Poetry Tracker and Black Lit Network

These days, the Poetry Tracker, my site focusing on publishing routes of African American poetry, seems dormant, but in fact, that site was crucial to all the work we're doing with Black Lit Network. I collaborated with Meg Smith, the director of our DH Center, to build the site. Various components served as testing grounds for what we've been doing.

For one, the whiteboard animations. We initially put up several animations focusing on poetry. We later transferred that approach to various aspects of literature. Next, the Literary Data Gallery. We developed a gallery on the Poetry Tracker, which guided the way.  

The major point here is that a project in one place influences a project in another place.

Soon, we'll transfer some compositions from the Poetry Tracker over to portals on the Black Lit Network. It'll all blend in, but they initially started as separate. 

Related:

• Developing the Black Lit Network