I cannot believe this woman, who retaliated on PEN staffers speaking out for Gaza, is still insisting that the threat is coming from both sides. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/o...

Ben Franklin:

literary studies got nothing on sewer periodical print culture

Emily Dickinson on Dirk Nowitzki

The entire special issue on terrorist motivation has just been published, with several pieces #openaccess. Check it out. www.tandfonline.com/toc/ftpv20/3...

“Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.” www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

I've been catching up on Index for Continuance episodes, the small press podcast hosted by Hilary Plum & Zack Peckham out of Cleveland. Lots of terrific & granular conversations about nonprofits, literary funding models, politics, small press communities, & more. www.indexforcontinuance.com/podcast

Ammiel Alcalay‘s highly-anticipated, monumental new book: a mix of memoir, poetry, auto-critique, prose narrative, history, and investigative journalism by other means. www.eventbrite.com/e/controlled... @cunypoetics.bsky.social @zohrasaed.bsky.social

some days I question my career at the paragraph factory more than others

Robert Glück, pictured here, says "the history of arts organizations is so ephemeral." The new archive at Small Press Traffic, arranged for public access in the Mission, materializes the literary organization's history in Bay Area small press publishing. www.smallpresstraffic.org/archive/arch...

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...

someone call Nelson Rockefeller and tell him he's being rebranded an enemy of the state cup.columbia.edu/book/foundat...

the Heritage Foundation was a direct reactionary response to the effectiveness of the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Century Foundation...

no better time to check out Amy Paeth's incredible book on the history of US Poet Laureate & the role of the state in American poetry @columbiaup.bsky.social cup.columbia.edu/book/the-ame...

signing off from my very normal podcast: "We have the watch. And I'll see you at Valhalla"

in retrospect, there’s probably never been a name as threatening as “America Online”

today in books received! thanks to @andyhines.bsky.social for this indispensable resource for gen ed classrooms, how to be a freshman classrooms, critical university studies research, and labor education!

The imagined consumer on the landing page for Google's NotebookLM is a student in an upper-division literature course who has been assigned James Joyce's "Ulysses," and asks the software to summarize the novel and identify its themes. Who is this advertising for?

All of this is to repeat what we know well from research. Terrorism today is defined by diversity: all genders, ages, backgrounds, ideologies, and especially, all degrees of commitment to those ideologies - from those for whom it doesn't even matter, to the full-on true believers.

Adrienne Raphel covers the peril of lit and arts funding, as organizations are left reeling after budget cuts at the NEA, NEH, and IMLS. “One of the…outcomes of the government’s terminating these grants is the uncertainty that this withdrawal causes for future planning.” at.pw.org/ArtsFundingPeril

Print is a rent strike. Nobody’ll ever know which chapter I read first.

Mark Doty in 2012: "This contradiction – the fact that we poets tend to be poor team-players and that we very much want to be loved – is what causes us to react so strongly to the Best American Poetry. We are fascinated by it, and love to criticize it."

“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute based in Bremen, Germany. “These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

my university's cybersecurity training "generative AI: seeing through the deception" is an AI-voice-narrated video telling me about AI voice fakes

The @bibsocamer.bsky.social [Bibliographical Society of America] is hiring our next executive director! Is it you? The ED coordinates & manages the varied activities of this active scholarly society that focuses on the study of books & other textual artifacts. Please circulate widely! Due: 10/10/25.

Readers have long been frustrated by Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken". Thanks to AI, it is now possible to explore BOTH of the paths described by the speaker

The point of this book is to have an immediate place to turn to the brilliant insight and analysis of scholars and organizers who have been thinking critically about the US university for decades . Please get a copy, order it for your library, share it with students, and read with comrades.

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.

she says "our president's laws" the instructor is a Senior Lecturer in the English Department

Even Train Daddy is pro-Mamdani.

super juiced about close reading ✅

A really happy outcome of writing a book about the conglomeration of publishing and the response of nonprofit and independent publishing would be if it helped even a just little bit to get any smart young people working at small presses

The gloves are off...

If anyone (@thebaffler.com @nplusonemag.com @publicbooks.bsky.social) might be interested in an article offering an ideological post-mortem of almost four decades of The Best American Poetry anthology as a conservative publishing project, I'm yr guy.

This is appalling. As I've said before, giving DL control of an annual anthology for 35 years was a mistake. BAP is a deeply reactionary project thru which DL launders his ideology (& ego!) via a rotating cast of "ecumenical" editors. It's an unequivocal good that this year's edition is the last.

It's true! Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century is just about to leave the printers and get out the door. Good time to order is now to get it ahead of all the johnny-come-latelies and other losers!

Trump administration preparing to file lawsuits against all major film studios for rampant use of cross-cutting, parallel editing, American-style montage, and other techniques which conspire to create the illusion of temporal and spatial continuity onscreen.

The Poetry Project's Fall 2025 schedule has just been announced. There'll be a memorial reading for Alice Notley on Wednesday November 19 at 8pm. Free to attend, no RSVP, but sure to be packed. www.poetryproject.org/events/at-ni...

this is that real good shit, the dumb shit, the Soft Idiot Supreme shit that fills you back up in trying times. 30 seconds of pure frothing liberation from reality

Thanks to @evankindley.bsky.social for shepherding this into print. www.chronicle.com/article/peer...

It’s publication day for Matthew Holman’s much-anticipated book on poet Frank O’Hara’s career as a curator Available now from Bloomsbury at 30% off in paperback www.bloomsbury.com/us/frank-oha...

dreamt I was in a canyon with Ted Berrigan & others (on a wagon?)--I was late but the canyon was also a "picture" I was "studying." woke up to find a copy of The Sonnets for sale for $666.

Emory University to "promptly and carefully to discontinue current DEI offices and programs"

“Bake me a cake as fast as you can” is an unhinged demand.

new ghost just dropped— —a huge publication for continuing to chart Spicer’s work & legacy, & a memorial volume to Kevin Killian’s grace, wit, & generosity www.weslpress.org/978081950190...

Someone touched the bucket in the parking lot.

the summer may be coming to an end but the sewers will go on.

a stunning essay by one brilliant poet on the work of another brilliant poet, www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/171...

Reading about expanding threats to interlibrary loan (bc of Trump's IMLS cuts, tariffs, etc.) means I need to re-up this: