Gregory Betts

YouTube video by Benn Jordan I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird

The soundpoetry of Starlings: storing data in birdsongs. #bioart
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...

And so to simplify:

poetry = art with words
prose = art with sentences
novels = art with narrative
visual poetry = art with letters

Ferdinand Kriwet, "Rundscheiben" (1960/63).

This looks amazing, Dave

Chalk, under a microscope, reveals itself to be made of the bones of ancient plankton, a creature crucial to the great oxygenation of the earth. Chalk, used to outline death, is made of death from this creature that enables our life. #coccolithophores

Thank you!!

Pleased to have work in "Language is a Virus" an online art exhibition to commemorate The Xenotext. With @anamariacaballero.bsky.social and @sashastiles.bsky.social

objkt.com/collections/...

Jim Dine, "Seeing thru the Stardust, The heat on the lawn (Claude)" (2017).
Earthenware and bronze,

IMPREINT, "Entartete Kunst #1631" (2024).

@impreint.bsky.social "has vigorously and painstakingly sanitised, obscured, and hidden... unpalatable into intriguing and beautiful re-contextualised imagery poetically undermining the actions of the oppressor", in this case Nazi archival photographs.

Very nice

Submissions are coming in already from countries around the world. I remind you all of the new Cosmic Chronicles Literary Prize by The SETI Institute for emerging writers. No entry fee!

www.seti.org/news/the-set...

Dick Higgins, "Glasslass" (1974).

A modular poem in which the principal structural factor is the repetition, usually in different contexts, of one or more elements of the text. Each element becomes a module that may be expanded, compressed or otherwise altered. Or not.

YouTube video by MB14 MB14 - PYRAMIDS Live @ Festival de POUPET 2023

MB14, "Pyramids" (2023). New Sonic Poetry.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=11MN...

"For thinking is always firstly thinking the thinkable -- a thinking that modifies what is thinkable by welcoming what was unthinkable."

Jacques Ranciere, Aisthesis

Some mail day! The astounding artist box of responses to The Xenotext has arrived from Coach House today, complete with my headband and my new chapbook, "The Crown." My afternoon is now shot, given over to the indulgence of these contents.

"EITHER YOU TRANSFORM OR YOU DESTROY":
Steve McCaffery's "for a poetry of blood" from Stereoheadphones 4 (1978).

@jkchunt.bsky.social I read this as an addendum to, perhaps refinement of, Brooker's "The Destroyer".

The Book of Un by M. NourbeSe Philip, published by Container Press, as part of their rolodex series of literary/artist editions. Michael Leong's work is also lovely.

"No other writer of our time and place was so diverse, attempted so much, & never lost sight of his intent." – Michael Ondaatje. Purchase SOME LINES OF POETRY FROM THE NOTEBOOKS OF BPNICHOL, edited by @whatisapoem.bsky.social & I, from @coachhousebooks.bsky.social : chbooks.com/Books/S/Some...

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

The typewriter pyramids of Kasper Pincis (2013).

"To be typed rather than written: the idea of typing as a separate medium in and of itself plays a key role"

It is my great pleasure to introduce The Cosmic Chronicles Literary Prize, a new initiative from the SETI Institute, a contest for emerging writers of all ages whose work explores questions of life, intelligence and consciousness in the universe. $1000 grand prize.

www.seti.org/news/the-set...

Wearable poetry: my work "The Crown" in which every gem colour corresponds to a specific syllable sound in the crown of sonnets called "The Crown of Venom" in Christian Bök's The Xenotext.

From the BardCode launch in St Cats.

rob and Christine in Ireland! Friends in Dublin, this will be a great event. www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/tra...

I taught Kate Beaton's Ducks last year and the students loved it. Deals with gender, environment, sexual violence, student loans, trying to live with an arts degree and student loans.

After Words

On now: "The visual and the textual, the lucid and the illegible: a vibrant exhibition of the last sixty-five years of experimental poetry." Curated by Steve Clay and M. C. Kinniburgh, in collaboration with Conley Lowrance, Grolier Club, NYC, through July 26, 2025
4columns.org/mobilio-albe...

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Friends in St. Cats and environs, the next reading in the Phylum Press Reading Series will be Thursday 3 July on the Niagara Artists Centre (NAC)'s amazing roofdeck. This one is going to be excellent. Open to all, free (as in words). Hope to see you here!

when yu want to know what writing is mor than anything yu look at writing - bill bissett

This was the poem that gave the name to my dissertation on Brooker.

Fabulous, Ken! Great to hear this.