Cover art by Diane Schoemperlen

Rampike

Karl Jirgens edited and published Rampike, an international journal of art, writing, and theory (1979-2016), now digitally archived with free public access to over 4000 pages (all copyrights remain with the contributors): https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/rampike/about.html

Jirgens has a number of small press publications to his credit and he has several articles and short stories published in on-line and print periodicals.

**Limited issues of hard copies of Rampike back issues are still available for purchase. (Note: Pataphysics issue is sold out).

Contact: jirgens@uwindsor.ca

Critics say...

"Rampike, one of the few journals to consistently publish conceptual work in an international context.”

—Jason McBride/Quill & Quire.

"Rampike, one of the most elegant and lively 'zeens' in Canada "

—Phil Hall/Books in Canada.

“In Canada, a very rich and vital experimentalism is in evidence in periodicals such as Rampike"

—Marjorie Perloff/Formations

“Rampike, edited by Karl Jirgens, is a progressive champion magazine of aggressively promoting tomorrow’s fashionable poetry. Ritz!”

—Michael Basinski /The Small Magazine Review (N. Y.)

"This is a vital and important journal"

—Judith Hoffberg/Umbrella.

"I've never seen any other magazine that so successfully moves back and forth from academic analysis to the frontiers of experimental art."

—Mike Gunderloy/Fact Sheet Five (N.Y.)

PUBLISHED SINCE 1979, RAMPIKE HAS FEATURED PRIZE-WINNING & ground-breaking artists, writers, & theorists, including nominees and winners of awards such as the BOOKER, COMMONWEALTH, ORANGE, PULITZER, DUBLIM IMPAC, NEUSTADT, GILLER, TRILLIUM, WRITER'S TRUST, & GOVERNER GENERA'S AWARD, to name a few.

For more details, please consult the full list of back-issues and past contributors provided on the new Rampike web-site.

ALL COPYRIGHTS REMAIN WITH CONTRIBUTORS.

→ 36 YEARS! – Historical Archive of Back-Issues

Over 4000 PAGES; 1979 – 2016!

Free public access at: http://scholar.uwindsor.ca/rampike