Leevi Lehto

Archival reconstruction:A detailed, citable index to the now-defunct website leevilehto.net—including curated links to stable Internet Archive snapshots and EPC mirror materials—is available here:
Leevi Lehto Website Reconstruction / Index
This provides guided access to Lehto’s original online projects, poems, media, essays, and conceptual works.

Bio/List of Publications and Papers
EPC Scandinavian Portal

Poems
• "Of the Help to Her Art" (first Google poem)
• Four Poems (Jacket)
• Poems and translationss (Anny Ballardini's Poet's Corner)
• Extract from Paiva (Day, 2004); and: pdf of full work in Finish

Digital Work
• The Google Poem Generator (n/a)

Essays (in English)
• My Finnish Poetries (University of Pennsylvania, Feb. 23, 2005)
• " It's Nothing!" (On Kenneth Goldsmith)
• Plurifying the Languages of the Trite (Sibila)
• Preface to Leevi Lehto: Alussa oli kaantaminen. 2000-luvun poetiikkaa (In the Beginning Was Translation. A 21st Century Poetics. Savukeidas 2008); Engl tr
• Nothing That Is Initially Interesting To More Than Seven People Can Ever Change The Consciousness Of the Masses (Nypoesi)
• The Eternally Same Old Stupid Stuff
• An Anthology of Poetry?
• The Paradoxes of Influence: Provincialism versus the Possibility of World Poetry
• On Writers' Copyrights
• In the Beginning Was Translation
• Finland Between Coercive Swedish and Barbaric Danish
• Nude Media, or Benjamin In the Age Of Ubiquitous Connectivity: Conversation with Kenneth Goldsmith
• For the Reader
• I Love Me, Vol I
• "And as we now think and not a single thought goes as far up as the head"
• Awkwar
Editor
• Charles Bernstein: Runouden puolustus (A Defence of Poetry. Poems and essays from two millenia); forward in English
• OEI #27/2006 (An Anthology of new Finnish Poetry in Swedish)
Sound and Video Files
• PennSound
About the Author

• Charles Bernstein: Introduction (mp3, 3:42, via PennSound)
• Ron Silliman March. 4, 2005
• Miia Toivio: The Wild Experimentalist (from Electric Verses, Finland)
• On Leevi Lehto’s Päivä "
Latest update, October 30, 2006 / Nov. 2025 (ChB)

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