Array of Work
Archaic & Somewhat Recent Work
Somewhat more recent work and ephemera:
O Beautiful Death™ (OBD™)—various excerpts of longer text-based poetry, visual poetry, and sounds; a long poem progressing in fragments:
1.) OBD™ poems and sounds in Reality Beach
http://realitybeach.org/issue-5/peters/
2.) Performance of OBD™ poems at “I Love John Giorno” event; Red Bull Arts, New York City, 8.5.2018
http://redbullartsnewyork.com/news/dial-poem-marathon/
3.) Inclusion of OBD™ poems in the Resist Much/Obey Little anthology (Dispatches/Spuytenduyvil)
http://www.spuytenduyvil.net/resist-much-obey-little.html
4.) OBD™ poems in the Trumped (Poets Speak, Vol. 1) anthology
https://www.amazon.com/Trumped-Poets-Speak-John-Roche/dp/1544737505
5.) OBD™ poems in No Infinite, Issue 4 (scroll down to locate Issue 4 PDF)
http://noinfinite.blogspot.com/
6.) Nascent & inaugural version of OBD™ poems, including text-based poetry & visual poetry, published in Spring 2015 issue of Barzakh
https://www.barzakh.net/spring-2015/2016/4/3/michael-peters-a-rage-device-index
See also O Kind Vel’d Sparrow—text-based poetry, vispo, and sounds; another long poem-in-progress, and part of the larger Vast Bin Project:
http://www.michael-peters.com/the-vaast-bin-project/sparrows-vaast-bin-project/
Interview w/Michael Peters, episode #046 of Poetry Spoken Here podcast:
https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/show-046-michael-peters-and-the-library-of-america
An essay on visual poetry—the Singular Vispo; First Encounters series, Part 8—for ColdFront (scroll down to find “Michael Peters on John M. Bennett” & Bliem Kern):
http://coldfrontmag.com/singular-vispo-first-encounters-part-8/
A new book! The Fluke Illuminator, 60 plus visual poems in collaboration with John M. Bennett; out now and available from Luna Bisonte Prods:
http://www.johnmbennett.net/new-luna-bisonte-prods/?currentPage=5 (Luna Bisonte Prods)
http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781938521249/the-fluke-illuminator.aspx (SPD)
Videos of Michael Peters’ improvisational music collaborations during the last two XFests:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL2ctJeJ8Pc (Boston, 2018)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btsdjdg8BB8 (Holyoke, MA, 2017)
Some mildly archaic work and ephemera:
The —Zoic Sphere Project! The links include the vispo-cum-architectural plans for realization of “The —Zoic Sphere,” images of the plan’s actual realization on the University at Albany campus, and an essay on both the plans and the realization of “The —Zoic Sphere,” including some notes toward “real fiction:”
https://www.barzakh.net/spring-2014/2016/4/6/michael-peters-the-zoic-sphere (via Barzakh, Spring 2014 issue)
http://michael-peters.com/zoicsphere/ (direct link)
An essay by Daniel Nester for the National Poetry Foundation’s site about the poet/sound-poet Bliem Kern, which includes a brief interview and mention of Michael Peters:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/article/250370
Tumblr site for “Lists: An International Exhibit,” which was held in 2014 at Gallery 308 in Minneapolis. LISTS presented more than 80 lists created by artists and scholars from the US, Germany, France England, Netherlands, New Zealand, and Japan. Be surprised, use this link and scroll around to find my list and check out the lists of others:
http://lists-mpls.tumblr.com/
Two poems from The Experimental Earth Research Station for Poets for Living Waters:
http://poetsgulfcoast.wordpress.com/2014/05/25/excerpt-from-cvinsert-fern-root-hereexperimental-earth-station-research-by-michael-peters/
