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awp III
I ended up skipping the two main things that I had planned to do during the AWP conference: namely, last night's Lorrie Moore reading and Friday night's Bridge / ACM party. Instead both nights, craving something more intimate, I went to AWP-related Discrete Series readings, at the Elastic Revolution space, which is right in my neighborhood.
These events were "headlined" by well-established poets (Maxine Chernoff, Cole Swensen, Pierre Jouris, and Paul Hoover) but I also enjoyed listening to the younger "opening acts," whose work I had not been familiar with previously.
Here are a few of them, and some samples of their work:
Chuck Stebelton (in Shampoo, in Diagram)
Kaia Sand (Five poems on the D.C. Poetry site)
Dan Machlin (Seven poems on the St. Mark's Poetry Project site)
Ray Bianchi (who runs a blog and The Chicago Postmodern Poetry Calendar)
Related: the two folks who run the Discrete Series, Kerri Sonnenberg and Jesse Seldess, each edit experimental journals: they are (repsectively) Conundrum and Antennae, which appears to have no web presence.
Tomorrow I get back to my real life, such as it is.
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Sunday, March 28, 2004
9:24 PM
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ripple effect
The state of Illinois is suffering a budget shortfall this year.
As a result, the new state budget (to be voted on in June, if I recall correctly) contains serious cuts to higher education.
In response to these cuts, the English Department at the University of Illinois was, well, let's say strongly encouraged to cut a bunch of lecturers. About half of them (twenty-five or so) went. I've stayed on, although many people who I like and respect will not be returning.
This upcoming fall, UIC will have a record number of incoming freshmen. The lecturers traditionally teach a huge percentage of the University's freshman composition courses. (By my conservative calculations, those twenty-five lecturers were responsible for the education of about 1,500 students per semester.)
To cover for the lack of lecturers, UIC has had to cancel various classes and programs, eroding the undergraduate experience significantly. This article, from the UIC school paper, deals with some of the particulars. (A Chicago Tribune article is allegedly in the works.)
I anticipate a scene of grim chaos in the fall. Labels: academia, teaching |
Wednesday, April 24, 2002
2:25 PM
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waiting
Have I mentioned recently that my job is at risk? I'm an adjunct lecturer at UIC, and because of state budget shortfalls, UIC is cutting about half of us. Notices are supposed to be going into people's mailboxes today, so—cliffhanger! Tune in tomorrow to find out what happens.
Until then, here's a website documenting one guy's series of invented instruments. Labels: academia, personal, teaching |
Wednesday, April 17, 2002
3:44 PM
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conferences
I really should consider going to this conference on New Media Poetry this fall in Iowa City.
There are often conferences that I'd like to attend, but can't, because of the expense involved in travelling halfway across the country. The most recent one I missed was the Electronic Literature Organization's State of the Art Symposium, out in LA, where I in fact presented work even though I wasn't there.
But Iowa City is closer, just a few hours away by car. Of course, there's still the expense of renting a car for a few days, which is probably about the same as the cost of airline tickets... Labels: academia, electronic_literature |
Monday, April 15, 2002
10:46 AM
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