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• Jacket 23 - Marjorie Perloff - The Oulipo Factor
  Poetry culture is increasingly indifferent to the role of sound in poetry. Indeed, the free verse, now dominant around the world, has become, with notable exceptions, little more than linear prose, arbitrarily divided into line-lengths. But there are two sites where sound comes once again to the foreground of poetry.
• Experimental Fiction / Poetry: Lily Hoang's CHANGING
  "Changing", a 2009 Pen America Award Winner, is based on the ancient Chinese uber-text I-Ching or Book of Changes. The book is composed of 64 hexagrams, each one with six stacked horizontal lines. Some lines are composed of just one dash (­—) an­d some are two (--). The unbroken lines are associated with yang, the creative principle, and the broken with yin, the receptive principle.
• “Defining” Concrete Poetry
  A useful and interesting point about concrete poetry. The author describes "pure" concrete poetry where "the spatial element is essential to the communication, not merely something additional". The visual examples show poems where the spatial elements of the poems contribute to the meaning, and also where they seem to obscure it.
• Immanent Terrain: Fluxus Movement as Precursor to Relational Aesthetics
  This short article describes the main features of the Fluxus art movement.
• Textu(r)al Literature: Timeline of Major Movements in 'Experimental' Literature
  This is a rough-sketch chronology of major movements. This list is by no means conclusive. It includes firsts, bests, and influentials.