Welcome to the premiere issue of Tip Of The Knife. We are dedicated to tearing down any and every artistic/literary wall in our way. As visual poetry reaches its Nth generation, new ideas are few and far between, and poets seem okay with this. T of K only presents work that rises above Johnny-Come-Lately Xerox treatments, obvious computer manipulations, and tired visual puns.

The people here are those who have inspired me, doing future work all through the 1980s. Their visual poetry is still relevant three decades after it all began, and they continue to inspire bright new faces.

Draw blood or go home.

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CONTRIBUTORS

Karl Kempton

mIEKAL aND

Liz Was

Lloyd Dunn

Crag Hill

Laurie Schneider

Bill DiMichele

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Karl Kempton

karl kempton’s visual poems have been nationally and internationally published and exhibited since 1974. his work has evolved from typewriter to computer b&w to color and now mixed media with use of a slr digital camera. from CHEWED, photons off Gum Alley in San Luis Obispo.

C text

ax & zen

d text

homage to dada

snap 1

snap 2

mIEKAL aND

Liz Was
i imagine the reader can discover by repeated sittings, reading out loud + flippings of achronologic pgs. pieces of words begin to stand for conglomerates of word-meanings; single letters have personalities of their own, but change w/the typsetyles they are clothed in.

Lloyd Dunn

Crag Hill

I seek the space where the edge of the alphabet begins to dissolve, to de-solve, where words are bodies, beautiful and ugly and unhinged.

Contour Series 3

Fact

Flippant

writer

Laurie Schneider

Bill DiMichele

Excerpts from Fugue-Dog The Ecstatic

organs of the Sefirot

Fifth Station

spoke no more of wedding, circumcision, death

shadows came the soft, were merciful

Accepting work for Tip of the Knife #2

Due September 1, 2010

Please send your submissions to

julie-d@prodigy.net