Asemic Front 2
Sunday, June 29, 2025
Asemic Front 2: "The Spectacle" & Other Recent Vispo by Nick Piombino (New York City)
Saturday, June 28, 2025
MIT Press Will Release "The Complete Stein Poems" by Jackson Mac Low (computer-generated poetry)
To be published August 19, 2025 by the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Press:
The Complete Stein Poems
The Stein poems of Jackson Mac Low (1922–2004) were written between 1998 and 2003. Comprising more than 500 pages of text, this edited series of 161 poems—most of them never published—is the poet’s last great work, composed during the final years of a lifetime of prolific creation.
The raw material of each poem was produced through Mac Low’s diastic text-selection method of reading through passages of either Ulla E. Dydo’s A Stein Reader or a corrected version of Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262552868/the-complete-stein-poems-19982003/
Friday, June 27, 2025
Asemic Front 2 Gallery: Selected Recent Work by Kristen Szumyn (Sydney, Australia)
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Intermedia Collaboration by Sarah Ridgely and Christian Bok: Algorithmically Generated Asemics in "Fifty Days at Iliam" (Canada, USA, UK)
More about "Fifty Days at Iliam":
https://theverseverse.com/poems/fifty-days-at-iliam-sarah-ridgley
"I prompted AI [Artificial Intelligence] to compose ten lyrics based on paintings by Cy Twombly. Then Sarah [Ridgely] used an algorithm to convert each poem into an asemic script."
- Christian Bok
Monday, June 23, 2025
Asemic Front 2 Gallery: Asemics & Automatic Writing by EgiDia Elle (Turin, Italy)
Monday, June 2, 2025
AF2 Review: "Dead Wax" A William S. Burroughs Asemic Fanzine (Spain)
Ferran Destemple identifies the mytho-poetic aspects of WSB's life and at the same time reveals his own formidable talents to us.
- De Villo Sloan
June 2, 2025
Elbridge, New York
Thursday, May 29, 2025
AF2 Commentary: Hannah Weiner at the Intersection of Asemic Writing and Visual Poetry
New
forms in visual poetry, the emergence of a new concrete poetry plus the
articulation of a theory of asemics aka asemantic writing were shared on a global scale in the 1980s: new genres evolving to the present
moment. Pete Spence and a few others – such as Miekal And in Wisconsin, USA –
invented and disseminated these new forms of visual poetry to tiny and “underground”
audiences.
Marveling at
Weiner’s WRITTEN IN THE ZERO ONE, I can see from a distant perspective that
critical theory and especially the work of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets had a
pronounced impact on the evolution of visual poetry and asemic writing. Weiner’s
interest in clairvoyance and apparitions of language make her of keen interest
to calligraphers and glitchers alike who have roots in automatic writing.
Entering Weiner’s chapbook, I am drawn into a world where I am enmeshed in a net of language, which is the only way I can comprehend my reality. Weiner is engrossed in process, wordplay, the appearance of poly-voices: I find her discourse more and more engaging as I read. She presents the writing like a sound poem score. Not surprisingly, the words make structures on the page, and we are moving into the realm of a concrete poetry but far from George Herbert’s angel wings.
- De Villo Sloan
May 29, 2025
Elbridge, New York, USA