editor's
commentary:
NEWARK
REVIEW Vol.
2, set 3 is the third collection of work produced under the title NEWARK
REVIEW in the past year. set 3 features poetry,
prose, and visual artwork. The online version contains three
WWW hypertext pieces: Norbert Elliot’s An
Elegy for Megan Kanka, Gina Hertel’s Netpoem,
and George Taylor’s there
really is no title. I am indebted to these authors for taking
time and exercising the patience to carefully prepare such intricate work.
Though completely different in design and style, each of these pieces indicates
a strong application of the form at large. Elliot’s piece, a heavily
researched, extensively linked academic essay, fluidly contains poetry
and artful photographs as well as his scholarship. In Hertel’s poem,
content & theory merge: every word is linked to an exterior WWW
site. Taylor's unclassifiable (epigrammatic?) piece combines theory
research and other types of creative expression.
It is an honor to present
all of the materials here. Hopefully you will be equally inspired
and/or intrigued by them. Most of these authors I’ve encountered
in the past year or so, mainly through the Internet or by word-of-mouth.
Several contributors, however, are very old friends whose work I have published
for more than a decade, before any of us had computers. How much
things have changed in the process of creating a magazine!
One late evening at NJIT scanning the artwork of Ben
Polsky and Holli Schorno (whose image is on the "cover"), close friends I
knew in California ('80s) who
also landed in Newark, all struck by a fluorescently strong sense of Who
would’ve thought? I still am. Surely some elements of what
keeps us active all these years remain the same: challenges and charged
motivations to present to all "our" kinds of expression.
This publication is made
possible by the generosity of New Jersey
Institute of Technology’s Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. Thanks to everyone who has been in contact with us.
If you wish to submit work,
please do so:
NEWARK
REVIEW
department
of humanities and social sciences
NEW JERSEY
INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
newark,
new jersey 07102
newrev@megahertz.njit.edu
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