Chain, 1994–2005 (ed. Jena Osman and Juliana Spahr)
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 . . . |
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Public Facts . . . |
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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 |
Special thanks are due to Jena Osman for supplying the magazine for digitization, to Ben Filreis for his tireless work on the production of the PDF files, and to the Kelly Writers House for support, time, and technology in abundance.