New Kay Gabriel on September 30th! (Exciting review by Rainer Diana Hamilton) www.frieze.com/article/rain...

So, do we think any of the press around Pan will acknowledge Clune’s testimony in support of ending DEI practices at Ohio universities? Or will that be left out? It was, after all, less than 9 months ago …

If you are free next week & in Toronto or Guelph!

[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)

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.

"Bucknell has decided to close its highly respected, decades-old UP in June 2026. The stated reason? The press serves scholars, not Bucknell undergrads. Bucknell undergrads—& some grad students as well—disagree." FANTASTIC piece on BUP's student internship program. networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

hey, a reader recommendation: when our book Ways of Eating came out in 2023, @allgrim.bsky.social printed amazing tote bags for us - his website shows a huge range of prints, on paper, on tote bags, on cotton tees, often celebrating figures from Virginia Woolf to Walter Benjamin: allgrimprints.shop

Haha.

Can anyone recommend a good book about why spending too much time on the internet is bad? Hoping to give a pointed gift to some formerly(?) liberal boomers who are starting to get weird and problematic…

Book review landscape is bleak, but this contains a high schooler’s review of 2 books from Nightboat, 5 reviews of or excerpts from books published by university presses, 2 reviews of PM Press books, 1 of a Graywolf book, 1 of a 7 Stories book, 1 NYRB Classics & a ton of other fantastic stuff.

Ethical pessimism, antagonism, the value of holding onto your values… podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/i...

Now reading…

"When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers. We stuff the pockets of oligarchs with even more money. We hand over our autonomy, at the very moment of emerging American fascism."

Ontario friends, I’ve got a couple of book-related events coming up the week after next! I’ll be at York on Monday the 29th, and at Guelph on Friday the 3rd. DM me if you’d like more info—it would be great to see you!

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...

"...and finally a brief sparrow poem."

New Susan Howe TOMORROW!! www.ndbooks.com/book/peniten...

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!

“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

LAST CALL FOR SEALEY CHALLENGE DONATIONS!! Everything goes to the Sameer Project to buy tents, food, water, shoes, medicine, etc. for people in Palestine. Send it in tonight!!

Really, really interesting conversation about book reviews, the state of criticism today, etc—from a perspective that centers poetry & the renegade genres for discussing it. I really like this podcast! podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/i...

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.

I love Prudence Heward!! This is her painting Girl under a Tree—it’s here in Hamilton, and I would go to visit it sometimes while I was writing Here Is a Figure!

Only 9 more days till we get a new Susan Howe book … www.ndbooks.com/book/peniten...

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.

My book is available for pre-order from @nupress.bsky.social. 25% discount with code NUP2025 at nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014884... Only a few more weeks until it comes out!

Writing am / kitchen pm. Some of these slogans do apply to both …

I was going to read Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats to my six-year-old, but she hit me and yelled “UGHHHH, not poetry, bro!!”

I wrote about Eugen Gomringer, Europe's first concrete poet, who died last week aged 100 someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/pinks-35-e...

In a time of genocide and mass immiseration, some will wonder…

Sealey Challenge, days 23-25! Juan Gelman, trans Ilan Stavans; Juliana Spahr; Dolores Dorantes, trans Robin Myers. From University of New Mexico Press, Wesleyan & Wave. I’m reading these to raise $ for Gaza via @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/sea...

Hi, friends, an announcement: we're having a sale! Just about everything on our website is 50% off, now through September 8 - gear up for the coming year! www.sup.org Follow @stanfordpress.bsky.social for updates and more info.

NBCC member Sarah Dowling reviewed Damion Searls' new translation of Charlotte Beradt's "The Third Reich of Dreams: Nightmares of a Nation" for Parapraxis:

“Beradt demonstrates that all night, every night, we challenge and change reality. She calls upon us to cling to that strangeness so that we can continue in the work of transformation…”

Nicole Brossard is one of Canada's most important writers. 2020's Avant Desire: A Nicole Brossard Reader, edited by Sina Queyras, Geneviève Robichaud, and Erin Wunker, offers a taste test of 50 years of Brossardian brilliance.

Such a great convo! There’s a chunk abt instructions/prompts/the imperative mood—I was so happy to hear it. I talk about instructions in Here Is a Figure, bc I think they are crucial in contemporary writing. So good to hear these perspectives! (A relief to feel like I’m not totally out to lunch!)

#SealeyChallenge, day 22: Kyle Flemmer’s Building Permit: Capitol Hill, from Gap Riot Press. Flemmer is the founder of The Blasted Tree, another small press! I’m reading a book of poetry/day in August to raise $ for Gaza. Please give here: open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/sea...

cooking the world so our students can turn in papers that say “delve” and “rich tapestry”

Today in my #SealeyChallenge for the Sameer Project: a Nicole Brossard selected, «Temps réel du poème,» from Le Castor Astral. Focused on work from the 80s/90s & a previously unpublished poem from 2022😍 Donate via @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/sea...

Indigenomicon is set to release in November but you can now read the introduction online at Duke University Press: www.dukeupress.edu/indigenomicon

This is awful news for many reasons. I so appreciate seeing this solidarity. I have many questions and mixed feelings about alarmism. We should be sounding the alarm about our mutual conditions and threats—though the latter also well exceed the current admin. www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...

Another pretty one from @knifeforkbook.bsky.social—Neil Surkan’s Their Queer Tenderness! For my Sealey Challenge: reading 1 book of poetry/day in Aug. to raise $$ for the Sameer Project, with @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social Donate, RT, etc! open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/sea...

Terrible news!!

Dalhousie has locked out its faculty—just as they were about to vote on the admin’s latest offer. Solidarity with Dal colleagues!

It's August 19th! So happy publication day to Patchwork, Tom Comitta's latest literary supercut--an exuberant and Shandean escapade, a celebration of the history of fiction in all its bounty, and a delightful master class on narrative desire. And there is a snuffbox too!

Today in my #SealeyChallenge for Gaza: Kate Sutherland’s Beasts of the Sea, from @knifeforkbook.bsky.social! A writing-through of some log books of Russian ships that came to what is now the US, translated & published in the 1920s. Very cool! open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/sea...

“I remember a cold winter day one time - Alex Nicotine borrowed a horse from his friend to go out there and find his horses who wandered away. In my picture he found them. Alex will chase them back to his own home.” - Allen Sapp (Cree artist) 1928-2015 A Cree Life: The Art of Allen Sapp, 1977

“Given the ongoing genocide in Gaza…we call on Sport Canada and Tennis Canada to forbid Canadian athletes to compete against Israeli athletes at the Davis Cup and all other international events.” - 413 🇨🇦 academics, athletes + sports journalists, inc 3 former UN special rapporteurs + an Olympic 🥈ist

Here are the last 3 books I’ve read in my #SealeyChallenge for Gaza: Don Domanski’s Fetishes of the Floating World, Natalie Helberg’s Black Bile Feminisms & Kayla Czaga’s Dunk Tank. Please give to this Sameer Project fundraiser! open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/sea...

Junior faculty and grad students in political science, history, law, and Native American Studies, come take a class with us at the New York Historical Society (and via Zoom) on Native Peoples, American Colonialism, and the U.S. Constitution. To apply, Institute for Constitutional History: 1/2