The Weekly Read is “The Americanity of the 'American Lyric': Claudia Rankine in Ibero-American Translation” by Whitney Devos. The article appears in Lyric beyond Containment, a special issue of @differences.bsky.social (36:2-3). Read it for free: buff.ly/hj5wL6r

We’re so excited about ASAP/17 in Madison in October! Check out the CFP here! And please share widely! Our annual conferences are so fun every year because so many different kinds of scholars and artists alike come together! www.artsofthepresent.org/conference/3...

“there are only 7 full-time book critics left in the US: three at NYT ( Jacobs, Garner, Szalai), 2 at WaPo(Rothfeld, Charles), 1 each at WSJ (Sacks), NY mag (Chu), Slate (Miller) more people have walked on the moon than write book reviews for a living” worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...

Awful.

this is a Canadian petition to uphold charter rights for transgender and minority communities if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Any Spinoza experts want to be on my podcast? www.juliecarrpoet.com/return-the-key

Yes. And in response to that Savage article, here's the NCES data on the actual racial and ethnic composition of US college faculty. nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/di...

Moments later, my copies of The Wanderer arrived from @nupress.bsky.social!! Yesterday was a great mail day!

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For all of your gag-gifting-meets-seriously-dumb-good-bad-great holiday reading needs, here’s a friendly reminder that The Most Unwanted Novel is the Christmas on Mars novel your loved ones have never been waiting for🎄 You can get it for 20% off with the code GIFTS below through the 31st:

It’s now (and until Jan 3rd!) 50% off with code NEWYEAR—along with every other incredible book on the @nupress.bsky.social website!! nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014790...

Happy book birthday to Here Is a Figure!! (Flowers repurposed from my human birthday last week, haha.) I’m very grateful to everyone who’s read it over the past year. This book is about people lying down & bodies on the ground in contemporary literature—esp poetry & drama, but also fiction.

2025 was a difficult year, but social movements scored real victories. From tenant strikes and Indigenous-led forest defence to union wins, climate campaigns, and Palestine solidarity, @scottneigh.bsky.social runs down 15 achievements that show the power of collective action.

"Lyric beyond Containment," a special issue of differences edited by Sarah Dowling and Claire Grandy, is now available. View the TOC, read the intro, and "The Americanity of the 'American Lyric',"all freely available: buff.ly/3RkT2Hv

The canoe that I mention in my book got a significant makeover

Our special issue of differences is out! Claire and I were asked to suggest one article that would be open access, and (although it was VERY hard to choose) we picked Whitney’s, which is about Claudia Rankine’s “American lyric” in Ibero-American translation: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...

Later this morning if anybody’s free + interested. One thesis: sustained acts of creative attention are deeply countersystemic. Spaces for such activity are tiny + under attack, which means that thinking is itself political & spaces for doing it must be defended together &slowly, tactically expanded

This afternoon in Hamilton!

Have you considered buying a LittlePuss subscription service for your enemies or lovers? Because we would love nothing more than to consistently ship them safe transsexual literature over the course of a year. We don't like to traffic in hyperbole but it's probably the best decision you'd ever make.

Why are authors and publishers are concerned about AI and authorship? Courtney Smotherman outlines several author concerns and details one university press's approach to AI in today's post for #FeedingTheElephant. 🔗 networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

Friends: if you or someone you know is interested in reviewing our edited collection Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination (see 👇) for a journal, please let me know! An arrangement can possibly be made! www.upress.umn.edu/978151791918...

Last month, we celebrated the magazine’s third birthday. Today, we write to you with an appeal: help us keep going. Next year will see the publication of Issues 08: Groups and 09: The End. As we make these new projects, we need your help: www.thepsychosocialfoundation.org/donate

I just ordered this—NAFTA is such an interesting group of translators, and I’ve been looking forward to checking this out!

Yes, the fuhrer has banned World AIDS Day, &, just in time, I'll be in this nation’s crooked capital to read from TERRY DACTYL at Politics & Prose on… World AIDS Day! Yes, 7 pm on Monday, December 1, please spread the word!!💐 Masks strongly encouraged, let's take care of one another💕See you soon💕

So. . .will Canadian universities change their reliance on MS Teams?

