Steel Wagstaff

Trying to do good things for good reasons

Tag: publishing

  • Core Principles for an eText Authoring Tool

    Core Principles for an eText Authoring Tool

    eText Authoring at UW-Madison About a year ago, I began thinking seriously about an eText authoring platform that could be used to write and publish openly-licensed texts. I work at a large research university in the American midwest, which means that a large percentage of my colleagues are engaged directly in both high-level academic research…

  • Expressing Gratitude

    Expressing Gratitude

    In 1934, when George Oppen was 26 years old, he published Discrete Series, a volume of his poetry. It included a preface from Ezra Pound, then living in Rapallo, Italy, which ended with these lines: “I salute a serious craftsman, a sensibility which is not every man’s sensibility and which has not been got out of any…