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ArtBistro :: Artist Community Online

ArtBistro brings members of the visual art community together to network, advance careers, and to foster a community with exclusive benefits where information about artists and designers is provided by artists and designers. Included on the site: News, Portfolios, Videos, Jobs, Education, and more – free sign-up required to access some content.

Conference & CFP :: African American Literature

Celebrating African American Literature: The Novel Since 1988
Penn State U
Oct 23 – 24, 2009

This conference will cover contemporary novelists and their novels produced and published since 1988. The meeting is designed to attract scholars and educators from a variety of fields, including American and African American literary studies, cultural studies, rhetoric, African American studies, and ethnic studies.

CFP: paper, panel, and roundtable proposals on theoretical, critical, or pedagogical approaches to works produced since 1988. Especially interested in proposals that address the work of featured novelists Alice Randall and Mat Johnson. Proposals focusing on satire, transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, or any of the topics listed below are also welcomed. Selected essays will once again be edited for publication. Deadline: Feb 5

Kore Press Award Announced

Kore Press First Book Award
Judged by Patricia Smith

Congratulations to Heather Cousins of the University of Georgia, winner of the Kore Press 2009 First Book Award for her poetry collection Something in the Potato Room.

1st runner-up
Mortal Geography by Alexandra Teague
Oakland, CA

2nd runner-up
Threshold by Jennifer Richter
Corvalis, OR

3rd runner-up
American Elegy by Elisa Pulido
San Juan Capistrano, CA

Settling on War and Peace

The most recent issue of New England Review includes in its Readers Notebook feature an essay by Michael R. Katz, “War and Peace in Our Time.” This essay is also generously provided online, full-text. In it, Katz comments on why the resurgence of interest in Tolstoy’s work, focusing on the three most recently published translations and the controversy surrounding each. Katz’s survey, which he humbly calls a “brief comparison,” is indeed thorough and provides a final recommendation, which is worth the full read of his commentary to understand.

Jobs :: Various

Gettysburg College Department of English Emerging Writer Lecturer. One-year appointment, beginning August 2009, for a creative writer who plans a career that involves college-level teaching, to teach three courses per semester, including Introduction to Creative Writing and an advanced course in the writer’s genre, as well as to assist with departmental writing activities. Mentorship for teaching and assistance in professional development provided.

The DePauw University English Department and its distinguished Creative Writing Program invite poets to apply for one-semester appointment in fall or spring of 2009-2010 as the Mary Field Distinguished Visiting Writer.

Normandale Community College Faculty in English Visiting Scholar in Creative Writing. Cyndee Robinson, Human Resources. January 15, 2009

Composition and Professional Writing, American University of Sharjah. Dean William Heidcamp at cashr-at-aus.edu

In Memoriam :: Dorothy Sterling


Kid’s literature luminary Sterling dies at age 95
By Elaine Woo
Los Angeles Times

Dorothy Sterling, a significant figure in 20th century children’s literature for her well-researched portrayals of historical black Americans written decades before multiculturalism became mainstream, died Dec. 1 at her home in Wellfleet, Mass. She was 95.

A self-described accidental historian, Sterling wrote more than 35 books, among the best known of which is “Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman.” Published in 1954 and still in print, it was one of the first full-length biographies of a historic black figure written for children.

The author drew attention to more obscure but important figures in “Captain of the Planter: The Story of Robert Smalls” (1958), the first children’s biography of the slave who captured a Confederate gunboat during the Civil War. “The Making of an Afro-American: Martin Robison Delany” (1971) helped stir interest in the little-known abolitionist, Harvard-educated physician and early proponent of black nationalism…[read the rest here]

NewPages Updates :: December 20, 2008

The New Plains Review – poetry, fiction, essays and creative nonfiction
Sidebrow – poetry, prose, art
Holly Rose Review – poetry, tattoos
Wilderness House Literary Review – poetry, fiction, non-fiction, art, book reviews
Qarrtsiluni – non-fiction, poetry, and short fiction, photographs, digitized artwork, and short films
Buffalo Carp – poetry,short story, fiction, non-fiction, essays, playlets

