CHRIS DODGE
869 Kienas Rd., Kalispell, MT 59901 USA
curvyedge@yahoo.com
406-756-8568
Freelance
writer, editor, indexer, 2006-
(Clients include City Lights, Haymarket Books, University of Nebraska Press, Arte Publico, Continuum)
Contributing
editor, Utne Reader, 2006-07
Librarian,
Utne
magazine/Utne Reader, 1999-2006; columnist, "Street Librarian," 2001-06;
editor "First Thoughts," July/August 2004-October/September 2005
Webmaster,
Street Librarian,
1997-present
Publisher,
Dorchester Dog Hip Press, 1997-present
Editor,
MSRRT Newsletter,
1988-2000 (review publication for library and cultural workers; nominated for
H. W. Wilson Award, 1990-92, 1995)
Cataloger,
Hennepin County Library, Minnesota, 1985-1999
Reviewer,
Zine World:
A Reader's Guide to the Underground Press, 2001-05
Associate
Editor, Counterpoise, 1997-99
Advisory
Committee Member, Alternative Press Center, 1995-present
Columnist,
Artpaper,
1989-91: "Fugitive Fact File" and "Chris Dodge's Public Ear"
Reviewer,
Minnesota Reviews,
1984-89; board member, 1988-89
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
"What a book indexer does."
Lower East Side Librarian Shout Out, 2008.
"Useful cataloging."
In Radical cataloging: Essays at the front, ed. K. R. Roberto (McFarland, 2008).
"Reconnecting with Mother Earth: 13 ways to help heal the land."
Utne Reader, May/June 2008.
"Collecting the wretched refuse: Lifting a lamp to zines, military newspapers, and Wisconsinalia."
Library Trends, Winter 2008.
"Tread lightly and carry a big bag of batteries: Rethinking technology in the wilderness."
Utne Reader, May/June 2007.
"Messages from above: Why the clouds are worth watching."
Utne Reader, January/February 2007.
"Letters from a desert prophet: Ed Abbey's
prescient voice rings out again." Utne, July/August 2006.
Introduction and captions.
"Water of life." Utne, July/August 2006.
"Beating bombs into plowshares." Utne,
July/August 2006. Reprinted in Resist, July/August 2006.
"Gone but not forgotten: Ten defunct periodicals." Ladies
& Gentlemen #2.
"Kinds of birds." Minneapolis Observer Quarterly, Spring
2006.
"Elemental art." Utne, May/June
2006.
"The Tao of Sparrow." Utne, March/April 2006.
"Reading matters." Utne, November/December
2005.
"Cold comfort: On Hudson Bay in February,
the silence speaks clearly." The Minneapolis Observer, August 2005. [Excerpt
from On Ice]
"Knowledge for sale: Are America's public
libraries on the verge of losing their way?" Utne, July/August 2005.
"Up from underground: Comic book artists to
watch out for." Utne, January/February 2005.
"Music mixmasters: Mash-ups go mainstream."
Utne,
September/October 2004.
"Emma Goldman, Thoreau, and anarchists."
Thoreau Society Bulletin, Summer 2004. (Reprinted in Social Anarchism #39.)
"Literary labels: Independent record labels
turn to publishing books." Utne, May/June 2004.
"Folk music's new genre benders: The new 'free
folk' movement unleashes a storm of strange and wonderful new sounds." Utne, March/April 2004.
"Used lipstick, cat whiskers, and
masterpieces from Mexico's streets." IndieCulture 2004. [Focus: Princeton
Architectural Press.]
"Zines' second coming." IndieCulture 2004.
co-author, "Riot mamas." Utne, November/December
2003. [Zines by mothers.]
"Libraries to the people, redux". In
Katia Roberto and Jessamyn West's Revolting Librarians Redux (McFarland, 2003)
"Art on the move." Utne Arts Extra, 2003. [Mobile arts
venues]
"Phoebe Gloeckner: Portrait of the artist
as a young cartoonist." Utne Arts Extra, 2003.
"John Porcellino: Zen zine-ster." Utne
Arts Extra,
2003.
"Revolution at the reference desk." Utne Reader, November/December
2002.
"Wild in the stacks." [Interview with
Sanford Berman] Utne Reader, July/August 2002.
