Where the Angels Lived: Coming Soon from Calypso Editions
I am pleased to announce the next title to be released from Calypso Editions: Margaret McMullan’s Where the Angels Lived. Margaret also published the novel Aftermath Lounge (2015) with Calypso. … Continue reading
Lest We Forget! A Poem
LEST WE FORGET! The World is Round and Very Wet! By Bob Brown Pilsener beer from a tall frosted glass at Luchow’s … Continue reading
The Best, Free Word Cloud Generators
Word clouds, data clouds, tag clouds, text clouds . . . Regardless of you call them, everyone seems to like these visual representations of text data. First popularized over a … Continue reading
Every Season’s Greetings: The Importance of “Green” Spaces for the Older Adult
This post originally appeared on The Upside to Aging on January 22, 2019. I am grateful to the editor, Molly Wisniewski, for permissions to republish here. Please click here to … Continue reading
Call for Publications: Textshop Experiments, Spring/Summer 2019
This January, I posted a new Call for Papers for the next issue of Textshop Experiments. This will be an open double-issue with a rolling submission deadline. My goal here … Continue reading
How to Judge a Book by its Cover
In my June post “Reading by Design,” I shared some early notes on my fall course on the History of Publications Design. Sadly, I didn’t follow-up with this post throughout … Continue reading
Announcement: Textshop Experiments 5 Flash Reason Released
This week, I am pleased to announce the release of the next issue of Textshop Experiments. This is especially noteworthy because it’s the first issue featuring guest editors, and–in addition … Continue reading
Reading by Design … The Great Gatsby
Next semester, I’m teaching another class related to book history and publishing. This course will examine the history and evolution of book design and, specifically, cover art. The question that … Continue reading
Empire State by Olga Cabral
Empire State I am a prisoner of bones of keyrings habits teeth and hair I am a tenant of torn skies I am a runner in the air of escalators … Continue reading
Writing with Scissors: A Review
Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance By Ellen Gruber Garvey. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 320 pp. 62 ill. HC $115, Pb … Continue reading
The Projector Finds a Hobby
Last week I was happy to report the latest issue of Textshop Experiments was released. The video essays included in this issue include new work by H. R. Buechler, Jimmy … Continue reading
LIVE: Textshop 4 … From Digital to Print
I am happy to announce the release of Textshop Experiments’ Volume 4: From Digital to Print. Contents 100 Questions About Writing And The Future by Jimmy Butts Printed Animals by … Continue reading
The Schoolmaster, Translated
Last week, I noted that I would return to completing my translation of selected poems by Marcel Lecomte. To slowly return to this project and to offer another preview of … Continue reading
365
A few days ago, on New Year’s Eve, I completed my #365DayChallenge of posting one image a day on Instagram. So, for now, I’m taking a little break from social … Continue reading
Bob Brown’s Houdini
I’m happy to announce the publication of the latest title from Roving Eye Press: Houdini. The title is number 5 for Bob Brown’s revamped mobile small press. Originally published in … Continue reading
Beyond Criticism 2017
One of my latest projects this year has been the book series Beyond Criticism published by Bloomsbury. It’s been a busy year here with six books already published and many … Continue reading
Mulberry Mummies Marshes
“Mulberry, Mummies, Marshes: This History of Paper” Course Poster, 2017. My latest poster / broadside.
The Best Covers of Bob Dylan Songs
Well, I’m officially halfway through my course on Bob Dylan, and a clear, singular reading of Bob Dylan, the artist, is seemingly further away than ever. But perhaps this is … Continue reading
Coming Soon . . . Fall Course on the History of Paper
We’re just a week away from the fall semester! I was a little disappointed last year after my pitch for a “History of the Book” special topics class was deemed … Continue reading
Summer Work 2017 — The Road Ahead
Well, another semester has finally come to an end, which typically means a new transition–a new type of busy season–is about to begin. I can’t believe I haven’t formally posted … Continue reading
Just Released: Textshop Experiments #3
I’m happy to announce the latest issue of Textshop Experiments. I hope you enjoy it! I haven’t posted in a while and, hopefully, I’ll change that soon! I’ll share a … Continue reading
Forthcoming Textshop Issues: 2017-2018
Our next issue is only one week away!!! As we make the final edits to the forthcoming issue of TEXTSHOP EXPERIMENTS . . . Here’s what’s scheduled down the production … Continue reading
Announcing the Release of Tours & Detours: Textshop Experiments
It’s been a busy winter so far. I’ll resume my monthly posts shortly. In the meantime, in case you missed it, in December, Felix Burgos and I published the second … Continue reading
TE Tours and Detours (Special Issue) Coming Soon . . .