Rain Taxi Online Auction

There’s still time left support Rain Taxi and get your bids in on signed first editions, gorgeous broadsides, rare chapbooks, seminal graphic novels, quirky collectible books, handcrafted items, and more! M.T. Anderson, John Ashbery, Paul Auster, Charles Bernstein, Robert Bly, Paul Bowles, Stephen Colbert, Samuel R. Delany, Neil Gaiman, Patricia Hampl, Richard Hell, Jaime Hernandez, Garrison Keillor, Jonathan Lethem, David Markson, Henry Miller, Rick Moody, Barack Obama, Ron Padgett, Jerome Rothenberg, Joe Sacco, Arthur Sze, Jeff Vandermeer, Anne Waldman, Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop, and Marjorie Welish are just some of the authors whose works you’ll find. To see the full listings, go to Rain Taxi’s online benefit auction.

Interviewing at AWP?

The Chronicle of Higher Ed has some advice “Conference Rookies: Preparing to attend your first big academic convention? Here’s what you need to consider,” by Julie Miller Vick, senior associate director of career services at the University of Pennsylvania, and Jennifer S. Furlong, associate director of graduate-student career development at Columbia University’s Center for Career Education.

Symposium & CFP :: Stepping Out

Stepping Out: Academics, Civic Engagement, and Activism

Miami’s English Graduate and Adjunct Association’s Symposium
The sixth annual symposium will be held Saturday, March 28th, 2009 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

In a time of war and economic crisis, when people are suffering both locally and globally, what is the role of the academic and of higher education? The academy at large has been accused of living an insular existence, speaking only within disciplinary boundaries and rarely reaching the minds and bodies of those not admitted to higher education’s spaces. With this call, we hope to challenge the claim that the academy exists only for the academy’s sake as well as encourage collaboration and community-building across disciplinary and geographic divides that artificially mark sites of education.

CFP – See website. Deadline: Feb 15

Conference & CFP :: Waiting Time

Waiting Time
New York University
Department of Comparative Literature
Graduate Student Conference
April 17-19, 2009

Keynote Speaker: Marshall Berman

What are we waiting for? What awaits us? While often dismissed as a period of wastefulness or lost time, waiting may also intensify experience and become a condition in which to consider questions of modernity, aesthetic process, politics, erotics and the tempos of everyday life.

Amid other theorizations of time, history and eventfulness, waiting offers a thematic axis around which conversation among scholars from a wide range of disciplines and critical perspectives can emerge. How can we unsettle the received divide between waiting and action? Or given this divide, how can we re-think the relationship between the two? Beyond (in)activity, how might waiting also be conceived of as a mode of attention or practice?

CFP
Possible paper topics may include, but are by no means limited to:

-Messianism & eschatology
-Event & revolution
-Fidelity & trust
-Designing patience: waiting rooms, drawing rooms, prisons, train stations
-Style and technique: the pause (in music and beyond), rest, suspense, seriality
-Waiting Faster: technologies of convenience, speed, acceleration
-Bureaucracy: legal process, immigration, the post, (un)employment, drudgery
-Sickness & convalescence
-Ennui, anxiety, boredom, killing time
-Erotics of waiting: desire and deferral, chastity, courtly love, chivalric romance, sexual suspense
-Gestation, inspiration, latency
-Hope, fate, & inevitability
-Progress, process, & telos
-Revenge & ressentiment
-Waiting nations: birth, belatedness, & modernization
-Military strategy: ambush attack
-Immigration & exile

Please send a 300-word paper abstracts due January 20, 2009 via email to WaitingTime.Spring2009_at_gmail.com.