"Investigative cartoonist: The Joe Sacco
story." Utne Reader, July/August 2002.
"Documentaries can dance: The passionate
films of Les Blank." Utne Reader, July/August 2002.
"Minnesota zine manifesto." Counterpoise, July 2002.
"Sustainable
frugality." Clamor, May/June 2002.
"Mr. Reader." Words That Soak Up
Life: A Reading Compilation Zine.
"Dear Abbey: Thank you note to a desert
philosopher," Utne Reader, November/December 2001.
"The revolution will be photocopied: A trip
to the Underground Publishing Conference," Utne Reader, September/October
2001.
"Anarchism 101: A beginner's guide to the
most misunderstood political movement in history" Utne Reader, May/June 2001.
"Soul stirrers: Singer Al Green and poet
Rainer Maria Rilke share a sense of the sublime [A Fan's Notes]", Utne
Reader,
March/April 2001.
"Going postal: Mail art brings a whole
world of creative expression to your door," Utne Reader, September/October 2000.
"Art behind the lines: How a comic book can
reveal the truth of war," Utne Reader, May/June 2000.
"Zines," Magazines for Libraries, 10th ed., 2000.
"Street newspapers create lively
alternative to establishment media," Street Spirit, August 1999; reprinted in Berman and Danky's Alternative
Library Literature, 1998-1999 (McFarland).
"Words on the street: Homeless people's
newspapers," American Libraries, August 1999.
"Taking libraries to the street: Infoshops
and alternative reading rooms," American Libraries, May 1998; edited
version reprinted in Utne Reader, November/December 1998, as "Media junkie
review".
"Zines," Magazines for Libraries, 9th ed., 1997.
"Zine books: 'Hip' voices or subterranean
exegesis?," Counterpoise, July 1997.
"Zines: The underground press for the '90s,"
Minnesota's Journal of Law & Politics, September 1995.
"Pushing the boundaries: Zines and
libraries," Wilson Library Bulletin, May 1995; cited
in From A to Zine: Building a Winning Zine Collection in Your Library, by Julie Bartel (American Library Association, 2004)
co-editor, Everything You Always Wanted to
Know About Sandy Berman (McFarland, 1995)
co-author, "Mail art, librarians, and
social networking" in Chuck Welch, Eternal Network: A Mail Art
Anthology,
University of Calgary Press, 1995.
"Multiethnic multimedia catalog sources,"
MultiCultural Review, June 1994.
"Multicultural catalogs," Rethinking
Schools,
Spring 1994.
"Multi-media catalog sources," Collection
Building,
v.13 #4, 1994.
"Zines about zines," Serials Review, Winter 1994.
"Alternative sex: Some zines, comics,
books, and sources," Collection Building, v.13 #1, 1993.
"Green zines: A list of alternative
environmental periodicals," Green Library Journal, Fall 1992.
co-editor, Confronting Columbus: An Anthology (McFarland, 1992).
"The Columbus Quincentennial: Who's
celebrating?," Reference Services Review, v.20 #3.
"People of color: A periodical list," Rethinking
Schools,
January/February 1992; Multicultural Review, October 1992; Collection
Building,
v.11 #4, 1992; Women Library Workers Journal, Spring 1992.
"Columbus Quincentennial: Is there anything
to celebrate?," Collection Building, v.11 #3, 1991; New Pages #15, 1991; UNABASHED
Librarian
#79, 1991.
"The activist librarians," Artpaper, December 1989.
guest editor, Minnesota Library Association
newsletter,
October/November 1988; April 1994; Aug./Sept. 1996.
