2015 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about … 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
Renaming the Streets of Paris
My courses often integrate contemporary news stories and topics in memorialization and public culture. With a chapter in my dissertation focused on hoaxes and after my recent post of selecting … 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
The Redesigned 10: The Future of Our Money
Yesterday, an L.A. bookstore started a campaign to make literary icon Joan Didion the female face of the ten dollar bill (#JoanOnTheTen). Didion is arguably more popular than ever. Last … Continue reading
My London Pub Quad
It’s difficult to imagine London without pubs. There’s something special about them. Their history? The experience? The booze? I don’t know. While my English allegiance and affinities lie with the … Continue reading
Goody Goudy!
If there were an individual, readily recognized quality, or characteristic which the type designer could incorporate in drawings that would make any one type more beautiful, legible, or distinguished than … Continue reading
Sell/fish Fault Finder
A Pun.–(We abominate puns). Some weekly finds; or this is what I do.
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
Goody Two-Shoes
This week I was looking up where the expression “goody two-shoes” originated. A friend used it in conversation and I remarked or rather asked whether or not this is even … 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
Type: Zapf!
Noted type designer, typographer, and calligrapher Hermann Zapf died last week, on June 4, at his home in Darmstadt, Germany at the age of 96. The creator of approximately 200 … Continue reading
Switching to Summer Gears… and Marcel Lecomte’s “Carnival”
As I switch gears this summer to complete chapters on my dissertation, I predict that I won’t add many posts to this blog throughout the summer. I have nearly completed … Continue reading
Over Sea, Under Stone at 50
Summer has begun, which in my case means concentrating full force on my dissertation, I remember when it meant something not all that different…summer reading. When I was small, Friday … Continue reading
Flanders Fields
Today marks the 100th anniversary of John McCrae’s war poem “In Flanders Fields.” McCrae, a Canadian writer, artist and soldier/surgeon in the Great War, was inspired to write the poem … Continue reading
There, B’More Gray Matters
Baltimore will always be my city. I was born here, and, no matter where I move, it seems I always come back. The violence following the death of Freddie Gray … 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
Twelve Ways of Looking . . . at a Textshop
[NOTEBOOK/FRAGMENTS . . .] The book imitates the world as art imitates nature. ~Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari For Deleuze & Guattari, the tree serves as an image or metaphor … Continue reading
UK Research
For most of March, I’ve honed in on my dissertation–finishing up research on two chapters and writing. I spent nearly two weeks in England attending a conference on eighteenth-century print … 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
Toad Suck #5: With New Translations of Marcel Lecomte
This week, I received copies of the latest issue of the Toad Suck Review, which published a number of my translations of Marcel Lecomte‘s poetry. Among the laundry list of … 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
The Train Garden
For the past thirty years, my father has built and displayed a train set for the holidays. What started with one train and a handful of buildings has grown into … Continue reading
2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about … 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
November Work
I survived my week of three talks on top of my usual schedule of classes, meetings, and other duties… On Monday, I delivered a short talk at the Dresher Center … Continue reading
Bollman’s Bridge
In my last post, I noted my rediscovery of photos and files of my short-lived journal The Bridge . . . Speaking of bridges (literally): my favorite . . . … 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
Bel Air’s Post Office … And Tudor Hall
For the past semester, I’ve been re-thinking about post offices. My ongoing project Maryland by Mail (still under construction) examines the ways in which individuals use and explore online maps, … Continue reading
Named Residential Fellow at The Dresher Center, UMBC
I was recently named a 2014 Residential Fellow at The Dresher Center for the Humanities at UMBC. The Fellowship provides me with an office in the new Performing Arts and … 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
Published Poem & Review
My poem “How to Fold a Map” was recently published in latest issue of The Clackamas Review. And I recently reviewed Redell Olsen’s Film Poems (Los Angeles: … Continue reading
Comment to Chappelle?