Jobs :: Normandale CC

Message from Kris Bigalk@Normandale CC:

I wanted to let you know about three positions that are opening up at Normandale Community College in Bloomington, Minnesota this year, in the event that you or someone you know is looking for a full-time teaching position. We are hiring a Visiting Scholar in Creative Writing (a one-year appointment) and three unlimited full-time English generalist positions.

Our AFA in Creative Writing program is growing, and we are adding a Certificate in Creative Writing program this spring; currently, we offer at least one section of five or more different creative writing courses each semester,including Intro to Creative Writing, Poetry Writing, Fiction Writing, Play and Screen Writing, and Memoir/Creative Nonfiction Writing, and serve over 400 students per year in creative writing courses alone. Our other English offerings are also robust, and include several levels of composition, as well as a variety of literature courses. Normandale’s enrollment is around 10,000 students per year.

For more information on necessary qualifications, please see the links below. The application deadline is January 15, so act fast. Feel free to forward this to others, or to e-mail Kris with any questions – Kris.Bigalk-at-normandale.edu

Visiting Scholar in Creative Writing

Three Unlimited Full-time English Positions

Every Best of 2008

Looking for the “Best of 2008” book lists? Look no further, as Largehearted Boy has gone obsessive in collecting them all! I don’t have an exact count, but I’d say he’s got over 200 online sources on that list – and growing.

Largehearted Boy is a music blog featuring daily free and legal music downloads as well as news from the worlds of music, literature, and pop culture. LB has run best-of music lists, but this year is “aggregating 2008 year-end online book lists in this post and updating the list daily as new lists are added.” He welcomes you to send along a link to lists not on his, well, list.

Girls Write Now :: Maude Newton

Thanks to Maude Newton for posting her support for Girls Write Now on her blog, along with a video of one of writers from the program reading. Newton just joined the board of directors with Girls Write Now, a mentor writing program in New York city for young girls at risk. If you visit the video on YouTube, there are many other clips there from this same reading. But, if after watching Emily’s clip, My Name is Not My Sky – you aren’t in some way compelled to support this program (not just monetarily), or find ways to get involved with young writers, well, I just gotta wonder…

Conference & CFP :: Navigating the Body

Navigating the Body
Spaces, Mapping, and Embodiment
University of Virginia Department of English
Graduate-Student Conference
March 20-22, 2009

The Graduate English Student Association at the University of Virginia is hosting a Spring conference on “Spaces, Mapping, and Embodiment.” This conference is intended to cross several periods and disciplines within the humanities, and to engage with recently opened critical conversations on such issues as: theories and forms of cultural, literary and literary-historical mapping; history and historiography; sexuality and gender; the designation and re-designation of national, political, and cultural spaces; and embodied and performative modes of history and memory.

CFP Deadline: Jan 23

Study Abroad :: Summer Literary Seminars

Summer Literary Seminars is now accepting applications for their new programs in Italy (May 15-30, 2009) and Lithuania (July 20 – August 4, 2009). Academic credit is available through Concordia University. SLS produces a blended program of workshops, lectures and unique cultural experiences. Deadline: April 15, 2009.

Fellowship :: Black Mountain

Black Mountain offers nine-month fellowships to published writers and public intellectuals. The program accepts applications from novelists, poets, playwrights, historians, political scientists, independent scholars, and anyone else whose work is meant for a general, educated lay audience. Black Mountain awards three to five fellowships each year to outstanding writers who have published at least one critically acclaimed book before the time of application. Foreign nationals conversant in English are welcome to apply. There are no degree requirements. Fellows receive a $50,000 stipend, an office, a computer, and access to UNLV’s Lied Library. They remain in residence at BMI for the duration of the fellowship term (approximately August 24, 2009 to May 14, 2010) and work daily at the BMI offices. Application deadline: February 1, 2009.

