12
Jan

Red Lightbulbs Issue 6

Posted at 04:08:57 pm
Meg and Russ posted the newest issue of Red Lightbulbs last week. Great new work from Joshua Kleinberg, Corey Zeller, and Faith Gardner (to name a few). Also, keep an eye out for RL's new print extremity emerging sometime later this year. more »
12
Jan

Bookstores and Amazon

Posted at 03:59:13 pm
Great article by Janaka Stucky over at the Poetry Foundation re how bookstores can survive Amazon. more »
5
Jan

The poem as machine

Posted at 11:17:40 pm
There's a great post by Nick Sturm over at wewhoareabouttodie about the way that William Carlos William conceptualized of the poem as a machine. Sturm investigates this metaphor and argues that when we use workshop language to talk about poetry, we're re… more »
9
Dec

Sentence of the Day!

Posted at 05:20:58 pm
"But can this project be easily transposed to the domain of the clone, where the question of the human is deliberately put into question?" From "When We Were Clones" an otherwise interesting review of Ishiguro's work up until Never Let Me Go. more »
13
Nov

New Issue of Red Lightblubs

Posted at 06:06:17 pm
    The new issue of Red Lightbulbs is now live. Go give it a gander. Pieces by Neila Mezynski, Alexis Pope, Roxane Gay and more. more »
4
Nov

The Works of Digital Humanities

Posted at 03:09:27 pm
But, indeed, if the Digital Humanities do somehow bring us the miraculous salvation in the form that Saller seeks, something will be lost not just for a kook like me: we will be giving up another series of moments in which to intervene in our students' educations, in which to show them the pleasure of the mundane, in which to really teach by exposing the reasons for rules of citation rather than distributing the means. The emergent religious zeal for Digital Humanities must not be allowed to replace our passion for teaching people with a mistaken religious conviction about the capabilities of our machines. more »