canadian concrete poet, small press publisher, and sound poet. bpNichol treated the page as a field and the word as a physical thing to be arranged, cut, and placed. the zine as a legitimate poetic form, not a lesser version of the real thing.

his influence runs through my letterpress practice, my concrete poetry generator project, and my understanding that the physical form of a text is part of its meaning and not decoration. the stapled chapbook is a valid artifact.

zine as epistemology as epistemology comes in part from his practice: keeping production in your own hands, treating the material conditions of making as inseparable from the thing made.

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