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My Christmas Poetry Quiz is now up! Which poet embroidered a scarf as a Christmas gift? Which poet asked Santa for a chameleon? Which poet loves holly, man? All these and more here:

Great tribute. JC's approach to reviewing is an approach I share, and one which poetry needs. If your review only cements a friendship, or solicits a good review in return, or is only written for "the community", it's not doing its job.

Beautiful. I've always found this one extraordinary. Same book; my translation: Four Ages II I strangled my brother because he would not sleep with the window open. My sister, he said before he died, I have spent entire nights watching you sleep, leaning on your reflection in the glass.

This is good (and links to #REF2029 if that's where your head is at today). Every academic I know WANTS to publish open access - we want people to read our stuff! It's about creating mechanisms to support that, especially for non grant-funded research.

Out in the US already, the reissue of Behind the State Capitol: Or Cincinnati Pike should available in the UK in Jan or Feb.

If you are a member of a university library, or any other library, please make a purchase request for Utter Vulnerability: Essays on the Poetry of John Wieners. Of interest to anyone concerned with New American Poetry, queer poetry and, in Allen Ginsberg's estimation, a "pure poet". bit.ly/3YdRcdn

Call for applications! Poet-in-Residence Villa Waldberta / Lyrik Kabinett, Munich Applications open until 20th January 2026 www.lyrik-kabinett.de/aktuelles/ne...

How lovely to receive a Pushcart nomination for my poem 'Small Town', published in Carmen Et Error by @thebraag.bsky.social and @kymdeyn.bsky.social. carmenerror.com?page_id=510

Fascinating piece on poetry and AI from Michael Schmidt. I love the idea that Virgil, Horace and Ovid were LLMs guiding Renaissance Latin poets. I wonder if we could argue some much more recent poetry was similarly composed: Homer, Dante and Aimé Césaire as LLMs for Derek Walcott's Omeros?

🎉We're hiring!🎉 We're looking for 2 Postdoctoral Researchers to join our exciting, interdisciplinary team. Both are full-time, fixed-term (almost 4 years), based in Edinburgh's @uoe-cahss.bsky.social / @uoe-llc.bsky.social w/ links to @schoolofppls.bsky.social & @morayhouse.bsky.social Pls share!

Utter Vulnerability: Essays on the Poetry of John Wieners (eds. Michael Kindellan and Alex/Rose Cocker) now available from PULM, full of wonderful essays from the great and the good of Wieners scholarship, plus one from me on transcendence of the confessional mode. www.pulm.fr/index.php/EN...