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Two of my poems just went up at The Eunoia Review
One of them contains a reference to an old John Cusack movie? Know the name of the movie? The first person to email me with the correct title gets 10,000 points, or a free Jason and the Beast CD.
Twenty Avocados Published
A well-traveled poem of mine about Guatemala, the people you meet in hostels, and avocados just went up at Outside In Magazine.
I wouldn’t be mad or anything if you clicked on the link to check it out.
http://outsideinmagazine.com/issue-thirteen/poetry/twenty-avocados-jason-braun/
AUTHORS UNBOUND: THE RISE OF THE MAKER AUTHOR is up a Critical Margins
Authors like Matt Kindt, Jenifer Egan, Geoff Schmidt, Ander Monson and more are pushing past the printed page and into the third dimension.
Find out how Author’s can get in on some of that Maker action!
http://criticalmargins.com/2013/05/01/authors-unbound-maker-authors/
Published online at Thunderclap
Here’s a very short and maybe even funny poem that just got published today-
http://thunderclappress.com/2013/04/29/jason-braun-platonic-ideal/
Edwardsville Intelligencer’s Feature Story on Homophonecheck.com
Corey Stevens had this to say:
Their is going to be a new way to edit your class assignments online. Or is it they’re? There?
Jason Braun, an English composition teacher at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, has released the world’s first homophone checker. Homophones are words that sound alike, but are spelled differently, and cause a lot of confusion for many beginning writers.
Read more at:
http://www.theintelligencer.com/local_news/article_d5ecdb8c-a6b8-11e2-b188-0019bb2963f4.html
A new post of mine just went up at Critical Margins
It’s about Zombies, Matt Kindt, and the Future of the Book .
http://criticalmargins.com/2013/04/15/scott-turow-and-the-zombiefied-american-author/
The Belleville News Democrate Features Homophone Checker on Front Page
By JAMIE FORSYTHE — News-Democrat
A Southern Illinois University Edwardsville graduate student has created a website application to help other dyslexic students like himself. Jason Braun, 35, of Edwardsville recently launched an online “homophone” checker.
A homophone refers to words that sound the same, but are spelled differently, and Braun’s web application, http://www.homophonecheck.com, allows writers to proofread for errors that word processing software can’t find.
For example, spell checking a document won’t find an error if you use ‘there’ instead of ‘their’ or ‘they’re’ or ‘know’ instead of ‘no.’
http://www.bnd.com/2013/04/11/2573441/dyslexic-student-creates-website.html
Homophone Checker and the Cult of Correctness in The ALESTLE
The Alestle giving some props to the Homophone Checker and making some good points about the “cult of correctness” that follows around English professors, teachers, and majors.
http://www.alestlelive.com/news/article_e9bc89c0-9cbb-11e2-85fe-001a4bcf6878.html
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