Textsound (journal)

Textsound (stylised as textsound) is an audio online literary magazine that publishes experimental poetry and sound.

Textsound

Experimental soundworks
Editors	Adam Fagin, Anna Vitale, and Laura Wetherington
Categories	Experimental music, sound poetry, noise, experimental poetry
Frequency	Monthly
First issue	February 2008
Country	United States
Website	www.textsound.org

History

In 2008 textsound began as a bi-annual publication under the editorial direction of Anya Cobler, Adam Fagin, Anna Vitale, and Laura Wetherington.

Selected contributors

• Jaap Blonk
• Anne-James Chaton
• Paul DeMarinis
• Linh Dinh
• Kenneth Goldsmith
• Rick Moody
• Thylias Moss
• Alice Notley
• Alva Noto
• Leslie Scalapino
• Anne Tardos
• Edwin Torres
• Anne Waldman

Events

On April 5, 2008, the textsound editorial collective organized a celebration in Ypsilanti, Michigan, for the journal's launch featuring Barrett Watten, Joel Levise, Christine Hume, James Marks, and Viki.

In the fall of 2008, the textsound collective teamed-up with Megan Levad and Adam Boehmer to curate the Work-In-Progress Reading Series at the Crazy Wisdom Bookstore in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Performers included Vievee Francis, Jill Darling, Onna Solomon, Sandy Tolbert, Aaron McCollough, Adam Boehmer, Michael Shilling, David Karczynski, T Hetzel, Katie Hartsock, Meghann Rotary, Anna Prushnikaya, and Stephanie Rowden.

See also

• List of literary magazines

External links

• Official website
• Self-Consuming Artifacts … towards an unquiet metaphysics A blog posting by American poet Aaron McCollough on Barrett Watten & textsound, initiated by the 2008 crisis in "Tibet" (& "Tibet" being the title of a Watten poem)
• 2008 Work-In-Progress Reading Series Blog