Well, the Endangered Poem Project is finally under way. A few days ago I drove up to Cambridge, Vermont, where Ernest Krusch had picked out several pieces of curly soft maple and planed them down for me. This afternoon, knowing I’d be starting off with some poems that were taller than they were wide, I […]
My latest round of appeals for help with the Alphas has brought the most wonderful response from all around the world. I can’t wait to give you an update, and to give credit to all those who have sent me suggestions, contacts, texts or translations. Here’s the situation. For the next Endangered Alphabets exhibition, I’ve […]
The next phase of the Endangered Alphabets Project is to take a short poem I’ve composed, translate it into as many as sixteen endangered scripts (please contact me by email if you’d like to help, as I have need of many collaborators!), and carve these poems into a multi-faceted memorial, the designs for which I’ll […]
May 1, 2010 Scrolling through Omniglot.com for the ten thousandth time, I came across some scripts I’d never seen before. Simon Ager, the sage behind Omniglot, told me they were the work of Dr Prasanna Sree of Andhra University in Andhra Pradesh, India…. She has created scripts for seven hill-tribe languages that currently existed in […]
