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HA&L 14th Anniversary PROCESS   Vispo Fortune Cookie by Nico Vassilakis • image detail: A Lather of Letters REDWORK: The Emperor Of Atlantis • by Catherine Heard Artwork: Tryptiles & Variegraphs • by Steve Venright Sculpture & Poetry • by MA|DE   VISPO: Aleph Null • by Jim Andrews • Image detail: bill bissett Visuals and Poetry Videos • by Gary Barwin • Image detail: E VISUAL POEMS • by Andrew Topel • Detail: sign language Visual Poetry: Tracings / Indian Residential schools • by Aaron Tucker • Detail Visual Poems • by Amanda Earl • Detail Excerpts from: “NO. 1 IN BIG TOWN” • by Hart Broudy • Detail An Omnipoetics Manifesto •˜by Jerome Rothenberg & Javier Taboada • Image detail: Nuu chaa nulth (Nootka) house screen, dating to late 19th century / Pacific North West Indian Art Visual Art: Works In Progress • by Ziggy Fronckevics • Detail It is the same • by Márton Koppány • Detail Videopoems • by Penn Kemp • Still: Night Orchestra Vispo & Sound Poetry • by W. Mark Sutherland • Detail BIRCH SYRUP after René Char • by Phil Hall • Detail: In Memory of Noel Moore A Retrospective: Looking Back by Roger Ferreira • with an introduction by Melissa Bennett • Detail: The Love Tree, Cootes Paradise, watercolour, 1988 Paintings: RUNBYS • by Jacquie Jacobs • Detail: Blue Rising O SEQUOIA! • by Paula Claire • Detail The Attack Of Difficult Women Prose • by Gail Scott &TONDO THOUGHTS • by IAIN BAXTER& Visual poetry: AsemiQuads • by Jaap Blonk VISUALS • by Clemente Padin Typewriter Texts & Vis-Po • by Gustave Morin • Detail Prose/Poem: Underwood No. 5 • by Stan Rogal HA&L magazine Membership. This Boat / cannot float / without you.   INTRODUCTION by GUEST EDITOR Karl Jirgens An Omnipoetics Manifesto by Jerome Rothenberg & Javier Taboada THE ATTACK OF DIFFICULT WOMEN PROSE by Gail Scott Poetry: park heart by Daphne Marlatt Short Story: Language Acquisition by George Bowering Poetry: well to rise by Cecily Nicholson Sphinx & Semele by Dani Spinosa Visual Poems by Amanda Earl Poetry: Tracings Indian Residential schools by Aaron Tucker Poetry: Umbrella Plans, Market Man, and Limited Lifetime Warranty by Frank Davey Poetry: A Suite for the Muses by Robert Hogg &TONDO THOUGHTS by IAIN BAXTER& REDWORK: The Emperor Of Atlantis by Catherine Heard Poetry: À Amatoritsero Ede, The Calling, and About the Love at Victoria Street by George Elliott Clarke Poetry: Where Here Were We (2020) by Charles Bernstein and Norman Fischer Poetry: Late August, Stay, Love Song, and A Decent Lunch in Ottawa by Beverley Daurio QR HAIKU by Robert Dawson VISUAL POEMS: sign language & sound off by Andrew Topel A visual poem: On a Thought of Basho by Steve McCaffery Poetry: tpyrc by Karen Mac Cormack Visual poetry: AsemiQuads by Jaap Blonk Poetry: We Shall Write of Rivers and Our River, Distant, Calls Death by D.A. Lockhart The Intimacy Of – A SUITE by Vanessa Shields VISUALS by Clemente Padin Ekphrasistically by Kent Johnson 4 Photographs From My Father’s Album Speak by André Narbonne  A Woman Who Loves by Gord Grisenthwaite Typewriter Texts & Vis-Po by Gustave Morin Collages by Carol Stetser Poems & Images by Karl Kempton Poetry: Frailty & Wavelength by Karl Jirgens Poetry: In the Wilds of the Moment and “You share this grumpy complaint…” by Bryan Sentes Visual Poetry: The White Face of Death by Gregory Betts Typewriter Poems: Bifurc 2 and Broken Spine by Kevin Stebner Studies In Canadian Modernism (GO TRANSIT) by derek beaulieu Writing From A Bench In Europe City 欧洲城 TONGZILIN, CHENGDU by Ellie Csepregi how to kiss a man with a moustache by Laurie Smith Poetry: Poet on a Postcard by Peter Hrastovec Poetry: Bibliographic Dislocation by Beatriz Hausner Visual Texts: Soneto da sobreposição and Fake Poem # 33 by Fernando Aguiar Texts: Chorus: Three voices # in a happy darkness # and It Is The Nature Of The Truth That Like A Lie It Hides Itself by James Dunnigan Sculpture & Poetry by MA|DE Mixed Media: STASH by Giovanni Pecoraro Poetry: first reel snow wrap yr mind up in it by bill bissett VISPO: A Visual Narrative BY THE CLOCK by Brian Dedora Short Story: THE EGG by Chloe Burrows-Moore Paintings: RUNBYS by Jacquie Jacobs Poetry: Fake Bio & First Person Singular Tense by Stan Rogal BIRCH SYRUP after René Char