... life. The emergence of social media poetics — and, specifically, what I term digital realism — demonstrates the use of the confessional mode in social media. Digital realism gives name to a process of literary production that obscures the lines between life and writing. In this essay, I explore how...

... of familiarity that Kazim Ali observes in a 2017 piece developing his focus on social media poetics, On Insta- fame and Reading Rupi Kaur. Ali again identifies a poetics of the telegraphic and immediate and contextualizes this in relation to best- selling poet Rupi Kaur s practice and popularity. Author...

.... 2–3 : 389 – 98 . McGann Jerome . 1988 . Social Values and Poetics Acts: The Historical Judgement of Literary Work . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Mullen Harryette . 1995 . Muse and Drudge . Philadelphia, PA : Singing Horse Press . Mullen Harryette...

... of living there. It is utterly appropriate that “Howl” would become the symbol for a festival that encapsulates the difficulty of resistance in a media- saturated commodity culture, the defining dilemma of Ginsberg’s work and life. In his poetry and politics Ginsberg...

...? ” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 369 ( 1938 ): 835 – 41 . Zapf Hubert . 2010 . “ Ecocriticism, Cultural Ecology, and Literary Studies .” Ecozona 1 ( 1 ): 136 – 47 . Gabriele Dürbeck Ambivalent Characters and Fragmented Poetics in Anthropocene Literature...

... Booth, Scholes, and Miller all insisted that close reading precede ethical critique, they foolishly retained a mandatory formalistic phase for all critical inquiry, keeping the literary text as a privileged aesthetic object on the way to broadened social concerns. They got...

... Vicuña’s poetic practice of using etymology and philology in the 1984 work Palabrarmás in order to show how tempo and temporality are related to the precariousness of lived life as a social arrangement that is itself organized by the engagement of sense in the coupling and differenti- ating...

.... They currently serve as the editor-at-large for Vil- lage of Crickets and the social media coordinator for Oyster River Pages. Their first full-length collection, Our Lady of Perpetual Degeneracy, is forthcoming. Maggie Rue Hess is a high school English teacher in San Antonio, Texas. Her poetry has appeared...

...-length collection, Alexandria, will be published by Carnegie Mellon Press in 2011. Mary Biddinger is the author of Prairie Fever (Steel Toe Books, 2007) and Saint Monica (Black Lawrence Press, 2011) and coeditor of The Monkey and the Wrench: Essays into Contemporary Poetics (U of Akron P...

... in Northwest Portland where he lives with his longtime partner Karen Hensley, a social worker and his primary editor. Partridge Boswell, singer/lyricist of the musical group The Cows, produces live music, theater, dance and spoken word performances as director of Lebanon Opera House in Lebanon...

... and the new media that disseminate it. In the process, this interview reveals how mimēsis functions as a protean concept, or mime, that under different conceptual masks is constantly at play in Miller’s dialogic relation with criticism and theory, old and new. Staging a dialogue, Miller and Lawtoo join forces...

... Magazine, and Drunken Boat, and he is the author of two collections, Too Bad It’s Poetry (2007) and Social Studies (2010). He is the managing editor of Quiddity, housed at Benedictine University in Springfield, Illinois. Sara Watson’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in PANK, The Southern...

... in Ecological Marxism . New York : Guilford . Simpson David . 2009 . Wordsworth, Commodification, and Social Concern: The Poetics of Modernity . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Spitzer Leo . 1942 . “ Milieu and Ambience: An Essay in Historical Semantics .” Philosophy...

... doctoral dissertation, Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End. Published by the University of Chicago Press in 1968, it won both the Christian Gauss Award and the Explicator Award and brought Smith’s work wide attention. From 1973 to 1987 Smith taught at the University of Pennsylva- nia...

... dynamic, and the borders between disciplines subject to blurring or shifting. In my field, literary studies, scholars and critics have frequently referred to authors and texts designated as philosophy, history, linguistics, psychology, social theory, media studies, and so on and on; that was easily enough...

... the abandon- ment of an ascendant, hilltop view in contemporary lyric; Prathna Lor plumbs the “low poetics,” or informal asides, of social media expres- sion; Morgan Adamson locates smoldering energies in the ashes of incinerated student loan debts; Christa Noel Robbins follows an artis- tic procession...

... of the computa- tional sciences. As just one example, consider the recently established Peer 2 Peer University, begun in September 2009 by the former executive director of Creative Commons. A grassroots educational initiative that uses the tools and techniques of social and participatory media...

... Agents .” In Theory of Poetic Form: Proceedings of the International Comparative Literature Assn. X Congress , edited by Guillén Claudio , 227 – 32 . New York : Garland . Suvin Darko . 1988a . “ Can People Be (Re)Presented in Fiction? Toward a Theory of Narrative Agents...

..., that Engle would establish himself. And Engle’s vision was less poetic than it was bureaucratic. Bureaucrats tend to play minor roles in cultural history. One reason for the critical neglect of Engle has been captured by James English, in The Economy of Prestige, who notes...

..., and the importance of periodization, Jameson describes his ongoing project: a grouping of books called “The Poetics of Social Forms.” This series actually culminates with his previous books Postmodernism and A Singular Modernity , and, as Jameson moves backward in time, will be preceded with three new volumes...