Tiffany and Andrew Bourelle Publish New On-line Resource

Tiffany Bourelle and Andrew Bourelle have published a webtext article in the digital peer-reviewed journal Kairos: Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. The article addresses how to develop a successful multimodal curriculum in a fully online classroom, providing instructors with advice on creating instructional tools.
http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/19.1/praxis/robertson-et-al/index.html

Richard Vargas' Guernica,revisited Reviewed

This review of Guernica,revisited was just published on Cultural Weekly, an ezine out of L.A. if you haven't had a chance to check it out, this gives you an idea. they also featured three poems from the book.

review
http://www.culturalweekly.com/coming-home-guernica-revisited-richard-vargas/

featured poems
http://www.culturalweekly.com/richard-vargas-three-poems/

Tony Hillerman Portal Preview Event in Zimmerman Library

On Friday, June 14th at 5:30 pm University Libraries will host a preview event for the Tony Hillerman Portal ­– ehillerman.unm.edu – in the Willard Room in Zimmerman Library. The demonstration of the portal will be followed by a reception. The event is free and open to all.

 

In 2005, Tony Hillerman donated his manuscripts, papers and notes to Zimmerman Library. It was immediately clear that they represented a treasure trove of unique historical anecdotes and an insightful roadmap into his creative process. Given Tony's stature as an icon of New Mexican culture, combined with the exhaustive nature of his collection of papers, it is clear that there existed an amazing opportunity to make them available for research, education and public enjoyment.

Recent advances in interactive technology offer exciting ways that we can make Tony's papers available electronically. Using hyperlinked text, digital images, audio and video, making his work come alive in ways never before thought possible. Users of this resource will be able to:

• Read Tony's manuscripts online, and view them in his own handwriting
• Learn about Tony's life and career
• View interviews with Tony, and experience New Mexico and the Southwest through his eyes
• See Tony's notes and idea books, and learn how he worked and developed his literary ideas
• Learn about New Mexico life, history and culture

His entire collection will be available to Hillerman enthusiasts, students and scholars world-wide through a unique website. The project goals are to: 

• Digitize Tony's manuscripts, papers, and idea notebooks (digitization alone will ensure the long term preservation of Tony's work)
• Collect and digitize photos, videos and documents about Tony's life and career
• Create electronic links in the digital manuscripts to references Tony made to New Mexico people, events and places.
• Design and build a web portal where internet users can go to view Tony's manuscripts and historical information about his life.

This is the first phase of the three-year project.This project will help further education in the Humanities, provide researchers an extensive new resource with which to investigate Tony Hillerman’s life and works, and help secure his legacy for future generations.

Jonathan Davis Secord has received funding for a Manuscripts lab

Professor Jonathan Davis Secord has received a Teaching Allocation Grant, for a “manuscripts lab,” consisting of a high-powered computer workstation, to facilitate undergraduate and graduate education in the Middle Ages.

Manuscripts are one of the best teaching tools available for medievalists, engaging students in unique ways by providing direct access to real historical materials. Guarded by European libraries, manuscripts are difficult to access physically, but many are now available digitally. The manuscripts lab will provide the computing power necessary to utilize the huge digital images these new resources produce. For years to come, the lab will bring the Middle Ages to life before our students’ eyes.

Tanaya Winder & Cassie Lopez have new Literary Journal

Good Afternoon ABQ English and Writer Fam!

I hope you are well with work, jobs, careers, school, writing, and your own individual happenings. As you may or may not have heard fellow MFA alum Casandra Lopez and I (Tanaya Winder) started a literary journal. As/Us: A Literary Space for Women of the World. I'm starting to outreach to folks to say I'm going to be blasting you on NYE and soon after to help spread the word about our literary journal when it drops like the ball in times square on NYE. I feel like I've been emailing people a lot for different things, fundraisers, etc and not to spamalot (oh wait that's a musical) so I'm just giving you a heads up and hoping you'll help direct people to our site http://asusjournal.org/ when it's up and running with our fabulous and fierce 21 female contributors. I'm hoping we can get 500 "likes" on our page www.facebook.com/As.Us.Journal by Jan 31st and a lot of traffic to our site once we go live NYE.

We have several contributors from the ABQ area and so Cassie and I will be working on trying to set up benefit/fundraising readings in the area during the spring when she is in the area for her residency. If any of you feel like you can help with that process or wouldn't mind reading and bringing your own individual followings as well, let me know. If you can't tell, I'm very excited for the first issue to come out. While we only have a handful of international contributors at this point, I'm hoping with your help with can share more voices of women from different areas in the world in due time.

Thanks for your support and for your own words and all you do. I know you each have your own writing, projects, organizations you support, etc., so if you or a place you support wants to be added to our Links page, let me know and Cassie and I will gladly support and promote you as well. http://asusjournal.org/links/

Nick DePascal Pushcart & Best of the Net Poetry nominations

Nick DePascal has just been nominated by the Emerson Review for a Pushcart Prize for his poem "Entryways." The Pushcart Prize honors the best poetry, fiction, and essays published in small presses each year. The winners' work is collected in an anthology sold in most bookstores and available at most libraries. To find out more about the Pushcart Prize, you could visit http://www.pushcartprize.com/, and to find out more information about The Emerson Review, you could visit http://pages.emerson.edu/organizations/emerson_review/index.html.

Last month, another poem of his was nominated for Sundress Publications' "Best of the Net" anthology. You could find out more about the "Best of the Net" anthology at http://www.sundresspublications.com/bestof/note.htm.

