Chain, 1994–2005 (ed. Jena Osman and Juliana Spahr)

Chain Title

Edited by Jena Osman and Juliana Spahr, Chain was founded at the State University of New York, Buffalo in 1994. Chain was uniformly released from 1994 until 2005 in perfect bound 6" by 9" format with 1,000 copies printed per issue. Twelve issues were published with each issue organized around a special topic: 1. Gender and Editing; 2. Documentary; 3. Hybrid Genres/Mixed Media (second volume); 4. Procedures; 5. Different Languages; 6. Letters; 7. Memoir/Antimemoir; 8. Comics; 9. Dialogue; 10. Translucinación; 11. Public Forms; and 12. Facts

Full issues available for download or browsing below. The index to each issue attempts to retain the formatting of the contents as printed in the magazine, including original pagination. Not included in the contents are the superb editors' notes opening each issue, which the reader is encouraged to find within the PDF. Each PDF is fully searchable and bookmarked for easy navigation to individual pieces within the magazine. 

This reissue was scanned by Ben Filreis and edited by Danny Snelson with the gracious support of the Kelly Writers House. 

Chain 1, Gender and Editing; Spring/Summer 1994 [PDF, 76 MB]

    

Contents

Editorial Forum Susan Bee; Dodie Bellamy and Andrea Juno; Lee Ann Brown; Cydney Chadwick; Maxine Chernoff; Susan Clark, Catriona Strang, and Lisa Robertson; Dorothy Cosand, Danika Dinsmore, and Angela Oaks; Dubravka Djuric; Johanna Drucker; Ana Maria Fagundo; Heather Findlay; Kathleen Fraser; Susan Gevirtz; Jessica Grim; Barbara Henning; Beth Joselow; Martha King; Avis Lang; Holly A. Laird; Cynthia Lucia; Jennifer Moxley; Susan Smith Nash; Maljorie Perloff; Rena Rosenwasser; Phyllis Rosenzweig; Mira Schor; Meredith Stricker; Fiona Templeton; Anne Waldman; Rosmarie Waldrop; Katie Yates  p.5
Transcription "Ethics of Small Press Publishing" panel at Writing from the New Coast: First Festival of New Poetry, State University of New York at Buffalo, April 1993 p.119
Editors' Note: Frameworks Jena Osman and Juliana Spahr p.129
Chains Sherry Brennan, Julia Blumenreich, H.T., Susan Smith Nash, and Lisa Houston p.137
  Lee Ann Brown, Katie Yates, and Spring Ulmer p.157
  Abigail Child and Gail Scott p.163
  Norma Cole, Laura Moriarty, and Abigail Child p.175
  Tina Darragh and Beth Joselow p.189
  Stacy Doris, Kim Rosenfield, and Joan Retallack p.193
  Judith Goldman, Lee Ann Brown, Lisa Jarnot, and Sianne Ngai p.197
  Jessica Grim, Jean Day, Jennifer Moxley, and Kate Rushin p.201
  Lori Lubeski and Jennifer Hoff p.211
  Maggie O'Sullivan and Denise Riley p.219
  Kristin Prevallet and Elizabeth Willis p.225
  Pam Rehm, Barbara Jordan, Monica Raymond, and Catherine Draycott p.231
  Joan Retallack, Tina Darragh, and Diane Ward p.237
  Phyllis Rosenzweig and Diane Ward p.245
  Susan Schultz, R.M. Ernest, Carter McKenzie, and Jennifer Arin p.251
  Cole Swensen and Elizabeth Robinson p.259
  Fiona Templeton, Kathryn MacLeod, and Susan Clark

p.267
  Elizabeth Willis and Julie Kalendek p.279

Chain 2, Documentary; Spring 1995 [PDF, 77 MB]

 

