Grandson Andy, 4, was over for a few hours. He drew me picture after picture on a dry erase board, delighting in making the pictures and delighting in erasing them. A true pleasure for me, too, seeing how he joyfully translated his sense of what he saw to the board. He drew both with his left and his right hand. For a 4 year old they were advanced drawings.

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The Avant Writing Symposium draws nigh. Here's the latest final schedule of speakers/performers:

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Avant Writing Symposium 2010
Avant Writing Collection/Rare Books & MSS Library
The Ohio State University Libraries

August 19-21


THURSDAY AUGUST 19
8-10 AM – Registration & continental breakfast
165 Thompson

10 AM – Keynote Address: Dr. Marvin A. Sackner
Erotica, Pornography, and Obscenity in Contemporary Concrete and Visual Poetry, and, Visual Verbal Imagery
165 Thompson

11:00 AM – Keith A. Buchholz & Reed Altemus
FluxFast: Performing Fluxus Scores by Contemporary Networkers
165 Thompson

11:30 AM – Tom Beckett
Questions: What do I know? What should I do?
165 Thompson

12:00-1:00
Break for lunch

1:00 PM – Lizabel Mónica
21st Century Cuba: Literature in Transition
165 Thompson

2:00 PM – K. S. Ernst
Three-Dimensional Poetry: the Ghosts of Words
165 Thompson

2:30 PM – F. A. Nettelbeck
F. A. Nettelbeck Reads, Out the IN Door
165 Thompson

3:00 PM – Suzanne Silver
Blacklists/Whitelists: An Artist’s Book
165 Thompson

3:00 PM – Paul Baker
Wordsalad: A Radio Show
359 Thompson

3:30 PM – William James Austin
Deformatism and the Avant-Garde
165 Thompson

3:30 PM – Chris Burnett
Writing Imaging: Early Image Processing as Found Literature
359 Thompson

4:00 PM – Nico Vassilakis
Staring at Vispo: LETTERS
165 Thompson

4:30 PM – Thomas M. Cassidy
Disjointed: A Performance
165 Thompson

5:00-7:00 PM Break for dinner

7:00 PM – The Be Blank Consort
Scott Helmes, K. S. Ernst, Sheila E. Murphy, John M. Bennett, Michael Peters, Geof Huth, Thomas M. Cassidy, mIEKAL aND, Nico Vassilakis, and others
Sound Poetry Performance
OSU Urban Arts Space/Larry Marotta Hour
50 W. Town St. (downtown Columbus)












FRIDAY AUGUST 20

8:00 AM – Continental breakfast
165 Thompson

9:00 AM – Olchar E. Lindsann
Somasemia: Poems Wearing Meat-Suits
165 Thompson

9:30 AM – Gerald Schwartz
Strategies Against the God of World: Bring Me the Head of the Semiotic Goethe (performance)
165 Thompson

9:30 AM – William R. Howe
Holographic Poetry: Disrupted by Hand
359 Thompson

10:00 AM – Luis Bravo
Tamudando/Ischanying (Voces & Sonidos/Voices & Sounds)
165 Thompson

11:00 AM – Sheila E. Murphy
Text and Art to Honor the Occasion:
Renewing the Public Role of Poetry and Art
165 Thompson

11:30 AM – Joel Lipman
The Sciart of Bern Porter’s Found Poetry
165 Thompson

12:00-1:00 PM
Break for lunch

1:00 PM – Martín Gubbins
Presentation of Visual Poetry: London Poems
165 Thompson

2:00 PM – Jean Kusina
Visual-Cine-Poetry: The Alphabetical Experimental in Film and Video
165 Thompson


2:00 PM – Rachel Heberling
To Achieve Typing Power: An Artist’s Book
359 Thompson

2:30 PM – Loss Pequeño Glazier
Guaniauiqui: What Is the Digital Avant-Garde?
165 Thompson

2:30 PM – C. Mehrl Bennett
Mailart, Visual Poetry, Fluxus: A Connection
359 Thompson

