Bert Fuller
BERT FULLER {[email protected]} is a PhD student in medieval studies with the University of Toronto, specializing in poetics and manuscript culture. Living now in Vineyard, Utah, he is also a licensed realtor with Clyde Group Real Estate, which sponsors monthly events at Writ & Vision in Provo.
Resisting Interpretation | Lisa Bickmore, Ephemerist
Articles/Essays – Volume 51, No. 1
Ephemerist, n.: (1) after the Greek word for day, a journal keeper; (2) a collector of ephemera (see archivist); (3) an inventor of ephemera (see capitalist); (4) a devotee of ephemera (see nudist); (5) one who privileges ephemera (see nepotist); (6) a scientist whose subject is ephemera (see mycologist).
What follows is a lecture on three samples from a known ephemerist.
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Articles/Essays – Volume 50, No. 4
Over the last few decades, universities have become the home of contemporary poetry in the United States, where nearly every major poet is also an academic. Poets, like other professors, teach classes, publish in tiered journals, sit on committees, undergo tenure review, secure grants, win prizes, attend conferences, and oversee graduate students. The result is that poetry, whatever else may be said of it, is a recognized industry of intellectual activity within university culture. It constitutes an academic discourse not unlike history or sociology.
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