Kentuck is an unusually large regional art festival, and the English Department’s “Pure Products” reading series invites UA professors and MFA students to read at its literary stage, the Kathryn Tucker Windham Storyteller Tent. Kentuck not only features every visual artistic medium you can imagine, but also has a musical stage for local musicians and…Continue Reading Kentuck 2025
Louisville 2025
I attended one of my favorite conferences, the annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture. I gave two papers. The first paper was in a seminar/workshop on “Poetry, Games and Magic” titled “Teaching Traditional Indigenous Analog Gestural Storytelling Games and Contemporary Indigenous Video Games.” In this setting, I wanted to work out some ideas about…Continue Reading Louisville 2025
Poetry & Librarianship
Editors Bharat Mehra and Vanessa Irvin have accepted my book chapter proposal, “Reading in the Stacks: Raising Young Poet-Librarians in The Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo” for their forthcoming book, Poetry as Knowledge in Library and Information Science: Inquiry, Identity, and Practices, to be published by Emerald Group Publishing for their Advances in Librarianship…Continue Reading Poetry & Librarianship
Becoming MPCA/ACA: The Virtual Graduate Student Mini Conference
Register here to attend the conference, which is completely virtual…Continue Reading Becoming MPCA/ACA: The Virtual Graduate Student Mini Conference
Conversations & Connections: Practical Advice on Writing
I will be leading a generative poetry workshop in Innovative Poetics at the Barrelhouse conference, “Conversations & Connections: Practical Advice on Writing,” in Philadelphia at Temple University on 23 September 2023. Innovative Poetics: A toolbox of experimental techniques, with Jessica SmithGet out of your head and onto the page! Suitable for beginning writers or experienced…Continue Reading Conversations & Connections: Practical Advice on Writing
“Both, Neither, Between, Many: Jessica Smith’s Works with Paper”
I love this essay by my long-time and much-beloved colleague Jonathan Skinner, with its many full-color pictures of my chapbooks/book objects over the years. Big thanks to Jonathan for keeping all these! And writing this! And to rob mclennan for publishing this essay. …Continue Reading “Both, Neither, Between, Many: Jessica Smith’s Works with Paper”
new from above/ground press: Report from the Smith Society. Vol. 1 No. 1
I arrived home from the AWP conference to a box from rob mclennan, publisher at above/ground press. I am used to receiving mail from rob, because I subscribe to his chapbook series, so I didn’t open it immediately, but he seemed to really want me to open it, so I got curious and took the…Continue Reading new from above/ground press: Report from the Smith Society. Vol. 1 No. 1
Upcoming Events, March-April 2023
Literary Studies Lecture SeriesTuscaloosa, AL, Mar. 3, 2023, 3 p.m.Zoom (weblink available by request) or in EB 301In conversation with Johanna Drucker, Distinguished Professor of Information Studies at UCLA, prior to her talk, “Inventing the Alphabet: Technologies of Knowledge Production in the Humanities.” The alphabet emerged almost four millennia ago in the ancient Near East and now…Continue Reading Upcoming Events, March-April 2023