Contents

Alicia Askenase from Known and Suspected Sites
p.9
Lutz Bacher Men at War
p.11
Merle Lyn Bachman stupni dō
p.14
Dodie Bellamy interviews Lyn Hejinian The Eternal Repository
p.19
Celia Bland  Wisdom Teeth
p.26
Pascale-Anne Brault  Le Lit Encylopédique, Ou la Mémoire Du Monde p.28
Sherry Brennan  Sleep
p.31
Laynie Browne untitled
p.35
AnJanette Brush  Auto-
p.38
Kathe Burkhardt Charley 1990: Scavenger's Daughter
p.42
Juanita But  On Shoot for the Contents
p.43
Catalina Cariaga  His Civil Rights
p.47
Norma Cole  Untitled (from Nostalgia)
p.62
Leslie Davis and Hoa Nguyen  before the gypsy told her
p.64
Connie Deanovich  from The Spotted Moon
p.67
Dubrovka Djuric  Proposals for Investigating Languages, Meanings, and Contexts of Conscious and Unconscious in Postmodern and Postcommunist Societies p.71
Sally Doyle I'M NOT THAT KIND OF BRIGHTNESS
p.76
Maggie Dubris  from Willieworld
p.79
Dyke Action Machine (Carrie Moyer and Sue Schaffer)    Do You Love the Dyke in Your Life? and Straight to Hell: the film p.92
Ann Erickson  untitled
p.94
Liz Fodaski  from The Anatomy of Associative Thought
p.95
Darcy Frey  from The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams
p.99
Susan Gevirtz Documentary Survey for Chain p.106
Phoebe Gloeckner  Fun Things to do with Little Girls p.107
Lyn Hejinian  from A Border Comedy p.110
Lisa Hoke Echo Chamber p.114
Akua Lezli Hope  Genny p.116
Karen Kelley Venus Return p.119
Ike Kim  from morning p.123
Basil King  Mirage: Section XII p.124
Andrew Levy  from Song From My Family p.128
Walter K. Lew  Yusejang (CBS News in Seoul) p.132
Tan Lin  Soft Sector A Hub Section B Topo-Moo p.133
Pamela Lu  Departures p.138
Lori Lubeski  from Shady Lane p.142
Kimberly Lyons  Female Circumcision p.145
Kevin Magee  three poems p.147
Paul Maurice  Flashcards and Not High Enough p.151
Katie Merz  untitled p.156
Douglas Messerli  Seizure p.157
Harryette Mullen  from Muse & Drudge p.158
Aífe Murray from Margaret Maher, Emily Dickinson, and Kitchen Table Poetics p.162
Susan Smith Nash  Térmica: Documentation and Erosions oj
Patriarchy
p.165
Sianne Ngai  chrono/paradise
p.167
Erin O'Brien  from Evidence p.172
Jena Osman  from Authorities: (A Lecture) p.175
Alix Pearlstein Bat-Bat p.179
M. Nourbese Philip  Ignoring Poetry: (a work in progress) p.184
Stephen Ratcliffe  from Sculpture p.188
Susan Rosenberg and Jacob Wisse  Dialogue: The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl p.190
Leslie Scalapino  from The Front Matter, Dead Souls p.195
Jenny Scobel    The Decision and untitled p.203 
Eléni Sikélianòs    from "A" "History" p.205
Rod Smith  Your Group Insurance Benifits p.210
Meredith Stricker untitled p.212
Nathaniel Tarn    Sun Hawk p.216
H. T.    from The Milk Icon p.222
Rodrigo Toscano    Prologue to a City Poem p.226
Nicola Tyson    two diary drawings
p.229
Cecilia Vicuña    P u r m a m a r c a
p.231
Anne Waldman  Do Comment p.236
Hannah Weiner  UBLIMINAL
p.238
Karen Yasinsky    untitled
p.240
Susan Wheeler   The Blanching Heart p.243
Alexander Zane Grandpa Nada
p.245
Janet Zweig Her Recursive Apology
p.248

Combo 3/1, Hybrid Genres/Mixed Media; Spring 1996 [PDF, 77 MB]

 

Contents

Mac Adams  Four Pieces
p.7
Will Alexander  Transgression of Genre as Vitality
p.11
Dennis Barone  Pia at Play
p.15
Martine Bellen  Lola Montez
p.17
Charles Bernstein Introjective Verse
p.23
Sherry Brennan  Belle Mort
p.26
Patti Capaldi  Consumption
p.32
Norma Cole and Michael Palmer  A Library Book
p.38
Elizabeth Cross  Schoenberg Dance 12
p.48
Maria Damon  Perfume River: the Oxymoron Wannabe & Me p.51
Tim Davis The Nearsighted Poet Reads to St. Jerome
p.55
Marta Dieke, Spencer Selby, and Gary Sullivan  from How We Learn p.56
Rachel Blau DuPlessis  Draft 29: Intellectual Autobiography
p.58
Geraldine Erman  Vivarium No. 2
p.66
William L. Fox  from Zero Comma One: A Visual Essay
p.67
Janie Geiser  Evidence of Floods
p.71
Susan Gevirtz  Figment of Appointment
p.76
David Golumbia  Theory
p.91
Jenny Gough  Untitled
p.92
Carla Harryman and Amy Trachtenberg  Males (terrorists)
p.96
Lyn Hejinian and Travis Ortiz  The Staking Effect
p.101
Fanny Howe  from Nod (a novel)
p.114
Lisa Jarnot  Five Pages
p.119
Tom Johnson  Four Pages p.124
Alystyre Julian  Shifting Attentions, Shifting Attentions
p.128
Karen Kelley  Gesture/Geisha /Genre
p.140
Bruce McIntosh  Four Pages
p.144
E. A. Miller  Trouble (please do not disturb)
p.148
Aífe Murray  Phenomenal Rooms
p.153
Sianne Ngai  Five Collage Poems
p.157
Hoa Nguyen  from A Series of Letters p.161
Nick Piombino  New Languages for Old
p.163
Mark Robbins  Scoring the Park
p.171
Christy Sheffield Sanford  Bivens Arm Nature Poem: (Thirty-one Afternoons in Winter) p.180
Gail Sher  Innocent Diversions from George Tooker: Marginalia p.183
Brian Kim Stefans  Two Graphic Poems
p.189
Cassandra Terman and Katie Yates  Seven Pages
p.191
Nico Vassilakis  Orange: A Manual
p.198
Mac Wellman  The Peach-Bottom Nuclear Reactor, Full Of Sleepers p.200
C. D. Wright  The Lost Roads Project: A Walk-in Book of Arkansas p.206
Paul Zelevansky  Four Heads on a One-Way Street
p.213
Where to Go Next . . .   p.217
Call for Work    p.223
Contents for Issue 3, Volume 2    p.224

Chain 3/2, Hybrid Genres/Mixed Media; Fall 1996 [PDF, 65 MB]

 

