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Poetry-Making As Healing, Callan Latham
Poetry-Making As Healing, Callan Latham
Proceedings from the Document Academy
Many of us are taught to believe that poetry is restricted to a narrower existence than it truly is. Many people don’t enjoy poetry, or say they don’t understand it—but luckily, poetry, for a while now, is becoming more accessible as an art form. In this work, I seek to further this accessibility by connecting writing poetry with building a house.
(Un)Documented, A Narrative Of M— In Letters To/From Us Institutions, Randy Gonzales
(Un)Documented, A Narrative Of M— In Letters To/From Us Institutions, Randy Gonzales
Proceedings from the Document Academy
Government documents like military and civil service personnel files are excellent sources of information for life writers, but the prioritization of information obscures features of the source document, often stripping genre, style, tone, and voice from content. This composition seeks to tell a compelling story, while maintaining features of the documents in the military and civil service files of M—, a Filipino immigrant who joined the US Navy in 1908. The source documents, mostly letters, are selected, edited, condensed, and annotated to tell a story about migration, labor, and citizenship. The documents highlight the relationship between record keeping and human …
The Notebook, Pamela V. Flores-Lowry
The Notebook, Pamela V. Flores-Lowry
Proceedings from the Document Academy
"The Notebook" explores the feelings of a young adult who finds, without looking, her lover's journal. This situation triggers a set of questions about past relationships and privacy at an age where privacy is almost non-existent because of the use of social media.
Telos Haunts Billboards, Colin Post
Telos Haunts Billboards, Colin Post
Proceedings from the Document Academy
This piece is an excerpt from an ongoing hypertext poem, akhilleus, which chronicles the activities of a network of characters interacting with the built world via text. This particular piece follows Telos, a seer of ends, as they appear before a billboard. Telos contemplates billboards as a kind of document, a succession of information planes along the roadway, echoing into and past each other, and also shares a premonition of the end of billboards.
Paper Disc Record: A Consumption-Based Account Of Musical Identity, David Prescott-Steed
Paper Disc Record: A Consumption-Based Account Of Musical Identity, David Prescott-Steed
Proceedings from the Document Academy
Since 1991, I have been keeping a pen and paper list of my CD's, added to with each new purchase. With the increasing availability of digital media, not everything that I now listen to comes from a disc. Nevertheless, I have never bought digital music downloads, and so every new album purchase is a physical product with the band name and release title still added to the list. I keep it rolled up in a desk draw (the first composition-pages of which are yellowing nicely). The list comprises approximately 280 entries. Each entry until March 5, 2006 is numbered, by …
Editorial, Tim Gorichanaz
Editorial, Tim Gorichanaz
Proceedings from the Document Academy
In response to the changing landscape of academic publishing, this special issue called for poetic engagements with questions of scholarly interest. In putting together this issue, we sought to showcase without evisceration the complex roles that documents play in human life.