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my vispo chapbook in Illiterature issue three

Michael e. Casteels was kind enough to include my visual poetry chapbook, "une semaine dans la vie de l'alphabet" in the latest issue of illiterature, a journal of minimalist poetry, published by Puddles of Sky Press of Kingston Ontario.

the issue is a fine & beautiful magazine of goodness with works by Nelson Ball, Gary Barwin, derek beaulieu, Judith Copithorne, jwcurry, yours truly, Jesse Patrick Ferguson, David Fujino, Geof Huth, anatol knotek, Nicholas Papaxanthos, Aram Saroyan, Gerry Shikatani, Sandra Stephenson, George Swede and Mark Truscott.

To order a copy of the issue & other great & beautifully made works, please contact Michael: http://www.puddlesofskypress.com/contact-us.html

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a birthday vispo for Charles

fonterella

exuberant gees

Shredding the Literary Canon: Fifth Business by Robertson Davies

[waiving a disclaimer/disclaiming a waiver: no actual pages of this book were shredded...i LOVE the work of Robertson Davies. particularly the Depford Trilogy, particularly Fifth Business...]

new visual poem over at the Volta

thanks to Jessica Smith for curating the special visual poetry issue. my piece is entitled "Cruel," & is here.

whirling queue

lion

numbers

bracketing

z-q dance

fishbones

frog croaks in the key of g

the royal hornet's nest

hungry birds

question everything

one thirty nine

in your . . . place

vowel flowers

short wave radio

alphaspider(s)

my vispo featured on Gary Barwin's Languageye on Jacket2

Since May, 2013, Gary Barwin has been presenting the work of various visual poets over at Jacket2.
In his latest piece, "What kind of [sic] sense is that? Amanda Earl & the synaesthesia of reading, he discusses my visual poetry & asks me a few questions. You can read about it here.

Thanks to Gary for the insightful engagement with my work & kind words & the good folks of Jacket2 for all they do.

weaving

farfalla

Latin for Hermit Crab

Alphabetina Letricia, Vizpo Kid # 1

b utter fly

prospecting

Rite of Spring

dog

gut of an r

ripped Dickens

enthrall: a vispo series

Cameron Anstee on Cluster of A's & Of The Body

Cameron Anstee wrote some kind & insightful words about my latest attempts at visual poetry here.

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.