What a lovely idea @annakornbluh.bsky.social ! My last book, FuturePanic, came out in 2021. It's been a minute in poetry world, but as they say, I just needed time to cook— which is to say...stay tuned :) www.coimpress.com/books/future...

Thanks to @aliciawright.bsky.social for all her hard work in getting this cluster together! What a joy to get to work with you! And thanks @franciscondine.bsky.social for all your editorial & technical work! The cluster looks beautiful! @atpost45.bsky.social post45.org/2025/11/c-d-...

For @amishtrivedi.bsky.social, C.D. Wright offers an important case study for understanding the role played by contemporary poets & their poetry in relation to academia; it’s a nuanced understanding of an awkward yet important cultural and artistic dynamic. post45.org/2025/11/c-d-...

Saw Nuremberg in the theater this morning (which is also weird) but it was pretty bland? Even the old romantic 2000s miniseries had the room to ask some of the difficult questions that Kelley and Gilbert's work asked (and was sort of answered by Arendt) and they skirted it and then...skipped out.

Some of you spent a dollar (or more) on this and while I only set up the pay thing to get Bandcamp to let me do other things, I am shocked and appreciative.

Much excite for this one— we face some unique issues in poetry world, not just in the sense of literary studies, but also when one starts thinking more broadly in terms of media. Can't wait!

The labor of love I didn't ruin by making it my main hustle... more songs out on December 5th <3 amishtrivedi.bandcamp.com/track/you-ai...

I think I can probably pull this off, but only on the semesters I've got a poetry workshop. Everyone else...sorry.

It took me too long (between writing projects and grading and lord knows what else) to read Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time. I'm not sure I have ever felt more connected to a text.

Close your eyes and think of the capitalists

Alright which one of y'all is writing the Pluribus as Post-Capitalist Society article??

You want me to talk about myself AND the poems you're publishing? With this face??

Larry Summers turned out to be a creep. I for one am shocked. SHOCKED!

For my Twin Peaks friends, it sounds like Mar a Lago is basically the perfume counter at Horne's Department Store.

I read Electoral-Vote.com every morning (and have most mornings since they started in 2004) and this is a great: The Democrats have a huge burden the Republicans don't have: They care about people suffering; Republicans don't care who suffers, even when it is their own base.

A students flight is messed up returning from a grad school interview. I said that missing class for a grad school interview is a completely fine reason to miss. It's like The Ring: if you're passing the misery of academic life along, you're fine.

Thanks to the kind folks at Bateau Press for making this unusual chapbook a finalist for your prize!

I'm not sure I can watch a Ken Burns doc without Shelby Foote lowkey selling some Lost Cause malarkey.

Those libs are sooooo owned!

When you ask a well known, establishment poet to blurb your book and then you spend your life wondering if they ever actually read it.

Today in politics, the neolibs that make up the Democratic Party are more terrified than the conservatives. More bulletins as events warrant.

All this should tell you about 2026 is that it has always been the economy, stupid. The culture war candidates lost tonight and the people talking about the economy won.

Donald Trump having an ass-level window with a toilet immediately next to it is perhaps the very best metaphor for our moment.

I wonder if Satan greeted Dick Cheney as a liberator.🤔

goddamn youtu.be/93iJcfvkdYw?...

What a fun idea, @tomsnarsky.bsky.social ! Here's a poem of my own from American Poetry Review from a few years back (and there's a new one coming at some point)! #smallpoemsunday

On one hand I feel like artists who have no challenges to having their work published/produced make less exciting art at some point as they age. On the other, I wish I were further along than competing with 25 year olds in the poetry contest system while in my mid 40s.

Imagine if I said to you "All of my organs are failing, my senses have all stopped, I'm bleeding out of my eyes... "But my bank account is baller!" This is the logic of neoliberalism, the health of the society measured through wealth. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Did I do this right at all, @henkaipantomime.bsky.social

"Are you worried about publishing such a political poem?" a friend asks. "No, because I don't assume anyone read it." (the galley version since people said my photo of the print copy was hard to read)

Hello. I have new poems in the wonderful (and always beautiful) Volt. They are from a manuscript called Southern Accents.

It's just gonna be a Mule Variations kinda day. youtu.be/O_v2HChe350?...

Brought to you by the Tortured Metaphors Department

My brain being what it is, this randomly popped into my brain. RIP Noah Gordon but @jimbehrle.bsky.social rocks on And bless the internet: youtu.be/hfwkgQoViMI?...

Idea: poetry book contests shouldn't offer a set prize amount. They should reimburse you for the amount you spent sending the thing out (within reason, of course).

If we lived in a good society, Amazon would shut down and we would all be free forever (not really).

Today, 2/3 of my classes read from physical books. Take that, Amazon...where the students probably bought said books.

AWS crashing various university sites on the day I'm teaching the culture industry section of Dialectic of the Enlightenment...

But what if we kiss'd under the AWS outage?

But like, what if AWS just never came back and we just lived our lives happily?

Canva: Do you know what you're doing in class this week? I didn't wake up just to be attacked.

And then, by day's end, galleys for a long poem (the title poem for the new manuscript) and word that a journal with a few other poems is en route). Alright then—

Waiting for a few poems and (semi-public facing) article to drop like

When asked for slides, what I don't know how to do is color match. Maybe my style is "Tim Burton Batman."

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Somehow today, two emails based on review writing. One saying they liked one review and another one asking me to review a forthcoming book from a poet I adore. Sadly turned down as I'm turning down all such requests, but I guess I'm glad people think I'm good at a thing I never wanted to be good at.

I wish I could not longer define myself in relation to hustle culture.

Have spent the morning considering this question from my little corner of the lit world: Myers was right to say that cw programs democratized literary production, making it more accessible. The Gioia's of the world who say the program era homogenized lit production want to maintain hierarchies.

Universities would not be nearly as vulnerable to the present administration had it not been for the five decades of increasingly neoliberal policies within them leading up to this.

The list of potential films to watch for a Diane Keaton tribute is too long.