- ARCHIVE / Poetry
- Typografika / Enter the Dragon
Wishing you a Happy New Year, 2012. Above: Erik Brandt with an anagram poem by Elisabeth Workman (A1, 2011). Wishing you and yours all the best for the New Year.
- K. Silem Mohammad / Abraham Lincoln
A poet’s vision. Above: Abraham Lincoln No. 5, cover by poet K. Silem Mohammad, publisher of Abraham Lincoln Magazine. Highly regarded as a provocative poetry journal, Mohammad’s covers are a visual narrative of unabashed joy, and pop-cultural perversion. Invariably poignant and humorous, always with cats and rainbows. Above: Abraham Lincoln No. 3, cover by K. [...]
- O.K. Periodicals No. 6 / The BORING Issue
Arnhem biannual magazine available now. Above: Screenshot of some fresh Typografika for O.K. Publishing No. 6, The BORING ISSUE, released by the intrepid William van Giessen and Joost van der Steen. Following the release party on July 8, 2011, this official preview is now available for purchase through the O.K. Online Shop. As always, the [...]
- Elisabeth Workman / Dusie
A new chapbook release coming soon. Above: Erik, Brandt, 2011 (5.5″x11″). New Typografika for Elisabeth’s new chapbook, Maybe Malibu, Maybe Beowulf. Part of the DUSIE Kollektiv’s latest chapbook initiative. Following close on the heels of Megaprarieland (earlier post here), Maybe Malibu, Maybe Beowulf contains eighteen new poems. Don’t be fooled by this low quality image, [...]
- Six Word Story Every Day
A new post up today. Above: Elisabeth Workman and Erik Brandt, 2011. A six word message for by SWSED. This follows up on “Despot by Despot, bye Despot bye.” Special thanks again Anne Ulku of Six Word Story Every Day for letting us contribute.
- Elisabeth Workman / Megaprarieland
New chapbook available from Grey Book Press. Above: Cover of Elisabeth Workman’s, Megaprarieland (2010, Grey Book Press). Featuring a cover design by yours truly, our favorite poet’s latest chapbook was selected by Editor Scott Sweeney and Guest Judge Sandra Simonds. You can purchase your copy ($5) from Grey Book Press directly. Please enjoy this selection [...]
- Robert Appleton
Vortex. Visual Aural Textual. One Language. Above: Fascinating work from AGI member Robert Appleton, “Vortex. Visual Aural Textual. One Language.” This performance is from Toronto, Oct. 2010, please see Appleton’s YouTube Channel for more performances in Istanbul, Barcelona, and Porto. The perfect companion for a snowy day in Minneapolis. A thousand thanks for sharing this [...]
- When typographers dream?
Best found object ever. Above: New Type II problem precedent, stay tuned.
- OKNOVOKGHT
¿Por que no? Above: Via the OKNOVOKGHT Flickr page, some fresh and vibrant postings from a delightfully enigmatic source in Melbourne, Australia. Highly recommended, follow OKNOVOKGHT via Twitter or Facebook. Above: “Bill needs all the help he can get right now,” OKNOVOKGHT’s response to a query requesting permission to make this post. Lovely variation on [...]
- New Flarf New
Western Humanities Review and KFAI interview by Diane Richard. Above: Cover of the Summer 2010 Western Humanities Review from the University of Utah English Department. Love the subtle touch on the ‘whr’ by cover designers Dawn Lonsinger and Patrick Foran. The new edition, available soon, includes two new pieces by Flarf poets Sharon Mesmer and [...]
- Berlin / Kreuzberg
New images added to Geotypografika Flickr. Above: Somewhere in Kreuzberg, Berlin. See the full set of graphic and typographic images on Geotypografika Berlin, where I have also updated the Geotypografika Amsterdam 2010 set with new images from the second leg of my recent trip. Above: Turkish words gracing a building in Kreuzberg, one of my [...]
- Reza Abedini / In the beginning.
Animated retrospective. Above: Recent collage by the Iranian master, stunning.
- PRONGTRY SOWOHUD RECONN
A poem for a flag, a flag for the people. Above: Video from Sunday’s Shoebox opening featuring Flarf poet Elisabeth Workman’s sound poem for the occasion, PRONGTRY SOWOHUD RECONN. Gallery founder Sean Smuda introduces the event as Jenny Schmid and yours truly remain appropriately silent. Thanks to AJ for coming and agreeing to shoot this. [...]
