Textsound journal
Encyclopedia
textsound journal is an audio online literary magazine
that publishes experimental poetry and sound.
, Joel Levise, Christine Hume
, James Marks, and Viki.
In the fall of 2008, the textsound collective teamed-up with Megan Levad and Adam Boehmer to curate the Work-In-Progress Reading Series at the Crazy Wisdom Bookstore in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Performers included Vievee Francis, Jill Darling, Onna Solomon, Sandy Tolbert, Aaron McCollough
, Adam Boehmer, Michael Shilling, David Karczynski, T Hetzel, Katie Hartsock, Meghann Rotary, Anna Prushnikaya, and Stephanie Rowden.
Literary magazine
A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry and essays along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letters...
that publishes experimental poetry and sound.
History
textsound began in 2008 as a bi-annual publication under the editorial direction of Anya Cobler, Adam Fagin, Anna Vitale, and Laura Wetherington.Selected Contributors
- Jaap BlonkJaap BlonkJaap Blonk is a Dutch avant-garde composer and performance artist.Blonk is primarily self-taught both as a sound artist and as a visual/stage performer. He studied physics, mathematics, and musicology for a time, but did not complete his studies...
- Anne-James Chaton
- Paul DeMarinis
- Linh DinhLinh DinhLinh Dinh is a Vietnamese-American poet, fiction writer, translator, and photographer. He was a 1993 Pew Fellow.-Biography:...
- Kenneth GoldsmithKenneth GoldsmithKenneth Goldsmith is an American poet. He is the founding editor of UbuWeb, teaches Poetics and Poetic Practice at the University of Pennsylvania and is Senior Editor of PennSound. He hosted a weekly radio show at WFMU from 1995 until June 2010...
- Rick MoodyRick MoodyRick Moody is an American novelist and short story writer best known for the 1994 novel The Ice Storm, a chronicle of the dissolution of two suburban Connecticut families over Thanksgiving weekend in 1973, which brought widespread acclaim, became a bestseller, and was made into a feature film of...
- Thylias MossThylias MossThylias Moss is an American poet, writer, experimental filmmaker, sound artist and playwright, of African American, Indian, and European heritage, who has published a number of poetry collections, children’s books, essays, and multimedia work she calls poams, products of acts of making, related to...
- Alice NotleyAlice NotleyAlice Notley is an American poet. She was born in Bisbee, Arizona and grew up in Needles, California. She received a B.A. from Barnard College in 1967 and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1969. She married poet Ted Berrigan in 1972, with whom she was active in...
- Alva NotoAlva NotoAlva Noto is a stage name of sound artist Carsten Nicolai who uses art and music as complementary tools to create microscopic views of creative processes. Another alias he uses is Noto...
- Leslie ScalapinoLeslie ScalapinoLeslie Scalapino was a United States poet, experimental prose writer, playwright, essayist, and editor, sometimes grouped in with the Language poets, though she felt closely tied to the Beat poets. A longtime resident of California's Bay Area, she earned an M.A. in English from the University of...
- Anne TardosAnne TardosAnne Tardos is a poet, visual artist, and composer born in Cannes, France. She lived as a small child in German-occupied Paris, then after the war moved with her parents to Budapest, where she learned Hungarian. The Hungarian revolution resulted in her having then to move to Vienna, where she...
- Edwin TorresEdwin TorresEdwin Torres may refer to:* Edwin Torres , Puerto Rican New York Supreme Court judge and author of crime novels including Carlito's Way* Edwin Torres , Puerto Rican "Nuyorican Movement" poet...
- Anne WaldmanAnne WaldmanAnne Waldman is an American poet.Since the 1960s, Waldman has been an active member of the “Outrider” experimental poetry community as a writer, performer, collaborator, professor, editor, scholar, and cultural/political activist....
Events
On April 5, 2008, the textsound editorial collective organized a celebration in Ypsilanti, Michigan for the journal's launch featuring Barrett WattenBarrett Watten
Barrett Watten is an American poet, editor, and educator often associated with the Language poets.Since 1994, Watten has taught modernism and cultural studies at Wayne State University in Detroit...
, Joel Levise, Christine Hume
Christine Hume
-Life:Hume received her BA, MFA, and PhD from Penn State University, Columbia University, and University of Denver, respectively. She has taught at Illinois Wesleyan University and is currently an Associate Professor of English at Eastern Michigan University, where she also hosts an internet radio...
, James Marks, and Viki.
In the fall of 2008, the textsound collective teamed-up with Megan Levad and Adam Boehmer to curate the Work-In-Progress Reading Series at the Crazy Wisdom Bookstore in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Performers included Vievee Francis, Jill Darling, Onna Solomon, Sandy Tolbert, Aaron McCollough
Aaron McCollough
-Life and career:Aaron McCollough was born in 1971 in Columbus, Ohio and raised in Tennessee. He has a BA from the University of the South , an MA in English Literature from North Carolina State University , an MFA in Creative Writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop , as well as an MA and PhD in...
, Adam Boehmer, Michael Shilling, David Karczynski, T Hetzel, Katie Hartsock, Meghann Rotary, Anna Prushnikaya, and Stephanie Rowden.
External links
- textsound's website
- Self-Consuming Artifacts … towards an unquiet metaphysics A blog posting by American poet Aaron McCollough on Barrett Watten & textsound, initiated by the 2008 crisis in "Tibet" (& "Tibet" being the title of a Watten poem)
- 2008 Work-In-Progress Reading Series Blog