Poetry. ELSE, IN SUBSTANCE advances specific tactics for constructing poems of sequences, or parts of sentences.

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Marjorie Welish is the author of THE ANNOTATED "HERE" AND SELECTED POEMS, WORD GROUP, ISLE OF THE SIGNATORIES, and IN THE FUTURITY LOUNGE / ASYLUM FOR INDETERMINACY, all from Coffee House Press. The papers delivered at a conference on her writing and art held at the University of Pennsylvania were published in the book Of the Diagram: The Work of Marjorie Welish (Slought Books). In 2009, Granary Books published Oaths? Questions?, a collaborative artists' book by Marjorie Welish and James Siena which was the subject of a special exhibition at Denison University Museum, Granville, Ohio, and part of a two-year tour of artists' books throughout the United States. Her honors include the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Fellowship from Brown University, the Judith E. Wilson Visiting Poetry Fellowship at Cambridge University, and two fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has held a Senior Fulbright Fellowship, which has taken her to the University of Frankfurt and to the Edinburgh College of Art. She is now Madelon Leventhal Rand Distinguished Lecturer in Literature at Brooklyn College.