Contents

Polly Apfelbaum  Two Hybrid Objects
p.7
Lutz Bacher  from Jim & Sylvia
p.9
Perry Bard  A Modest Proposal
p.14
Jim Brashear  from The Western Materials
p.15
Lee Ann Brown and Susan Meyer Fenton  from Book  Pages for Icarus
p.20
Brad Buckley  One Piece
p.27
Mary Burger  from Coughing Fit
p.28
Stacy Doris  Re:The Birth Of So And So, Or, How I Noticed the Beginnings if Nature
p.31
Johanna Drucker and Brad Freeman  Hybrid Anxieties
p.34
Thalia Field  First Day
p.40
Heather Fuller  from Placards
p.53
Loss Pequeño Glazier    Intermedial Investigations
p.57
Barbara Henning and Miranda Maher  from How to Read and Write in the Dark
p.64
Kathy High  (A Few) Statistics On the (Possible)  Meaning if  An Encounter With (Some) (Middle-Class)  Academic Women
p.71
Adeena Karasick  from Genrecide: A Poetics for the Unproductive
p.77
Cynthia Kimball  Thinking In Words Does Not Become You
p.82
Heidi Kumao  Cinema Machines
p.85
Eve Andrée Laramée  Apparatus for the Distillation of Vague Intuitions
p.88
Walter K. Lew  from The Movieteller
p.90
Pamela Lu  from Noir
p.98
Steve McCaffery  Dilemma of the Meno
p.104
Marlene McCarty   More Crash & Burn (Road Rash)
p.107
Jerome McGann   The Alice Fallacy, Or, Only God Can Make A Tree: A Dialogue Of Pleasure And Instruction
p.108 
Kevin Magee   from April Theses
p.135
Gerard Malanga   Prototypes of  Experience
p.141
Denise Newman   One Piece
p.145
M. Nourbese Philip   from Discourse on the Logic of  Language
p.146
Kristin Prevallet   Allegory for the Real, Covered Up
p.150
Joan Retallack, Rod Smith, and Melanie Neilson    Empty Envelopes: Is This Any Way to Correspond?
p.155
Lisa Robertson   Index A: Lyric Or Prohibitive
p.166
James Sherry   Menus à Clef
p.169
Ken Sherwood   Scrims
p.174
Sally Silvers    Wall if Ownbrain: Movement/Film/Text/Science
p.178
Carolyn Steinhoff Smith   from . . . And if, Taking From a Cage an Eye
p.183
Fiona Templeton  Real Dead and Fake Living: Notes for the Issue on Hybrid Form
p.186
Ward Tietz   Two Literary Prints
p.193
Anne Waldman  from Iovis
p.195
Mark Wallace   Processes of Attention
p.204
Janet Zweig   Mind Over Matter
p.208
Where to Go Next . . .   p.210
Call for Work   p.214

Chain 4, Procedures; Fall 1997 [PDF, 65 MB]

 

Juliana Spahr and Jena Osman   Editors' Notes p.3
Michael Basinski  Two Pauses or Eyebrows
p.7
Guy R. Beining   p.10
Dodie Bellamy and Joel Felix  Mrs. Dalloway: After Jackson Mac Low
p.12
Caroline Bergvall  from Flaunt Mine: Compact Mix
p.14
Jeremy Caplan  Legacy
p.20
John Cayley  from The Speaking Clock
p.25
Janet Cohen, Keith Frank, and Jon Ippolito  State of the Art
p.28
Cynthia Conrad   Acccordian Variations (after Hoyle)
p.35
Maria Damon  "Independent Embroidery": Theorizing Improvising Text/ile Collaborations
p.37
 Tina Darragh  Bill Clinton Plane Ride Dream
p.42
Jean Day, John High, Jennifer Hoff, Lori Lubeski, and Patricia Pruitt     p.45
 Alan Devenish  Just Checking
p.52
Kui Dong and Denise Newman  from Cess (after Turandot)
p.53
Dan Featherston  She Had Some Horseworms
p.58
William Fuller   True Intellectual System
p.61
Cliff Fyman  My Job to Throw Out Dead Mouse
p.65
Peter Gizzi   Ode: Salute to the New York School 1950- 1970 (A Libretto)
p.69
Dale Going The Number of the Right Time
p.77
Jessica Grim  Minutes, 11/18/96
p.82
Lauren Gudath and Chris Vitiello  from Research Assistant
p.84
Jorge Guitart and Lisa Samuels  A Sembled Turpitude
p.92
Dick Higgins The Quarter-Deck
p.94
P. Inman  Milton Babbitt
p.101
David Kellogg  from Cartesian Procedure
p.107
Robert Kelly  Path Moss
p.109
Kevin Killian Cross Roads
p.117
Wendy Kramer O Art the Mystique of Vellum
p.120
Carl Lehmann-Haupt from The Poetry of Design/The Design of Poetry 
p.122
 Tan Lin from Box
p.128
Brigid McLeer Firsts of Placing
p.134
Clarinda Mac Low Sabotage
p.141
Jackson Mac Low Accusation Falásha
p.148
Miranda Maher Difficult Books
p.154
Lizbeth Marano  Entropia p.160
William Marsh from A•re•as
p.163
John Mason Tag Barn 1
p.167
E. A. Miller Lackawanna: 7 Equations
p.169
Laura Moriarty Notes on Symmetry as a Procedure
p.177
Margaret Morton Pepe Otero: Architect of Shantytown
p.182
Harryette Mullen   p.190
Laura Mullen 35 1/2
p.194
Edward Mycue 10 Rumbas
p.196
John Newman   p.197
Sianne Ngai Enemy
p.199
Joan Retallack The Blue Stares
p.203
William van Roden   p.208
Leslie Scalapino from Deer Night
p.210
Catherine Schieve Catahoula Benefete, Southwest Louisiana, November 1995
p.219
Ilana Simons Boundaries Of The Ocean
p.226
Mary Margaret Sloan On Method
p.229
Satoru Takahaski Dumping Sight: Landscape/Landscape
p.235
Chris Tysh Dead Letters
p.240
Keith Waldrop Four Weeks
p.243
Rosmarie Waldrop A Berlin Chronicle, Abridged
p.244
Hannah Weiner Silent History
p.246
Susan Wheeler Every Lover Admires His Mistress
p.248
Janet Zweig Thinking Contest
p.250
  Where To Look Next p.252

