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For people who read and enjoy good literature--literary classics or literary contemporary and like to make art about it. Using literature as inspiration for our art. Also for people interested in writing letters about literature. This is also a meeting place for The New Arzamas Literary Circle, which is dedicated to writing creative letters on literary topics.

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Handmade Ezra Pound (Ezruckus Poundamonium) paper doll for a series of skits in which E.P is the main star. --Theresa Williams

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Automatic writing by Nancy Bell Scott.

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One of a set of cards made while contemplating the poet Theodore Roethke. On November 12, Roethke suffered the first of what was to be many mental episodes. It happened in the cold Michigan woods, and he described the experience as having a "secret" revealed to him, which he said was the secret of "Nijinsky." Nijinsky was a famous ballet dancer who was institutionalized for schizophrenia. With your permission, I'd like to post your artwork at my blog: The Letter Project. I'm also looking for letters about literature and creativity. All works from the blog have gone through the postal system.

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gentili Signori poeti e artisti visivi, sono felice di far parte di questo gruppo.Ecco il perchè.Da sempre il mio lavoro cammina tra immagine e parola.Testo e materia visiva.Poesia e carta dipinta…Continue

Started by Alfonso Filieri. Last reply by Theresa Ann Aleshire Williams Jul 12, 2011.

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Comment by Guido Vermeulen on June 21, 2012 at 12:08am: MYSTIC ECONOMY

is a challenging project to reflect on the relations between men, labor, the economy, nature, the spiritual and the divine.

Free medium. Maximum size is 25 X 30 cm.

Letters on that topic also welcome.

Deadline is 15 September 2012.

Mail to SPAZIO STUDIO, Mystic economy, attn of Patrizia Gioia, Via Paolo Lomazzo 13, Milano, 20154 ITALY.

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on June 20, 2012 at 11:40pm: MAIL ART IS

A POEM

WITHOUT EXPLICIT

WORDS

4 visual pages connected with poem for Cheryl who asked me to upload these also on this group.

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on June 20, 2012 at 11:35pm: IMAGINARY PAINTINGS,

an automatic text dedicated to Yoko Ono.

Portrait of a fat lady with a fat cat.

Portrait of a thin lady with a small cat.

Portrait of a huge cat with a little lady.

Portrait of a giant bird with a dwarf cat.

Portrait of a hole in a canvas.

Selfportrait as an angry young man in a hole in a canvas.

Portrait of a bird flying through hole in canvas followed by angry cat.

Portrait of a hand reaching thru’ hole in canvas.

Portrait of flying flower seed through hole in canvas.

Portrait of flower bed in bloom behind hole in canvas.

Portrait of a storm menacing hole in canvas.

Portrait of a flooded city through hole in canvas, probably New Orleans.

Portrait of trombone coming through hole in canvas.

Portrait of ancient god, more angry than cat and I, through hole in canvas.

Portrait of a vanishing canvas through a big hole.

White monochrome painting.

Guido Vermeulen

20 June 2012

Comment by Rebecca Guyver on June 20, 2012 at 8:57pm: The follow on from automatic writing for Guido around a flexible mind. Our posts crossed somewhere over the North Sea, I think.

Guido sent me the small auatomatic Mail Art Poem for Cheryl Penn, another one for Simonne Pauwels (43 days and nights after she left) Wow! and this envelope: Prometheus in the Eye of a Storm Caused by Angry Makers.

And just wanted to say that Theresa's Drouth was as a fan and very beautiful to hold as well as to read. And she's introduced me to Yosano Akiko - mmm!

Comment by yves maraux on June 20, 2012 at 10:54am: this is for jeanine weis : une brocante à besançon samedi 3€ c'est pas rigolo

Comment by cheryl penn on June 20, 2012 at 8:01am: This beauty from Guido which formed the basis of his contribution to the SECOND edition of Mail Art Makes the World aTown Zine.

Small Automatic Mail Art Poem for Cheryl Penn
1.
When Pencaster
said GOTIJ
to Pandamonium
he really meant ZALOP
2.
Once upon a time and in a sudden flash
the borders of the world
will disappear
between people
3.
Mail art is
a poem
without explicit
words.

Guido Vermeulen
June 2012

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on June 20, 2012 at 2:32am: Nice one Theresa!

Comment by yves maraux on June 19, 2012 at 7:24pm

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on June 18, 2012 at 10:06pm: LE DORMEUR DU VAL, painting and collage around a poem by Arthur RIMBAUD.

Poem on YouTube read by Serge Regianni:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB0syDqa2aY&feature=fvwrel

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on June 17, 2012 at 11:26pm: Collage by Guido Vermeulen around the book PETITES MERVEILLES, POINGS LEVES by Jacques Izoard for the event that will happen on Friday, June 22, 2012 in the former house of the poet.

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