Today's #SummerLit Friday features a poem by Mona Lydon-Rochelle
"Ocean Prayer of Love"
as featured in the Fall 2021 issue of Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality
Read free thru 9 August
In the new Configurations, a deep dive into the the distribution, life history, and phylogeny of a new deep-sea “species,” Plasticus sacculi — a common ocean plastic bag
Read free through 9 August
Yearning for the ocean this week, we discovered in Technology and Culture, Paul Josephson explored the fascinating history of the development of the fish stick — a post-war invention that some of us are still enjoying over lunch
Treat yourself; read "The Ocean's Hot Dog" free on Project MUSE thru 31 July
From ASAP/Journal, Melody Jue watches the 2017 documentary Chasing Coral, finding a film in which both inscription and erasure emerge out of a sea change centering on an extreme ocean warming event
Read free thru 9 August
Still sad about Richard Simmons? Us too, which is why we're reading about his camp performance
Rhonda Garelick's 1995 piece for Postmodern Culture: "Outrageous Dieting: The Camp Performance of Richard Simmons" is free to read thru 31 July
On today's #SummerLit Friday: "Losing a Voice in Summer" — a poem by John Stone from the 1984 edition of Literature and Medicine
Read free through 31 July
How and when will translation receive recognition for its crucial role in the academic ecosystem?
Spanning the Hopkins Press blog & 9 articles in a new special issue of MLN, it's a lively and thoughtful 10-scholar forum, open access for a year thru March 2025