Coming in December . . . Textshop Experiments‘ Tours & Detours (Special Issue)…
The Projector Period: New Website
A very short post today to announce that my new website http://www.projectorperiod.com is now live. The Projector site will house my up-to-date C.V. and slowly develop into my professional site. Why … Continue reading
Book/Marks: The Digital Humanities Meets the Public Humanities
In one of my last posts, I shared a few videos on the Gutenberg press and letterpress printing for a class that’s now underway. I like this approach of sharing … Continue reading
Electracy is spreading . . .
Electracy is spreading . . . We are mixing and we were going to (re)mix. One month left to submit to Textshop Experiments‘s Tours & Detours issue. Visit our website … Continue reading
Shopping in Tuscany
To celebrate the last month of summer holidays, I’d like to share my poem “Shopping in Tuscany” and the story behind it. Like a lot of my poems that appear … Continue reading
New Video from Textshop Experiments
Our new promotional video / Call for Papers for Textshop Experiments. For our next issue, TOURS & DETOURS, we are accepting traditional essays, video essays, experimental intermedia projects, book reviews, … Continue reading
Tours & Detours: Textshop Experiments
CALL FOR PUBLICATIONS Textshop Experiments (ISSN: 2377-9039) http://textshopexperiments.org/ Issue #2: Tours & Detours The theme of this issue, Tours and Detours, is intended to provoke a wide variety of topics … Continue reading
The Textshop (T)issue
I am pleased to announce the inaugural issue of Textshop Experiments (ISSN: 2377-9039). This issue collects a variety of experimental essays, tissues, in one way or another, connected to the … Continue reading
New Chapbook Making Faces
I am happy to announce the release of my new poetry chapbook, Making Faces. The book is now available via Amazon: http://amzn.to/1UwLwDp. Thanks to everyone who has supported this work. … Continue reading
New Poetry at Coldnoon & Sour Grapes
I have a new set of poems recently published at Coldnoon Travel Poetics: The International Journal of Travel Writing and a poem in the regional journal Sour Grapes (finally, a journal … Continue reading
New Bob Brown Bio & Roving Eye Press Book Review
This month, Roving Eye Press celebrates the first biography of Robert Carlton “Bob” Brown, written by Craig Saper and published by Fordham University Press and Empire State Editions. Contemporary publishing, … Continue reading
Origins and Issues in Design
I’m offering a new course at UMBC in the fall: ART 335 “Origins & Issues in Design”. Remember when life was simpler, and you didn’t have to advertise your courses? … Continue reading
Textshop Experiments Promotional Posters
Textshop Experiments is an open access journal that aims to extend the work of Greg Ulmer and to foster experimental works that invent, operate in, or analyze the apparatus of … Continue reading
A Short List of Word Cloud Generators
In the last post, I shared four word cloud silhouettes of texts from revolutionary America. And at the end of 2015, I shared a list DH journals. I thought it … Continue reading
TEXTSHOP EXPERIMENTS: CALL FOR PAPERS
Textshop Experiments (ISSN: 2377-9039) is a new open access journal that aims to extend the work of Greg Ulmer and to foster experimental works that invent, operate in, or analyze … Continue reading
New Interview at Rkvry Quarterly
Last week, I was interviewed by Mary Akers, author and Editor-in-Chief at R.kv.r.y Quarterly Literary Journal. We talked about the writing process, my experiences in publishing, and my short piece … Continue reading
New Poem in the Tule Review
I just received the latest issue of The Tule Review, published by the Sacrament Poetry Center, which includes my poem, “Venus and Mars, the Leviathan.”
Lullaby for a Hanged Man
JUST RELEASED: The latest title from Calypso Editions… Lullaby for a Hanged Man Fiction · English · by Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki · Translated by Julia and Peter Sherwood · 86 pages Lullaby for … Continue reading
Bon Anniv, Roland Barthes!
