Busy as Hell
Some weeks, you really don't get much of a chance to breathe. This is one of them. Mind, it's all been worth it, but man ...
Radius is kicking along, nicely. The past few days have seen excellent poems by Antoinette Brim and Daniel McGinn, and all sorts of exciting stuff is waiting in the wings. (Could I be blamed for dropping names? Even if the names were Sharon Doubiago and Willie Perdomo? All right. Fine, then. I won't ... :)
It's a funny beast, Radius. Very much a product of its times. My goal, from the outset, was to apply contemporary tools to the old-fashioned beast that is the literary journal. Deconstruct it, if you will, but it into a context of a world where a goodly number of people want to follow things on their phone or on Twitter. At its core, it's really just a WordPress blog, but that's just a tool. A blog is just a platform for organizing content. You can do all sorts of things with it. For example, over at Telegram.com, I just LiveBlogged the Oscars. It was a silly, frivolous and, dare I say, highly entertaining exercise. The Sports department uses that same tool in an entirely different way, and reporter Shaun Sutner has used it to cover political events in different ways still. Three applications for one nifty tool, and I'm certain more will emerge. More should emerge. I think we've gotten to the point in the intersection of technology and publishing where we no longer have an opportunity to rest long. We need to constantly adapt to out environment, and that environment change so quickly as to leave the complacent lagging behind. "This is not a world of rest," as my friend Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz pointed out so aptly in her TED presentation.
But Radius is, very much, a literary journal, and I'm as serious about that business as I've ever been. Hopefully, if we've done our job correctly, it's voice and point of view will emerge. I'll leave that one up to other people to decide, but so far, I'm happy. In a lot of ways, happier than I was with The November 3rd Club. The work's more constant, but I like where it's going.
So, yes. It's built to be followed in a Google Reader or somesuch, to be followed on Twitter or Facebook. The hope is for it to be very much of the contemporary world, and to not sniff derisively at people who like interacting with the modern world in modern ways. Whatever. The poems are still the poems, and frankly, so far they're pretty damn good.
Radius is kicking along, nicely. The past few days have seen excellent poems by Antoinette Brim and Daniel McGinn, and all sorts of exciting stuff is waiting in the wings. (Could I be blamed for dropping names? Even if the names were Sharon Doubiago and Willie Perdomo? All right. Fine, then. I won't ... :)
It's a funny beast, Radius. Very much a product of its times. My goal, from the outset, was to apply contemporary tools to the old-fashioned beast that is the literary journal. Deconstruct it, if you will, but it into a context of a world where a goodly number of people want to follow things on their phone or on Twitter. At its core, it's really just a WordPress blog, but that's just a tool. A blog is just a platform for organizing content. You can do all sorts of things with it. For example, over at Telegram.com, I just LiveBlogged the Oscars. It was a silly, frivolous and, dare I say, highly entertaining exercise. The Sports department uses that same tool in an entirely different way, and reporter Shaun Sutner has used it to cover political events in different ways still. Three applications for one nifty tool, and I'm certain more will emerge. More should emerge. I think we've gotten to the point in the intersection of technology and publishing where we no longer have an opportunity to rest long. We need to constantly adapt to out environment, and that environment change so quickly as to leave the complacent lagging behind. "This is not a world of rest," as my friend Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz pointed out so aptly in her TED presentation.
But Radius is, very much, a literary journal, and I'm as serious about that business as I've ever been. Hopefully, if we've done our job correctly, it's voice and point of view will emerge. I'll leave that one up to other people to decide, but so far, I'm happy. In a lot of ways, happier than I was with The November 3rd Club. The work's more constant, but I like where it's going.
So, yes. It's built to be followed in a Google Reader or somesuch, to be followed on Twitter or Facebook. The hope is for it to be very much of the contemporary world, and to not sniff derisively at people who like interacting with the modern world in modern ways. Whatever. The poems are still the poems, and frankly, so far they're pretty damn good.
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