Gregory Betts
@whatisapoem.bsky.social
Experimental Poet—Experimental Lit Prof—Experimental Musician
Curator @ bpNichol.ca — Literary Arts Residency Lead @ The SETI Institute
Curator @ bpNichol.ca — Literary Arts Residency Lead @ The SETI Institute
Georg Nees "Schlotter" (1965-68) remade by Christina Pletsch.
I have measured out my artlife in sugar cubes...
I have measured out my artlife in sugar cubes...
October 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Georg Nees "Schlotter" (1965-68) remade by Christina Pletsch.
I have measured out my artlife in sugar cubes...
I have measured out my artlife in sugar cubes...
Cassils, "Undersight" (2025). On Oct. 4, the artist will project the 199 words banished by the Trump administration, encrypted as dots and dashes of searing light, into the night sky over 12 hours, from sunset to sunrise.
"It's a distress signal," says Cassils.
"It's a distress signal," says Cassils.
October 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Cassils, "Undersight" (2025). On Oct. 4, the artist will project the 199 words banished by the Trump administration, encrypted as dots and dashes of searing light, into the night sky over 12 hours, from sunset to sunrise.
"It's a distress signal," says Cassils.
"It's a distress signal," says Cassils.
"A History of Poetry Comics" by JB
attn: @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social
attn: @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social
September 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
"A History of Poetry Comics" by JB
attn: @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social
attn: @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social
Günes Isitan, "Hybridities: Almost Other" (2024) takes swabs from subjects faces using film and lets the microbe grow on the film in a petri dish. The results are stunning.
www.gunesisitan.com/hybridities-...
www.gunesisitan.com/hybridities-...
September 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Günes Isitan, "Hybridities: Almost Other" (2024) takes swabs from subjects faces using film and lets the microbe grow on the film in a petri dish. The results are stunning.
www.gunesisitan.com/hybridities-...
www.gunesisitan.com/hybridities-...
What an auspicious start for the new SETI Institute award! The first annual Cosmic Chronicles Literary Prize has received hundreds of submissions from 31 countries around the world. Brilliant launch of the award!
September 2, 2025 at 2:47 PM
What an auspicious start for the new SETI Institute award! The first annual Cosmic Chronicles Literary Prize has received hundreds of submissions from 31 countries around the world. Brilliant launch of the award!
ChatGPT5 has read my "plunderverse manifesto" and can now autogenerate plunderverse texts FROM ANYTHING.
August 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
ChatGPT5 has read my "plunderverse manifesto" and can now autogenerate plunderverse texts FROM ANYTHING.
This was my first post on Facebook, 15 years ago.
August 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This was my first post on Facebook, 15 years ago.
Kay Rosen: “All of the letters that make up the phrase THE FOREST FOR THE TREES can be used to spell only the words THE FOREST."
August 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Kay Rosen: “All of the letters that make up the phrase THE FOREST FOR THE TREES can be used to spell only the words THE FOREST."
And so to simplify:
poetry = art with words
prose = art with sentences
novels = art with narrative
visual poetry = art with letters
Ferdinand Kriwet, "Rundscheiben" (1960/63).
poetry = art with words
prose = art with sentences
novels = art with narrative
visual poetry = art with letters
Ferdinand Kriwet, "Rundscheiben" (1960/63).
July 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
And so to simplify:
poetry = art with words
prose = art with sentences
novels = art with narrative
visual poetry = art with letters
Ferdinand Kriwet, "Rundscheiben" (1960/63).
poetry = art with words
prose = art with sentences
novels = art with narrative
visual poetry = art with letters
Ferdinand Kriwet, "Rundscheiben" (1960/63).
Chalk, under a microscope, reveals itself to be made of the bones of ancient plankton, a creature crucial to the great oxygenation of the earth. Chalk, used to outline death, is made of death from this creature that enables our life. #coccolithophores
July 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Chalk, under a microscope, reveals itself to be made of the bones of ancient plankton, a creature crucial to the great oxygenation of the earth. Chalk, used to outline death, is made of death from this creature that enables our life. #coccolithophores
Pleased to have work in "Language is a Virus" an online art exhibition to commemorate The Xenotext. With @anamariacaballero.bsky.social and @sashastiles.bsky.social
objkt.com/collections/...
objkt.com/collections/...
July 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Pleased to have work in "Language is a Virus" an online art exhibition to commemorate The Xenotext. With @anamariacaballero.bsky.social and @sashastiles.bsky.social
objkt.com/collections/...
objkt.com/collections/...
Jim Dine, "Seeing thru the Stardust, The heat on the lawn (Claude)" (2017).
