Edited by Mary Burger and Chris Vitiello. PROLIFERATION 5 features works addressing visual treatment of text, including pieces that engage in typographic experiment or use the page as a visual, pictorial space. Works range from the subtly visual (Myung Mi Kim's single Korean character, underscoring what is untranslatable in language) to the utterly picturesque (Will Alexander's poem - picture, evoking the visual lyricism of Apollinaire's Calligrammes) and involve an array of media: ball - point, felt - tip, newspaper, musical staff paper, aluminum foil, letterpress, photography, and, of course, the wrtiter's long - time companions, word processor and photocopier. This issue feastures new poetry by Will Alexander, Michael Basinski, Greg Biglieri, Avery Burns, Holly Crawford, Brent Cunningham, Jacques Debrot, Patrick Durgin, Craig Dworkin, Rob Fitterman, Eric Frost, Susan Gevirtz, Michael Gubser, Lauren Gudath and David Larsen, Ryan Johnson, Myung Mi Kim, Katy Lederer, Paul Long, Joshua May, Laura Moriarty and Norma Cole.