- Reggie Watts
F_ck Sh_t Stack. Above: Must be seen to be believed. Dance, muthafu_kas!
- Elisabeth Workman / 2010 McKnight
2010 McKnight Fellowship for Writers, Loft Award for Poetry. Above: Elisabeth Workman, Flarf poet, is selected for the fellowship by 2010 judge and nationally acclaimed poet, Marilyn Nelson. From Opolis and Site Q, a thousand congratulations, liebe Bettina! Abrazos y besos! The official awards will be held at The Loft on Friday, May 07 2010, 7:00pm, [...]
- Elisabeth Workman / Nine poems.
Low quality image, inspired Flarf content. Above: Flarf poet Elisabeth Workman, reading from her work last night (Feb. 21, 2010) at Intermedia Arts. This is from video shot by out friend Tim Tozer. In both videos, Elisabeth explains her work and read from the following poems: We Are Surrounded By Parking Lots And, Cosmic Pinwheeling [...]
- Fabio Filippi / El picaflor
Wonderfully simple, endless beauty. Above: Fabio Filippi, still from El picaflor (2010, 3:59). See this stunning short film on Fabio’s Vimeo page and enjoy more work on his site. Shot in November, 2009 in Bolivia and Peru, I happened to be there the day some of these shots were taken. Our group had wandered ahead [...]
- Dabireh Collective
Fresh initiative via orien+ation lab and beyond. Above: Poster for Alef (Oct. 2009), the first publication from the inspiring Dabireh Collective, founded by Reza Abedini and a group of graphic designers from Iran. Just one part of Reza’s new project with Paul Hughes and Anne Miltenburg, orien+ation lab, Alef will be included in the OK [...]
- Elisabeth Workman / The Women of Flarf
Flarf reading in Brooklyn, New York. Above: Past Geotypografika Site Q contributor Elisabeth Workman (center), performing an improvisation at the Zinc Bar with Mel Nichols (left), and Nada Gordon (right) on November 22, 2009. Mabrouk, liebe Bettina! Above: Promotional image from the Flarf announcement at Ululate.
- John Moore / Greetings from Venezuela
¡Ambigrama! Above: Ambigrama Rama-Moore, un Video de John Moore con música de Angel Rada. Some really fascinating possibilities from Caracas. ¡Gracias, John!
- Adria Chilcote / Don’t Give Up!
New profile photo echoes cherished old work. Above: Adria Chilcote’s latest profile photo in support of the Iranian Green movement, adapted from a lovely project she undertook while traveling in Berlin last year. See this link. Now Adria is venturing into the Indian design market, setting up shop in India! Can’t wait to hear more. [...]
- For the Sea of Green
Persian proverb. Above: A humble offering from Geotypografika.
- Elisabeth Workman / West Wind Review 2009
New poems included in the latest edition. Above: This just in, Elisabeth’s poems (Populist Granulation, Brooklyn Coptics, Eliminating the Hairy Obstruction) were included in the most recent West Wind Review, hurra! Edited by Lacey Hunter, the publication is available here. In a continuing series of especially pleasing cover designs, Elisabeth’s inspiring Flarf colleague K. Silem [...]
- Majid Abbasi / Literary Images
Online exhibition of the Iranian master’s book cover designs. Above: Tehran based designer Majid Abbasi’s web exhibition, Literary Images. Discovered via the omnipresent Rene Wanner, a stunning new online exhibition of book cover designs by the Iraninan master. The web exhibition includes English and Farsi background material and insightful remarks from Uwe Loesch. Mabrouk, Majid!
- Lindley Warren / Expanded Dictionary
The Photographic Dictionary Above: Leo Postma, Assassin. Via Lindley Warren’s The Photographic Dictionary project. Perfect for a Sunday, there is always The Ones We Love.
- Omid Hamooni / One, three, and eight
Logotype for an exhibition. Above: Omid Hamooni, logotype for an exhibition titled, Solar Year of the Cow, 1388/2009. Omid employs essential elements of the numbers one, three, and eight (1388). Below are two process pages that help explain his thinking in developing both the form and movement required to achieve this subtly zoomorphic form. Above: [...]
