Photo Archive
(Photo of Death Valley from the National Archives. Photos by US Geological Survey .) I've been reading and listening to talks about archives lately. There is attention, in academic study, to expanding the historical "archive" to include the people not included in the curation of history. (I'm using archive metaphorically here. If you want a good article about defining "archive" in library science and in Digital Humanities, read this blog post on the Library of Congress website.) I also watched/participated in a Zoom poetry reading and talk hosted by Natalie Diaz, with Joy Harjo and Natasha Trethewey (I wish there was a recording of this available online, but I haven't found one yet. Soon, I hope.) In the question and answer time, and I'm sorry I don't remember the question, Natasha Trethewey was talking about writing during the pandemic and emphasized how important it was that people document their experiences now, while they are happening, so...