Jim Leftwich, A Very Brief History of My Bag Texts
I started making "bag texts" in the summer of 2002, on my way home from the Avant Writing Symposium at The Ohio State University in Columbus. I've been making them off and on ever since.
I started publishing online in May of 2005, and soon thereafter I began posting scans of the bag texts to my textimagepoem blogzine.
I made a few earlier this week (on January 19 and 20, 2022) and posted cropped photographs of them to my Visual Poems 2022 blogzine.
My essay on the subject was published in Poetry Makes Things Happen: Poems, essays, texts, afterwords, blurbs, notes… (Luna Bisonte Prods, 2020), page 112, as well as in the Angry Old Man online magazine, Issue #4 (2018).
A pdf with some of my bag texts was published by the Turkish magazine Budokuz in the fall of 2021.
