mIEKAL aND

Fri, Jun 24    Book Release reading for Samsara Congeries by mIEKAL aND

press release:

Book Release reading for Samsara Congeries by mIEKAL aND

Also book release of EVERY LINES OTHER, The Collected Poems of Elizabeth Was

(aka Lyx Ish)

Opening reading by Robin Brox

Copies of Samsara Congeries & EVERY LINES OTHER will be available for sale.

mIEKAL aND lives outside the constraints of academia in the most lush and

rural part of the unglaciated Driftless area of southwest Wisconsin. Choosing

to focus on creating wilderness and abundance surrounded by the perfect

setting for limitless imagination his course of action includes demonstrating

alternatives to inbred aesthetics, delighting in the play of DIY culture, and

making art and writing that is both anarchic and noisy.

aND is the author of numerous books, many available via Xexoxial Editions

(http://xexoxial.org). After many years working in the realms of digital

poetry and video, he has surrendered his role as author and focused

exclusively on interactions that allow the author to be reconfigured by the

mysteries of the collaborative process. Anyone wanting to tap into his stream

can find him on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/miekal.

His newest book, SAMSARA CONGERIES is a long poem began while still in high

school and completed almost 40 years later. Each of the 14 books that make up

the Samsara Congeries long poem sequence is an instance of the poet writing

thru a different voice / entity, unique reincarnations of language, almost as

if a different person has created each book. The book is published by

BlazeVOX [books] in Buffalo, New York.