Earthenware and bronze,
Earthenware and bronze,
July 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Jim Dine, "Seeing thru the Stardust, The heat on the lawn (Claude)" (2017).
Earthenware and bronze,
Earthenware and bronze,
IMPREINT, "Entartete Kunst #1631" (2024).
@impreint.bsky.social "has vigorously and painstakingly sanitised, obscured, and hidden... unpalatable into intriguing and beautiful re-contextualised imagery poetically undermining the actions of the oppressor", in this case Nazi archival photographs.
@impreint.bsky.social "has vigorously and painstakingly sanitised, obscured, and hidden... unpalatable into intriguing and beautiful re-contextualised imagery poetically undermining the actions of the oppressor", in this case Nazi archival photographs.
July 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
IMPREINT, "Entartete Kunst #1631" (2024).
@impreint.bsky.social "has vigorously and painstakingly sanitised, obscured, and hidden... unpalatable into intriguing and beautiful re-contextualised imagery poetically undermining the actions of the oppressor", in this case Nazi archival photographs.
@impreint.bsky.social "has vigorously and painstakingly sanitised, obscured, and hidden... unpalatable into intriguing and beautiful re-contextualised imagery poetically undermining the actions of the oppressor", in this case Nazi archival photographs.
Dick Higgins, "Glasslass" (1974).
A modular poem in which the principal structural factor is the repetition, usually in different contexts, of one or more elements of the text. Each element becomes a module that may be expanded, compressed or otherwise altered. Or not.
A modular poem in which the principal structural factor is the repetition, usually in different contexts, of one or more elements of the text. Each element becomes a module that may be expanded, compressed or otherwise altered. Or not.
July 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Dick Higgins, "Glasslass" (1974).
A modular poem in which the principal structural factor is the repetition, usually in different contexts, of one or more elements of the text. Each element becomes a module that may be expanded, compressed or otherwise altered. Or not.
A modular poem in which the principal structural factor is the repetition, usually in different contexts, of one or more elements of the text. Each element becomes a module that may be expanded, compressed or otherwise altered. Or not.
Some mail day! The astounding artist box of responses to The Xenotext has arrived from Coach House today, complete with my headband and my new chapbook, "The Crown." My afternoon is now shot, given over to the indulgence of these contents.
July 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Some mail day! The astounding artist box of responses to The Xenotext has arrived from Coach House today, complete with my headband and my new chapbook, "The Crown." My afternoon is now shot, given over to the indulgence of these contents.
"EITHER YOU TRANSFORM OR YOU DESTROY":
Steve McCaffery's "for a poetry of blood" from Stereoheadphones 4 (1978).
@jkchunt.bsky.social I read this as an addendum to, perhaps refinement of, Brooker's "The Destroyer".
Steve McCaffery's "for a poetry of blood" from Stereoheadphones 4 (1978).
@jkchunt.bsky.social I read this as an addendum to, perhaps refinement of, Brooker's "The Destroyer".
July 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
"EITHER YOU TRANSFORM OR YOU DESTROY":
Steve McCaffery's "for a poetry of blood" from Stereoheadphones 4 (1978).
@jkchunt.bsky.social I read this as an addendum to, perhaps refinement of, Brooker's "The Destroyer".
Steve McCaffery's "for a poetry of blood" from Stereoheadphones 4 (1978).
@jkchunt.bsky.social I read this as an addendum to, perhaps refinement of, Brooker's "The Destroyer".
The Book of Un by M. NourbeSe Philip, published by Container Press, as part of their rolodex series of literary/artist editions. Michael Leong's work is also lovely.
July 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The Book of Un by M. NourbeSe Philip, published by Container Press, as part of their rolodex series of literary/artist editions. Michael Leong's work is also lovely.
The typewriter pyramids of Kasper Pincis (2013).
"To be typed rather than written: the idea of typing as a separate medium in and of itself plays a key role"
"To be typed rather than written: the idea of typing as a separate medium in and of itself plays a key role"
July 2, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The typewriter pyramids of Kasper Pincis (2013).
"To be typed rather than written: the idea of typing as a separate medium in and of itself plays a key role"
"To be typed rather than written: the idea of typing as a separate medium in and of itself plays a key role"
Wearable poetry: my work "The Crown" in which every gem colour corresponds to a specific syllable sound in the crown of sonnets called "The Crown of Venom" in Christian Bök's The Xenotext.
June 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Wearable poetry: my work "The Crown" in which every gem colour corresponds to a specific syllable sound in the crown of sonnets called "The Crown of Venom" in Christian Bök's The Xenotext.
From the BardCode launch in St Cats.
June 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
From the BardCode launch in St Cats.