Archive - Memory Work

On April 1, I started IMLS Matters, as a place for community members affected by the attack on IMLS to share stories of how IMLS matters to them.

Jun 17 •

February 2025

An Emergence from Winter or Summer may be upon us

It is a bit of nail-biter writing anything about AI with a longish publication timeline.

Feb 3 •

December 2024

From the Archive: Conditions of Possibility

I’ve entered a cool part of my career where things I really care about are experiencing more and more uptake (recently, Authors Alliance and…

Dec 16, 2024 •

poetry dispatch: exiting a holiday

The world is made of pictures of the world, And the pictures change the world into another world Howard Nemerov, Witnessing the Launch of the Shuttle…

Dec 1, 2024 •

November 2024

From the Archive: Grant Writing 101

As the year comes to a close we reflect on the memory work we’ve done to this point and the memory work we want to do in the future.

Nov 25, 2024 •

Memory of the Week - Danna C. Bell

Around 2009, I began my career in memory work.

Nov 24, 2024 •

Memory of the Week - Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge

Last week I visited Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, an oasis so named for the velvet ash trees that congregate like sentinels around fossil waters…

Nov 17, 2024 •

Memory of the Week - Helsinki, Fujiwara, Identity

Not so long ago, I needed an escape.

Nov 8, 2024 •

Launching Memory Work

I’m writing to you from a world you’ll have a hard time imagining, to a world I can’t picture no matter how hard I try.

Nov 6, 2024 •

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