March 2013 residency at the Gloucester Writers Center (GWC), Gloucester, MA. The links below lead to 1.) a reading of the nascent poems from The Experimental Earth Research Station held at the residency’s conclusion; and 2.) samples of work documenting results from the residency, though it does not currently include the “Dreaming Things Up in Ferrini’s House” essay:
1. — https://gloucesterwriters.org/podcast/michael-peters-3-20-13/ (audio)
2. — michael-peters-further-samples-&-proof-of-GWC-residency (PDF)
Two poems published in the journal Polis:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/209057733/Polis-Municipalismo-heterogeneo-vs-The-Penal-Code-of-the-Empire
& a reading of one of these poems, captured on film by Richard Owens in 2012:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlttvjRn1cI
A visual poem featured in a Paris Review online book review of The Last Vispo Anthology: Visual Poetry 1998 – 2008 as well as a featured image on the Paris Review’s Pinterest page:
http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2012/12/05/vispo/ (image 9, at bottom)
and http://www.pinterest.com/parisreview/visual-poetry/
Work included in The Last Vispo Anthology: Visual Poetry 1998 – 2008, a major 2012 anthology of c. 120 visual poets from c. 20 different countries:
The Last Vispo Anthology: Visual Poetry 1998 – 2008
Excerpts from a visual poetry collaboration with John M. Bennett (The Fluke Illuminator), which appeared in Truck:
http://halvard-johnson.blogspot.com/2013/04/michael-peters-john-m-bennett-3-fluke.html
Excerpt of Michael Peters reading at the Bright Pink Mosquito launch party at The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s in New York City, 3.30.2012:
http://poetryproject.org/bright-pink-mosquito-issue-2-launch-michael-peters-33012/
A sampling of visual poetic work, not Vaast Bin-related:
The following is an even more archaic and incomplete list of links to variety of past labors and endeavors, and does not include works appearing in print journals and anthologies.
Review of E (and sometimes why), a recording featuring “The Tempest, Fuggit,” a Michael Peters and Al Margolis (If, Bwana) collaboration:
http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/7149
Michael Peters “The Conquest of Saturn” at GSCA Gallery in Albany, NY; 8.7.2010; WGXC, 90.7 FM:
https://wavefarm.org/archive/cd476b
Visual Poetry/Mailart for the Skylab Exhibit (8.2010), cultivated and curated by C. Mehrl Bennett:
http://visualpoetrymailartexhibit.blogspot.com/2010/08/visual-poetry-from-michael-peters.html
Interview with the Post-NeoAbsurdists, as co-editor of Word for/Word #16:
http://www.wordforword.info/vol16/gallery3.htm
A spatial call to arms, a review of Matthew Klane’s B, and an essay on politics, poetry magnets, and appliances—all in one, Word for/Word #15:
http://www.wordforword.info/vol15/Peters.htm
Included in the initial run of Paper Kite Press’s Visual Poetry Poster Series:
http://www.paperkitepress.com/shop-visposters.shtml
“War Machines; Or, Reverse Psychology,” BathHouse Hypermedia Journal:
http://bhjournal.com/issues/Vol6_2/michael_peters.php
Vispo and text-based poetry for the first issue of Sous Rature:
http://www.necessetics.com/michaelpeters.html
A “Flüffen Jungle Port,” for Word for/Word #13:
http://www.wordforword.info/vol13/Peters.htm
Fluke Illuminator excerpts, a visual poetry collaboration w/John M. Bennett:
http://www.madhattersreview.com/issue10/vispo_peters.shtml
See Word for/Word archive for early work, scroll down to Michael Peters:
http://www.wordforword.info/vol13/archive2.htm
Four visual poems from the 2005 Durban Segnini Gallery show; Miami, FL:
http://www.spidertangle.net/durban_segnini/peters.html
Anthology Spidertangle, an anthology of vispo (Xexoxial Editions):
http://xexoxial.org/is/anthology_spidertangle
An issue of Posted, edited by Philip Gallo and Scott Helmes:
http://www.spidertangle.net/posted/index.html