SELECTED PROGRAMS AND PRESENTATIONS:
"What Librarians Say They Do, But Don't Really." University of Arizona SIRLS Graduate Student Symposium, November 10, 2007
"What Librarians Say They Do, But Don't Really." Montana Library Association conference, April 27, 2007
"Things Librarians Say They Do, But Don't Really." State
University of New York, Geneseo, School of Library and Information Science
Reunion, September 30, 2006
Presenter, Seminar Day, Rassmussen College, Minnetonka, Minnesota,
May 16, 2006
Moderator,
"Collecting and Preserving the Do-It-Yourself
Revolution: Zines in Libraries," Association of College and
Research Libraries conference program,
Minneapolis, April 8, 2005. Report published in C&RL
News, June 2005
Guest
presentations on zines, Ben Jarman's 9th-grade English classes, Interdistrict
Downtown School, Minneapolis, January 14, 2005
"Reconsidering
Fanzines," Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle, September 3, 2004
"Reconsidering
fanzines: Printed matter by fans, amateurs, and other lovers," Zine fair,
Stevens Square Center for the Arts, Minneapolis, July 24, 2004
Keynote, "The Zine World," Twin Cities
Anarchist Book Fair, April 28, 2002
"Just say know: an insider's guide to the
outsider press" (University of Wisconsin, School of Library and
Information Science, February 14, 2001)
Talk on alternative press (West Virginia Library
Association conference, November 2000)
Talk on alternative press (Tom Eland's
Minneapolis Community College class, April 2000)
"No Rejections, No Returns, Documentation
to All: A Visual Talk on Mail Art," with Cathy Camper (Visual Arts Focus
Group, Resources & Counseling for the Arts, Minneapolis, February 23, 2000)
Speaker, "Words on the Street: Newspapers
from the Homeless" (American Library Association session, New Orleans,
June 1999)
Guest lecture on alternative press (University
of Illinois, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, March 26,
1999)
"Street Libraries: Infoshops and
Alternative Reading Rooms" (co-coordinator, American Library Association
session, Washington, DC, June 1998)
Presentations on children's literature (Read-to-Me
program, Hennepin County Adult Correctional Facility, Plymouth, Minnesota, May
1998)
Talk on alternative press (Tom Eland's "Introduction
to the Information Age: Explorations in the Ethics, Politics, and Ideology of
Information," Minneapolis Community College class, February 1998)
Talk on alternative press (Christine Pawley's
class on electronic publishing, College of St. Catherine, Information
Management, February 1998)
Presentation on zines (with Cathy Camper; Great
Transitions program serving teenagers on probation from the Hennepin County
Home School; Minneapolis, Minnesota, December 1997)
"Beyond
the Valley of the Mega-Publishers: Dangerous Reviews" (co-coordinator and
panelist, American Library Association session, San Francisco, June 1997)
Presentations on zines (incarcerated teenagers'
English classes, Hennepin County Home School, Minnetonka, Minnesota, May 1997)
"Pushing
the Boundaries Zines and Libraries" (coordinator, American Library
Association session, Chicago, June 1996)
"50
in 90: 50 Alternative & Small Press Reviews in 90 Minutes"
(co-coordinator and panelist, Minnesota Library Association conference,
Mankato, October 1995)
"Archiving
and Documenting the Underground" (panelist, Underground Press Conference,
DePaul University, Chicago, August 1995)
"For the Common Good: Illinois Experience
and the Minnesota Model of Social Responsibility in Librarianship"
(panelist, Illinois Library Association conference, May 1995)
"50
in 90: 50 Alternative & Small Press Reviews in 90 Minutes"
(co-coordinator and panelist, Minnesota Library Association conference, Duluth,
October 1994)
"60
in 90: 60 Alternative & Small Press Reviews in 90 Minutes"
(co-coordinator and panelist, Minnesota Library Association conference,
Rochester, October 1993)
"Alternative
Library Press: What It Is and Why Do We Need It" (speaker, American
Library Association session, New Orleans, June 1993)
"Resources for Understanding Diversity"
(panelist, "Information: A Bridge to Understanding" conference,
Library Task Force of the Governor's Council on the Martin Luther King, Jr.
Holiday, St. Paul, January 1993)
"SRRT
in Wisconsin--What are the Issues? How Can We Make a Difference?" (panelist,
Wisconsin Library Association conference, LaCrosse, October 1992)
"60
in 90: 60 Alternative & Small Press Reviews in 90 Minutes" (panelist,
Minnesota Library Association conference, Brainerd, October 1992)
Panelist, The Ethics of Celebration and
De-Celebration: Quincentenary Issues, Education and the Native American
Perspective conference, University of Florida, December 1991
"The
Columbus Quincentennial: Is There Anything to Celebrate?" (panelist,
Midwest Federation of Library Associations conference, Minneapolis, November,
1991)
Presentation on counter-Columbus Quincentennial
organizing (Ron Sakolsky class, Minneapolis Community College, July 1991)
AWARDS, HONORS, GRANTS:
Critics Travel Grant (Minnesota Center for Arts
Criticism), 1995
Minnesota Book Award nominee, 1996
Eubanks Award, American Library Association,
1996
Certificate of Merit, Minnesota Library
Association, 1996
INTERVIEWS CONDUCTED:
"Pam
Keesey" (Video). Hennepin County Library, 1995. Subject: the editor of Daughters
of Darkness: Lesbian Vampire Stories; cable television series Northern Lights and
Insights.