Chain 5, Different Languages; Summer 1998 [PDF, 85 MB]

 

Contents

Rosa Alcala Untranslateable   
p.7
Javant Biarujia Purges 
p.9
Marin Bodakov     "Maritza" by Night p.13
Bev Braune Úllr's Words (or the Archer's Prediction) 
p.14 
Nicole Brossard Time Out 
p.16  
Avery E. D. Burns   from A Duelling Primer 
p.20
Elizabeth Burns   La Muerte 
p.26
Warren Burt   A Post-Colonialist Poem on the English Language 
p.28
Catalina Cariaga   The Mercy 
p.32
Amy Sara Carroll Tamarind for Cameron and M    p.48
Frances Chung    p.51  
Jacques Debrot Origami Diagrams 
p.58
Dubravka Djuric    Identiteti 
p.61
Stacy Doris       p.64
Jorge Dragón    Open Transport #1.3 
p.68
Rachel Blau DuPlessis    Draft 36: Cento 
p.69
Beatriz Freire-Betancor    Todavía 
p.75
Karen Garthe and Natasha Saje    Reading for a Train 
p.77
Diane Glancy  A Field book of Textual Migrations   
p.79
Nada Gordon    Absence 
p.85
Georgi Gospodinov    Radio-Poem 
p.87
Jenny Gough    ^Not^ Shelley and Mary's Fair Copy Book 
p.90
Kinllko Hahn    Mother's Mother 
p.94
Jane Hammond       p.96
John Havelda    Poems 
p.99
Michael Helsem    Ananasa Kareo 
p.101
Jen Hofer   Vehicular Profile, Perfil Vehicular 
p.103
Urs Jaeggi and John Kinsella    from D & G 
p.105
Myung Mi Kim   from Arcana 
p.109
Stephanie Hyunjung Kim from A Letter to My Parents     p.111
Michael Lano and Robert Viking O'Brien    The Beginning of the Nukapu People
p.113
Zachar Laskewicz    from Zaum: New Music-Theatre in Three Movements
p.121
Will Lavender    Glossolalia 
p.125
Jessie Jane Lewis and Peter Rose     Pressures of the Text 
p.130
Rogelio Lopez Cuenca     from Home Swept Hole 
p.138
Dennis McCarthy     Fas Norma (Lawful the Carpenter's Square) 
p.142
Scott MacLeod The Log-Book, Some Figures     p.145
Jackson Mac Low     Sixesmix: Travesty 1 
p.148
Kevin Magee     from Maquiladora 
p.153
Anna Maria Maiolino       p.157
M. Mara-Ann     Psychic Landscape 
p.160
Reid Matko    Nun / נן, from Lessons in Letters  
p.165
Gaston V. J. De Mey     p.170
Matt Mullican       p.172
Sawako Nakayasu     English—Japanese Conversions 
p.179
Susan Smith Nash     Three from the Guarani 
p.182
Marie Orensanz       p.185
Susan Pensak     נלוי / Discovery  p.188
Kristin Prevallet     The Transformation of Isis into Mary: an Iconic Language Experiment
p.190
Kit Robinson   Finnetic Translation 
p.194
Mercedes Roffé    Love Poem in Twelve Tongues 
p.196
Standard Schaefer    Chapter Nine: The Corpus Callosum
p.199
Claudia Schvartz    Avido Don Es La Vida
p.200
E. Cameron Scott    —Act Over—Anew— 
p.201
Gail Scott    The Porous Text, or the Ecology of the Small Subject, Take 21
p.202
Eleni Stecopoulos    Post Modem Greek 
p.207
Meredith Stricker    [against your inner ear], from The Corrosions 
p.210
Stephanie Strickland    Gibbous Statement 
p.219
Bálint Szombathy    from The Eternal Calendar, 1996-1997 
p.221
Genre Tallique (trans. Joan Retallack)      p.222
Anne Tardos   from Uxudo  
p.228
Edwin Torres    Portorico N Prague 
p.248
Chris Tysh    from An Acoustic Room 
p.252
José-Miguel Ullán    Almario 
p.254
Michael Vagnetti    Limited Lexicons/Changed Notes 
p.256
Anne Waldman    Practices of the Night
p.259
Mark Wallace    from Boys At The Guns 
p.262
Gabrielle Welford    Empty Vee/Azure Lie Kit 
p.266
Xu Bing      p.275
Daniel Zimmerman   Depart/Per/Report 
p.283
Where to Look Next . . .      p.285
Calls for Work    p.298

Chain 6, Letters; Summer 1999 [PDF, 78 MB]

 

