now that women have ruined the workplace we should just get rid of it

Five years & one month ago, this book came out. I’m very grateful to everyone who has read & taught it, and I very much hope to return to Sappho, WA, one day. Yes, it is a real place! Well, okay, it’s not any more, but it used to be.❤️

Excellent article here. Our students are our greatest advocates. Counter proposals will be put forward, and we are supporting colleagues in Music, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at Nottingham with their campaigns www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Someone at a Russell Group university was moved to almost-poetry by their Faculty Meeting… Can anyone do better?

This is so great! There may be funds for starting new things but almost never for sustaining the infrastructure you need to do new old and ongoing things!!

Lit mag friends: I have a couple of undergrads who would be amazing readers for your journal. And one is looking for a summer internship, specifically (for grad hours, unpaid). Anyone have a spot to offer?

Academic authors: self-promote! 💫 This is not a particularly popular account but: 🚨 If you have published a book in the last 5 years (since the hype wears off after a while), especially in the humanities, feel free to reply here and repost! 👇

Deeply ashamed of my alma mater

In the book, I have a great quote from legendary Detroit poet and Alternative Press contributor Jim Gustafson on all the labor that went into their letterpress publishing 1/

‘Choose’

I just staumbled across ELDP, Endangered Languages Documentation Programme, "creating a repository of resources for linguistics, the social science, and language communities." Lots to read here! www.eldp.net #endangered #languages #project #langsky

Blue wave continues

I feel like V should come after W. Just feels wrong the right way I dunno.

Thinking how antithetical was The Alternative Press’s letterpress approach: printing poetry objects (postcards, bookmarks, bumper stickers) made largely for use. Doing the work, for a period, out of a former general store in the wonderfully-named Grindstone City, up at the tip of Michigan’s Thumb.

I recall seeing The Alternative Press’s Ken Mikolowski c. 1974 reading in Ann Arbor out of a tiny book printed by the legendary Walter Hamady’s Perishable Press. And joking about how the poems in the book, Thank You Call Again (1973), hardly deserved the impeccable fine letterpress presentation.

This is how I talk and after ten years in the UK I’ve only just discovered that some British people find it rude? Took forever to find out because I can’t hear what they’re saying over all my enthusiastic overlapping.

👀ICYMI: "As funding cuts squeeze arts programs across universities, research councils double down on ‘evidence-based’ approaches that often cannot capture the nuanced realities art illuminates" #Arts #Evidence #QualitativeResearch

Looking forward to reading this.

Read! Read! Read! 👇

I am SO happy to be able to share the wonderful cover for DISPATCHES FROM THE AVANT-GARAGE: THE ALTERNATIVE PRESS coming in March from Wayne State UP. The cover has it all—postcards, letterpress, a bison. Beautifully designed, as it happens, by Lindsey Cleworth, who grew up in my/our hometown.

Read and, if you can, support university and indie presses!

I am SO happy to be able to share the wonderful cover for DISPATCHES FROM THE AVANT-GARAGE: THE ALTERNATIVE PRESS coming in March from Wayne State UP. The cover has it all—postcards, letterpress, a bison. Beautifully designed, as it happens, by Lindsey Cleworth, who grew up in my/our hometown.

Walked by a teen vaping & leaning against a wall looking like a stressed dad on a break at the plant & thought it was so funny but then I was as stressed preparing to play Yente in my highschool production of Fiddler on the Roof as I was interviewing for a €10M grant in Brussels so who I am to lol

I’ve been saying!!

I’m sorry but this is very funny

What a relief to wake up to good news. Let’s keep going.

Poetry on Drugs: Language, Dreaming, and the Coming Revolution. To take place 20 February 2026 at Keynes Library, Birkbeck. CFP Deadline: 19 December tinyurl.com/poetryondrugs

Vamos a la huelga. Pero una huelga gorda. La situación es crítica, cada año peor. Necesitamos difusión, por favor.

Poetry on Drugs: Language, Dreaming, and the Coming Revolution. To take place 20 February 2026 at Keynes Library, Birkbeck. CFP Deadline: 19 December tinyurl.com/poetryondrugs

Best thing an undergrad professor ever said to me was "why would I be on the side of the institution? I will always be on the side of students." Works in the general too, why would I be on the side of power? I will always be on the side of the people. This is the mf LESSON I keep inside my heart

UPDATE: Family demands UK acts as British journalist Sami Hamdi "suffers health emergency" in US ICE detention Hamdi was arrested by ICE a week ago over his Gaza activism, his family says. "We [are] deeply concerned that his continued detention is damaging his health." (Photo: Soumaya Hamdi)

A new special issue of English Studies I'm really keen to put together! Please consider submitting and circulate widely! @drchrislouttit.bsky.social bookshoplit.com/cfp-booksell...

Greatest ambition

I would love to see more rigorous, popular criticism of contemporary children’s media. Love this, on Miss Rachel, from Sophie Pinkham. thebaffler.com/salvos/speak...

very happy and relieved to confirm: the second printing of #othernetworks will be available on the Anthology Editions website November 21st and also available to order from your favorite independent bookstore shortly after shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...

friends! strangers! the Bad Archivist in me has a request: does anyone have hard copies of the October 20 (2025) edition of @newyorker.com; Vol. 46 No. 13 (2024) of @lrb.co.uk; & September 27, No. 6339 (2024) of @thetls.bsky.social? it's all the places The Miraculous Season has been reviewed 🙏

My greatest ambition is to be left alone to do my weird art but also make enough money that my kids won’t be yoked with student loans into their fifties like I will be, er, sorry, you asked how I understand the difference between management and leadership, this is definitely very important to me, I

Hey that’s my friend JD Ryznar! (all yacht rock enjoyers should really go watch his hilarious series of shorts that set this whole thing in motion)

ICYMI #JuanaAdcock

The news is out and so is the Call for Volume 5 of the Electronic Literature Collection. Thanks to an army of translators it's available in a bunch of languages 🎉 Questions: contact @zachwhalen.bsky.social @videlais.bsky.social Dani Spinosa or me @ elcvol5 [at] gmail [dot] com Please share widely!

We have to keep AI data centers away from the Great Lakes

Co-founder of the influential Beau Geste press (Devon, 1970-76), Martha Hellion is a Mexican book artist, curator and founder of the Centre for Research and Documentation of Artists’ Publications, Mexico City. She joins us for #smallpublishersfair25, Conway Hall, London, Friday 24 / Saturday 25 Oct

43 today, history really piling up at this point.

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!! The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

My latest: "Numerous studies show that majors in the humanities—typically, in departments of English, history, philosophy, religious studies, classics and languages—lead students to employment and life satisfaction outcomes as positive as those for majors traditionally championed as 'practical.'”

Unfortunately still timely

“If you remember better times / you know they were lies, because they led / to this” - Alice Notley

We're ALSO looking for a poet! Two years, part time teaching post in a friendly department. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ075/t...