May 20, 2009 • 11:08 am 0
(This post has very little to do with my research, but I just wanted to make it.)
Luke Kennard. Emily Berry. Ellen Kennedy. Joe Dunthorne. Chris East.
I’m still trying to understand what I like about poetry. This is sort of an attempt to represent what I like just now, to put them together to see if they make sense or contradict or just are.
Be gentle with me.
Here are some examples of their work:
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May 15, 2009 • 3:56 pm 0
I just finished marking 55 portfolios for the first-year undergrad. English Lit. class I taught this year.
That’s 55 x 3 essays. That’s 165 essays. In < a week.
Most of the portfolios were good, showing the students had understood the course and have done well for their first year. (There was a lot of repetition between portfolios, obviously, but there you go.) Some of them were rushed and poor quality. One portfolio was absolutely outstanding.
I plan to talk a bit more about my teaching experiences at some point, but for today, I’m just going to take the cheap route and post some of the most knuckle-biting prose I came across this week.
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May 3, 2009 • 10:58 am 0
Links of note this week!
Themes: design, the archive, magazines, innovation.
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May 1, 2009 • 11:00 am 1
More academic ephemera; conferences and journals to submit to.
15 May 2009: Future conference in Dundee, takes place 17 June; seems like a sharp turnaround, but I’m in Scotland then anyway. Abstract is going to be on McSweeney’s and past as prophecy.
15 May 2009: Exploding Objects, Goldsmiths; sociology conference, but come on! McSweeney’s and the exploded object? This writes itself.
30 May 2009: Literary Journalism Studies collection; article on McSweeney’s 1 and literary culture/institutions of autumn 1998, focused through analysis of New York Times Magazine.
15 June 2009: Consuming Cultures collection; few options for this, thinking about paper on McSweeney’s 10 (Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales) and its dissemination, anthologies and short story cycles, meaning through commercial composition.
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