakis and Crag Hill & published by Fantagraphics Books. how cool is it to be published by a publisher who's published R. Crumb?!

Here's what Maria Damon had to say about my two pieces "Sun" & "Man."

"Before the computer was used there was, of course, wood and lead type as well; all thes remembered when I see the abstract concrete poems of Amanda Earl's 'Sun' and 'Man.' These poems remind me of those strong, old methods, the computer matches those skills. Here the words and letters are the image. They are strong shadows of the past." thanks, Maria!

in these pieces, along with much of my other attemps at visual poetry, i combined manual methods with modern tech. i used rub on letters, no longer Letraset because it isn't available anywhere i know of, onto some scraps of gorgeously textured paper from St. Armand Paper Makers in Montreal. i scanned in the pieces.

"cluster of As" is the second publication, a wee chapbook made by Ottawa small press publisher Phafours, run by Pearl Pirie. i believe copies will be available at the ottawa small press book fair & i'll have some on hand for anyone who wants one. thanks, Pearl!

New from Puddles of Sky Press

my series "of the body" is now available from Puddles of Sky Press. thanks to Michael Casteels for the chapbook  & his design of the lovely cover.

You can order it via Puddles of Sky here.

& for the low low price of $12 you can subscribe to 6 months of Project Tangiblog, which you should do. 

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Ron Sexsmith - There's a rhythm

Jim Carroll - I want the angel

Marie-Josée Houle - That Off Key Blonde

Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue

John K. Samson - Civil Twighlight

Glenn Nuotio - Bay Street Fire Escapes

Freddie Mercury - Bohemian Rhapsody

Lou Reed- Sweet Jane

Jeff Buckley - So Real

Lucinda Williams - Something About What Happens When We Talk

Lucinda Williams - Drunken Angel

Ana Egge - Wedding Dress

Rufus Wainwright - the Tower of Learning

Anna McGarrigle - Goin' back to Harlan

Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington - Wild is the Wind

Hawksley Workman - A Moth Is Not A Butterfly

Joan Baez - Diamonds & Rust

Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark

They Might Be Giants - Three Might Be Duende

Vic Chesnutt - Chain

Bill Callahan - Rock Bottom Riser

" John Darnielle, Tallahassee

The Burning Hell - My Name is Mathias

John Lavery - the Saint John River

Warren Zevon: Studebaker

Emily Haines - Doctor Blind

Elvis Costello - Tramp the Dirt Down

New work on Lex-Icon

Colloque international: Lex-ICON: traiter l’image comme un texte / traiter le texte comme une image

my piece appears here with a brief statement on the thinking behind the piece.

thanks to the Lex-ICON curators for publishing my work & for this great initiative. there's a new visual poem daily plus statements by visual poets around the world.

Tom Waits - Little Drop of Poison

David Byrne - Wild, Wild Life

Lynn Miles - Black Flowers

Listen to Lynn Miles sing Black Flowers here.

Bob Dylan, Love Minus Zero, No Limit

Lyrics, Leonard Cohen - Anthem

for Today's Poem (a Twitter & Pinterest initative) i'm going to post memorable & poetic song lyrics every day in the month of May. this is my test run. who better to start with than Leonard Cohen.

alphabettage un et deux

the sudden appearance of a fish

T4AVP: spring is like a perhaps hand

TVAVP: April is the cruellest month

Bob Grumman's comments on my visual poetry

in reference to work published in the bleed 0.1. "First up is Amanda Earl, with a three-piece suite of concrete poetry (i.e., producing a viso-aesthetic effect through the use of typography only). Based on passages of “The Song of Solomon,” it begins with one consisting of a set of three stacks each of which contains the words, “My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feeds among the lilies,” in alphabetical order, and three more with the same words except for “am” and “the” in the same order. These latter are perpendicular to, and on top, of the other set. Trust me, the resulting gestalt captures–and renews–all that the original song celebrated. The sequence’s two other poems are equally effective."

T4AVP 2012-3: memories

T4AVP: Light - refracted

flora

a few things of mine over at the new post literate

a gallery of asemic writing. here

we are the light

in response to this month's time for a vispo challenge: light

today

contour lines

untitled yellow

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