There are now a number of accounts (plus comments upon accounts) of the Zukfosky 100 conference on the web. For detailed & accurate reporting, I seriously recommend Josh Corey. More oblique in their relationship to the event itself are Steve Vincent’s notes. Not particularly related to the conference, tho you might think it was, is the little flame war that has grown up in viral mode among the comments to my Tuesday, September 21st blognote.
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Not quite a blog, but in parallel mode is 1-Year Plan, a web project initiated this month by Barrett Watten. He states his intentions as follows:
I have been planning over the past year to develop a writing project that would take place in time, on a regular basis, and that would publish its findings on the internet. The writing would be a record of the time in which it was written, and would act on and change that time—if only as a matter of understanding. The writing would hope to change itself, as writing, within the time it was written. I wanted to specify a duration for the writing of one year, and a frequency of roughly one text per week. If all goes well, at the end of the year there will be an index of about fifty texts, with commentary and links.
Given that Watten has the best critical mind of my generation, you know this is going to be quite a ride. I’ve added it to the blogroll even if it isn’t quite a blog.
Even further afield is Lanny Quarles’ new Boppo Blog, literally named for the term coined by my mother – when she was a toddler – for potholders. My mother will be appalled.
If she still had her eyesight, tho, she would think that first boppo looked very cool.
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I’m going to be in Scottsdale, Arizona, for a few days. I may blog while I’m there, but then again I may not.
