In the 1970s and 80's, Annex published work of new music documentation, conceptual art and texts by French, Russian and American experimental writers: Bob Perelman, Blue Gene Tyranny, Ron Silliman, Rosmarie Waldrop, Alan Davies, Bruce Andrews, Anne Waldman, Alain Veinstein and Yuri Mamleyev, Daniil Kharms (Daniil Ivanovich Yuvachev), Anne-Marie Albiach, Ascher/Straus, Lynn Hejenian, John Latta, among them.
His later more ambitious work was published by leading independent presses in England and America, including Andrew Crozier's Ferry Press and Rosmarie and Keith Waldrop's Burning Deck.
Today, Albiach is associated in France with poets Claude Royet-Journoud and Emmanuel Hocquard, all three being, at various times, translated and published by the American poets Keith Waldrop and Rosmarie Waldrop via Burning Deck, their influential small press.
Other notable writers whose work has appeared in this journal are Charles Baxter, G.C. Waldrep, Tomaž Šalamun, Peter Selgin, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Valery Varble, Alix Ohlin, Steven Church, Brandon Schrand, Rosmarie Waldrop, Jacob M. Appel, Robert H. Abel, and Floyd Skloot.
Translated by Harry Mathews, Christopher Middleton, Rosmarie Waldrop, and John Yau.
The Annex magazine edited by Julian Kabza appeared under varying titles; Terraplane, Biscuit, Writing, Annexes (single author pamphlets include: Veinstein's "From A Reader's Notebook, translated by Rosmarie Waldrop), and Flora Danica.