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Poetry Feast For St. Bridgid–Weaving a New Eden
Since 2006, I’ve participated in a “silent poetry reading” for the Feast Day of St. Brigid (or in honor of some more pagan Brigid–at your preference). I’m not aware of any cross-blog activity this...
View ArticleJerry Leath Mills – The Dead Mule Rides Again – Southern Cultures 6:4
Jerry Leath Mills – The Dead Mule Rides Again – Southern Cultures 6:4: “I wish to advance my own modest proposal as a counterbalance and corrective to his argument. My survey of around thirty prominent...
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Poetry, Xtreme Essays, and Procrastination
My computational hours are still taken up with preparations for the classes I’m teaching, but Sherry Chandler has posted a miscellany of wonderful links, which should be visited immediately. Her book,...
View ArticleLuc Sante, Author of Low Life, on the Benefits of Self-Editing | Word Craft –...
Luc Sante, Author of Low Life, on the Benefits of Self-Editing | Word Craft – WSJ.com. It’s a bit like method acting. You choose someone from your life who is reliably opinionated but very different...
View ArticleRobo-readers: the New Teachers’ Helper in the U.S. – sciencenreview
Robo-readers: the New Teachers' Helper in the U.S. – sciencenreview. Poring over thousands of sample essays, he discovered that human graders generally don’t give students extra points for using...
View ArticleFaculty Advisory Council Memorandum on Journal Pricing § THE HARVARD LIBRARY...
The Faculty Advisory Council to the Library, representing university faculty in all schools and in consultation with the Harvard Library leadership, reached this conclusion: major periodical...
View ArticleWendell E. Berry Lecture | National Endowment for the Humanities
My grandfather lived his life in an economic shadow. In an urbanizing and industrializing age, he was the wrong kind of man. In one of his difficult years he plowed a field on the lower part of a long...
View ArticleHow the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit – Yoni Appelbaum...
T. Mills Kelly encourages his students to deceive thousands of people on the Web. This has angered many, but the experiment helps reveal the shifting nature of the truth on the Internet. via How the...
View ArticleThe Republic of Marfa
left. Marfa sits in what seems like ground zero of an ancient impact site—a wide plain with mountain ranges surrounding it at an equidistant remove of about 30 miles. To the west lie the Sierra Vieja,...
View ArticleJoin Cartoonist Lynda Barry for a University-Level Course on Doodling and...
Join Cartoonist Lynda Barry for a University-Level Course on Doodling and Neuroscience | Open Culture.
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