Fellowships :: Terra Foundation

For the ninth consecutive year, the Terra Foundation for American Art is offering ten summer fellowships to artists and scholars from the United States and Europe. These fellowships are awarded to doctoral students engaged in research on American art and to artists who have completed their studies at masters level (or the equivalent). Each Terra Summer Fellow is provided with lodging and study or studio space, daily lunches and a program consisting of independent study, meetings and seminars. During their eight-week stay, senior artists and scholars are in residence to mentor the fellows and to pursue their own work. As Giverny is located less than an hour from Paris, fellows have easy access to the limitless cultural and academic resources of the French capital. Deadline January 15, 2009.

Residency :: Hambidge

The Hambidge Residency Program provides setting, solitude and time for creative individuals working in a wide variety of creative disciplines: visual arts, design, music, dance, writing. Fellowships are offered for two to eight week residencies, year round, except for the month of January. Fellows enjoy the gift of life without every-day distractions, in individual cottage/studios. These sanctuaries are scattered across our 600 acre setting of mountain forests, streams, waterfalls, hiking trails and wildflower meadows in Rabun Gap, Georgia.

Application Deadlines:
January 15, 2009 for May thru August
April 15, 2009 for September thru November
September 15, 2009 for December thru April, 2010

Dream People – 2008

The Dream People is one of those online anomalies that is simply laugh-out-loud funny and it knows it. Not that this is a bad thing. The apex of this journal’s mission is to perplex, astound and cause general hilarity at the antics that take place in its various fantastical fictional narratives, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, nonfiction, micro-criticism, reviews, flash interviews and even artwork. In this satirical and ghostly world, what is real is dressed up in metaphorical and allegorical costumes sometimes subtle, sometimes obvious, for the readers to deconstruct and find whatever meaning that they are searching for. Continue reading “Dream People – 2008”

Ecotone – Spring 2008

Ecotone: eco from Greek oikos (a house or dwelling) + tone from tonos (tension). All Ecotone’s writing is true to this theme, in one way or another. This issue opens with a creative nonfiction piece by the editor, David Gessner, in which he recounts his own experience in an ecotone, a transitional place between two communities, as well as a place of danger. Jessica Bane Robert’s memoir, “Dark on the Inside,” about living in the Maine woods with alcoholic parents, is full of both natural beauty and sadness. And Michael Pollan’s lighter “Dream Pond” demonstrates how hubris leads to humiliation, then eventually knowledge and appreciation. This essay follows an engaging interview with Pollan, the author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and, most recently, In Defense of Food. Continue reading “Ecotone – Spring 2008”

eratio – 2008

Eratio states that it “publishes poetry in the postmodern idioms with an emphasis on the intransitive,” which I take to mean that the poetry submissions it accepts are not conventional and are experimental with a focus or sentence structure that disconnects from the norm of verb/direct object relationship of sentence construction. A journal that insists upon a literary affectation of this kind could lend itself to stilted prose that sounds as if it removes certain language constraints just to be different. However, in this situation, it shows both the reader and the writer of poetry what possibilities it offers in tone and voice and overall flow of the poems. Continue reading “eratio – 2008”

Free Verse – Spring 2008

Free Verse is an experimental poetry forum for poets that do not follow the normal tenets of form and structure, reveling instead in modern and post-modern tendencies to deconstruct the sentence or line and turn it on its head so that the meaning seems like a coded message scattered in the form of extreme line breaks or unconventional prose-like formations. Rhyme and meter are not ignored here entirely, they are just pushed aside for new and tantalizing artistic configurations that stray from structural traditions, if not always-topical ones. Continue reading “Free Verse – Spring 2008”

Gowanus – Winter 2009

It has been said that Americans don’t read enough foreign literature, and I am inclined to agree with this statement, given that most people in the United States can identify Ernest Hemingway and Huckleberry Finn readily enough, but not Leo Tolstoy or Madame Bovary. What a shame. Gowanus, a resolutely international online literary journal, attempts to broaden one’s horizons. They state they are “interested in what concerns human beings in Delhi, Bridgetown and Soweto as well as in Chicago, Dublin and Tokyo.” Judging from their archives, they have effectively been doing so since 1997. Continue reading “Gowanus – Winter 2009”

The Kennesaw Review – 2008

With the explosion of online literary journals over the past several years, I have found myself becoming particularly attached to those which are pleasing to the eye, well organized, and contain interesting and well-written prose and poetry. On all of these counts, the Kennesaw Review, which has been in business since 2000, acquits itself well.