3:00 PM – Roger Santiváñez
De Huidobro a Parra: Martín Gubbins & Beyond
165 Thompson

3:30 PM – Antonio Bonome
The Visual Arts and William S. Burroughs
165 Thompson

3:30 PM – Crag Hill & Nico Vassilakis
The Lastvispo Anthology: What Then, What Now?
359 Thompson

4:00 PM – Gary Barwin
The Myopic School Bus of the Tongue
165 Thompson

4:30 PM – John M. Bennett
Reading/Performance & Las Cabezas Mayas/Maya Heads
165 Thompson

5-7:00 PM – Award Reception
11th floor, Thompson Library









SATURDAY AUGUST 21


8:00 am – Continental breakfast
165 Thompson

9:00 AM – Jorge Luiz Antonio
Digital Avant-Garde Experimental Poetry:
Another Genre of Contemporary Poetry?
165 Thompson

10:00 AM – Reid Wood
Don’t: Performance
165 Thompson

10:30 AM – Mary Jo Bole
Toilet Worship/Toilet Talk
165 Thompson

11:00 AM – Endwar
An Eye for an I
165 Thompson

11:30 AM – Séamas Cain
Elective Affinities & Random Actions
165 Thompson

12-1:00 PM
Break for lunch

1:00 PM – Wilton Azevedo
Atame Angustia do Precario: Visual Poetry
165 Thompson

2:00 PM – Will Napoli
Protext and Then Some
165 Thompson



2:00 PM – Roger Santiváñez
Poetry Reading Neo-Barrok
359 Thompson

2:30 PM – Michael Peters
A Press Conference Celebrating the Donation of Priceless Archival Fleury Colon Material to the OSU Libraries
165 Thompson

3:00 PM – Richard Kostelanetz
Seductions: A Performance Piece with Audience Participation
165 Thompson

3:00 PM – David Baratier & David Baptiste Chirot
The Vizpo of Public Space
359 Thompson

3:30 PM – Thomas L. Taylor In Memoriam: A Reading
John M. Bennett, Olchar E. Lindsann, Tom Cassidy, Sheila E. Murphy, Warren Fry, Michael Peters, F. A. Nettelbeck, Michael Peters
165 Thompson

4:00 PM – Geof Huth
What Word Once Was
165 Thompson

4:30 PM – mIEKAL aND & Camille Bacos
Tzara in Oblivion
165 Thompson

5-8:00 PM
Break for dinner

8:00 PM – Jim Leftwich, C. Mehrl Bennett, John A. Bennett, and others
Collaboration festival, performances, vispo mail art exhibit,
and other celebrations
Skylab, 57 E. Gay St. – Downtown Columbus



To say that I'm looking forward to the shindig is an understatement.


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ON-GOING ACTIVITIES


Exhibition of Guillermo Deisler’s UNI/vers, Marilyn R. Rosenberg and David Cole’s Collaboration TRACK, and a selection of materials from The Reed Altemus Collection.
Exhibit Hall, Thompson Library
Curated by Suzanne Silver.


Electronic and Digital Media, Video, and Other Materials
Curated by María Teresa Beltrán-Aponte
149 Thompson
Hours: 8 AM–4 PM
Hours subject to change


The World’s Largest Exquisite Corpse: Collaborative Book, Attempt to Set a Guinness World Record for ‘Most Authors Single Text’
Organized by Scott Helmes
On-going throughout the Symposium. Participation by all is desired!
352 Thompson
Hours: 8-9 AM, 11 AM-1 PM, 4-5 PM
Hours subject to change


The Avant Store
Sales and distribution of materials from participants
150B Thompson
Hours: 8-9 AM, 11 AM-1 PM, 4-5 PM
Hours subject to change


Vispo Mailart Blog
On-line blog/catalog of the exhibit at Skylab
Curated by C. Mehrl Bennett
http://visualpoetrymailartexhibit.blogspot.com/


Arte de Letras de Cuba – Exhibición
Curated by Lizabel Mónica
150A Thompson
Hours: 8-10 AM, 2-4 PM
Hours subject to change