by Phil Hall Poetry: STARTLEMENT (Near The Niagara Escarpment) by Jeanette Lynes Poetry: Intention by Christopher Dewdney Poetry from: RadioWactive by Steven Ross Smith Poetry: MISSED OCCASIONS and ON THE OCCASION OF WRITING A POEM by Jason Camlot Poetry: Folk Wisp by Louis Cabri Poetry: First Law of Cartoon Physics by Lillian Nećakov Poetry: Autobiography of blue by rob mclennan MAMA: Hamilton, Ontario to West Point, Virginia [June 1865] by Richard Douglass-Chin Metal Fatigue by Rhea Tregebov Poetry: “We are in the mystery of the name” and This Finger Of Night Bleeds by James Deahl Poetry: My Life as an Archivist, Reading Room Rules, Smell of Old, and The Social Life of Ruined Photographs by Jody Baltessen Excerpts from: “NO. 1 IN BIG TOWN” by Hart Broudy Visuals and Poetry Videos by Gary Barwin Poetry: Christmas, They Cool Upon My Face, and Do you think by Károly Bari / translated by Endre Farkas The CANADA POST BOX SERIES by Daniel F. Bradley CALEMBOURS by Alan Lord Poetry: Blue Sky Snapshots by Marty Gervais Poetry: Hotel balcony, Budapest, 100 years post-Gavrilo by Lorenzo Buj Poetry: language carrier by Rawand Mustafa META-VERSE by Hans Braumüller & Ruggero Maggi From here to eternity, Flux Poetry, & Je Suis Tibet by Ruggero Maggi VISPO: Aleph Null by Jim Andrews Poetry: February (on “March”), old lady archaeology, and Iron Goddess of Mercy by Joanne Arnott Poetry: Pure Refined, and Lapis (Dung Beetle) by Kristina Tiessen Poetry: Remaining by Katherine McLeod Short Story: Alice & Melissa by Laura Mulrooney Poetry: giiwewedoon by Lesley Belleau Poetry: Father Throw by John Barlow The Second Law of Languages as Applied to Memory by Michael Dean Visual Art: Origin of Geometry by Michael Winkler Vispo: It Is The Same by Márton Koppány Prose/Poem: Underwood No. 5 by Stan Rogal Vispo Fortune Cookie, A Lather of Letters, Ego is Dead, and Eyedrops by Nico Vassilakis DOES IT HAPPEN THAT SOMEONE REFUSES? by Niels Hav A Queer, Nishnaabe Ghost Story by Ostoro Petahtegoose O SEQUOIA! by Paula Claire VIDEOPOEMS: Night Orchestra and Translation by Penn Kemp DANGER/TIME/SKY by Jürgen O. Olbrich A Translation of Frank O’Hara: A Step Away From Them by Ken Norris Poetry: Code and A Note on the Extinction of Brown Bears in Ireland by Kim Fahner Artwork: Tryptiles & Variegraphs by Steve Venright LAST POEM by Stuart Ross Artwork: Desk Detritus, Nobel Ontario 2020 by Susan Gold Poetry: FOXGLOVE BELLS MANIFESTO by Susan Holbrook Poetry: The Trout as Landscape & Occipital Lobe by Willow Loveday Little VISPO & SOUND POETRY: Eye + Ear & Cutup by W. Mark Sutherland Poetry: Give and Go, Balance (a poem), and This is for Hamilton by Roger Ferreira A Retrospective: Looking Back by Roger Ferreira with an introduction by Melissa Bennett Artwork: Works In Progress by Ziggy Fronckevics Book Review - G.A. Grisenthwaite's Home Waltz: The Trouble With Transcendence by André Narbonne AND SEE HA&L RAVE for more!  JOIN US! December 8 for HA&L’s 14th Anniversary Launch Party! R.S.V.P. and Event Details here. All are welcome!  SUBMIT! DEADLINE EXTENDED: November 14, 2022 - Short Works Prize for Writing - CALL TO HAMILTON-AREA WRITERS! Check out PoeTV and our friends at POETRY LAB – a new creative incubator for spoken word artists BECOME A MEMBER OF HA&L!  RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP! Help HA&L to continue publishing! “Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.” ― A. J. Liebling, 1960 “For me it is the WORD that produces all images. It is the key sign for all processes...” ― Joseph Beuys cited in Tisdall, 1979 “Generally, we don’t believe the value of work rests in its claim to authenticity.” ― Jon Stone & Kirsten Irving, Sidekick Books GUEST EDITOR: Karl Jirgens Paul Lisson: Editor Fiona Kinsella: Editor / Designer Associate Editor: Shane Neilson Founding Art Director: Peter Stevens (1963-2015) Contributing Editor: David Forsee (1944-2017) Hamilton Arts & Letters 14TH ANNIVERSARY issue fifteen.2   ISSN 1916-8454     HAL on Twitter                                            HA&L magazine acknowledges the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council an Ontario Government Agency, and the City of Hamilton. Sincere thanks to all of HA&L's members and sponsors – we wouldn't be here without you!