Continue reading “The Kennesaw Review – 2008”

Ruminate – Fall 2008

Ruminate’s layout is beautiful: almost trade magazine size but sturdier, writing centered on white or grey or black pages, Evan Mann’s creation sketches littered between poems and an essay and a short story. The journal’s writing is equally beautiful, pieces which demonstrate faith inside literature as well as faith in literature, a faith that literature can explain and inspire. Continue reading “Ruminate – Fall 2008”

St. Petersburg Review – 2008

Many Americans read little from emerging foreign writers. The St. Petersburg Review, an excellent anecdote to this situation, offers translations of Russian writers into English, or English writers into Russian. The latter pieces are of particular interest me, since Russian is almost never found in American literary magazines. Any student of Russian should pick up a copy and check out the Russian translations of Maxine Kumin’s poems scattered throughout the journal – poems which haven’t yet appeared in Russia. Continue reading “St. Petersburg Review – 2008”

Alexie Book Removed

Funny how in the span of a week, I can post a video of Alexie receiving a National Book Award and now this article about the removal of his book from a high school curriculum. I think a letter of concern would be a good holiday gift to send a few people involved:

Jeff Landaker is the board chair who, it is reported, despite the complainants not following proper procedure by first talking with the teacher and going instead directly to the board, supports the ban.
[email protected]

Jim Golden is the Principal of the school. Golden was reportedly opposed to banning the book.
[email protected]

Rich Shultz is the superintendent of the schools.
[email protected]

Crook County removes book from schools after parent complains
by Helen Jung
Thursday December 11, 2008
The Oregonian

Sherman Alexie’s book has raised some concerns in the Crook County school district. The Crook County School District has temporarily removed a book from classrooms after one parent complained to the school board that the National Book Award winner was “trashy” and “inappropriate.”

Written by Sherman Alexie, “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian,” which is based on Alexie’s own experiences, follows a boy who leaves the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white school “where the only other Indian is the school mascot” according to the book jacket description…[read the rest here]

Jobs :: Various

One-year appointment for emerging writer lecturer at Gettysburg College beginning August 2009, for a creative writer who plans a career that involves college-level teaching, to teach three courses per semester, including Introduction to Creative Writing and an advanced course in the writer’s genre, as well as to assist with departmental writing activities. Jan 30.

Emory University Two-year Creative Writing Fellowship in poetry in lively undergraduate English/Creative Writing Program, beginning fall 2009. Feb 2.

MSU Mankato English/Creative Writing – Fiction, Assistant Professor. Jan 23.

American University Department of Literature in the College of Arts & Sciences invites applications for two tenure-track positions in Creative Writing/Fiction & Creative Non-fiction beginning fall 2009. Jonathan Loesberg, Chair, Department of Literature. Until filled. Interviews AWP

Wichita State University Distinguished Writer-in-Residence. Temporary one-month position for a writer of fiction to teach a tutorial course to approximately 15 graduate & advanced undergraduate fiction writing students. Margaret Dawe, Chair, Department of English. Feb 15.

California Institute of the Arts MFA Writing Program, based in the School of Critical Studies, invites applications for a regular faculty position (two courses per semester) in fiction and/or creative non-fiction. Jan 5.

Lyon College seeks a distinguished writer of fiction for its 4th biennial Visiting Fellowship in Creative Writing (fiction), a semester-long residency scheduled during the autumn 2009 semester. April 1.