How should we best celebrate the 100th birthday of French critic Roland Barthes (1915-1980)? How do we read the man who read anything as text? I was first dawn to … Continue reading
A Short List of DH Journals
One of the (many) challenges of incorporating a collaborative DH project into the classroom is finding balance…balance between the scope and content of the course itself and the history, tools … Continue reading
Praise for Roving Eye Press
As Roving Eye Press begins work on our next set of publications for 2016, I reflect on what we’ve already achieved. Since Fall 2014, we have re-published four Bob Brown … Continue reading
Just published…New Poems and an Essay
Just published… My poem “Hands Off” @ Arsenic Lobster Poetry Journal. Translations of Marcel Lecomte‘s “Interior” and “Forest” @ PING-PONG. A flash-fiction/creative essay hybrid on blues musician Peppermint Harris, “A … Continue reading
Calypso Editions: Open Call/Reading Period & Recent Titles
Call for Manuscripts Calypso Editions, a cooperative press dedicated to publishing quality literary books of poetry and fiction with a global perspective, publishes four books each year. In order to … Continue reading
Writing & Loneliness
“If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.” ~Jean-Paul Sartre In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, “The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are … Continue reading
A Tribute to Len Fulton . . . and his Small Press Review
Last week I received an email from Susan Fulton Raymond and Kathleen Glanville, editor and publisher of the The Small Press Review, that the May-June 2015 issue would be the … Continue reading
Summer Progress
Summer plans have been largely restricted to completing my dissertation. The carousel forever goes round… I’m constantly struggling with finding that perfect balance between argument and narrative, especially with some … Continue reading
Bob Brown’s 1450-1950
Brown invents a type of slapstick poetic burlesque. Calling it visual poetry is too staid and decorous; call it scratch & scrawl. ~Craig Saper I am happy to announce that … Continue reading
The Ulmer Textshop Goes Live!
For the past year, I served as an editorial assistant on Greg Ulmer’s collection of essays Electracy: Gregory L. Ulmer’s Textshop Experiments. The anthology compiles a number of Ulmer’s previously … Continue reading
Calypso Editions
Just after New Year, I was invited to join Calypso Editions, an artist-run, small press dedicated to publishing quality literary books of poetry and fiction with a global perspective. More … Continue reading
For the Crows: The Remix
I am fan of the work of Punctum Books and the journal postmedieval and, to some extent, those theorists investigating Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO). I am especially interested in the ways … Continue reading
For the Crows: The Broadside
In November, I began talks with the folks at Hot Air Press to reprint a limited edition broadside of the Francis Hopkinson poem “Ode” for a July 2015 release. The … Continue reading
Roving Eye Press: Open Access
The first series of Roving Eye Press has officially been released and sent out to friends of the press and reviewers. The books are available in Hardcover, Kindle, and now … Continue reading
The Bridge: A Travel Writing … Archive
This weekend, I found a collection of photos in storage from a journal I tried to start while studying at the University of Baltimore: The Bridge: A Journal for Travel … Continue reading
Roving Eye Press
This summer, while preparing for my comprehensive exams, I was offered the great honor of managing the (re)construction of Roving Eye Press, a peer-reviewed, scholarly press dedicated to re-issuing the … Continue reading
Polyseme: The Language, Literacy, & Culture Review
After hearing horror stories of the closets that 3-5 graduate students often share throughout their doctoral work and seeing first-hand the tiny spaces in which some full-time professors reside, I … Continue reading
“Joy’s Joy”: Eileen Joy of Punctum Books Visits UMBC
With help from several groups on campus, Craig Saper and I have announced Eileen Joy as our first guest speaker (in what I hope will be many) related to the … Continue reading
AWP 2013
With over five hundred scheduled events, seven hundred exhibitors, nearly two thousand panelists, and twelve thousand attendees, the annual conference of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) is … Continue reading
Between Page and Screen
Between Page and Screen by Amaranth Borsuk and Brad Bouse (New York: Siglio, 2012). I’ve been playing with this book for the past couple of months. I’m sure that poets, … Continue reading
What’s in a Monograph?
In the past weeks, there’s been a flurry of activity—articles, online posts and blogs, etc.—discussing the future of the monograph. Of course, discussions around the crises in scholarship and criticism … Continue reading
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