In 1714, at the age of 26, Emanuel Swedenborg of Sweden developed an interest in building a flying machine, which was documented in an article, “Sketch of a Machine for Flying in the Air,” published two years later. Swedenborg’s design looked like a classical flying saucer with flapping wings.

Swedenborg’s Airplane is an ongoing Mail Art call for artists to respond to Swedenborg’s 1714 plans for a crude monoplane. We are happy to welcome 3 new artists to the project!

CARLOS M. LUIS is an artist and visual poet from Miami. He has exhibited his work in a number of galleries around the country and world, and his work has appeared in numerous publications including Word For/Word, SleepingFish, Zunai (Brazil), TSE TSE (Argentina), and Manglar (France). Recent publications include Walls for Finnegans & Palimpsests for Beckett (Anabasis press), Dysfunctional Texts (Luna Bisonte Press), and O, Vozque Pulp (Calamari Press).

MARTON KOPPANY is a writer, translator and editor living in Budapest, Hungary. During the last few years he has been working on different collections of visual, conceptual, minimal etc. poetry, Fluxus documents and related essays. Some of the products and by-products of this activity can now be seen at the Institute of Broken and Reduced Languages, a subsite run together with Karl Young and hosted by Light and Dust. You can find there a small collection of his series as well.

MARGIT KUPSCH hails from Emmendingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Bob Grumman is well-known in avant-garde circles as a poet, a critic, and editor/publisher of the Runaway Spoon Press. He has also perfected the verse form “mathemaku,” which crosses haiku with mathematics. To view his current projects, visit his blog Web site. The poems here on Grumman’s site serve to introduce Grumman’s work to a wider audience.