Contents

Will Alexander from Letters to Rosa
p.7
Kathy Dee Kaleokealoha Kaloloahilani Banggo  6 Days, Three Cities: Letters Home to the Islands
p.12
Régis Bonvacino  I Traniform Myself  p.17
Laynie Browne from Correspondences
p.21
William Burroughs   p.24
Steve Carll  Clues: Another Hermeneutics
p.29
Martha Carothers Capital Letters
p.33
Chris Chen and Susan Maxwell Fictional Syllabary For "Copper" Script
p.41
Norma Cole Lecteur/Letter: the Letter A  p.46
Michael Corris  Voice Over No. 1
p.48
Franck David and Marie Nimier  Peser ses Mots / Seine Worte Wiegen  p.49
Kate Delos and Rena Rosenwasser Supple in Black and White  p.50
Johanna Drucker First Letters & the Infinite
p.60
Marcella Durand   p.64
Craig Dworkin   p.66
Paul Elliman  E Pluribus Unum  p.69
Joe Elliot   p.80
Brad Freeman   p.81
Mara Gálvez-Bretón Una Mujer Que Escribe es (¿lesbiana?): 20 Cartas de Amor: 0 un Poema Hiperromántico  p.83
Susan Gevirtz and Myung Mi Kim   p.88
Michelle Grangaud The Anagram  p.97
Ralph Gutlohn  from The Hat, The Watch and The Pen
p.107
Lyn Hejinian and Joan Retallack  The Clouds: (This is Not by Henrick ISBN)  p.111
Susan Holbrook  Letteral Sense  p.120
Alystyre Julian Langue Hu—  p.132
Adeena Karasick  Spectral Profanities  p.133
Louise Landes Levi  The Yellow Scroll  p.137
Bill Luoma  from Dear Dad
p.139
Tim McCoy The Alphabet Cycle  p.143
Nathaniel Mackey  from Atet A. D.
p.147
Bill Marsh BEFORE and face  p.155
Bernadette Mayer Selected Letters to Lewis Warsh, 1975-76  p.159
Deborah Meadows Faux translation of Charles Baudelaire's "To the Reader"  p.170
Gaston de Mey   p.173
Peter Neufeld  for G. O.  p.174
Nick Piombino   p.176
Meredith Quartermain  Breadth  p.177
Peter Quartermain Paradise of Letters  p.182
Archie Rand  from Kabbalah/Tarot and Midnight Festival  p.193
Anna Reckin  Dictation  p.204
Johannes Rüth Feline Phonetic Alphabet  p.207
Albert Saijo   EARTH SLANGUAGE WITH ENGLISH ON IT
p.208
Andrew Schelling and Anne Waldman Letters  p.211
Mira Schor Animate / Alphabet / Sublimate  p.219
Ron Silliman from Keijak2: Caravan of Affect  p.222
giovanni singleton American Letters  p.225
Ardegno Soffici (with translation by Guy Bennett)  Typography  p.229
pete spence Untitled and Homage to Dick Higgins  p.230
Christina Olson Spiesel  Presabshad and Flesh  p.232
Chris Vitiello from The Single Word for the Duration of While Your Eyes Are Closed  p.234
Keith Waldrop  Two Poems  p.239
Marta L.Werner The Flights of A 821: Dearchivizing the Proceedings of a Birdsong  p.240
Mac Wellman  from FNU LNU  p.255
Hendrick Werkmann   p.259
Darren Wershler-Henry   p.260
Ilya Zdanevich (with translation by Guy Bennett)  Zokhna and Her Suitors  p.263
Daniel Zimmerman Isotope Poem  p.264
Where to Look Next    p.265

Chain 7, Memoir/Antimemoir; Summer 2000 [PDF, 81 MB]

  

Contents

Zelda Alpern Discourse of a Difficult Daughter
p.7
David Antin Alphabet Memories
p.12
Eleanor Antin Two Stories
p.14
Rae Armantrout My Advantage
p.17
Dodie Bellamy Cunt-Ups
p.19
Jen Bervin Code word, Arbor
p.23
Tisa Bryant from Tzimmes
p.25
Darryl Keola Cabacungan Lei Day '99
p.32
Dubravka Djuric Letters from Belgrade
p.33
Nicole Eisenman   p.46
Robert Feintuch   p.47
Alejandro Fogel Root to Route: 10 Rumbach St
p.49
Kenny Fries Disability Made Me Do It or Modeling for the Cause
p.58
Jacinta Galea`i The Body
p.65
C. S. Giscombe Natural Abilities & Natural Writing
p.68
Robert Glück Experimental Writer Gets Sucked Off In A Field
p.79
John Havelda Labore et Honore
p.81
Elvira Hernández In Memoriam Letra Ñ
p.83
Hsia Yü (translated by Steve Bradbury) Carte Postale
p.84
Lisa Jarnot Biography and Autobiography
p.86
Kim Jones   p.98
Summi Kaipa from The Epics
p.103
Mark Leahy and Mark Storor Doris Green: In Memory of Edward Peter John and Child 
p.108
Aaron Levy  If It Cannot Look at Itself
p.114
Warren Liu Xiao, Bai II
p.120
Loren Madsen The Long Scroll
p.123
Bernadette Mayer from Studying Hunger Journals
p.128
Cathleen Miller from Spectrum
p.131
Eileen Myles   p.135
Shirin Neshat   p.138
Sandra Newman TRUE BLUE & Love Always
p.143
Alice Notley Where Leftover Misery Goes
p.147
Akilah Oliver Fibs 7809
p.152
Rona Pondick   p.155
Joan Retallack Memnoir p.156
Deborah Richards The Beauty Projection
p.159
Bhanu Kapil Rider from Autobiography of a Cyborg
p.164
Kit Robinson Notes Toward a Phenomenology of Memory
p.167
Thaddeus Rutkowski Misfires
p.169
Susan Schultz  from Memory Cards
p.173
Ron Silliman from Under Albany
p.176
Jeanne Silverthorne   p.193
Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard Granny
p.196
Christina Olson Spiesel   p.198
Edwin Torres Birthday Present; Birthday Boy
p.200
Anne Waldman Save My Dockage
p.202
Rosmarie Waldrop from Rosmarie Waldrop, 1935- p.207
Yolanda Wisher from Spotlight
p.218
David Wojnarowicz from Arthur Rimbaud in NY
p.225
Allison Yap Rituals of Remembering
p.228
Susanda Yee Hurtling Herself Into the Center
p.234
WHERE TO LOOK NEXT . . .   p.237
Sandy Huss Huss Sales and Service p.243

