This limited edition, hand-stitched zine features ephemeral materials from a performance of five year plan by Emji Saint Spero at nnoooo #3, an evening of simultaneous poetic happenings and experimental work curated by David Horvitz, Joseph Mosconi, and Zara Schuster.

An autobiography at a slant,five year plan compiles every Google search made by Emji Saint Sperobetween January 2017 - January 2022. As mundane as it is humiliating, this poem is a crash-your-spreadsheet course in understanding how the questions we ask say, perhaps (and hopefully), less about ourselves than they do about the shifting world that moves through us.

*five year plan was originally performed at noooo #3 | Café 2001 | Los Angeles CA | 04.06.2025

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About the Zine

Writing Without Permission was released in collaboration with Your Mood Projects, an artist-curated space in San Francisco. Copies of the zine are available at all exhibition openings.

Published by Informal Noticings Press
Edited by Blanca Bercial
05.20.2025

Contributors
Samara Alima, Glenna Cole Allee, Pam Axelson, Scott Butterworth, Erin Desmond, James Desmond, Paul Ebenkamp, Brooke Farrington, Juliane Hansen, Alana Heiss, Carrie Hunter, Quinn Ray Keck, Kathleen King, Hanieh Khatibi, Natasha Loewy, Dan Nelson, Chris Philpot, Elizabeth Preger, Marty Rogers, Kate Rhoades, Anne-Lesley Selcer, Danielle Siembieda, Emji Saint Spero, Suzanne Stein, Jean Future Twin, Badri Valian, Lanny Weingrod, and Minoosh Zomorodinia