Nico Vassilakis 5

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Vassilakis’s books include the poetry collection VOIR DIRE (2020) as well as the visual poetry book Letter Wheels (2019). He collaborated with artist Friese Undine on Orange: A Manual (1997). Vassilakis edited Clear-Cut: Anthology: A Collection of Seattle Writers (1996), co-edited The Last Vispo Anthology: Visual Poetry 1998-2008 (2012), and has served as coeditor of Sub Rosa Press. In 1994, he co-founded the Subtext Reading Series in Seattle, Washington. He currently lives in Greenville, IL, with his wife, poet Crystal Curry.

Nico Vassilakis 4

 all videos from Motion Detail series

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Vassilakis’s books include the poetry collection VOIR DIRE (2020) as well as the visual poetry book Letter Wheels (2019). He collaborated with artist Friese Undine on Orange: A Manual (1997). Vassilakis edited Clear-Cut: Anthology: A Collection of Seattle Writers (1996), co-edited The Last Vispo Anthology: Visual Poetry 1998-2008 (2012), and has served as coeditor of Sub Rosa Press. In 1994, he co-founded the Subtext Reading Series in Seattle, Washington. He currently lives in Greenville, IL, with his wife, poet Crystal Curry.

Nico Vassilikas 3

all videos from Motion Detail series

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Vassilakis’s books include the poetry collection VOIR DIRE (2020) as well as the visual poetry book Letter Wheels (2019). He collaborated with artist Friese Undine on Orange: A Manual (1997). Vassilakis edited Clear-Cut: Anthology: A Collection of Seattle Writers (1996), co-edited The Last Vispo Anthology: Visual Poetry 1998-2008 (2012), and has served as coeditor of Sub Rosa Press. In 1994, he co-founded the Subtext Reading Series in Seattle, Washington. He currently lives in Greenville, IL, with his wife, poet Crystal Curry.

Nico Vassilakis 2

all videos from Motion Detail series

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Vassilakis’s books include the poetry collection VOIR DIRE (2020) as well as the visual poetry book Letter Wheels (2019). He collaborated with artist Friese Undine on Orange: A Manual (1997). Vassilakis edited Clear-Cut: Anthology: A Collection of Seattle Writers (1996), co-edited The Last Vispo Anthology: Visual Poetry 1998-2008 (2012), and has served as coeditor of Sub Rosa Press. In 1994, he co-founded the Subtext Reading Series in Seattle, Washington. He currently lives in Greenville, IL, with his wife, poet Crystal Curry.

Nico Vassilakis 1

all videos from Motion Detail series

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Vassilakis’s books include the poetry collection VOIR DIRE (2020) as well as the visual poetry book Letter Wheels (2019). He collaborated with artist Friese Undine on Orange: A Manual (1997). Vassilakis edited Clear-Cut: Anthology: A Collection of Seattle Writers (1996), co-edited The Last Vispo Anthology: Visual Poetry 1998-2008 (2012), and has served as coeditor of Sub Rosa Press. In 1994, he co-founded the Subtext Reading Series in Seattle, Washington. He currently lives in Greenville, IL, with his wife, poet Crystal Curry.

 

rockaBILLY whole world gone CANCELed by Billy Cancel

Two versions of this poem: video poetry and visual poetry

 

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Billy Cancel is a Brooklyn-based poet/perfromer. His latest body of work PSYCHO'CLOCK is out on Hidden House Press. Billy Cancel is 1/2 of the noise/pop duo Tidal Channel. Sound poems, visual shorts and other aberrations can be found at billycancelpoetry.com 

Oracle Weather by Vernon Frazer

Multimedia poetry with animated text and improvised musical accompaniment

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Vernon Frazer's work has appeared in Altered Scale, Aught, Big Bridge, Drunken Boat, Exquisite Corpse, First Intensity, Golden Handcuffs Review, Jack Magazine, Lost and Found Times, Moria, Otoliths and many other literary magazines. His web site is http://vernonfrazer.net. Frazer is married.

Oscar Sparrow reading "Hill Fort"

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Oscar Sparrow was born in Winchester UK in 1949, apparently thanks to the American Marshal Aid programme to re-build Europe after the war. As the colour red leached its way out of the map of the British Empire, Oscar attended a die-hard Church school designed to create noble savages to serve what was left of the savage Nobles. The Eleven Plus exam revealed that he could not even count to eleven and he became a mechanic, labourer, truck driver, boxer and poet. He read Wordsworth and Ford Cortina manuals in a lorry cab near both Oxford and Cambridge universities. He married a kind forgiving woman who eventually forgave herself for that one big mistake. He has several wonderful children and hopes that one day they will all meet. At the age of 25 he heard the music of Edith Piaf and learned to sing all her songs. A few years later he realised she was French and that he was an ugly swan not a beautiful duckling. The shock propelled him to London where he joined the Metropolitan Police. Car chases and riots followed but he did not take it personally. He spent his spare time touring the Art galleries, singing Piaf and learning Italian. Eventually The Authorities fell for the con and gave him a desk job in the Art department of Interpol London at Scotland Yard. One day a few years later, the lure of the wild swept him away to the roads of Europe as road gipsy trucker. His love of fried battered fish eventually drew him back to England where he drove sewage tankers and set up a taxi business. Throughout all this time he was a would-be poet, short story writer and novelist.