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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

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

Register here to attend the conference, which is completely virtual…Continue Reading Becoming MPCA/ACA: The Virtual Graduate Student Mini Conference

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 Smith​Get out of your head and onto the page! Suitable for beginning writers or experienced…Continue Reading Conversations & Connections: Practical Advice on Writing

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”

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

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