Over the 2008-2009 academic year, I got to work with Rachel Blau DuPlessis. Rachel is a feminist poet, literary critic, and editor of some great collections of modern poetry. A prolific writer and deeply interested in the avant garde movement … Continue reading
Children of the Outer Dark by Christopher Dewdney My rating: 4 of 5 stars Not often is poetry both easy to read and insightful. Christopher Dewdney is not your common poet. He writes as perceptively and carefully as an autodidact. … Continue reading
I have always felt pressure to find good books to read because everything in life takes on more importance when I am reading a finely woven piece of literature. I don’t know that I have actually had trouble identifying good … Continue reading
Welcome back to the Digital Humanities Blog Carnival. This entry comprises the second edition, the February 2011 edition. Today is Presidents Day in the United States, which means that those of us employed by state institutions of higher learning have … Continue reading
Most of us travel during the holiday season. Maybe it’s the stillness of winter that urges us to move ourselves around, since there isn’t much going on around us in the natural world. My friend Eric Shanks, a talented videographer, … Continue reading
MIT labs and Aaron Zinman created a digital installation that creates your online genome, a visual representation of how the web sees you. Part art installation, part critique, Personas | Metropath(ologies) exploits the fact that there are likely several people … Continue reading
Fairway Outdoor Advertising’s attempts at wooing City Council into removing the current ban on new billboards may not be going so well. At least, not for Fairway. The billboard industry suffered a trouncing at the March InterNeighborhood Council meeting, but … Continue reading
The cycling community has a reputation for creativity — the annual Bike Art exhibits (I, II, III, IV), the Bicycle Film Festival, and the alt-bike phenomenon each attest to the restlessness that two-wheeled travelers often feel. By restlessness I mean … Continue reading
Poets are social critics by default. That is, since not very many of us take the same care to craft our daily language that poets do, poets often are (or see themselves as) outsiders. And as outsiders, many poets are … Continue reading
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Flying Shepherd Salt Owning the Weather Art & Copy Sons of Cuba The Yes Men Fix the World Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait La Chirola Unit 25 Objectified Oil Blue Sweet Crude Burma VJ All … Continue reading