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As a reader of Reading Re/Marks, you're invited to contribute original photographs and images that may be featured in this newsletter.
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Inviting Your Re/Marks

As a subscriber of Reading Re/Marks, you're invited to contribute original photographs and images that may be featured in this newsletter.

Reading Re/Marks is an invitation to read our annotated words and world, together. And I need your help. It'll take a collective effort to document the enduring traces of critique, creativity, and possibility that mark our everyday texts and contexts.

This invitation is part scavenger hunt, part group project.

Look around you. Consult your books and the built environment. Consider how literal and symbolic margins are demarcated, inscribed, and transgressed. Pay attention to notes, scribbles, marginalia, stickers, stamps, tags, and graffiti. Tour the many layers of meaning added to your everyday texts and contexts.

And when something catches your eye—or if you emend an everyday text with a new message—snap a picture and share it with us.

Requesting Re/Marks

We'll start with STOP. Read more about our first request:

Requesting Re/Marks #1: STOP Signs

  • Send your re/marks via email
  • Currently accepting subscriber submissions of annotated STOP signs throughout the spring of 2025
  • This request coincides with the upcoming publication of my second book Re/Marks on Power
  • Subscribers' re/marks will be published later this spring

Here's one example to inspire your contribution to Reading Re/Marks:

Keep in Mind

If you share a re/mark:

  • Please send in photographs or images that you have permission to share (let's avoid copyright issues notwithstanding fair use).
  • By sharing a photograph or image, you understand that what you submit may be published online.
  • I will publish photographs or images submitted by subscribers.
  • Published photographs or images will include basic attribution (for example, "Dave from Denver").
  • I may not publish every photograph or image submitted to Reading Re/Marks; there is a fine line between provocative and profane, and I will exercise my editorial discretion as needed.
  • Questions or comments? Email me.