A few thoughts on Pynchon's Shadow Ticket, which I read slowly over the past few weeks - stevementz.com/sentences-an...

Come to the Institute for Sacred Music next Th-Fri in New Haven for Water Cosmology! I'll be talking about (what else?) ocean swimming as ecological meditation in the Anthropocene - ism.yale.edu/events/2025-...

A treat to hear how this podcast on shipwreck from the Canadian Broadcasting Company turned out! With thanks to all the good people from Canada who were involved, and also to Stan Rogers for the music - www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

in May, I published an invitation: Write a letter to the sea. the eighth letter (in a form of a postcard) is written by @stevementz.bsky.social from Branford, Connecticut, USA. Steve is a longtime friend of the Sea Library and a godfather of the Blue Humanities: sea-library.com/2025/08/20/0...

On Sat Aug 2, I'll be part of a six person relay swimming across Long Island Sound to raise money for St Vincent's hospital in Bridgeport. Link to donate if you'd like to! charity.pledgeit.org/SwimAcrossTh...

Come join me in New Haven at the Yale British Art Center for “Swimming with Turner” at their amazing J. M. W. Turner show! 12:30 britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions-...

A fun Wild West Romeo and Juliet at the Globe - with more dancing that you might expect! stevementz.com

A new oceanic Shakespeare bust, in the Guildhall at Stratford-upon-Avon! #bluehumanities #atthebottomofshakespearesocean www.stratfordobserver.co.uk/news/the-lat...

If this Book were Ocean, how would it feel between your fingers? Wet & slippery, just a bit warmer or colder than the air around it, since the Ocean is our planet’s greatest reservoir of heat. READ @stevementz.bsky.social & co's OCEANIC NEW YORK: book + ocean + city. tinyurl.com/42b2ejrx

Tomorrow night, online courtesy of the NY Public LIbrary - in conversation with Morgan Vo about The Selkie and Sailing without Ahab - register here www.nypl.org/events/progr...

Some thoughts on the Denzel Washington / Jake Gyllenhaal Othello, now on Broadway - stevementz.com/othello-on-b...

I'm very happy to see *Sailing without Ahab* on the NY Public Library's list of Best Poetry titles! www.nypl.org/books-more/r...

@greenleejw.bsky.social A view of the Cow & Calf at low tide

So amazing to have this map by @greenleejw.bsky.social in my book!

Reading the Coastal Studies Reading Group's selection for Monday's session, Laura Watt's *Energy at the End of the World: An Orkney Islands Saga*. The prologue is 🎯 : 'The future belongs to the storytellers' (10). If you're interested in joining us (3pm UK time), @stevementz.bsky.social is our host.

Come join us to chat about Hydrofeminist Thiking with Oceans tomorrow at 9 am Eastern with the Coastal Studies Reading Group - email me or Anna Pilz for the Zoom link - stevementz.com/coastal-stud...

Very exciting to see this collection out in the world! I can’t wait to get a copy. Congrats to the editors and contributors!

Need some reading this weekend? Highly recommend the inaugural issue of PUBLIC HUMANITIES -- and especially "The Necessity of Public Writing" by @devoney.bsky.social emphasis on NECESSITY #humanities www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Are you interested in discovering what #CoastalHistory is all about? Journal editors @coastalhistory.bsky.social , @robtjames.bsky.social and Joana de Freitas discuss this approach in the first issue of Coastal Studies & Society journal. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Some thoughts on the funny & speculative "We Are Your Robots" at Tfana through December 8th! I'm already planning to go back - stevementz.com/we-are-your-...

The Coastal Studies Reading group will join together in Zoomtopia on Monday 18th November to read Jon Anderson's *Surfing Spaces* - note the early time (7:30 am Eastern; 12:30 pm UK), and reach out to Anna Pilz to receive the Zoom link and pdfs! stevementz.com/coastal-stud...

So great to see Vanessa Daws’s Swimming a Long Time together in the form of a gorgeous book! Such a flood!

Looking forward to the amazing Ethan Lipton and his orchestra in Brooklyn tonight!

Today! I'll be Zoom-talking about "Water and Alienation in King Lear and The Winter's Tale" via the Haunted Shores network - 1 pm Eastern / 5 pm UK haunted-shores.com/2024/10/15/h...

Come to St John’s in Queens this Saturday for Whitman on Walls - poetry from the SJU community + films from the Compagnia de’ Colombari!

Speaking of Object Lessons, we also have an excerpt from former Rachel Carson Center Fellow Steve Mentz. Read a part of his 𝘖𝘤𝘦𝘢𝘯 here. #bluehumanities #envhum #envhist @stevementz.bsky.social

I'm thrilled to announce a new book series from Bloomsbury - The Blue Humanities! I'm co-editing with the brilliant Serpil Oppermann, and we are working with Ben Doyle at the press. Send us your watery thought, queries, manuscripts, visions! stevementz.com/blue-humanit...

It’s out today! I’m so excited to see this strange fish sail into the world! www.fordhampress.com/978153150632...

Congrats to Dyani Taft for winning this award for her brilliant article! I can’t wait to teach this one!

I’m very much looking forward to this conversation tomorrow! Reach out if you’d like to join!

Uni Bremen’s Blue Humanities lecture series starts Wednesday. I’m honored to lead an amazing list of speakers. Contact on the flyer for the Zoom link!

Happy to be in Braga today talking with Environmental Historians !

Today the Coastal History/Coastal Studies Network will be discussing Christina Gerhardt's book Sea Change, and Christina will be joining us. I'm looking forward to it! #CoastalHistory #envihist #envstudies This is just a peek: www.terrain.org/2023/nonfict...

Glorious early October swimming today - pic is dawn, but I swam mid-afternoon, when the top few feet of water was nice and warm - getting cold down below!

Art in Huntington + a ChatGPT-inflected Aeschylus in Fort Greene - stevementz.com/art-under-co...

A great collection of essays on "Stuckness" from the brilliant @optionalstephanie.bsky.social and the Post45 crew - post45.org/sections/con...

I'm so pleased to be able to share a cover for my forthcoming poetry book, *Sailing without Ahab* - plus a few notes on the wayward origins of this strange project! stevementz.com/sailing-with...

Sometimes on social media I post recaps of conferences, like this great one from last weekend at Greenwich - stevementz.com/shax-and-the...

Finally made it to the open blue! Any watery, literary, Shax-ish types on here?