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Papers by ALEX NIELSEN

LevyFest 2014 is a poetry festival and conference celebrating Cleveland poet, publisher, and arti... more LevyFest 2014 is a poetry festival and conference celebrating Cleveland poet, publisher, and artist d.a. levy (1942-1968) and his influence upon small press publishing, print and book arts, and the poetry communities of Cleveland, Ohio, and beyond.Events for this year\u27s LevyFest include live letterpress and mimeograph printing demonstrations, zine manufacturing events, writing, publishing, and bookmaking workshops, public readings of poetry and fiction, book launch events for small press publishers, receptions and meet-ups for poets, authors, and publishers, and academic panels including presentations on the history, implications, and pedagogical benefits of small press publishing, the mimeograph revolution, and the works of d.a. levy.Events will be held on the Cleveland State University Campus as well as at several locations throughout the community including at local bookstores and art galleries

Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 2020

This article explores how “flatten the curve” (FTC) visualizations have served as a rhetorical an... more This article explores how “flatten the curve” (FTC) visualizations have served as a rhetorical anchor for communicating the risk of viral spread during the COVID-19 pandemic. Beginning from the premise that risk visualizations have eclipsed their original role as supplemental to public risk messaging and now function as an organizer of discourse, the authors highlight three rhetorical tensions (epideictic–deliberative, global–local, conceptual metaphors–data representations) with the goal of considering how the field of technical and professional communication might more strongly support visual risk literacy in future crises.

LevyFest 2014 is a poetry festival and conference celebrating Cleveland poet, publisher, and arti... more LevyFest 2014 is a poetry festival and conference celebrating Cleveland poet, publisher, and artist d.a. levy (1942-1968) and his influence upon small press publishing, print and book arts, and the poetry communities of Cleveland, Ohio, and beyond.Events for this year\u27s LevyFest include live letterpress and mimeograph printing demonstrations, zine manufacturing events, writing, publishing, and bookmaking workshops, public readings of poetry and fiction, book launch events for small press publishers, receptions and meet-ups for poets, authors, and publishers, and academic panels including presentations on the history, implications, and pedagogical benefits of small press publishing, the mimeograph revolution, and the works of d.a. levy.Events will be held on the Cleveland State University Campus as well as at several locations throughout the community including at local bookstores and art galleries

Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 2020

This article explores how “flatten the curve” (FTC) visualizations have served as a rhetorical an... more This article explores how “flatten the curve” (FTC) visualizations have served as a rhetorical anchor for communicating the risk of viral spread during the COVID-19 pandemic. Beginning from the premise that risk visualizations have eclipsed their original role as supplemental to public risk messaging and now function as an organizer of discourse, the authors highlight three rhetorical tensions (epideictic–deliberative, global–local, conceptual metaphors–data representations) with the goal of considering how the field of technical and professional communication might more strongly support visual risk literacy in future crises.