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According to an acceptance e-mail received this morning from the Eastern Communication Association, this author will be performing live on a panel at the annual conference, to be held in April in Providence.

The panel, one of those featured in the Interpretation and Performance Studies Interest Group (IPSIG) track, will explore the ideas of Marshall McLuhan through words, music and images, in the tradition of his groundbreaking "I don't prove, I probe" approach. The lineup for the panel, as announced by the ECA:

DEW Lines, Loans, and Lineages: Poetry and Poetics After Marshall McLuhan

Sponsors: Interpretation and Performance Studies and Media Ecology

Chair: Carole Bennett, Oakland Community College-Orchard Ridge Campus

“McLuhan Kaleidoscope”
Mary Ann Allison, Hofstra University

“Prose”.
Lance Strate, Fordham University

“Messy Necessity”
Adeena Karasick, Fordham University

“Flash in the Pan”
John McDaid, HardDeadlines.com

This panel features readings and performances from the poetry and creative writing anthology DEW Lines, Loans, and Lineages: Poetry and Poetics After Marshall McLuhan. Inspired by McLuhan's media ecology approach, literary criticism, and poetic style, the participants probe and play with and off of McLuhan's ideas and insights with words, music, and images.

"Flash in the Pan" is a track from "Media Ecology Unplugged," a collection of McLuhan-flavored tunes recorded with fellow hypertext author Bill Bly. It will be included in the forthcoming book DEW Lines Loans, and Lineages from NeoPoesis Press, edited by Lance Strate and Adeena Karasick.

Big thanks to Lance, Adeena, my fellow panelists, the team at NeoPoesis, and the program committee at ECA. Looking forward to April (and building up my finger calluses again — it's been years since I played out.)