Readings for Tuesday, Oct 27

Next week we'll be focusing on issues of culture, the literary canon and diversity. Here are links to the articles.

Krupat, Arnold. “The Concept of Cannon.” The Voice in the Margin: Native American Literature and the Canon. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft2g5004sk/

McLaughlin, Robert L. “Oppositional Aesthetics/Oppositional Ideologies: A Brief Cultural History of Alternative Publishing in the U.S.” (link online)

Bernstein, Charles. “The Value of Sulfur.” Jacket 5 (1998).

Juliana Spahr & Stephanie Young. "Numbers Trouble." Chicago Review 53:2/3 (Autumn 2007).


Note: Thank you to Dr. Philip Heldrich at the University of Washington. Several of these articles were culled from his course: "Editing a Literary Arts Magazine."

About Publishing: Basic Overview of Lit Mags

For next week: an article from the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses:

"About Independent Literary Publishing: What Is an Independent Literary Magazine"

See you all later today.

Resources

Look to your right for links to organizations like LitLine and Poets & Writers. Take a minute to check out their lists/databases of literary magazines and independent presses.