Wichita State University Distinguished Poet-in-Residence. Temporary one-month position for a writer of poetry to teach a tutorial course to approximately 15 graduate & advanced undergraduate poetry writing students. Margaret Dawe, Chair, Department of English. Feb 15.

Grinnel College two-year leave replacement position in the English Department in Fiction Writing. Professor Ralph Savarese, Department of English. Jan 16.

New Lit on the Block :: experiment-o

experiment-o is published annually as a PDF magazine “with the aim of bringing attention to works that do what art is supposed to do and that is to risk.” Amanda Earl of AngelHousePress is behind this new project, and the first issue contains what appear to be several AHP regulars, though the publication is open for submissions.

experiment-o will consider interviews, reviews, visual art, visual poetry, concrete poetry, poetry, prose, manifestos, maps, rants, blog entries, translations and other digital miscellany. Only contributions that are possible in PDF form will be considered.

Issue 1 features: Gary Barwin, Camille Martin, rob mclennan, Pearl Pirie, Roland Prevost, Jenny Sampirisi, Emily A. Falvey, Steve Venright, and Spencer Gordon.

Watercolors :: Candy Witcher


I came across Witcher’s work published in the most recent issue of the Wilderness House Literary Review – an online with a print annual. I’m a sucker for watercolors, and these images won me over. It’s worth checking out Witcher’s site as well; the Elephant Eye pencil drawing is especially worth a gaze.

You Had Me at Cello

The newest issue of The Hudson Review (Autumn 2008), celebrating its 60th anniversary, includes a CD: “Poetry into Music with Dana Gioia.” The CD includes the intro track with Gergory Hesselink on cello and baritone, Leon Williams. Dana Gioia speaks on intermittent “Conversations” tracks between combined singers and musicians. A great holiday gift (if you’re STILL shopping).

Film :: Rwanda Film Festival

In East Africa, a new generation of storytellers is emerging. For the first time in history, Rwandans are using film and an inflatable screen to tell their own stories, in their own language. A film festival in which “the theater is coming to you…”

Film Festival: Rwanda is a feature-length documentary that follows Rwandan filmmakers producing their own films, and screening them in remote villages for hundreds to thousands of people. For many Rwandans, this is the first time they’ve seen a film, let alone one in their local language, “Kinyarwanda”.

Rather than re-examining the past, these young storytellers are using film to project a positive vision of their country’s future. Their motivation, energy and creativity, inspired us to start following them last year.

17 Years Ago Today

This short preface to the Winter 2009 issue of Glimmer Train was a nice look back. It’s not a birthday or anniversary, just years of living life and saying, Whew! it’s been a long road, a hard road, and a bad road, and a good road: “Seventeen years ago we published our first issue of Glimmer Train Stories. The Gulf War had just ended, the Soviet Union was collapsing, the first-ever documented South Atlantic tropical cyclone developed in the Southern Hemisphere, the Dow passed 3000 for the first time, Tim Berners-Lee released an article describing his idea for the World Wide Web, and the first President Bush was in the final year of his presidency. We’re sending this issue to press just weeks before the November 4 election, an old chapter closing and a new one pushing open. And for the two of us, as well: We have now both crossed into our second half-century, and life is a compelling as it’s ever been. It’s good being alive, being sisters, and doing this work.” Susan and Linda – keep it going girls!

Nobel Winner Exhibits Art

Museo Wurth La Rioja hosts After the Flood an Exhibition by Gao Xingjian
From Art Knowledge News

AGONCILLO-LA RIOJA, SPAIN – Museo Wurth La Rioja presents the exhibition After the Flood, which brings together the work by the prestigious Chinese artist Gao Xingjian (Ganzhou, China, 1940), 2000 Nobel Prize in Literature. A selection of 80 recently created artworks, including ink paintings on canvas and paper. Regarded as one of the most important Chinese writers at present, Gao Xingjian still is not well known as a painter in Spain, although he is recognized by the international art scene and his oeuvre was previously exhibited at the Reina Sofia Museum (Madrid, 2002). His work has been presented in several solo and group exhibitions in Europe, Asia and the United States, and is included in important art collections around the world. [Read the rest on Art Knowledge News]