"Jim Northrup" (Video). Hennepin
County Library, 1993. Subject: Ojibwe columnist Jim Northrup, author of Walking the Rez Road; cable television
series Northern Lights and Insights.
"Lane Relyea" (Video). Hennepin County
Library, 1990. Subject: Lane Relyea, editor of Artpaper; cable television
series Northern Lights and Insights.
"Diane Glancy" (Video). Hennepin
County Library, 1990. Subject:
Native American poet Diane Glancy; cable television series Northern Lights and
Insights.
"Alison Bechdel" (Video). Hennepin
County Library, 1990. Subject: the lesbian cartoonist creator of Dykes to Watch
Our For; cable television series Northern Lights and Insights.
"Jack Weatherford" (Video). Hennepin
County Library, 1990. Subject: the author of Indian givers: how the Indians of
the Americas transformed the world; cable television series Northern Lights and
Insights.
"Bill Holm" (Video). Hennepin County
Library, 1988. Subject: Icelandic-American poet and essayist Bill Holm; cable
television series Northern Lights and Insights.
"Phebe Hanson" (Video). Hennepin
County Library, 1988. Chris Dodge interviews Minnesota poet and teacher Phebe
Hanson; cable television series Northern Lights and Insights.
ARTICLES/INTERVIEWS WITH CHRIS DODGE AS
SUBJECT:
"The invisible art and craft of indexing." MinnPost, March 6, 2008.
"Making book: Notes on the literary life: Chris Dodge." Minneapolis
Observer, September 2004. Interview.
Sagrans,
Erica. "Radicalibrarians: Out of the stacks and into the streets." [Brown University] College Hill
Independent,
March 6, 2003.
Kumbier, Alana. "Liberating information:
radical librarians shelve the status quo." Punk Planet, November/December
2002. Focus: Jessamyn West, Bruce Jensen, Katia Roberto, Chris Dodge, Sandy
Berman.
Block, Marylaine. "Communicating off the
page." Library Journal, September 15, 2001. [Article on "web sites for librarians who call
themselves renegade, cool, ska, marginal, modified, pernicious, and psycho"
– includes material on Street Librarian]
"Street librarian: derribando fronteras." Perez Melendez, Catalina, and Gonzalo
Lara Pacheco. Educacion y biblioteca 14, no.130 (2002).
"All the libraries of the world and mine:
the Hennepin County Library," Ten Page News, Summer 2000. (About
Sandy Berman and Chris Dodge)
"Indy news." Ink Reader (Independent Press Association), Winter 2000.
"SoUP interview with Chris Dodge." Bathtub Gin #5 (Fall/Winter
1999). Transcription of May 1999
radio interview.
"Bat of Minerva," Minneapolis cable
television interview, August 1999, (on zines).
SoUP (Society of Underground Poets) radio
interview (on activist librarianship and zines), Georgetown, Kentucky, May
1999.
Romenesko, James. "'Learning junkie' offers
subversive fun." Saint Paul Pioneer Press, March 30, 1998.
Profiles Street Librarian website.
Beard, William Randall. "Access activists."
Twin Cities Reader,
January 24, 1996. Focus: "Minnesota Social Responsibilities Round Table"
(MSRRT); librarians Sanford Berman, Chris Dodge, Jan DeSirey, and Kim Edson.
Live radio interview by Eric Bailey (focus:
zines; with Peter Larsen; "Write on Radio," KFAI-FM, Minneapolis,
December 1995).
Hawley, David. "The zine scene: from
bowling to splatter movies to radical librarians, there's a zine..." Saint
Paul Pioneer Press,
November 15, 1992.
"John
Yewell, Jan DeSirey, Chris Dodge" (Video). Hennepin County Library, 1992.