Chain 8, Comics; Summer 2001 [PDF, 121 MB]

  

Contents

Jonathan Allen and John Coletti p.7
William Anthony p.10
Peter Bagge p.14
Holly Bittner p.15
Christopher Boucher p.22
Joe Brainard and  Robert Creeley p.25
F C. Brandt, Peter S. Conrad, and Rob R. p.32
Ivan Brunetti p.36
Warren Burt p.37
Elizabeth Castagna and Edwin Torres p.39
Isabelle Chemin and Jean-René Lassalle p.46
Abigail Child p.51
David Choe p.52
Rey Chow p.71
Emilie Clark and Lyn Hejinian p.83
Troy Cook p.87
Martin Corless-Smith and Cathy Wagner p.93
Veronica Corpuz p.95
Brent Cunningham p.98
Jane Dalrymple-Hollo and Anne Waldman p.99
Adam Degraff p.104
Trane DeVore and David Kirschenbaum p.110
Patrick Durgin p.113
Michelle Spencer Ellsworth p.117
Thalia Field p.119
Ellen Forney and Tamara Paris p.122
Mara Gálvez-Bretón p.123
Drew Gardner and Gary Sullivan p.130
Stephen Gibson p.135
Phoebe Gloeckner p.138
Arielle Greenberg p.145
Brenda Hillman and Frances Lerner p.146
Emmanuel Hocquard and Juliette Valéry p.147
Sandy Huss p.153
Brenda Iijima p.157
Jeffrey Jullich p.158
Ben Katchor, Michael Gordon, David Lang, Julia Wolfe, and David Krasnow p.164
Keith Knight p.192
David Larsen p.193
David Lasky p.197
Rebecca Levi p.198
Carol Mirakove p.201
Laura Mullen p.203
Sawako Nakayasu p.209
Florence Neal and Wendy Walker p.212
Josh Neufeld and Rob Walker p.214
Josh Neufeld p.215
Ron Padgett p.216
Raymond Pettibon p.217
Louis Phillips p.223
Kevin Quigley p.224
Jeanne Quinn p.230
Ramez Qureshi p.231
Elizabeth Robinson p.232
Davod Sandlin p.233
Peter Saul p.242
Leslie Scalapino p.244
Lytle Shaw p.249
Sally Silvers p.253
Chris Slane and Robert Sullivan p.256
Blair Solovy p.261
Christina Olson Spiesel p.267
Virgil Suárez p.268
Lee Tonouchi p.269
John Tranter p.272
Zak Vreeland p.284
John Wesley p.288
Mack White p.290
Aleksandar Zograf p.297
Tom Zummer p.298
Where to Look Next . . . p.303

Chain 9, Dialogue; Summer 2002 [PDF, 109 MB]

  

Contents

Joe Amato  p.9
Bruce Andrews and Alani Apio p.13
Ademir Assunção and Kaká Werá Jecupé p.36
Guy Beining p.49
Shelly Berc p.51
Rachel Bers and E. Tracy Grinnell p.56
Robert Bles p.58
Wendy Call and Sasha Su-Ling Welland p.59
Robert Quillen Camp p.70
Peter Conrad p.76
Tom Devaney and Edwin Torres p.78
Rachel Blau DuPlessis p.84
Patrick F. Durgin and Jen Hofer p.90
Craig Dworkin and Alessandra Santos p.93
Christine Evans and Dijana Milosevic p.95
Drew Gardner p.106
Peter Gizzi and Elizabeth Willis p.107
John Havelda and João Nunes p.109
Craigie Horsfield and Cecilia Vicuña p.112
Michael Ives p.125
Lisa Jamot p.136
Reynaldo Jiménez and Jussara Salazar p.142
M. Kasper p.151
John Kinsella and McKenzie Wark p.157
Tom La Farge p.168
Rob MacKenzie and Lee A. Tonouchi p.173
Mark McMorris p.187
Ruth Margraff with Sa'di Al-Hadithi, Ayad Rahim, and Kanan Makiya p.189
Sean Meehan p.205
Sean Meehan and Michelle Spencer p.207
Mette Moestrup p.210
Carlos Navarrete p.213
Bob Perelman and Francie Shaw p.217
José Pérez de Arce p.221
Jane Philbrick p.227
Nick Piombino and Barrett Watten p.231
Aishah Rahman p.252
Ellen Redbird p.262
Tim Rollins and K. O. S. p.266
Mark Rudman p.273
Simone Sandy p.279
James Sherry p.282
Tenderloin Opera Company p.287
Cecilia Vicuña p.292
Mac Wellman p.296
Aleksandar Zograf p.300

Chain Dialogue: happiness

 Stacy Doris, Bahaa Abu Daya, Beth Yahp, and Adam Aitken

p.303

Chain Dialogue: english 

Arnaldo Antunes, Josely Vianna Baptista, Dubravka Djuric, Francisco Faria, Martin Larsen, Robert Sullivan, and Heriberto Yepez

p.311
Where to look next . . . p.337

Chain 10, Translucinación; Summer 2003 [PDF, 69 MB]

  

