{"id":109,"date":"2012-02-25T10:28:29","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T18:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=109"},"modified":"2012-02-25T10:52:03","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T18:52:03","slug":"nico-vassilakis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=109","title":{"rendered":"Nico Vassilakis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/EqZ_Utw5v6Y&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;version=3\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/EqZ_Utw5v6Y&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Artist, poet, and writer Nico Vassilakis&#8217;s books include\u00a0the poetry collection\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Disparate-Magnets-Nico-Vassilakis\/dp\/1935402234\"><em>Disparate Magnets<\/em>\u00a0(2009)<\/a> as well as the visual poetry book<a href=\"http:\/\/staringpoetics.weebly.com\/index.html\">\u00a0<em>staring@poetics<\/em>\u00a0(2011). <\/a>\u00a0Vassilakis edited <em>\u00a0Clear-Cut: Anthology: A Collection of Seattle Writers (1996) \u00a0<\/em>and has served as coeditor of Sub Rosa Press. In 1994, he founded the <a href=\"http:\/\/subtextreadingseries.blogspot.com\/\">Subtext Reading Series<\/a> in Seattle, where he currently lives. His visual and video poetry is composed of letters and phrase fragments that are swept or cut into shapes emphasizing their structural qualities and ephemeral nature. Referring to Vassilakis\u2019s visual poetry as \u201cless a work of grammar and words than an experiment with typography,\u201d the\u00a0<em>Stranger<\/em>\u00a0critic Paul Constant observed how he \u201cworks at the words, shoving them together and seeing what they do to each other when placed in close proximity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist, poet, and writer Nico Vassilakis&#8217;s books include\u00a0the poetry collection\u00a0Disparate Magnets\u00a0(2009) as well as the visual poetry book\u00a0staring@poetics\u00a0(2011). \u00a0Vassilakis edited \u00a0Clear-Cut: Anthology: A Collection of Seattle Writers (1996) \u00a0and has served as coeditor of Sub Rosa Press. In 1994, he &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=109\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,8,1,26],"tags":[27,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}