Please check out my latest article on Dave Chappelle, entitled, “Comment to Chappelle: The Return of Dave Chappelle and the Future of Comedy” appearing in the online magazine, The Artifice. … Continue reading
Chappelle @ Radio City
This past week, it was announced that Dave Chappelle will do a number of shows at the Radio City Music Hall, June 20-27. To promote the shows, last night, … Continue reading
The Washington Press
This Date in History Sentimental? Perhaps. I certainly enjoy anniversaries . . . those “this-date-in-history” snippets in print or on television. Yesterday, I was reading up on printing history and … Continue reading
APHA Visit to Baltimore Museum of Industry
Overview of our Tour Despite having been born and raised in Baltimore, it’s funny that I don’t remember ever visiting the Baltimore Museum of Industry, not on a Saturday family … Continue reading
UMBC Insights Blurb
Kevin Wisniewski, LLC Doctoral Student, Named 2014 Michael Denker Chesapeake Chapter Fellow Language, Literacy and Culture doctoral student Kevin A. Wisniewski was recently named a 2014 Michael Denker Chesapeake Chapter Fellow … 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
Rethinking Intellectual Activism @ LLC
This weekend Emek Ergun and a committee of doctoral students in the Language, Literacy, and Culture PhD Program at UMBC held our first annual graduate student conference: “Rethinking Intellectual Activism.” … Continue reading
My First Artist Book: Davy Crockett
It’s amazing how many books and papers and little knickknacks and strange odds and ends we accumulate each year. Every spring, I sell, donate, recycle, shred and throw away, piles … Continue reading
Interaction, Performance and Introductions to Bodies and Space
I was recently invited to participate in an online discussion on the current state of interactivity in new media art. The forum is the first in the 2014 series from … Continue reading
Teaching Digital History: A Review
Teaching History in the Digital Age. By T. Mills Kelly. (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2013. 184 pp. HC $70.00; OA DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/dh.12146032.0001.001) This year, nearly three thousand … Continue reading
DRUCKWORKS @ UMBC
Druckworks: 40 Years of Books and Projects by Johanna Drucker Monday, September 16 – Monday, December 20 Druckworks: 40 Years of Books and Projects by Johanna Drucker Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery, … 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
Recent Work
It’s been a busy summer and the fall already promises to be the busiest semester yet. Lots of projects in the works . . . Lots to still do on … Continue reading
An Exercise in Nomadic Thought . . .
Or How to Make a New Hat. Last December, I made a small pamphlet to one of my classes–it was part guide and commentary and part info-graphic responding to Walter … Continue reading
The Future of Printing . . . Never Tasted so Good!
The future of printing (and scholarship) is no longer the words on the page, no longer what you think about their conveyed meaning but how you (inter)act, how you create, … Continue reading
MD/BY/MAIL: Omeka v. WordPress
I originally intended the second part of my review of Omeka to highlight a few specific benefits and problems or limitations in working with the platform. Things have picked up … Continue reading
Chappelle Resurfaces, L.A.Times Interview
On March 1, patrons at New York’s Comedy Cellar were pleasantly surprised when Dave Chappelle took to the stage unannounced. Of course, this was not the first pop-in performance from Chappelle. With friends … 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
My Introduction to Omeka.net
In the past, I’ve been a bit nervous about learning a new program, a new tool, etc. While studying publishing, I learned Adobe’s Photoshop and InDesign as well as Quark. … Continue reading
A Thought on the Interactivity in Manovich’s New Media
Alexander R. Galloway begins his article “What is New Media? Ten Years After The Language of New Media” by bluntly noting all of the “fluff” being published on the digital. … Continue reading
The Language of New Media: An Overview
Introduction After recently reading Ceruzzi’s Computing: A Concise History (MIT Press, 2012), Randall Packer and Ken Jordan’s anthology Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality (Norton, 2002), and the collection The … Continue reading
If You Love Books…
The 30 Best Places To Be If You Love Books Mark Twain said, “In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in … Continue reading
Computing Computing 2.0
Computing: A Concise History By Paul E. Ceruzzi MIT Press, 2012, 175 pages, $11.95, ISBN: 9780262517676 As the previous post points out, my initial reading of Ceruzzi’s Computing: A Concise History … Continue reading
Computing Computing
The first required reading for my “Digital Humanities” course was Paul E. Ceruzzi’s Computing: A Concise History (MIT Press, 2012). There’s usually a formula things, to a course’s rubric, to … 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
New Digital Humanities Course & DH Tool, Part 1
This spring, I have enrolled in an independent study on the Digital Humanities under Professor Helen J. Burgess of the UMBC English Department. The independent study, taken with three other … Continue reading
The Intimacy Between Guests: A Micro-Review
There’s a lot that gets read in a week and a lot more that gets lost sliding from one book to another, clicking from one screen to the next. But … 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
Opening Post: 2012 Progress
2012 Work in Review Publications Book Reviews William Parks: The Colonial Printer in the Transatlantic World of the Eighteenth Century, by A. Franklin Parks. The Maryland Historical Magazine 107.3 (Fall 2012): … Continue reading
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