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Enhanced ebooks

April 11, 2011 by Erica Mena

Apparently, the near-simultaneous birth and death of enhanced ebooks is being heralded by some at the London Book Fair (which I am not at, so all of this is reflecting on articles written on the talks there, not first-hand experience). At The Digital Reader the managing director of Bloomsbury is quoted as having said: “Enhanced will have an incredibly big future in education, but the idea of innovation in the narrative reading process is just a non-starter, I’ve been smug […]

Categories: Publishing • Tags: 21st century publishing, ebooks, enhanced ebook, innovation, new media, publishing

To publish: print or online?

April 7, 2011 by Erica Mena

This came up in my post about the 21st century publishing conference I attended a few weeks ago, and about Rebecca Frank Morgan’s comments about the ecosystem of literary publishing. But I think it’s worth further thought. Is there a real benefit to publishing in print rather than online? It used to be, back in the early days of the galactic interwebs, that online literary publishing was stigmatized. I know, how could that be? Aren’t artists, especially writers, supposed to […]

Categories: Publishing • Tags: 21st century publishing, elit, eliterature, experimental poetry, independent publishing, literary journals, new media, online publishing, publishing

21st Century Publishing

March 29, 2011 by Erica Mena

A few weeks I went to a conference on 21st century publishing held at Emerson College and sponsored by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. When I received the announcement I was impressed and excited, the subject was Business Models for 21st Century Publishing and this is something, with the launch of my new press, I’d been giving a lot of thought to. The day itself started ominously enough when the managing editor of Ploughshares asked if there was a hashtag for […]

Categories: Publishing • Tags: 21st century publishing, Agni, Anomalous, Bateau Press, Emerson, hilobrow, independent publishing, Memorious, net neutrality, new media, Ploughshares, publishing, Weightless Books

E-lit, digital poetry, new media frenzy

March 23, 2011 by Erica Mena

As part of my re-entry into indie publishing this past Ides of March with the launch of Anomalous Press, I’ve been incorporating as much new media and hybrid literary arts as I can into my vision. But it’s something that I know only a little about. Well, today I feel like I got a crash course thanks to finding out about the 10th anniversary of the E-Poetry Festival this year on Harriet. The festival looks interesting, and I’m especially intrigued […]

Categories: Poetry • Tags: 21st century publishing, digital poetry, electronic literature, future of the book, new media, poetry

Anomalous Press

March 15, 2011 by Erica Mena

After weeks of not sleeping, or eating, or really doing much of anything other than this, it’s finally here and ready and shiny and new. Anomalous Press, my new literary journal, launched this morning! What do Nancy Reagan and Mr. T have in common? How about Venantius Fortunatus and Sarah Jessica Parker? The answer to these burning questions, and more, at Anomalous Press. It’s pretty awesome. My husband and I built the site from scratch (despite being sorely tempted to […]

Categories: Publishing • Tags: 21st century publishing, Anomalous Press, audio literature, fiction, hybrid literature, multi-modal, new media, nonfiction, poetry, translation

This is not a translation, or the homophonic fear

December 7, 2010 by Erica Mena

Remember, this is not a translation. So reads the ‘disclaimer’ on a number of phonetically translated music videos, part of a meme explained pretty well here at KnowYourMeme.com. These videos, which subtitle a non-English music video with English lyrics based on the sounds of the words, engage in the experimental literary practice homophonic translation, which translates a text based on sound relationships rather than meaning relationships, mapping a text by sound into a new language. Zukofsky’s Catullus is the oft-cited […]

Categories: Translation • Tags: exchanges, experimental translation, homophonic translation, meme, new media, phonetic translation, Silliman, translation, Zukofsky

Poets Take the Twenty-First Century

February 17, 2010 by Erica Mena

I’m right now sitting in a cafe in Iowa City reading. There’s not much unusual about this situation. But I’ve finally managed to prioritize reading The Poetry Foundation’s recently released Poetry and New Media User’s Guide. The lovely 74-page pdf is split into two sections: Legal Issues and The Lifeline of Poetry. My husband, a new media and technology educator in Cambridge, MA, is sitting beside me (an unusual situation) reading the first section. I’m focusing on the second. What’s […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: new media, Poetry Foundation, translation

Erica Mena

Poet | Book Artist | Translator

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