- GRD_3020 Booklet Project
Exploring idiosyncratic needs. Above: MCAD student Michael. His cover for our latest effort within our intermediate typography group. This problem sought to allow these students more freedom in terms of content determination and typographic form, in an effort to move beyond the communal restriction in place in the previous two projects. For full spread documentation [...]
- Elisabeth Workman
2009 SASE/Jerome Award Recipient Above: An unbelievable daytime photo by Elisabeth at the nearby MIA. Somehow perfect, this delayed announcement of her poetry award deserves this enlightened visitation. Mabrouk, liebe Bettina! Elisabeth shares the 2009 SASE/Jerome recognition with Heather Bouwman, Paula Cisewski, Michelle Matthees, Scott Muskin, and Ethan Rutherford. Congratulations to all. (Announcement via the [...]
- The Kennedy Center / Arabesque
February 23 through March 15, 2009 Above: Via The Kennedy Center, a three week celebration of arts and performances from the Middle East. This just in: Khatt Foundation director Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès is there to represent her amazing network. Hup, Huda! Follow the link here for an AP story on the event (one of precious [...]
- Enjambement
Widows and orphans, unite! Above: From William Packard, The Poet’s Dictionary, Harper & Row Publishers, 1989. (Click for a larger image.) Enjambement, an age-old literary or poetic device, “to create the illusion of energy being carried over to the following line.” This will require careful study for those of us used to ‘forced returns’ out [...]
- Ivel Rose Workman
1923-2009 Above: Ivel Rose Workman, who left our world on February 17, 2009. Ivel was Elisabeth’s grandmother, and originally from New Orleans, Louisiana. As you can see from this photograph (the lovely message from then six-year-old Aunt Lynne), she was and is beloved by all who knew her. The service is today in Lansdale, Pennsylvania. [...]
- SPACE RACE
Red Rocket Gallery Above: Derrick Buisch, pinkhornetson white=Hornets Nest, 2009. Red Rocket Gallery. Armagedion Time, a collaboration with Damon Locks, Tracy portrait, below.
- Tagged
Late night, contemporary forms. Above: A tag that appeared on our access stairwell late last night. Translation? Reminds me of this one.
- Verena Gerlach / 20 Jahre Mauerfall
The Wall: Twenty years later after the fall. Above: Verena Gerlach, Nie Gegeben, 2009. Detail from a recent photo from Berlin (see below). “The DDR never existed.” Verena Gerlach, Nie Gegeben, 2009. Verena captures the ‘Loch” by the Palace of the Republic. Click for a larger view and typographic greeting to the left. Note the [...]
- Praise song for every hand-lettered sign…
Elizabeth Alexander, Inaugural Poem January 20, 2009 Praise song for the day. Each day we go about our business, walking past each other, catching each others’ eyes or not, about to speak or speaking. All about us is noise. All about us is noise and bramble, thorn and din, each one of our ancestors on [...]
- Poets Protest War in Gaza
From January 8th, 2009 Above: Israeli President Shimon Peres. Via die liebe Bettina, an Israeli poet group stages a moving protest outside of an event celebrating national poet Hayyim Bialik. They read from his poem, “On the Slaughter,” from 1903, a despairing voice. The first stanza via old poetry: Heaven, beg mercy for me! If [...]
- Walker Art Center / Multiples Mall
Donnerwetter! Above: Walker Art Center, mailer for the exhibition Text/Messages: Books by Artists. (Dec. 18 to April 19, 2009) UPDATE: Via MN Stories, a short about the exhibition sponsored by the Walker, and produced by MPLS videographer Chuck Olsen. It’s official! Elisabeth and I are thrilled beyond belief (a thousand thanks!) to be included in [...]
- Elisabeth Workman / fourW 19 arrive enfin!
Things to do in the Green Zone Above: Fresh in the mail, my wife Elisabeth holding the new publication fourW nineteen, published by the Booranga Writers’ Centre in Waga Waga, New South Wales, Australia! Her recent poem, Things to do in the Green Zone, is included within this ambitious collection of contemporary international writing. Mabrouk! [...]