{{Short description|Online audio literary magazine}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox magazine | image_file = TextSoundLayout2Slices 01.JPG | image_size = 400px | image_caption = Experimental soundworks | frequency = Monthly | category = Experimental music, sound poetry, noise, experimental poetry | editor = Adam Fagin, Anna Vitale, and Laura Wetherington | editor_title = Editors | firstdate = February 2008 | country = United States | based = | website = {{URL |https://www.textsound.org/}} | issn = }} '''''Textsound''''' (stylised as text''sound'') is an audio online literary magazine that publishes experimental poetry and sound.
==History== In 2008 text''sound'' began as a bi-annual publication under the editorial direction of Anya Cobler, Adam Fagin, Anna Vitale, and Laura Wetherington.
==Selected contributors== * Jaap Blonk * Anne-James Chaton * Paul DeMarinis * Linh Dinh * Kenneth Goldsmith * Rick Moody * Thylias Moss * Alice Notley * Alva Noto * Leslie Scalapino * Anne Tardos * Edwin Torres * Anne Waldman
==Events== On April 5, 2008, the text''sound'' editorial collective organized a celebration in Ypsilanti, Michigan, for the journal's launch featuring Barrett Watten, Joel Levise, Christine Hume, James Marks, and Viki.
In the fall of 2008, the text''sound'' collective teamed-up with Megan Levad and Adam Boehmer to curate the Work-In-Progress Reading Series at the Crazy Wisdom Bookstore in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Performers included Vievee Francis, Jill Darling, Onna Solomon, Sandy Tolbert, Aaron McCollough, Adam Boehmer, Michael Shilling, David Karczynski, T Hetzel, Katie Hartsock, Meghann Rotary, Anna Prushnikaya, and Stephanie Rowden.
==See also== *List of literary magazines
==External links== *{{Official website |https://www.textsound.org/}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20110707072527/http://aaronmccollough.com/blog/?p=62 Self-Consuming Artifacts … towards an unquiet metaphysics] A blog posting by American poet Aaron McCollough on Barrett Watten & textsound, initiated by the 2008 crisis in "Tibet" (& "Tibet" being the title of a Watten poem) *[https://wipreadingseries.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2008-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-05%3A00&updated-max=2009-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-05%3A00&max-results=2 2008 Work-In-Progress Reading Series Blog]
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