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rants, raves, and writings by Dylan Kinnett

Visual Poetry Artists

list of artists on tumblr working with text, who have been featured on visual-poetry before: brandon alvarado gary barwin olfa breuning derek beaulieu marc bijl olaf breuning hart broudy francesca capone ben carrick calvin ross carl aldo chaparro zach collins a.

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Keep Blogging. We Read You: A Huge List of Literary Blogs

I like to think, though, that all these bloggers need is some encouragement. I’m sharing this list, not to call out these hundreds of bloggers for being slackers, but to offer up some encouragement. For the readers out there: take a look at this list, see if anything strikes your fancy, and go post a comment to get a conversation started. For the writers of these blogs: take heart, keep blogging. We read you.

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Great idea: Turning art supply tests into standalone works of art

via austinkleon: I like these pieces from “Test Me,” an exhibit by @chrisormitch (Chris Maddux) on display at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery’s Image Lab, the interdisciplinary work space run by @thenearsightedmonkey (Lynda Barry) Let me know if you know of other artists who share pages of material tests into works of their own!

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Book Cover Breakdowns

Book cover breakdowns. Images are replaced with diagonal lines and text is replaced with bars of colour. Ongoing project since 2011. (via Readings : Jan Avendano )

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Litblog Roundup 36

Shortlists The superbowl is over. Baseball season hasn’t started yet. A lull of noncompetitive peace would fall over the land… No. There are some book competitions to pay attention to.

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Litblog Roundup 35

What do you get when you combine prominent politicians with bullshit detectors? The new Litblog Roundup, that’s what! Litblog Roundup is a bi-weekly overview of topics, trends and highlights from the literary Internet.

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Litblog Roundup 34

Litblog Roundup is a bi-weekly overview of topics, trends and highlights from the literary Internet. In this roundup: it’s a tumultuous time for electronic writing, how many kinds of stories are there, David Bowie and more.

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