John M. Bennett has published, exhibited and performed his word art worldwide in thousands of publications and venues, and also has has published over 500 books and chapbooks of poetry and other materials. He was editor and publisher of LOST AND FOUND TIMES (1975-2005), and was Founding Curator of the Avant Writing Collection at The Ohio State University Libraries. Richard Kostelanetz has called him “the seminal American poet of my generation”. His work, publications, and papers are collected in several major institutions, including Washington University (St. Louis), SUNY Buffalo, The Ohio State University, The Museum of Modern Art, and other major libraries. His work has been discussed in numerous articles, essays, interviews, and introductions, including in the recently published book by Jim Leftwich, CONTAINERS PROJECTING MULTITUDES: EXPOSITIONS ON THE POETRY OF JOHN M. BENNETT (Luna Bisonte Prods). Bennett’s PhD (UCLA 1970) is in Latin American Literature.

C. Mehrl Bennett studied art at MCAD, Mpls. MN, has a 1975 B.A. (painting/drawing) from Clarke University, Dubuque, IA. She lives in Columbus, OH. Her focus has been on assembling found objects, collage, mailart, writing essays, book reviews, poetry or short songs and on sound recording/editing via audio, video, or photography. By using art, scanned or found objects, photos and text she digitally manipulates or collages visual or video poems, handmade books in limited editions, and posts R visual, audio, and video poetry online. Travel opportunities to meet and play with others in the network are plentiful with festival events for fluxus or dada, poetry, 2 video poetry, and the Roanoke VA Marginal Arts Fest (now known as AfterMAF), and as teaching aid for ex-FLUXUS perimental writing classes conducted with her poet/ artist spouse, John M. Bennett. CMB and JMB have three adult sons, and both are retired from day jobs. CMB is book designer/ assoc.editor/ tech person for Luna Bisonte Prods