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No Categories is the personal site by Dylan Kinnett, a writer and web developer who makes performances, recordings, hypertexts, and a literary journal.
Creative Projects
New Publication
As the founding editor of Infinity's Kitchen, I collaborated with Ink Press Productions to produce a new publication called AN INTERNET. AN INTERNET is not digital content that it part of the conventional internet, but rather an amalgamation of contained digital content on a USB drive, together with a unique, modified book.
Ongoing Projects
Infinity's Kitchen is literary journal of conceptual and formally experimental writing. I am the founding editor of the publication, and the host of its quarterly reading series. Here's a video introduction.
Selected Writings
Litanies and Reiterations. Chapbook. 2015.
Portraits and Landscapes. Chapbook. 2015.
The Problem is Larger Than the Products of its Equation; It Remains Unsolved. Poem. In Espresso Ink Volume VI , 2015.
Conversation at the Jubilee Café and Kite. The Light Ekphrastic 2015-03-15.
Untitled Haiku. Poem. In LED Haiku. Ink Press, 2014.
Untitled Haiku. LED Baltimore Billboard Projection. December 11, 2014.
Waiting for Danske Dandridge at Betty's, Reading Sonnets. Literary Review. The Observer, 2014-05-01.
Housekeeping! Poem. Industry Night, 2014-02-26.
Three Poems and a Video Poem. Poems. Otoliths, no. 32 (2014-02-01 ).
Spoken Word
For a writer, editing sound is very much like editing printed words. You can add, subtract, rearrange the sounds in very much the same way that you can on the page. With sound there are other ways to edit, though. You can revise the speed, pitch, volume, echo and decay of the words. It was this aspect that prompted the title "Strange Punctuation”.
Selected Performances
An open mic reading on my sixteenth birthday was the start of a life-long passion for readings, slam poetry, and literary performance art. Here are some recent performances.
Unicorn Pizza. Spoken Word Performance. Inagural Unicorn Pizza Reading, The Room, Baltimore, MD. Tuesday, November 22, 2016.
Sun Ra. Spoken Word Performance. The Baltimore Kissa Society: A Listening Party for Jazz Enthusiasts, Normal's Books and Records, Baltimore, MD. Sunday, October 16, 2016.
Writers and Words. Spoken Word Performance. Charmington's, Baltimore, MD. Tuesday, December 08, 2015.
No Air Radio. Variety Show Performance. Hungry Otter Fest, Pilot Light, Knoxville, TN. Friday, August 21, 2015.
Litanies and Reiterations. Book Release Reading. Normals Books, Baltimore, MD. Friday, August 07, 2015.
Blog
Latest Blog Posts
Learning to Make Books by Hand
I am lucky to have several friends who are experienced book-makers. With their help, I'm learning to create my own handmade books.
Bowie-esque Spoken Word Playlist
David Bowie's spoken word and other similar recordings.
Snow-Blind and Looking Around
January's a good time for thinking back and looking ahead.
(Ugly) Websites for Writers and Authors
Browsing this exhaustive and useful collection of links for writers, I think most of them have poor graphic design. Why do things for writers have to look so shabby?
Types of Titles
As I see it, there are several different kinds of titles. I'll list them here, with names I made up for them.
When 'It Just Works' Doesn't Work
Downloads, updates, logins, alerts, updates, logins, downloads... when do we ever get to just do what we came to do?
Detail image of framed thing in my room. I like to stare at it and imagine I'm there.
Noteworthy Blog Posts
I've been blogging sporatically since around 2004. These are some of the posts that have proven to be the most popular, over time.
How I Made a Repository of my Writings, and Why
Composing with Words the Way John Cage Composes with Sounds
Authenticity Versus Expectation
Ten Things Not to Do at a Literary Reading
My Grandmother’s Writings Part Two: File Cabinets and Beer Boxes
Generative Writing Cut-Up Tools DadaDodo and Dadadodomax
When to Abandon a Creative Project