The Journal of Creative Writing at Hofstra University’s English Department Created by Hofstra’s Digital Research Center The Idea: Writing that is considered innovative or experimental lends itself to a digital format. Digital media can offer exciting possibilities for open-field poetic forms and for text that is accompanied by image and sound or embedded in video. Additionally, the ability to add hyperlinks can expand a text’s meanings and provide alternative readings as far as the imagination and skill of the website’s programmers and editors might allow. The plasticity of the digital medium will further the experimental nature of the text.
The Future:
The Goal: We sought to create a digital literary magazine that would publish the finest new work by innovative creative writers, offering hands-on publishing experience for Hofstra’s graduate and undergraduate creative writing and publishing studies students.
A platform for open-field text. AMP will continue to publish the best innovative contemporary writing by emerging and established writers. Future research and development will involve creating an alternative platform for displaying open-field text.
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André-Marie Ampère (1775-1836) French mathematician and physicist, considered the father of electrodynamics
The Intaglio tremors A Joy Yelp
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The Embleming right here in beauty
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- excerpted from Striding The Henlopen (phantom by Karen Garthe, in AMP issue 1, 2016
Online now in our inaugural issue! Work by Cyrus Cassells • Jim Daniels • Sharon Dolin • Karen Garthe • Scott Hightower • Marilyn Nelson • Urayoán Noel • Kristin Prevallet • Anna Rabinowitz • Renato Rosaldo • Thaddeus Rutkowski • Adrienne Su • Edwin Torres and many others, plus a special section of work by Hofstra creative writing alumni Visit AMP at www.amp.hofstradrc.org
Janet Kaplan Professor of English Project Director AMP Editor in Chief Hofstra University
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In open-field, the visual display— unusual spacing and variable typography— is often an integral part of the work. To keep the display accurate, digital magazines such as AMP still rely on the PDF, which readers must open in a new window, thereby removing them from the magazine’s environment. The invention of a platform for open-field text will allow readers to remain on the website, with openfield text now a fully integrated part of the reading experience.