Happy to announce that the Ahadada Jim Daniels page is now constructed. Take a look.

I’m happy to announce that work has begun on an Ahadada edition of Jim Daniels’ poetry. We’ll be sending proof sheets Jim’s way by the end of next week. At last!

Angela Genusa is the most prolific mail-artist in Texas and a contributor to the Swedenborg project! Visit her website, Chopped Livre. (oops! link dead!)

Swedenborg welcomes her! Check out her contribution.

More soon from me! Lots of stuff happening. Shortly—an ahadada online e-chapbook from the one and only Simon Percik.

Welcome the newest passenger aboard Swedenborg’s Airplane!

Fierens practices mostly collages & visual poems. He also adds “material� gleaned from colleagues and prints this material as the POSTFLUXPOSTBOOKLETS. Presently, 69 issues have been published. The complete séries has been accepted by major archives (R.&M.Sackner Archive—Miami Beach), libraries (MoMa Library, Rare Bookscollection at the University of Buffalo), museums (Musée Royal de Mariemont) and private collections.

Writes Fierens:

I admired the energy of the visual poets and the * Flux-workers of the sixties and seventies and with my own energy i wanted to communicate with alternative voices around the world.

Check out Luc Fierens’ own mailart site, here.

And head over to Swedenborg’s Airplane to check out Luc’s contribution.

Jukka-Pekka Kervinen has done us all a favor by publishing a small collection of Koppany’s latest work as a downloadable chapbook via the x-Pressed website. My congratulations to Marton and Jukka!

Dream Flow is a substantial collection of David Jaffin’s work–this time with a wonderful watercolor by Charles Selinger brightening up the cover. As any reader of this blog knows by now, I’m a fan of Jaffin’s miniature songs and recommend this book highly. At 311 pages, it’s an inexhaustable well in which one can gaze and dip at one’s liesure, bringing the reflective waters to the lips and trying out songs like these:

Lake reed

s
with the

watering
tiouch of

bird’s wing
ed from re

lease.

[Accent grave above the ed of winged.]

Moon-sensed

Are these

palms’ wake
in the night

Brushed by
the darkness

es of wind’
s flowing

in for dis
tant waves

moon-sensed.

To say these poems reveals the extent of the intricate word-play and the shimmer of meanings. And the more one sees and says the more the subtle gifts keep coming! Available from Shearsman Books (www.shearsman.com) or from Small Press Distribution. We hope to feature David Jaffin on Ahadada Radio in the very near future.

In 1714, at the age of 26, Emanuel Swedenborg of Sweden developed an interest in building a flying machine, which was documented in an article, “Sketch of a Machine for Flying in the Air,” published two years later. Swedenborg’s design looked like a classical flying saucer with flapping wings.

Swedenborg’s Airplane is an ongoing Mail Art call for artists to respond to Swedenborg’s 1714 plans for a crude monoplane. We are happy to welcome 3 new artists to the project!

CARLOS M. LUIS is an artist and visual poet from Miami. He has exhibited his work in a number of galleries around the country and world, and his work has appeared in numerous publications including Word For/Word, SleepingFish, Zunai (Brazil), TSE TSE (Argentina), and Manglar (France). Recent publications include Walls for Finnegans & Palimpsests for Beckett (Anabasis press), Dysfunctional Texts (Luna Bisonte Press), and O, Vozque Pulp (Calamari Press).

MARTON KOPPANY is a writer, translator and editor living in Budapest, Hungary. During the last few years he has been working on different collections of visual, conceptual, minimal etc. poetry, Fluxus documents and related essays. Some of the products and by-products of this activity can now be seen at the Institute of Broken and Reduced Languages, a subsite run together with Karl Young and hosted by Light and Dust. You can find there a small collection of his series as well.

MARGIT KUPSCH hails from Emmendingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Bob Grumman is well-known in avant-garde circles as a poet, a critic, and editor/publisher of the Runaway Spoon Press. He has also perfected the verse form “mathemaku,” which crosses haiku with mathematics. To view his current projects, visit his blog Web site. The poems here on Grumman’s site serve to introduce Grumman’s work to a wider audience.

Catherine Daly’s Secret Kitty has proved to be our hottest ebook to date—with 200 downloads in under a week. Just amazing. Make sure to check out her blog here.

In the wake of Daly’s Secret Kitty, we’d like to introduce Dan Sargent’s Sapphic Derivations.

Sargent keeps a cool audio poetry page here. Right now he’s running Conni Castille reading selections from his translations of the poems & songs of the Indian mystic and poet, Mirabai. The music and Connie’s audio were arranged by Sargent. All the mixing was done in Garageband, on my old iBook. Check it out.

To whet your appetite:

I have been waiting.
Moon risen…
…boat mast curls and flows on the water.

There are no tears between us, but—

… death also proposes.
…
The old labors gone out of our hands
have found no rest, though we rest.
…
Your robes…
…temple garden

Get it while it’s hot!