I’ve been super excited to share this. The full TOC for TEACHING POETRY NOW, ed by Caroline Gelmi and Lizzy LeRud, is online & chock full of assignments, experiences, and resources from a range of college classrooms. Out in Feb, available for preorder now. sunypress.edu/Books/T/Teac...

It's the end of The Best American Poetry. I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse. defector.com/good-riddanc...

@tricialockwood.bsky.social in SW Atlanta on Thursday! www.acappellabooks.com/pages/events...

Delighted to have joined the History of Film podcast to discuss why public media matters.

Say it often, say it loud: "Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

I'm over the moon that my book, Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets, will be published by the University of Chicago Press in the not too distant future.

Cuts to and closures of university presses are 100% part of the separation (or as @mattseybold.bsky.social has called it "unbundling") of research and teaching in the humanities and the devaluation of both quite frankly--in this case at the expense of the career training admin claims to care about.

[clears throat]...I have another book coming out in the near future if you'd like to read a bit about LYRIC LOGIC, there are some very generous blurbs over at @columbiaup.bsky.social (my thanks to Marjorie Levinson, Oren Izenberg, Theo Davis, Nan Z. Da, and also @philipleventhal.bsky.social)

Students want to create! With their own brains! UIC English is hiring a TT Assistant Professor in prose fiction. As we are one of the very few PhD programs in Creative Writing, PhD is strongly preferred. Happy to answer questions; please share around. uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

I'm glad that @chronicle.com covered EG Gee's exorbitant salary in his last year at WVU: he "rak[ed] in 2 million in total compensation in 2024 as the university made sweeping cuts to academic programs and faculty positions to manage a $45-million budget shortfall" www.chronicle.com/article/afte...

I was quoted in this piece on the AI bubble amidst great company!

Job posting! Assistant Professor in Creative Writing – English Department, University of Illinois - Chicago. To apply, submit an online application including cover letter, CV, letters of recommendation and a 20-page writing sample by November 1, 2025. jobs.uic.edu

saint louis! next week at Wash U, a workshop on periodization, aesthetics, and the neofeudal hypothesis, followed by a talk from Good Enough Art english.wustl.edu/events

I’m taking a day off from reading the news and focusing on good things. If you’d like to focus something good for a moment, here is Mishmish, who is a Very Good Cat. You’re welcome.

I have been impatiently waiting for this book to come out and just this morning aspirationally put selections from it on my grad seminar syllabus, the timing could not be better!

Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away https://theonion.com/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-before-federal-gove-1819579589/

If you, like I, owned a cassette of Poison’s Open Up and Say … Aah, are a big fan of David Ben-Merre & @profchander.bsky.social’s, and can’t get enough of theories of address & apostrophe, you truly must read the epilogue to David’s wonderful book forthcoming from @sunypress.bsky.social

Bloomsbury published today some tidbit of my forthcoming book taco. You can read here! www.bloomsbury.com/us/discover/...

excellent and comprehensive story about what's happening at Texas A&M www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...

stimulating conversation with blake oetting from january just finally came out in november mag! www.novembermag.com/content/anna...

Who benefits from attacks on higher ed? Certainly not the US economy. Certainly not the states where higher ed is the major employer. Certainly not the American people. excellent work @ehayot.bsky.social and @paulakrebs.bsky.social www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...

Took me a min to read Maggie Millner’s gr8 piece in @yalereview.bsky.social, but I’d noted the defensive IG comments when it appeared, which show the lightning speed w which lyric shame circulates. So chuffed she used my work so subtly!! yalereview.org/article/mill... “Is Mary Oliver Embarrassing?”

Poetry/lit people, send Daniel your books

It was an honor to be invited to write about Small Press Traffic's newly organized Print Collection Archives. The work that SPT has done to preserve & make available these materials, recordings, & stories is remarkable. (& the website is really great) www.smallpresstraffic.org/archive/sust...

this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers

a Portuguese interview celebrating publication of the Portuguese translation of Immediacy! thanks @boitempo.bsky.social ! the first in print of a number of translations coming this fall; more soon!

Everything is drawn on and ready to burn and stain for the Fredric Jameson Utopaly. I was hoping to finish by the one year anniversary on 9/22, but there’s probably 60+ hours ahead. Alas, we press on in remembrance. More to come.

Grad students, please submit!!!

I too was blown away by how timely Descent of Alette is right now. The tyrant is capitalism and the billionaire class! This series has been so rewarding and comforting, especially this episode, which I'm saving. 🙏🏻

Read this book!

“This radiates with joy.” Perhaps you too are desperate for some friggin’ joy. Publishers Weekly has given Prieta Is Dreaming — a posthumous collection of stories by Gloria Anzaldúa forthcoming from SUNY P — a starred review. 💫 www.publishersweekly.com/9798855804553

the morning/noon/night narrative structure of my day has been Wayne Shorter "Schizophrenia" -> Robert Logan "Sculptor Galaxy -> Miles Davis "Amandla" and I have to say I recommend this outline strongly

It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.

"advances on the frontier of artificial intelligence (ai) have started to look akin to ho-hum phone upgrades rather than genuine breakthroughs" www.economist.com/business/202...

I’ve tried everything but I can’t get my daughter to stop listening to Mambo Number 5.

hopkins tomorrow! krieger.jhu.edu/modern-langu...

Everyone who's alive should be reading Essex Hemphill "Who dares to tell us we are poor and powerless? We keep treasure any king would count as dear."

I contributed a brief remembrance of Alice Notley to the new issue of The Poetry Project Newsletter Full piece, & remembrances by Eddie, Eileen, Elinor, Peggy, Marion, Joel, Andrei, Simon, Anne, & Harris, here: www.poetryproject.org/publications...

There’s not much left to tell people about what is going on. This is it.

I haven't read it since I was a kid, but isn't the sequel to A Wrinkle in Time about mitochondrial challenges?

bulldozing the U.S.'s second largest export

I'm thinking of teaching a class on "The Work of Art in the Age of Slop" and am wondering if anyone has ideas abut what to include?

Several people asked for the text of this after the talk version appeared in the "Cruel Futurism" episode. Happy to oblige.

good morning Chicago! join us for Neighborhood Social in Bucktown, reconstituting the Hull-House Chamber Theater with a brief performance of Harriet Monroe's The Troll's Holiday - and food& fun! All benefitting the museum after Musk's theft of public funds. www.hullhousemuseum.org/neighborhood...

If you don't know yet, Defector has been publishing some of the best culture writing out there with @brandyjensen.bsky.social at the wheel. Here, Mitch Therieau tells us the day the music died, and it wasn't February 3, 1959. defector.com/the-tragedy-...

The Poetry Foundation invited me to write an essay remembering Alice Notley (1945-2025). I'm grateful for the space to remember her in this way. www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/171...

"There are more than 19 million college students in the US. Most are well removed from corridors of wealth+power..43% of undergrads attend community college. 25% live with their parents." a listicle for everyone, especially for the NYT editors themselves to learn www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...

"They’re selling a fantasy, which in some cases they hope to make real, and in some cases they have no intention of making real."

thorough and synoptic, with clear direction in how to articulate a real agenda