In the wake of Alan posting his text from his live writing performance on Thursday here I wanted to acknowledge the generosity of his presence and presentations here in Oxford this past week. He was very much available to both faculty and students, he gave three presentations (one off-campus, one to a class and one to a theatre audience). In addition his visit coincided with the launch of a new student magazine here Megaphone Piggy, a standing-room only reading of some seriously interesting new work at which his presence was very much appreciated, and he produced a broadside for campus-wide circulation as part of the recently inaugurated and now already in its fifth issue Putitupor broadside publication series.
All power to Alan for being open about his work(s), his procedures, his key concerns. The timing was great, coming as it it did in the wake of a similar visit by Katherine Hayles and amidst a flourishing of promising writing and new media interest not just in the English Department but more generally abroad in the interdisciplinary discussions to which writing is now so critically central. Those wishing to get a further sense of events and developments at Miami will be glad to know that his visit will be further evidenced on the Meshworks site in weeks to come. love and love cris w/ apologies for cross-posting