Contents

Andrés Ajens and Erin Mouré p.2
Shimon Ballas and Ammiel Alcalay p.12
Charles Bernstein, Haroldo de Campos, Leevi Lehto, Ernesto Livon-Grosman, and Traduction collective à Royaumont dans le cadre de l'Atelier Cosmopolite p.20
Inger Christensen, Denise Newman, and Susanna Nied p.39
Chuang Tzu, Allison Cobb, Jen Coleman, and Burton Watson p.43
Michael Cueva p.52
Dante and Caroline Bergvall p.55
Rubén Darío and Francisco Aragón p.60
Albert Flynn DeSilver p.64
Rainer Ganahl p.66
Nada Gordon p.76
Paul Hoover and Mónica de la Torre p.79
J. N. Kapihenui, Matt Kaleiali'i Ka'opio, and Ku'ualoha Ho'omanawanui p.88
Jake Kennedy p.95
Li Yu, Amy Stalling, and Jonathan Stalling p.96
Abraham Lincoln and Doug Nufer p.110
R. Zamora Linmark p.114
Scott MacLeod p.116
Loren Madsen p.124
Jill Magi p.126
Monchoachi and Brent Hayes Edwards p.132
Qays ibn al-Mulawwah, Alia Borzova, Denis Hoppe, Michail Kurgantsev, and Ann E. Michael p.138
Kishwar Naheed and Mahwash Shoaib p.149
Marci Nelligan p.166
Mark Nowak p.168
Oskar Pastior and Rosmarie Waldrop p.170
Joan Retallack p.175
Thomas Scheibitz, Adam Degraff, and Pamela Lu p.181
Sefer Yetzirah and Adeena Karasick p.186
Alan Semerdjian p.189
Mara Leigh Simmons p.194
Caroline Sinavaiana and James Thomas Stevens p.195
André Spears p.202
Gertrude Stein and kari edwards p.205
Eszter Szucs and Brenda Iijima p.208
Lorenzo Thomas p.212
Michel-Rolph Trouillot, A. Isadora Del Vecchio, Abdourahman Idrissa, Kiran Jayaram, and Karen Ohnesorge p.213
Padeha Tuntha-obas p.228
Christian Wolff and Craig Dworkin p.234
Heriberto Yépez p.240
Chain Translation Chain p.244
Where to Look Next . . . p.250

Chain 11, Public Forms; Summer 2004 [PDF, 99 MB]

 

Contents

Dennis Adams Afwerkplek for Small Cars p.7
Antony Adolf pactum implicitum: fav our ing illegal persons p.12
Douglas Basford Notes Toward the Same Severino Death p.20
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge and Kiki Smith Hear p.33
Jim Boorstein Report: Venice, January 31, 1998 p.36
Devin Booth, Michael McCaffery, and Kim White The New Disease: A Journal of Narrative Pathology p.39
Jules Boykoff and Kaia Sand Southern Maryland Sign Project p.42
Jana Brancha Quite Specific p.47
Rebecca Brown Report: Seattle p.52
Stephen Burt Thanksgiving 2002 p.54
David Buuck Reports from B.A.R.G.E. (Bay Area Research Group in Enviro-aesthetics) p.56
Germán Carrasco and Cecilia Pavón Report: Eloisa Cartonera p.61
Lenora Champagne In the Public Eye p.65
Gaye Chan and Nandita Sharma The Diggers: The Unmaking of "Public" Space p.69
Che Qianzi Big-Character Posters p.77
Brent Cunningham  from The Orations p.82
Jane Dalrymple-Hollo and Eleni Sikelianos [I had a private thought I thought] p.86
Samuel R. Delany Eden, Eden, Eden: Genesis ii, 4, to ii, 22 p.92
Patrick James Dunagan A City Defended p.111
Rachel Blau DuPlessis Draft 62: Gap p.115
Alec Finlay Three Proposals p.118
Alice Flight Public Art Do Gooders p.121
Gloria Frym Anti-War Signage: October 2002-March 2003 p.125
David Gardner Report: The Line Blurred p.128
Maximilian Goldfarb Manufacturer Territories p.130
Tony Grajeda Report: It's a Sad World, After All p.133
Lauren Gudath Awe Shucks: A Survey and a Poem p.135
Gordon Hadfield and Sasha Steensen __________, La Paz p.141
Hewitt + Jordan WINNER—Liverpool 7-2 p.145
Hewitt + Jordan The Americans are Coming! p.155
Erika Howsare Knot Test p.158
Marisa Jahn and Dennis Somera Report: Kindling p.163
Bhanu Kapil Report: Loveland, Colorado p.166
Nina Katchadourian Natural Car Alarms p.168
Kevin Killian Report: Public Art in San Francisco p.171
Elke Lehmann Portraits p.174
Ben Lerner from The Angle of Yaw p.177
Giuseppe Lignano, Mark Robbins, and Ada Tolla Above the Square p.180
Alina Lobert Notes from the Field p.182
Alexey Lunev, Ivan Igor Sapic, and Heidi Schlatter Auslaender zu Mieten/Foreigners for Rent p.184
Bettina Mathes and Amie Siegel Marching Up, Crawling Through and Coming Out—Public Art in Germany p.186
Charles Moleski Report: Mission Not Accomplished: Public Art since 9/11 p.196
Akilah Oliver The Visible Unseen p.199
Clemente Padin Spams Trashes p.207
Kristin Palm Report: Detroit p.211
Renata Pedrosa Maior do que um p.213
PIPA (Poetry Is Public Art) Report: Documents from the Archive p.216
Rachel Pollack The See of Logos p.218
Nancy Princenthal In Praise of Anachronism: On Public Art and its Critics p.226
Sarah Riggs and Fiona Templeton Dream (RE)public & Responses to Sarah / Excerpts from L'Île p.238
Mark Robbins Import/Export
p.256
Jennifer Scappettone Report: Antigonal Complex p.258
Michael Scharf with Douglas Rothschild and Alissa Quart Report: At the Met p.262
Kenneth Sherwood Forms of Egalitarian Desire p.270
Gregory Sholette REPOhistory's Civil Disturbances NYC: Chronology of a Public Art Project p.278
Christina Spiesel Public Art: A Musing p.296
Russell Switzer Sculpture p.298
Nick Tobier Two Projects p.300
Tony Trehy de re aedificatoria p.304
Rosa Velasco Blanco de la Mirada/Object of the Gaze p.308
Alex Villar Other Spaces p.313
Anne Waldman Foxes in the Hen House p.316
Allan Wexler In the Shadow of the Wind p.319
Rob Wilson Report: The Worlding World of the White Suifer Dude / Duke Kahanamoku: Some Transpacific Karaoke p.321
Ida Yoshinaga Pacific (War) Time at Punchbowl: A Nembutsu for Unclaiming Nation p.328
Janet Zweig Impersonator p.344

