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This fall, MAP undertook a major project to upgrade our Exhibits section. Our exhibits section has been under development since MAP came online in 1998, but it wasn't until this fall that we had the resources to undertake the degree of expansiveness that we felt each genre deserved. Now, our 21 exhibits are really the crown jewels of Museum of American Poetics research, especially our International and Diversity Exhibits. For those of you interested in MAP and our curating, individual author links are determined after comparative analysis of dedicated pages found across the web. We often link to Wikipedia author pages because they often provide the most current information on authors (and don't vanish, change urls, etc. every 6 months), but our preference is to link to author home pages when available. We do look at traditional web poetry sources, including Academy of American Poets, Electronic Poetry Center, Modern American Poetry and the Poetry Foundation in making our link decisions. We weigh depth and currency of information provided and availability of active links in determining which author web page we use to showcase an artist. As part of our renovation, we have also organized our exhibit listings. In most cases, reorganization means we alphabeticalized each exhibit's content. –– Jim Cohn (11/17/10) |
