Dear Writing Materialists, I have been thinking a lot about this word encounter. It is a meeting, a meeting potentially with tension or conflict, but I choose a more positive notion of the term. It is, as the OED has defined, … Continue reading →

This past week several of us piled into two cars and headed over to the 4Cs conference. It was such an interesting confluence of networks for me. I saw old colleagues and friends from all three of my former institutions as … Continue reading →

As usual, I turn to the OED for a definition/title of my blog post — and while I could have selected the verb of “file” we’re discussing this week, “to place documents on a file” (on? interesting, OED…), I realized … Continue reading →

I, like others, made use of the easy TwitterBot generator Zach Walen’s instructions, but it took me an exceptionally long time to decide on a subject that seemed pertinent. I knew I wanted to create something that would be revealing about … Continue reading →

As perhaps only the women in this class may be aware, the women’s bathroom on the third floor of the Cathedral of Learning has a stall filled with Harry Potter graffiti, and/or (I’ll argue later) marginalia — so, mixed genre … Continue reading →

I constructed my fonts with a handwriting-to-font app (InstaFONTmaker) on my Samsung Note 2014 edition 10.1″ tablet (basically it’s the same principle as MyScriptFont.com but without the scanning step). The idea is that my tablet’s stylus, specifically designed and optimized … Continue reading →

“[I]f publishers don’t seem to fit into the other-than-codex world of job printing, neither exactly do readers. Who ever really reads receipts, bills, tickets, bonds, or certificates? …Notably, whatever reading is entailed by genres like bills of lading and stock … Continue reading →

I was really stuck on what to do this week without replicating prior poetic projects I’ve done in different contexts (book manipulation, book making, etc.), but then it came to me… literally. In the mail. My materials are self-evident: West … Continue reading →

“Inscription is a form of intervention…” ~ Gitelman I borrowed the tea (in my case coffee) ring idea from the poet Susan Tichy, whose tea poems (visual poems with tea rings) chronicled her morning tea drinking. The ephemera of it. … Continue reading →

I write in stages. Each stage has a different set of materials and takes place in a slightly different orientation of the materials within my space, or takes place within a difference space entirely. These stages do not necessarily occur … Continue reading →