A great guide, and I think a lot of non-poets would also love these ideas, especially a small press subscription! I currently have one from World Poetry and it’s amazing! worldpoetrybooks.com/subscribe

NEW JAMES LINDSAY #KFB10 #spring2026 #preordersale #poetrywellserved #mains www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p203/J...

A couple of years ago I promised myself that I’d write 2 book reviews/year—I really like writing them, and it felt like a good thing to do. Well, it’s a lot easier said than done! Last year I managed to squeak in under the wire, but this year it’s not going to happen, unfortunately.

@robmclennan.bsky.social is always doing the most for all of us & everyone in poetry should be thankful every day! & should buy a few above/ground chapbooks to show it!! abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2023/10/abov...

I am profoundly grateful for small press publishing @essaypress.bsky.social @pamenarpress.bsky.social @omnidawn.bsky.social @solid-objects.bsky.social THANK YOU! Here is The Garden. My writing owes so much to the generous people behind these presses.

A great book, with the best title!!

Here’s Here Is a Figure! It’s about the lying-down figures that are ubiquitous in contemporary lit. It shows how they remediate apparently-opposed precedents: the dead body, the odalisque, the protester & the patient in bed. It’s about what they’re doing & what we’re asked to do in continuation.

PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS! gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book! www.versobooks.com/products/303...

Liron Mor declines the MLA’s Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies due to the MLA leadership’s refusal, in the midst of an ongoing genocide, to pass to the Delegate Assembly for debate a resolution in support of the 2005 Palestinian call for BDS: utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/mla-...

Grateful beyond words to have these gorgeous, generous blurbs from Charles Bernstein, Andrew Epstein, and @nicksturm.bsky.social with me on the back cover of Dispatches from the Avant-Garage + more beautiful blurbs from John Yau and William Barillas inside (copied into comments below) 😭

Heads up: The Carleton Poetics Society is looking for poets & musicians to perform at Verses for Change on December 1. tinyurl.com/vfc251201 for info and performer sign up. Instagram account: www.instagram.com/thepoeticsoc...

This is such a great episode!

National Housing Day reading! Another great one from @btlbooks.com💜🩷

Some contributors have begun to receive their copies of our special issue!! Looks like it will become more widely available next week!

The University of Nottingham (UK) has proposed the closure of all of its Modern Languages programs, comprising Russian, Mandarin, German, French, Spanish and Portuguese. This is a dire situation for students and their teachers. Please sign to oppose!! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This is the importance of buying the books we write and teach from university presses. The same administrations that don’t care about the humanities would be just as happy to have academic publishing handled by these companies. We can save our own publishing ecosystem- but we have to do it.

The bar is in hell BUT IT CAN STILL GET LOWER. Beginning to understand, in new ways, why Dante needed nine levels

Carney’s Tory government will survive its budget vote. Canadians decimated the only rudderless party that could exact some slight measure of hold. Canada has two conservative parties — the Liberal tories under Carney’s coup of that party and the far right Conservatives. The people have been screwed.

Congrats to @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social on a great launch last night! The final poem that ryan performed got the entire room singing, spontaneously taught by the poem itself, but without explicit instruction, how we could actualize & activate this thing, together. It was very moving!

Keegan’s book is just so, so good - on how poetry expresses, refracts, and critiques state-managed capitalism, and how it does this by developing interdisciplinary public forms. I’ve been reading this book all week and cannot wait to talk with Keegan and Chris later today!

My book A FUNNY THING: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE UNDISCIPLINED is now available for pre-order in a paperback priced for humans! Go get it!

If there are any survivors of childhood sexual abuse at the hands of men in powerful positions reading this amid the avalanche of posts about Epstein, and you have not read my book Excavation, dm me. I have two copies I’d be happy to send. I hope you’re taking care as the timeline unfolds.

Congrats to Omar El Akkad & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson both shortlisted for the 2025 Writers' Trust Hilary Weston Prize for Nonfiction ICYMI here are my 2025 conversations with each Omar: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar... Leanne: tinhouse.com/podcast/lean... @biidaasamose.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org

For University Press Week, we're highlighting the important, collaborative work that Senior Acquisitions Editor @rcolesworthy.bsky.social does to build bridges across the scholarly publishing ecosystem: tinyurl.com/3t7mdnef/ #TeamUP #ReadUP