Sanford Berman interviews the editors of Confronting Columbus; cable television
series Northern Lights and Insights.
"Activist
Librarians" (Video). Minnesota Peace and Justice Coalition, 1990. Nikki
LaSorella interviews Chris Dodge, Sanford Berman, and Jan DeSirey for "Live
Wire" cable access television series, Minneapolis.
Live radio interview by Beth Friend (with
Sanford Berman and Jan DeSirey; prompted by Artpaper article, "The
Activist Librarians); "Take Out," Minnesota Public Radio, St. Paul,
January 1990.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
"Living room" (poem). Poetry Now, March 2005.
On Ice: In Northern Manitoba. Dorchester Dog Hip
Press, 2005.
Grand Marais. Dorchester Dog Hip
Press, 2004. [Reviewed in The Minneapolis Observer, January 2005]
contributor, Publishers & Pets. (Knucklehead Press, 2004).
Climbing Ktaadn. Dorchester Dog Hip
Press, 2004.
"The Poets Take the Field." The
Minneapolis Observer,
February 24, 2004.
You Are Here: New Thoughts From Northern
Woods.
Dorchester Dog Hip Press, 2003.
Walking to Walden. Dorchester Dog Hip
Press, 2003. [Reviewed in Xerography Debt #13]
"Fourteen books that changed my life."
Dwan
#35.
Baptism River: A Love Poem. Dorchester Dog Hip
Press, 2003. [Reviewed in Xerography Debt #11 by Davida Gypsy Breier ; Xerography
Debt #12,
by Androo Robinson and Maria Goodman]
Hello James. Dorchester Dog Hip Press, 2003. ("Selections
from letters by the editors of zines� in response to a postcard from the
Wisconsin Historical Society� with a few words about� librarian James P. Danky")
[Reviewed in Xerography Debt #10 by Donny Smith]
Cairn Free: Further Travel Down & Up Some
Canyons.
Dorchester Dog Hip Press, 2002. [Reviewed in The Match!, Summer 2003; Xerography
Debt #12,
by Androo Robinson and Maria
Goodman]
The Book of Matt: Matthew 5-7 Summarized in
Plain English.
Dorchester Dog Hip Press, 2002. (Reprinted in Utne magazine, July/August
2003.)
"Brother Void: happy with hopelessness." (Short profile of Andrew Boyd) Utne
Reader,
May/June 2002.
"Daniil Kharms: Russian martyr to nonsense." Utne Reader, May/June 2002.
"Serious about the funnies." (On Comics Journal) Utne Reader, May/June 2002.
What Matters. Dorchester Dog Hip
Press, 2002.
"Inside outsider art." (On Raw Vision magazine) Utne
Reader,
May/June 2002.
Solo Utah: An Account of Travel Up & Down
Some Canyons.
Dorchester Dog Hip Press, 2001. [Reviewed in Free Press Death Ship #1]
Someday: Poems. Dorchester Dog Hip
Press, 2001.
Details: Four Poems. Dorchester Dog Hip
Press, 2001.
"Looks like candy, but..." Sugar Needle #13. (Short
essay about a condom
packaged to look like a lollipop)
Moving On: Poems. Dorchester Dog Hip
Press, 2000.
Three Poems Three. Dorchester Dog Hip
Press, 2000.
Eight Poems. Dorchester Dog Hip Press, 1999.
"Open the doors." Poem co-authored with Solveig
Nilsen. Published by Hennepin
Country Library (Minnesota) on the occasion of HCL's Ridgedale Library
re-opening, October 1999.
Reprinted in Berman and Danky's Alternative Library Literature,
1998-1999;
UNABASHED Librarian; Progressive Librarian, Summer 2000.
"Pralines 101." Sugar Needle #10. (Short
essay about the candy commonly sold
in New Orleans)
"Baseball car bubble gum." Ibid. (poem)
Contributor, Kiss My Filing Indicators ("The Sandy Berman
Rocks My Socks Issue"), June 1999.
"ALA
programs of the Alternatives in Print Task Force in (and slightly before) my
day", Counterpoise, January 1999.
