Asemic writing

Palimpsest Asemic Correspondence by Cecil Touchon Ink on antique (1920's) Mexican Geography Journal

Today I gave my poetry workshop an exercise in asemic writing. First time I’ve tried it & they done good. Here’s the exercise, with prelims. (And, at the end, some asemic resources.…

Posts about asemic writing written by Nancy Bell Scott

Asemic WritingDo you remember when you first heard about asemic writing, and what impelled you to take it up?I have been making asemic works long before there was a name for it since as far back as the 1970's. An…

This weblog explores asemic writing in relation to post-literate culture

Adapted from Wikipedia Asemic writing is a wordless open semantic form of writing. The word asemic means “having no specific semantic content.” With the nons…

Cecil Touchon

Today I gave my poetry workshop an exercise in asemic writing. First time I’ve tried it & they done good. Here’s the exercise, with prelims. (And, at the end, some asemic resources.…

This weblog explores asemic writing in relation to post-literate culture

The Cecil Touchon Asemic Reader is finally available for purchase at Amazon! Cecil best explains his book here: "The current permutation of The Reader, originally envisioned as a black and white book, expanded in size and breadth to its current full color version to take into account the range of expression in Touchon's asemic explorations spanning forty years of works on paper including images from Touchon's unpublished sketchbooks. The first section of the book primarily contains…