Creative Writing News

Faculty News:

Dan Mueller’s second collection of stories, Nights I Dreamed of Hubert Humphrey, has just been picked up by Outpost 19 Books. Outpost 19 is an independent publisher based in San Francisco and New York. Stay tuned for more updates. Until then, you could check out Outpost 19 at http://www.outpost19.com/

Student News:

Ty Bannerman’s essay “The Exhibition” is a finalist for Midway Journal’s “Monstrosities of the Midway,” and will be published in the October issue of Midway Journal. He has also recently become the Food Editor for the Weekly Alibi.

Mike Smith’s essay “Some Thoughts on LeeAnne” has been accepted for publication in the next issue of The Florida Review. Also, his essay “Start Breaking My Heart” has been accepted by the online journal Eunoia Review.

Nora Hickey’s poem “First Crush: Jane Austen” is forthcoming in the winter issue of Court Green.

Daniel Berger’s poem “Aliens in the Backyard” is forthcoming in the journal NewBorder Anthology: Criticism and Creation from the U.S./Mexico Border (newborder.org).

Alumni News:

Jennifer Simpson (JenniferSimpsonWriter.com)’s accomplishments include:

Publications:
“Mother’s Day Shouldn’t Be About Grief” essay on 40PlusWoman.com (May 12, 2012)
“intervals” poem published in A Year in Ink, Vol. 5 an anthology (2012)
“Mom’s Chicken Divan” essay on StyleSubstanceSoul.com (May 2011)
“Giving Voice to Your Prose” article in LP Creative Humans magazine (March 2010)
“Our House is Like Switzerland” short story published Bartelby Snopes (January 2010)

Readings:
Ongoing/Monthly: Host, Duke City DimeStories Monthly Open Mic for prose, Albuquerque, NM since February 2010
2012 April - L.A. Times Book Festival, Los Angeles, CA (DimeStories Showcase)
2011 September - Church of Beethoven, Albuquerque, NM
2011 February - DimeStories Anniversary Showcase, Albuquerque, NM
2010 December - The Encyclopedia Show (all about Bears), Albuquerque, NM
2010 April - L.A. Times Book Festival, Los Angeles, CA (DimeStories Showcase)

Awards:
2011 A Room Of Her Own Foundation Retreat Participant (partially funded and served as small group workshop leader)
2009 American Welding Society Image of Welding Award (for writing about women welders at: http://www.arc-zone.com/blog/carmenelectrode/category/new-rosies/)

Projects/Community Service/Activities:
- Director, DimeStories International (http://dimestories.org/)
- Founder, The I Write Because Project, Inspired by a writing prompt from Seattle writer Priscilla Long at the Taos Summer Writers Conference, she started this website, a collaborate creative writing project: http://theiwritebecauseproject.wordpress.com/about/
Consider this an open invitation to all UNMers to submit, and spread the word: She’s actively seeking a diversity of voices.
- Judge, New Mexico Press Women Zia Book Award for Non Fiction (2012)
- Bereavement Group Facilitator, Children’s Grief Center of Albuquerque (2009 to present)
- Board Member, University Heights Neighborhood Association (2010 to present)

eWords: Should Writers Have Their Own Domains?

How should a writer go about promoting their work? Read this article about writers on the internet.

eWords: Adam Hochschild

Read a fascinating article (part one of four) by Adam Hochschild on academic versus popular writing.

Read Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch, part 1 at Nieman Storyboard here.

Oliver Broudy Interview

Writers might be interested in this fascinating interview with Oliver Broudy where he discusses his work The Saint and his experience with releasing it as an E-Book through Amazon.

Read the article at the Neiman Storyboard here.

eWords: Adam Gopnik in the New Yorker - The Information

"A series of books explaining why books no longer matter is a paradox that Chesterton would have found implausible, yet there they are, and they come in the typical flavors: the eulogistic, the alarmed, the sober, and the gleeful."

Adam Gopnik writes about books and the information age

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2011/02/14/110214crat_atlarge_gopnik#ixzz1EjGwAcUR

eWords: See Also

See Also is a library weblog written by Steve Lawson, who is the Humanities Liaison Librarian for the Tutt Library at Colorado College. He writes about academic libraries and librarianship, libraries and technology, and similar topics.

His post, "Abolish tenure in the name of academic freedom, " has an unusual solution to the issue of tenure and academic freedom - he suggests a reverse tenure: "New hires have seven years of tenure, starting their first day on the job. Aside from gross negligence, they are untouchable. They can follow their ideas wherever they lead. After seven years, tenure is revoked."

eWords: La Bloga

La Bloga is devoted to promoting and discussing Chicano & Chicano, Latino & Latina authors, novelists, essayists, poetas, children's story authors, teachers, lawyers, y otros. With dozens of contributors and over six years of archives, the blog is a rich resource for researchers and writers alike.

Read the blog here

eWords: Sir Ken Robinson on TED

Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson gave a presentation at a May, 2010 TED conference calling for a revolution in education:



You can learn more about TED here.

eWords posts will crop up now and then with links to blog posts, editorials, online articles etc. that might be of interest to our UNM English community. If you'd like to suggest something for Ewords please send me an email at mlva@unm.edu. 

eWords: Sweet Juniper

A blogger in Detroit has been documenting the city in words and pictures over the last several years. Among his most striking images are what he terms "feral houses." He has posted a new set of photos here, but you might want to check out a few earlier posts as well:

Feral Houses (first post)

Seed Bombs with the Kids of the Georgia Street Neighborhood

I Scrapper (rescuing abandoned books from a school library)

eWords posts will crop up now and then with links to blog posts, editorials, online articles etc. that might be of interest to our UNM English community. If you'd like to suggest something for Ewords please send me an email at mlva@unm.edu.