they were made by mixing catelli dried alphabet noodles with india ink in a ziplok bag & then splattering onto card stock. the resultant images were let to dry, sprayed with fixative (to keep the noodles from falling off) and then scanned and sent to you.

"More Pets" was initially a visual spread in 5 magazine (Summer 02).
"Less Girls" was originally developed as part of a performance at the South London Gallery (Sept 02).
Both texts have been redeveloped for this issue. Thanks to Marit Muenzberg for final work on the design.

I'm Jordan Davis. I blog to preserve my idees fixes in their natural habitat. My new book, Million Poems Journal (Faux), is available directly from the publisher, as well as from SPD. For info about A Winter Magazine (Situations), please to e- me: jdavis@panix.com.

These are not poems, these are Wienerschnitzel. The precise identity of the true Wienerschnitzel is a quivering, personal jelly. To discover it for yourself, stand on a rubber swan and surf the Web while gargling with pickled Oulipo eyelashes and stroking a sweetly inappropriate wild tuber.

Having come across How to Parse, an old 19th century grammar book, I did what anyone would do: parse it into its own system.

"This Window Makes Me Feel" is a booklength piece that appropriates google search summaries similar to the title. Initially, it was written to be a companion piece to Kenny Goldsmith's more objective proposal of a booklength description of a door. In the end, however, "This Window..." became increasingly haunted by another event--the bombing of the WTC. It is my first non-Metropolis booklength piece in nearly 10 years.

What good is a Silvery Tongue?" is the latest in a series of "theoretical poems" in which I explore interconnections between poetry and postmodern philosophy. The focus of this piece is the connection between the poetic discourse of romantic desire and the poet's autopoesis.

>Dear Ms. Chili,

Make that: Mr Hobogrammathon. Dagmar Chili is the name of the site

Hereby authorize the printing of whatever anything. Any form of dissemination is very welcome

This system sends a picture and a word randomly selected from the web to a person you define. You will not see the picture or the word and have no control over the selections. Technical problems: The system sends an image if you provide a correct e-mail address but might under certain circumstances fail to select or deliver the image even if a correct address is provided. Disclaimer: We are not assuming responsibility for any meanings emerging from the images or words generated by the system. We do assume responsibility for the meanings associated with the system as a whole.

NOTE ON POEM: "Bernsteinian boy": a reference to the German SPD leader and "father of Revisionism," Eduard Bernstein, whose ideas were viciously attacked by Engels, Lenin, and Luxemburg.

I guess I'm one of those who can't remember what it is that you're publishing there. If it's our play then great! If so & you need a bio you could say that "Nomados Press in Vancouver will publish Kevin Killian's play "Island of Lost Souls" in the spring.

I have been doing double-column pieces in one large collection (200+pp) for 2 years. Anything I write in lyric poetry I try to twin: either with another lyric poem, or a specially composed 2nd column. Rule: each column is a poem, the whole read across the columns is a poem. Often, I don't write a 2nd column specially but it fits serendipitously with a poem not written to accompany it, with very little tinkering. When it comes to twinning translations, I can make more creative paraphrases of the original to make it fit; this takes away some of the responsibility to the text "behind" the text, onto the one next to it!

All -logy poems are part of my online LOGYoLOGY project, which can be located at commutiny.net/logy.

REMnants, somnaria, and somniloquy are from my project wide slumber for lepidopterists, which can be located at commutiny.net/wide/title.html. somnaria and somniloquy were published in 'pins in ings if', a chapbook containing recent unrelated and uncollaborated material by derek beaulieu and a.raw, for their Toronto poetry readings on September 6 and 7, 2002.

LOGYoLOGY and wide slumber for lepidopterists have been graciously funded by grants from the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Arts Council.

The Suzanne Dathe essay was posted on FSC in December or so; the collection of comments at the end are the actual comments that were posted to the site to date. "Origins of the Korean War" is an uncorrupted recreation of one of the "Happymails" that I used to receive from some free internet service that taught English to Koreans. Since I didn't have the Korean character set installed on my computer (nor would it display images in emails), I'd get this rich goulash of symbols that I nonetheless would read through for whatever I could glean of "meaning."

SMALLTOWN: Years ago me and two friends created a series of Archie comic strips over the course of a hot summer where we'd white-out the text in the bubbles of that day's comic strip, xerox it and try to outdo the other in vulgarity. It was all-empowering to make these all-American characters curse up a storm with the filthy juvenile language of horny single guys. The poem began as a hazy memory flash...and once I found the iambic of this high literature, the rest became a game of squeezing in filthy Archie-isms into the poem's meter, as screamed by a newspaper boy from Smalltown USA yelling out "Extra Extra!" BANGBAWL: Inspired by Brancusi's "Bird In Space" sculpture where forms are minimized, and Boccioni's Futurist dynamics where forms are energized...how a poem minimized in form would describe form in an energized space, the space being language. Futurist figure painting/as/poem where every part of the body happens at once.

Rodrigo Toscano grew up in San Diego. After a few years in the San Francisco Bay Area working as a social worker and an activist within the labor movement, he moved to New York, where he continues this work. He is a nationally influential writer, whose work along the intersections of social and aesthetic activism is adding new dimensions to contemporary poetics.

Platform is Rodrigo Toscano's third book. His first book, The Disparities, was published jointly by Green Integer and O Books in 2002. His second book, Partisans (which, due to a variety of circumstances, came out before his first), was published in 1999 by O Books.

Lang Po vs the Wu Tang? Is that right? If so, I ran the Table of Contents of The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book through WuName. If not, pls refresh...