Dr. Seuss Secrets…Shhhh…

10 Stories Behind Dr. Seuss Stories
by Stacy Conradt
Mental Floss
November 16, 200

Okay, I’ll give away number one, but fans of Horton and Cat, visit the site:

1. The Lorax. In case you haven’t read The Lorax, it’s widely recognized as Dr. Seuss’ take on environmentalism and how humans are destroying nature. The logging industry was so upset about the book that some groups within the industry sponsored The Truax, a similar book—but from the logging point of view. Another interesting fact: the book used to contain the line, “I hear things are just as bad up in Lake Erie,” but 14 years after the book was published, the Ohio Sea Grant Program wrote to Seuss and told him how much the conditions had improved and implored him to take the line out. Dr. Seuss agreed and said that it wouldn’t be in future editions. [Sorry Seuss, but we need the line back for those bastards…]

Red Hen Press Holiday Sale

Red Hen Press is offering some sweet deals for the holidays, including select titles at 40% off until December 31, and one-year gift subscriptions for the upcoming publishing year – you can get select poetry (12 titles) or prose (8 titles), as well as a catalog subscription (20 titles!).

As with any of these great publisher deals, if not for you or a loved one, don’t forget your local library, public school, care homes, prison reading programs, community centers, ETC! Share the love of READING!

Geof Huth on VisoPoetry

The November 2008 issue of Poetry features a nice, full-color photo section on visual poetry. You can read Geof Huth’s commentary on Poetry’s website, but for the full visual imagery, you’ve got to get your hands on a copy.

“Few visual poems these days function as poems do. Instead, they encompass a wide range of verbo-visual creations that focus on the textual materiality of language. The form includes poems written as mathematical equations, collage poems, xerographic pieces that include no words but concentrate on the meaning that has built up within the shapes of letters, and even asemic writings in invented scripts created to mean through shape rather than word. Visual poetry is written for the eye, but its methods and intentions, even in those works most limited in their verbal content, are always poetic, always compelling the reader forward into the transformative power of language, always entranced by—and entrancing through—the text that is before us.” (pictured: “jHegaf” by Geof Huth)

New Lit on the Block :: The Honey Land Review

The Honey Land Review is a contemporary web journal dedicated to the poetry and photography of both emerging and established artists.

The Honey Land Review has designed a spotlight feature to highlight the work of current graduate students. Their intention is to maintain a forum where graduate students can showcase their work as well as provide some insight into the many wonderful creative writing programs available to writers today.

HLR is open for submission Dec – Sept.

[photo by Christina Ebel, featured in HLR]

e-Poetry Festival :: Barcelona


E-Poetry Festival
5th Annual
Universitat Obertat de Catalunya (UOC)
Barcelona
May 24-27, 2009

E-Poetry is both a conference and a festival on digital poetry. The festival is the most significant digital literary gathering in the field. Authors and researchers worldwide meet and present their researches and works. This will permit researchers to present their latest research and artists to premier their newest works. A selection of the papers will be published after the conference following the peer review system and we will also like to publish proceedings of the conference.

Artistic events will take place at key Barcelona venues such as the Barcelona Center for Contemporary Culture (CCCB), providing authors the opportunity to present their works to a public curious about new poetry and artistic trends employing technology and communication during the Setmana de la Poesia, that is also sharing a part of our artistic program.

Katherine Hayles (Duke), Roberto Simanowski (Brown University) and Jean Clément (Université Paris 8) have already accepted to be key-note speakers.

The UOC’s research group Hermeneia with the collaboration of Electronic Poetry Center (University of Buffalo) and the Laboratoire Paragraph (Univ. Paris VIII) will organize the event.

Papers and works for the Conference & the Festival are currently being accepted. Deadline December 1, 2008.