My goal for these forty-three issues is to repair and maintain base content as a free-to-read and free-to-teach resource as long as possible.
I also want to hear from both university and non-university faculty who use legacy Blackbird's no cost materials nationallly and internationally in their classrooms, as well as from readers, students, former contributors, and former staff who want to voice their support in making sure the archive remains available for students and future readers.
—M.A. Keller
Featured Restored Content
Tyranny of the Theoretical 
by Myron Helfgott
[audio / pan & zoom restored]
Self Representation in the Arabian Gulf 
Perspectives in Photography and Video
[video for Blue and Autobiography restored]
Carol Houck Smith: Editor Extraordinaire
2008 AWP Panel
[audio restored]
A Reading by Tomaž Šalamun
VMFA Reading
[audio restored]
David Baker: A Reading and Conversation
VMFA Reading
[audio restored]
“Some Grass along a Ditch Bank”
by Larry Levis
[audio restored]
Radon, a video essay
by Robyn Schiff & Nick Twemlow
[video restored] [
Founder's Archive Email
bbarchive@vcu.edu
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Instructor Outreach
Legacy Contributor Outreach
Reader & Student Outreach
Staff Alum Outreach
Founders Archives Editors
Mary Flinn, founding editor
M.A. Keller, founding editor, online editor
Special thanks to Kurtis Zirkle, former lead coder & pagebuilder who help us greatly in the transition.
[Archives are] another way of people who lived in the past, who perhaps are still living or perhaps are dead, being present. This seems to me absolutely one of the quintessential things about the human condition. It’s what actually distinguishes man from any other animal: living with those who have lived and the companionship of those who are no longer alive. Not necessarily the people that one knew personally, I mean the people perhaps whom one only knows by what they did, or what they left behind, this question of the company of the past, that’s what interests me . . .
John Berger. inverview quoted in Portraits: John Berger on Artists, (London: Verso, 2015), xvii.