Chain 12, Facts; Summer 2005 [PDF, 83 MB]

 

Contents

Alicia Askenase p.11
Brandon Ballengée It's Not Easy Being Green p.16
Guy Beining Unfolding Curtain Rods p.25
Scott Bentley (How General Motors Used Motors to Conduct General Conduct, the USDA in General Used Up a Fed-up USA, General) p.28
Genevieve Betts Lepidopterists p.31
Elizabeth Block from Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Time Antigens p.32
Michael C. Boyko Defining Success/Failure as an Ideology: a Statistical Analysis p.36
Jules Boykoff Tangents 82-98 p.38
Gaye Chan Fact-Findings (from the Chan/Sharma Museum of Facticity) p.46
Alexandra Chasin and Hugh Sansom Drug Facts // War p.55
Joshua Clover and Chris Nealon Transferatu p.64
Matthew Cooperman   p.66
Sharon Dolin What-Knots p.71
Craig Dworkin Fact p.73
Kristen Gallagher   p.75
Alina Gallo and Jefferson Navicky DC Metro in the Kowst Region p.83
Lucia Gbaya-Kanga from S(A)lone p.85
Reid Gómez K'é: All Existence is in Relation p.91
Rob Halpern One for the New Corn p.95
Theodore A. Harris  Remember Eric Smith p.97
Haleh Hatami Port of Oakland p.98
Brenda Hillman Enron Executives Take the 5th p.102
Cathy Park Hong 1,369 Lights p.103
Holen Kahn Keep Walking: A Critical Digression from the Production of A Film p.108
David Koehn the Twittering Machine p.123
Eve Andrée Laramée Sugar Mud p.125
Sueyeun Juliette Lee Kim Jong Il: A Reader p.130
Tracie Morris How Does One Respond When One Is a Metaphor? p.135
Jay Orff Unknown War Memorial p.142
Nataša Petrešin Art as Next Terrorist Suspect p.143
Minnie Bruce Pratt   p.152
Caroline Presnell and Bobbie West Artifacts p.156
Stephen Ratcliffe from Cloud | Ridge p.158
Barbara Jane Reyes E-dialogue Over Bitter Chocolate p.161
Johannah Rodgers The How Much Project p.164
Jennifer Scappettone Transmission (Iwo Jima) p.169
Peter Dale Scott Sonnets From Phayao Hospital p.171
Gregory Sholette   p.175
Spurse and Rachel T. Fouladi Investigations in Place: Some Thoughts on Psychogeographic Mapping Strategies in an Examination of the Working Coasts of Maine p.180
Russel Switzer Stairs p.198
Harry Thorne Beacon p.200
Padcha Tuntha-Obas Faux Edition: an Examination on News Reporting p.201
Anne Waldman Morpheus Manifesto p.204
Brian Whitener Thailand p.208
Janet Zweig the Liar Paradox (Oliver North Mobius) p.222
Chain Experiment #1   p.227
  Private Facts . . .
 
  Public Facts . . .
 
  Analyses . . .  
Chain Experiment #2   p.234
  Thérèse Bachand, Outstanding Opportunities For Solitude  
  Bill Berkson, Hearsay (Version Of American Tv Interview Segment With Auschwitz Survivor January, 2005)  
  Charles Bernstein, Likeness  
  Oscarine Bosquet,from By Day (In Progress)  
  Susan Briante, from The Rainy Season Poems  
  Jen Coleman, Quicksilver  
  Aja Couchois Duncan, Origin, Fact, Another Story  
  kari edwards, I Want To Acknowledge  
  Feastfamine, Bartering Between Tastes 1.0: Public Service Manju, Tea, And Decolonization Wish Boxes  
  Andrea Feeser, Mercury  
  Rob Fitterman, Lulu (Locally Unwanted Land Use)  
  Nicole Gervace, Boulder Colorado Residents Drink Shit Water: A Written Work  
  Susan Gevirtz, from Aerodrome  
  Emelihter Kihleng, Destiny Fulfilled?  
  Mary Kite, Breathe And Compress  
  Sean Manzano Labrador  
  Joseph Lease, from Dear Mr. Fantasy  
  Laura Moriarty, Malakoff (Cascade)  
  Clemente Padin, Nahautl Protest Songs  
  Francis Raven, from Wetland Poem  
  Sarah Riggs, Fact Haiku  
  Mahwash Shoaib, Red Skies  
  Dale Smith, Dead Zone  
  Dennis Somera, Ffft {From US Foreign Policy Foibles N Furry Tales (Rated G Fer Grim)}  
  James Thomas Stevens, Kaniatarowenneh  
  Elizabeth Lorene Treadwell, from Sonora  
Where To Look Next . . .   p.292

 

 

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