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Professor of Art & English at the University of Toledo, Joel Lipman's poetry has been published since the 1960's. His infrequent, independent press books include Machete Chemistry/Panades Physics [Cubola New Arts, with Yasser Musa], the Luna Bisante Prods chapbook The Real Ideal and Ransom Notes [Obscure Publications, 2006]. Among his bookworks, mail art and visual poems are the lengthy sequences, Jesse Helms' Body, and Origins of Poetry, a selection of which was published in Poetry [November 2008] and republished in Harper's [January 2009]. Examples of his work are on-line at the Light & Dust Survey: http://www.thing.net/~grist/ld/lipman/lipman.htm.