Harvard Lib. Digital Collections

The Harvard Library Digital Collections Site isn't particularly relevant to poetry, but it's interesting--lots of interesting images--digitized images of medieval Books of Hours; Russian theater designs; Tehran propaganda murals; 19th century photos...
http://hcl.harvard.edu/collections/digital_collections/

LABELS

Julie had a good idea: when you post something, LABEL IT (type a simple descriptor in the little box at the bottom of the post window)-- that way we'll have a better-organized concordance of what's in here. So far I've labeled stuff "books," "Harvard Resources," etc.-- but if it doesn't fit in a category someone else made up, you can make up your own. You can cross-list posts easily: just type in more than one label.

Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels

An awesome thing I found today when messing around in the e-research part of the Harvard Library online (you have to log in with your ID number and password): a whole searchable and browse-able collection of underground and independent comics and graphic novels. How are we going to get any sleep while we're here?
http://comx.alexanderstreet.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/

Before We Get Started: A Practical Memoir of the Writer's Life (Brett Lott)

This book was recommended yesterday in class-- something about an essay on the importance of articles (a, the)... here's a link to some of it online from Google.

Blog Ideas

Hey everybody,

This morning at breakfast a few of us were talking about creating a forum in which we could share all these poems and teaching ideas and articles and whatnot that have already come up, in class and in outside conversations. We thought setting up a blog would be a good idea.

So this is it. And I hope it will work as a shared thing-- in other words, we can all log in and create blog posts and edit the blog-- not just comment on posts I make. I don't want necessarily want to be the editor; many of you are more accomplished bloggers. Along those lines: feel FREE to format this blog differently, add gadgets, etc. I just set this up in 10 minutes, and will take NO offense!

So I created a gmail account we can all access. The address is harvardpoetry@gmail.com; the password is the first line of Prufrock, with no caps or punctuation. So any of us can log in to blogger (www.blogger.com) with that username (the gmail address) and that password, and post whatever you want-- a poem, a query, an idea for an outing-- whatever!

Enjoy!