Bert continues his postcard history in Down the Ocean, a collection of views of Ocean City, Maryland and other shore points. Click for the image at full size. The journal features poetry, creative prose, interviews, photography, and illustration. Passager sponsors an annual poetry competition and publishes the winner's poetry and an interview. In addition to providing a forum for established and emerging talent, Passager regularly provides undergraduate and graduate students an experience in the practical side of literary publishing.
Students assist the editor with correspondence, distribution, and preparation.
In early 1995, a group of graduate students created the prototype for a Web version of Passager . Deus Loci , the official journal of the international Lawrence Durrell Society, is edited by Carol Peirce and Virginia Carruthers and designed by Ed Gold and Bert Smith . The journal publishes criticism and scholarly research on the work of Durrell, a major figure in British modernism and contemporary narrative. As a continuing project in scholarly editing, Deus Loci demonstrates the School's commitment to literary research and its support for serious thinking about formally advanced and challenging forms of writing.