Contributor, Cognots (two issues). June 1998. [Zine parody of Cognotes, the official
publication of the American Library Association conference]
"Alternative
to what?" Counterpoise, April 1998. (Editorial reprinted from MSRRT
Newsletter,
March/April 1998)
How To Do a Zine. By Karen Eliot
(pseudonym). Minnetonka, MN: Dorchester Dog Hip Press, 1997. (Typo on some copies: "Dochester
Dog Hip")
"Fallen anarchist comrades."
Contributor (obituary for Ernest Mann). Fifth Estate, Fall 1996.
A Zine-ography. 4th ed. C. Dodge, July 1996. Twenty-four page annotated bibliography
of books, articles, and other material about zines. (Earlier editions: 1994,
1995, January 1996.) Cited in
Stephen Duncombe's Notes From Underground: Zines and the Politics of Underground
Culture;
(Verso, 1997).
Preface, special section on zines, Alternative
Library Literature, 1994/95 (McFarland, 1996).
"Stale
air: silence surrounds the changes at radio station KFAI." Star Tribune, January 31, 1994.
contributor, The Epistolary Form & the Letter as Artifact, (Pig Iron #17), 1991.
contributor, Novel Approach: A Coincidental
Mailart Assemblage,
Xexoxial Editions, 1991.
"Epiphany."
The Impossible Utterance #7 (December 1990).
"Biblioddities."
American Libraries,
March 1989. Reprinted in The Whole Library Handbook, 1991.
BOOK ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
Anderson, Byron, editor. Alternative
Publishers of Books in North America (CRISES Press, 1999). [Editor's introduction]
Atton, Chris. Alternative Literature: A
Practical Guide for Librarians (Gower, 1996).
Bartel, Julie. From A to Zine: Building a
Winning Zine Collection for Your Library (American Library Association, 2004).
Cornog, Martha. The Big Book of Masturbation (Down There Press,
2003).
Cornog, Martha, and Timothy Perper. For Sex Education, See Librarian.
(Greenwood Press, 1996).
De Cleyre, Voltairine. Exquisite Rebel: The
Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre-- Feminist, Anarchist, Genius. (State University of New York Press,
2005). Sharon Presley and Crispin Sartwell, editors.
Halliday, Ayun. The Big Rumpus (Seal, 2002).
Loewen, James. Lies Across America: What Our
Historic Sites Get Wrong (New Press, 1999).
Maggio, Rosalie. New Beacon Book of Women's
Quotations
(Beacon, 1996).
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Talking About People: A Guide to Fair and Accurate Language (Oryx Press, 1997).
Pendergrast, Mark. Uncommon Grounds: The
History of Coffee and How it Transformed Our World (Basic Books, 1999).
Spayde, Jon. How to Believe (Random House, 2008).
Thoreau, Henry D. Henry D. Thoreau: Letters
to a Spiritual Seeker
(W. W. Norton, 2004). Bradley P. Dean, editor.
Woog, Dan. School's Out: The Impact of Gay
and Lesbian Issues on America's Schools (Alyson, 1995).
BOOK DEDICATIONS:
Berman, Sanford, and James P. Danky, Alternative
Library Literature, 1998/99.
MSRRT NEWSLETTER REVIEWS, EXCERPTS,
CITATIONS:
Gunderloy, Mike, and Cari Goldberg Janice's The
World of Zines (Penguin,
1992).
Censored: The News That Didn't Make the News
and Why: The Project Censored Handbook 1996 (Seven Stories Press, 1996).
Censored 1997 (Seven Stories Press,
1997).
Censored 1998 (Seven Stories Press,
1998).
Censored 1999 (Seven Stories Press,
1999).
Spunk #7 [Hayward, CA]
Widely reviewed in Factsheet Five (circa 1988-98), Zine
Guide,
and Zine World
.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS OF DORCHESTER DOG HIP
PRESS:
De Cleyre, Voltairine. Sex Slavery. Dorchester
Dog Hip Press, 1999.
Kropotkin, Peter. The Chief Duty of a
Revolutionary Paper.
Dorchester Dog Hip Press, 2002.
Thoreau, Henry D. Thoreau on John Brown &
Harpers Ferry: From the Journals of Henry D. Thoreau, October 1859. Dorchester Dog Hip
Press, 2003.
Thoreau, Henry D. Life Without Principle. Dorchester Dog Hip Press, 2004.