Contributors to this project\nincluded a partnership between the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship and the\nRaymond Danowski Poetry Library at Emory University. Listed on the project\u2019s\nwebsite are technical lead Rebecca Sutton Koeser and researcher Aaron Goldsman.\nRumor has it there was also a digital researcher Brian Croxall and his team on\nthe project for a portion of the time, although organizational problems caused\nsome team members to leave the project before it was completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The purpose of Networking the New\nAmerican Poetry research was to test the taxonomy of Allen\u2019s postwar schools of\npoetry, outlined in his anthology The New American Poetry, 1945-1960<\/em> and\nhow they actually fit into the publishing community of the time period. Mainly,\nthey wanted to examine if the networks of publishing, editorial work, and\ncollaboration enumerated by Allen\u2019s work truly matched the archival evidence or\nworks of poetry published in those decades. According to Scheinfeldt\u2019s theory,\nthe project did have a central argument, although at the conclusion project\nmembers also wanted to open it up for more scholarly research and for other\npeople to come in and ask questions. One useful purpose for this project is to\nenhance existing library catalogs but the main audience of this project is\nother researchers and scholars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The main sources used for\n\u201cprocessing\u201d, as Posner would describe it, were twelve avant-garde literary\nmagazines related to the main poets described in Allen\u2019s anthology. They\nincluded Beatitude, Big Table, C: A Journal of Poetry, Evergreen Review,\nFuck You: A Magazine of the Arts, Intrepid, J: A Magazine of Poetry, Measure,\nOrigin, The Black Mountain Review, The Floating Bear: A Newsletter,<\/em> and\nYugen<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The data points were processed by\nthe researchers who entered these categorizations into their online database by\nhand. Over 10.000 pieces of data were included. The network graphs displaying\nthese datapoints were built by a program called zurnatikl, a Django web\napplication developed by Emory University software designers. The network\ngraphs are generated by the zurnatikl software that runs the website and are\nalso the basis for the network visualizations displayed on the site. There are\nthree different types of network graphs available, which represent both\nindividual and overlapping content. One links the editors and poets connected\nby Allen in his book, another links all of the data points collected by the\nresearchers in one large graph, and the third mode shows the specific\nconnections of one artist, editor, or translator from these magazines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These data visualizations are published\nas an offshoot of Emory\u2019s university website. The website and the graphs are\nrun by zurnatikl, developed by Emory technicians specifically for the visual connection\nof journal data. The researchers came to several conclusions about the project\nsuch as, \u201cThe shape of the communities that we see in the contributor graph\nsuggests a network both less regimented and more capacious than Allen\u2019s\nanthology indicates. In part, Allen has simply done the work of the\nanthologist, pruning and aggregating according to taste and other motivations\u201d\nor \u201cWhen we compare Allen\u2019s categories to our graph, we can see that Allen\u2019s\npoetic schools, which have come to define conversations about mid-century\nAmerican poetry, were in practice quite permeable\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n This project enables similar\nscholarly primitives as the first, such as discovery, comparison, and\nrepresentation. It has many strengths, especially in the data visualizations\nwhich are both aesthetically pleasing and easy to use. One could argue that the\ndata included is also not exhaustive, and the singular graph of all of the data\nconnections is harder to decipher because of the large amount of data. A tool\nto help narrow search on that graph could make it even more user-friendly in\nthe future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Contributors to this project included a partnership between the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship and the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at Emory University. Listed on the project\u2019s website are technical lead Rebecca Sutton Koeser and researcher Aaron Goldsman. 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