Conference Talk Notes: Turning Digital Natives Into Digital Citizens
Note: I’m going to be talking tomorrow morning (with my friend Amy Hauber from SLU’s Art Department) about our use of blogs and other electronic media in the classroom and with our students. I’m going to use this post to sketch out the main ideas I want to discuss. My hope is that I will [...]
Regular Blogging Will Resume . . .
. . . sometime, before long. It’s been a busy fall so far. Lots to do at school and we’ve had some work done on the huse, with guys tramping in and out with large porcelain fixtures and flooring, all to the accompaniment of barking terriers. Not conducive to calm reflection. More anon.
National Banned Book Week
The last week in September in the US is designated National Banned Book Week by the National Library Association. It ought to be every writer’s ambition to write a book considered subversive enough to be banned. This week the Word A Day folks are devoting their space to words having to do with censorship.
More on banned [...]
Housekeeping
As the first step in a bit of blog remodeling, I have moved the list of links (blogroll) to its own page, a link to which can be found along the top of the page or in the right sidebar. A few other elements are due for simplification over the next couple of weeks, with [...]
Balloon Girl
There are lots of bicycle-based businesses in Vietnam. In the late afternoon on days when there is mass at St. Joseph’s Cathedral, balloon sellers station themselves around the square so that after mass mothers and fathers can buy a toy for their kids. I snapped this picture on a street leading toward the cathedral.
I’m working [...]
Weather Report
Gardening: We’ve been having alternating days of sun and rain, which has been good for the stuff growing in the yard — both the stuff we want growing there and the stuff we don’t — but I’ve been finding the cool rainy weather a little depressing as I begin to recover from the Upper Respiratory [...]
Twenty Books: How’s that for Hybrid?
Ron Silliman has been doing top-twenty lists, like this one from Javier Huerta of “top twenty books that made you fall in love with poetry.” Here is my list. I’ve intentionally limited myself to books from the first twenty years or so of my writing life. Maybe I’ll do the latter-day books in a subsequent [...]
Twanging the Plumbline
As noted in a couple of previous posts, I have been participating in a discussion of poetics initiated by Henry Gould at a new blog, The Plumbline School, cross-posting a few of my comments here as well when they seemed detachable from their Plumbline context. There are, at last count, four participants in the project, [...]
Peter Rennick has a New Blog
Frequent Sharp Sand commenter Peter Rennick has a new blog that looks to be composed entirely of his wonderful brief poems — the sort he posts here in comments. Given Peter’s sensibility, it’s lovely that he debuts Valentine’s Day. Make a note.
Sabbatical: Day 1
I guess I could have begun counting from the final day of classes last semester, but today is the first day I would have gone into the classroom had I been teaching, so this feels like the first official day of my sabbatical. Have I said that I am wildly grateful for such a luxury? [...]
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