rants, raves, and writings by Dylan Kinnett
update: This show was a disaster. The management double-booked a reading with a moustache competition, which would have been fine except for the noise. It was impossible to hear the reading over that noise, and the obscene heckling didn’t help either.
read more →Textsound is a bi-annual online journal of experimental soundworks. It is like a combined publication and mixtape. The tenth and latest issue of Textsound is called the Michyou Issue and features the work of poets who love in Michigan.
read more →With a list, you can quickly fill up the page without having to actually write very much. It’s kind of like using a really big typeface to get out of writing a long book report.
read more →A while ago, I published a list of generative writing exercises . They seem to be quite popular and so I submit to you, even more generative writing exercises .
read more →I’ll call it altered text, although for the thing I have in mind there are actually many things, many names, from many times and places. My notion of “destroyed text” is somewhat unique, but not really. I’ll show you some examples of a family ideas I think the idea is descended from. I’ll try to give you explanations, citations and examples for each.
read more →Google Books has a preview copy of Futurist typography and the liberated text By Alan Bartram In the early decades of the twentieth century, European artists, poets and designers called for the destruction of outdated assumptions about vision and language.
read more →Oulipo, or Workshop of Potential Literature, is a group of writers and thinkers interested in the notion of “constraint”. You can think of constraint as something like the rules of a generative writing game.
read more →One Hour of Television is a bleeding, screaming, literary freak-beast adventure novel created by new Canadian voice-sensation Kristina Born. Told in poetic-micro-burst segments, Born transcribes a filthy world of wicked science, consumerism, bomb building, and Texas hold em.
read more →An new exhibition of concrete poetry is on display at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. The exhibition is titled “Poor. Old. Tired. Horse.” gets its name from a periodical by that name that championed new works of visual poetry in the 1960’s.
read more →“The Imaginary 20th Century” is a historical science-fiction novel takes the form of a large-scale projection, which is an interactive work that includes 2,200 images culled from different visual archives.
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