at the time I had reading a good deal of work by others while at the same time - as curator and host - hearing a lot of poetry by high school students who were bending their language spoons in any number of pretzel shapes. This was 1995-1999. I had already seen concrete poetry and was familiar with a number of magazines of the period that experimented with typography and lay-out. Stephane Mallarme's A THROW OF THE DICE. The work of Something Else Press & Dick Higgins. Early hypertext experiments on the Internet. They all flavored my thoughts about how the collection ought to appear.

Not surprisingly, the graphic artist/illustrator Katy Jean knew what to do. She didn't create pages : she made spreads. The poems weren't "black letters on a white paper", they were closer in style to ads in Fast Company or Spin.

Labels: A Throw of the Dice, Dick Higgins, Something Else Press, stephane mallarme

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