“I’m also glad to see such an excellent choice by the Library of Congress, which has recently been a target of Trump and his hogmen—I was afraid this year’s Laureate would be someone like Kid Rock.” lithub.com/arthur-sze-i...

This was so fun!!! Thank you @daisyatter.bsky.social for being the most fabulous interlocutor 💗

Back to school reading this year: “Slow Violence: Confronting Dark Truths in the American Classroom,” by Ranita Ray - just released and sparking interesting conversations. Consider teaching this book! @ranitaray1.bsky.social @stmartinspress.bsky.social

Monthly Dispatch # 26—ft. @roaming.bsky.social Sam Glover @zissenberg.bsky.social @zenarab.bsky.social @alvinlu.bsky.social @stephensunderland.bsky.social Kat Meads, Marie-Claire Bancquart tr. Christina Cook, Lou Syrah @daisyatter.bsky.social & more—is up... minorlits.substack.com/p/monthly-di...

ALSO! Monthly Dispatch # 26—ft. @roaming.bsky.social Sam Glover, Zachary Issenberg @zenarab.bsky.social @alvinlu.bsky.social @stephensunderland.bsky.social Kat Meads, Marie-Claire Bancquart tr. Christina Cook, Lou Syrah @daisyatter.bsky.social & more—goes out Friday sign up: minorlits.substack.com

I wrong about Roberto Tejada’s poetics in the age of Tr*mp’s borderlands politics for Action, Spectacle www.action-spectacle.com/summer-2025-...

Space makes me nervous too <3

Job alert: Research Associate/Post-Doctoral Fellow - Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

Has anyone read Red Star by Alexander Bogdanov? 😈

"There’s such a fragility in the US right now around what national identity is [...] It’s a very hard-to-articulate kind of social structure that I've been chasing the language for for a long time..." @daisyatter.bsky.social talks to @monalisavitti.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/07/08/t...

"the colonial dynamics in the Southwest are still so sore and fragile and fraught that people negotiate a sense of belonging in every single interaction..." – Daisy Attenbury ( @daisyatter.bsky.social ) in conversation with Cristina Politano ( @monalisavitti.bsky.social )

Last month I sat down with Sydney Bollinger from Write or Die Mag to talk about heartbreak, poetry and space capitalism. Here’s what we came up with ~ writeordiemag.com/author-inter...

For anyone who’s in Buffalo, NY! Looking forward to visiting Poetics Plus and doing a class visit with MFA students :)

Excited for this and super thrilled to be able to join virtually 💜💜

I’m not going to tell people how to feel about protests… at least not today. Instead, I’ll recommend Sarah Schulman’s book about ACT UP. It’s not just a history of the organization; she also talks strategy in a very practical way, especially regard coalitions.

Too brief in nyc but such a nice reading!

Reminder! There's still time to apply to be a TLC Fellow @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social — but the deadline is coming up! 📅 Apps due: April 7, 2025 🔗 For info and how to apply: tlc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2025/03/03/c...

Peter Trachtenberg examines how icon Lorraine O’Grady’s literary artwork fused poetry and politics.

So looking FWD to this! 🖤

Monday antidote to the madness 🖤 “As my scholarly trajectory has unfolded, I find myself continually drawn back to the concept of dolor […] dolor is undoubtedly something we carry with us.” —Francisco Galarte / @dapperchicano 2025

Circled back to my old preoccupation with space billionaires and everything makes sense

Heading to Iowa City to read @prairielights.com tomorrow! Thanks to Alyssa Perry and the Iowa Writers Workshop

Heading to Iowa City this week to read from new work and The Kármán Line 💫 suppose it’s a better time than ever to talk abt Earth/space borders and human boundaries

About to do a reading in Iowa next week, so this should be a fun time

“The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned.” —Anaïs Nin

There’s a massive fight on college campuses right now

Craving different public discourses right now and on cue @nightboat.bsky.social delivered this to my door. Congrats to the many contributors, this looks amazing. Reading against my own feeling of blowing away like dust. Permanent Record. Poetics Toward the Archive. There’s a link out there—find it!

I’m facilitating a zine-making workshop inspired by the work of the Sea Island Citizenship and Mississippi Freedom schools. Sound interesting? Learn more/register here: socialpracticecuny.org/event/freedo...

In early 2025, uranium from a Superfund site on the Navajo Nation will be removed from tribal land to a landfill run by state officials in New Mexico.

Watching with horror what is happening in the US. I've just saved a copy of the NASA style guidelines as a record in case they remove the provision for non-gender-specific language. 🧪 WomenInSTEM

Honored and moved to see “The Kármán Line” in @yourimpossiblevoice.com 💫

Woke up wanting to buy one of the old “Bernie beats Tr*mp” t-shirts from 2020. Are those collectible yet?

Wish I could gather up all the little substacks into a mesh network and have them catch me in this social media free fall

Spread the word!

My fiancé saw a TikTok about opening all the doors and windows for fresh air during a cold snap so it’s a freezing morning over here

NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! (Kind of) 📚💙 In honor of my late grandfather CLR James's 124th birthday, meet the new edition of his 1953 book *Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We live In* I wrote the foreword with 🧪 in mind! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Crossing Latinidades Summer Institute and Fellowship applications are open! Pre-candidacy CUNY doctoral students are invited to apply by Jan. 30 www.gc.cuny.edu/news/crossin...

Maybe 2025 is the year of reading collected letters

What is a “low energy creative”? Is that me

Spent Christmas Eve watching Tokyo Godfathers 💃🏻

Santa needs to unionize and get PTO!!

Our winter issue is here! Featuring Andrew Martin on Alan Hollinghurst, Amir Ahmadi Arian on an elusive Iranian translator, Melissa Febos for our Objects of Desire column, new fiction by Ayşegül Savaş, a folio of long poems, and much more! Read it in full online now: https://buff.ly/4g2P9QL

What gyms don’t play CNN and Fox 24 hrs? Asking for 2025 me

Heads up I’ll be reading tonight in Denver with wonderful peeps at Counterpath Books’ space on Essex, 7pm + snacks!

Just … no.

Anyone in Denver this weekend? I’ll be reading with Julie Carr, Stella Corso and Alyssa Perry at Counterpath Space on Colfax! Celebrating new books 💜

Also honored to be included here with so many greats!

Thanks so much to @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social and Abe Loomis for this conversation on The Kármán Line, NM’s space tourism industry, and life after dissertation 💫