Joel Weishaus was born in New York City. He moved to San Francisco in 1964, and except for one year in New England spent the next 13 years in Northern California. In 1977-78, he lived in Taos, NM as a writer-in residence at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, after which he spent four years Santa Fe. He moved to Albuquerque In 1982, living there for the next 18 years. His present home is Portland, OR. During the 1980s, Weishaus was a photography critic for Artspace: A Magazine of Contemporary Southwest Art, and an Adjunct Curator (Video Art) at the University of New Mexico Art Museum. He is presently Research Faculty in Portland State University’s Department of English. For more than a decade he has been developing Digital Literary Art, his projects of which are widely published on the Internet. This is a one-year log of thoughts pondered, dreams exposed, of books, essays, poems, with photographs, whole or collaged, carried forth by conjoining what's happening in my life with the life of the planet. In essence, it is what neo-Jungian theorist Susan Rowland calls, "reading reality aesthetically.” It is also a form of travel writing, in the sense that, "Travel writing creates worlds, not simply discovers them."1 The project's central purpose is to relocate the literary tradition in a medium that craves flashy images, pop-ups, etc., as a phase in the development of Digital Literary Art, linking new transmissions to old libraries, inside and out. Listen! —                    the pouring water!                                                 The dogs and trees                    conspire to invent                    a world—gone!                  -W.C. Williams. From, Paterson. This is doubt that "does not only ask the question, 'Is your story capable of being told?' It also asks the question, 'Was it possible to experience it?'"2 1. P. Bishop, "The Geography of Hope and Despair: Peter Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard." South Australian College of Advanced Education, Magill, Summer 1985. 2. H. Hesse, The Journey to The East. New York, NY, 1972. Designed for MSE browser; 1024X768 screen resolution; font size: Medium. Thank you to the Department of English, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, for making research resources available to me.

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