2017-04-19 Guide to the xPress(ed) Chapbooks, 2002-2004 SPEC.RARE.CMS.0201 Finding aid prepared by Zoe MacLeod; David Mezick Ohio State University Libraries Special Collections
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2017 April; 2023 May This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2023-06-26T12:43-0400 English Describing Archives: A Content Standard xPress(ed) Chapbooks SPEC.RARE.CMS.0201 Ohio State University Libraries Special Collections 1.4 Cubic feet 2002-2004 xPress(ed) was a publisher of electronic chapbooks (or “e-chapbooks”) that focused on experimental poetry. From 2002 to 2004, electronic chapbooks were published on its website, which was edited by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen. The xPress(ed) Chapbooks contain printouts of the electronic chapbooks (or “e-chapbooks”) from this website that date from 2002 to 2004. (3) 5” letter document box; (1) 2.5” letter document box English xPress(ed) Arrangement of Materials

Materials are arranged in the order originally published as shown on the xPress(ed) website, a printout of which is found in the first folder of the collection.

 Acquisitions Information

Donated by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, 2006

 Preferred Citation

[identification of item], xPress(ed) Chapbooks, SPEC.RARE.CMS.0201, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Ohio State University

 Access to Materials

Materials in this collection are available for use, but may be used in the Thompson Library Special Collections reading room only.

 Use of Materials

Materials in this collection may be protected by copyright, and are made available for research and educational purposes. In general, the OSU Libraries do not own the copyright for materials from our collections and cannot grant copyright permissions for these materials. The user is responsible for making a final determination of copyright status. If copyright protection applies, permission must be obtained from the copyright holder to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exceptions to the law. Works in the public domain are not protected by copyright and do not require permission to use.

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Processed by: David Mezick, 2023 May; Finding aid written by: Zoe MacLeod, 2017 April; David Mezick, 2023 May

 Historical Note

xPress(ed) was a publisher of electronic chapbooks (or “e-chapbooks”) that focused experimental poetry. Electronic chapbooks were published on its website from 2002-2004. xPress(ed) operated from Espoo, Finland and was edited by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen. Several writers in the field of experimental or avant-garde poetry contributed work to its website, including Jesse Glass, Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino, Andrew Lundwall, Sheila E. Murphy, Vernon Frazer, and Peter Ganick.

 Scope and Contents

The xPress(ed) Chapbooks contain printouts of electronic chapbooks (or “e-chapbooks”) that date from 2002 to 2004 and were published on the xPress(ed) website. The website focused on experimental poetry, including visual and concrete poetry. The capitalization of the names and titles listed in the collection inventory follows the capitalization as it appears on the items themselves.

 Related Materials Vernon Frazer Papers Sheila E. Murphy Papers Jesse Glass Papers Peter Ganick Collection Kervinen, Jukka-Pekka xPress(ed) Chapbooks Electronic publications--Finland--21st century Electronic publishing--Finland--21st century Experimental poetry--21st century Online publications Poetry Visual poetry--21st century List of titles 1 1 2003-2004 Tabios (Eileen R.) "Enheduanna in the 21st century" 1 2 2002 Glass (Jesse) "e song" 1 3 2002 Glass (Jesse) "momentum" 1 4 2002 Glass (Jesse) "puppet psalms" 1 5 2002 Carfagna (Ric) "L@XL" 1 6 2002 Chace (Joel) "drawer" 1 7 2002 raphael (dan) "AMONG MY EYES" 1 8 2002 aND (mIEKAL) "advancience snakespeared" 1 9 2002 Ganick (Peter) "each acre" 1 10 2002 LaCook (Lewis) "drowning in the age of mid-air" 1 11 2002 Murphy (Sheila E.) "ample safe and missing roads" 1 12 2002 Javier (Paolo) "I sculpt poems" 1 13 2002 edwards (kari), Chris Martin and Sherman Souther "obLiqUE paRt(itON): colLABorationS" 1 14 2002 Topel (Andrew) "puzzles" 1 15 2002 Basinski (Michael) and Wendy Collin Sorin "PIE PEICES" 1 16 2002 St. Thomasino (Gregory Vincent) "Go" 1 17 2003 Glass (Jesse) "Closed Casket" 1 18 2003 Daly (Catherine) "File 'em" 1 19 2003 Carbo (Nick) "rising from your book" 1 20 2003 Vassilakis (Nico) "Talk is Parting of a Problem" 1 21 2003 Lundwall (Andrew) "wouldn't be here if it wasn't" 1 22 2003 Sawyer (Chris) "periodix" 1 23 2003 Dowker (David) "MACHINE LANGUAGE" 1 24 2003 Johnson (Halvard) "Rapsodie espagnole" 1 25 2003 Tribbey (Hugh) "JUVJULA DETOURS" 1 26 2003 St. Thomasino (Gregory Vincent) "Go Mirrored" 1 27 2003 allegrezza (william) "temporal nomads" 1 28 2003 Carfagna (Ric) "Null Set" 1 29 2003 Carfagna (Ric) "Dakota Journal" 2 1 2003 Lundwall (Andrew) "eye pharmacy" 2 2 2003 raven (francis) "some scenes from some life" 2 3 2003 kuhn (donna) "red plastic mystic fish ladle" 2 4 2003 pusateri (chris) "beserker alphabetics" 2 5 2003 Casamissima (Christophe) "psstcards" 2 6 2003 Chace (Joel) "itsstory" 2 7 2003 Harrison (Jeff) "LOOT" 2 8 2003 highland (august) "crash the silence #0001" 2 9 2003 Johnson (Halvard) "G(e)nome" 2 10 2003 Penland (Andrew) "Drunk on Clover & Dreaming of Earth" 2 11 2003 mclennan (rob) "the true eventual story of buffalo bill" 2 12 2003 scharf (michael) "nine sonnets for late 90s literary culture" 2 13 2003 Sondheim (Alan) "cancer" 2 14 2003 tabios (eileen r.) "there, where the pages would end" 2 15 2003 Murphy (Sheila E.) "a motion come to silk" 2 16 2003 Byrum (John) "state" 2 17 2003 Johnson (Halvard) "The Sonnet Project" 2 18 2004 Topel (Andrew) and Jim Leftwich "allies" 2 19 2004 Young (Mark) "calligraphies" 2 20 2004 Eldon (AnnMarie) "27 Poems" 3 1 2004 Ratner (Rochelle) "Leah" 3 2 2004 Bennett (John M.) "glue" 3 3 2004 Frazer (Vernon) "Avenue Noir" 3 4 2004 Johnson (Halvard) "Theory of Harmony" 3 5 2004 Lundwall (Andrew) "a calendar page from the edge of form" 3 6 2004 Madia (Joey) "New Mystic Alchemy" 3 7 2004 Couch (Clayton A.) "familiar bifurcations" 3 8 2004 Kuhn (Donna) "rent a tart" 3 9 2004 Helsem (Michael) "IPOMOEA" 3 10 2004 St. Thomasino (Gregory Vincent) "Stephen's Lake (a novel in parts)" 3 11 2004 Harrison (Jeff) "Lives of Eminent Assyrians" 3 12 2004 Taylor (Thomas Lowe) "short" 3 13 2004 stammer (harry k.) "(little) Tokyo" 3 14 2004 Dalachinsky (Steve) "arrivin in the okidoke" 3 15 2004 Lambert (Paul) "mempt" 4 1 2004