Tag Archives: literary

Programming languages and science fiction!

Posted on February 3, 2009 by Liz Henry

Cat Valente, Tiptree-winning author of The Orphan’s Tales, wrote up a brilliant comparison of programming languages to literary genres. She covers a lot of ground here as a cultural and critic, and she’s witty as hell. If the bits I’m … Continue reading →

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Feminist research and anthologizing

Posted on November 11, 2008 by Liz Henry

Here’s the introduction to my anthology of some poems by women from Latin America, translated from Spanish to English. It explains my research methodology and the theories I developed while reading and translating. * Introduction to Towards an Anthology of … Continue reading →

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María Eugenia Vaz Ferreira: Las ondines

Posted on September 13, 2008 by Liz Henry

I promised a poem or translation this week, to balance out the political posts. Here’s a couple of my translations of poems by Uruguayan poet María Eugenia Vaz Ferreira. They were published posthumously in 1924, though I am fairly sure … Continue reading →

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K’vetsh in August

Posted on August 9, 2007 by Liz Henry

I do love this literary reading and tonight is a big crowd for Heathen and Zara Thustra, so I might as well blog it. Also, my leg hurts a lot tonight but I don’t want to go home yet, so … Continue reading →

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Wiscon panels coming up, and some commentary on a game

Posted on April 26, 2007 by Liz Henry

Here’s my panels for Wiscon! I can’t wait! Last year’s flirting panel was a blast and at this year’s followup I’m hoping to make a cool handout. Debbie says if I email her the stuff she’ll make the handout, because … Continue reading →

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Very cool literary reading: Nalo Hopkinson, Jewelle Gomez, Marta

Posted on March 1, 2007 by Liz Henry

This is going to be an amazing reading. I hope to see lots of you there! I will probably be late, unfortunately, but will be there and then be at the afterparty at Debbie Notkin’s house. Octavia E. Butler Memorial … Continue reading →

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Paying attention as an art form

Posted on February 7, 2007 by Liz Henry

In thinking about the ways that value is created (including literary value, or imaginary ideas like money) I arrived at some thoughts about the ways people pay attention to each other on the Internet. If you want to pay attention … Continue reading →

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Liveblogging from "She’s Such a Geek" reading

Posted on February 1, 2007 by Liz Henry

I’m at Modern Times bookstore on Valencia in San Francisco & we’re all being extremely geeky. Passing around this strange blobby white musical toy with spikey shapes… Giggling about the perils of installing LaTeX

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Gender and genre in blogs

Posted on December 21, 2006 by Liz Henry

In her paper on Gender and genre variation in weblogs Susan Herring and her team hypothesized differences between male- and female-authored blogs. I haven’t read the paper closely enough to get the detail, but the gist of it is they … Continue reading →

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Writers With Drinks report, Saturday Dec. 9

Posted on December 11, 2006 by Liz Henry

Writers With Drinks, at the Makeout Room in San Francisco, was fabulous again. Indigo Moor, a poet from Sacramento, read first. He was a dynamic and clear speaker, funny, warm, with a lot of stage presence, and I enjoyed his … Continue reading →

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