Nico Vassilakis is the author of several books of poetry. He co-edited The Last Vispo Anthology: Visual Poetry 1998-2008 (Fantagraphics Books) with Crag Hill. He was also a founder of Seattle's long-running Subtext reading series.  His text-based work concerns the visual phenomenology of experiencing text, and his visual work pushes the outer limits of text's possibility within words. Nico's website is Staring Poetics - https://staringpoetics.weebly.com/ He lives in NYC.