half off sale—includes the spanking new Poetry After Barbarism!

Don't feed the tech machine on Cyber Monday and its billionaire fiends; feed anti-fascism, poetry, and university presses under attack! Poetry After Barbarism is 50% off today only—a dollar and change for each year it was in development. Ecco: cup.columbia.edu/book/poetry-...

You can find bits of an interview about my new book here:

Announcing our new and forthcoming books in Modernist Studies! buff.ly/HCJbjw9 @xenoglossic.bsky.social @kristingrogan.bsky.social @fuscowrites.bsky.social @maebhlong.bsky.social @matfournier.bsky.social @adam-mckible.bsky.social @skkeller.bsky.social @notquitehydepark.bsky.socia

So grateful for being able to publish this book right now—as tough as it is that the circumstances are as they are!

I'll be busy this autumn launching my new book, Poetry After Barbarism: The Invention of Motherless Tongues and Resistance to Fascism, performing poetry and presenting in-progress projects about extraction and waste as well from time to time.

It speaks for itself. (image courtesy of NY Times)

I am seriously impressed with Karyn Ball, the president of the American Comparative Literature Association who greeted its members thus in a time when we are being asked by administrators to "reimagine" the humanities in ways that will clearly decimate teaching of "foreign" languages & knowledges:

If you don't find this beating of a gardener and father of US service members horrifying you are not worthy of the label human.

We continue thinking and doing through/vs the disasters & injustices. An exhibition of Exit 43 pop-up counterpastorals is now up in Kunstverein Munich—Many thanks to Vera Lutz and Simon Lässig and to curator Gloria Hasnay for the invitation to display these in dialogue with their show Romeo's Eyes.

Columbia UP’s fall catalog is out! See p. 57 for Poetry After Barbarism.

O the prophesies of Alice Notley that we’re rereading in advance of a special live session of my reading group for the overweening Emergency. Rest in anti-tyrannical power.

We of the republic of poetics are all lucky to have Sarah as reader!

Today marks five years since George Floyd was killed by police. Our June 22, 2020 cover “Say Their Names,” by Kadir Nelson, illustrated how Floyd’s murder embodies the history of violence inflicted upon Black people in America. nyer.cm/UmfefJw

On May 22nd at 8:30 in Amsterdam, Jennifer Scapettone will read from her forthcoming book POETRY AFTER BARBARISM and be in discussion w/ Mia You and Sara Giannini. tinyurl.com/5dd9h3uw @xenoglossic.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

McDictator making his scowling way into your food www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

A reading for our most cherished Lyn across all the languages this Saturday, on what would've been her 82nd birthday. I'd say far more but these tidbit, "pitch" formats are particularly unwelcoming for writers the likes of me—just come & hear her work as polyphony! www.facebook.com/events/13981...

Soon we’ll have required oaths of allegiance to the regime. blognostrumuva.wordpress.com/2017/04/11/t...

Thanks to Juliana for this non-elegy on Joshua Clover's refusing to die.

On this May Day & during this week of further cruelty, violence, & devastating loss of those who regarded poetry as trenchant part of communal life, I'm emotional in being able to announce my forthcoming book, Poetry after Barbarism cup.columbia.edu/book/poetry-...

Mining Conversations is a space for cross-practice, international & reflective conversations about mining among artists, academics, activists, & others interested in mining. Please join us Tuesday for The Futurepasts of Copper, Zoom: 1 pm Central: www.anthropocene-curriculum.org/contribution...

With these posts, they’ve made it essentially inarguable that they’re deliberately defying the Supreme Court.

Never was a Harry Potter fan.

Whether you work at a university or attend a university or not, you need to hear this straight-up fascist playbook from the horse's mouth. This 40-year-old megalomaniac who grew up in a Roman family also indicates why Italy is at the avant-garde of the swing rightward.

Today after you hear Judith Butler at 5 you can walk down Ellis Ave to the Gray Center Co-Lab for Arts & Science for dinner & to help me talk with an artist and a geophysicist specializing in climate science: you can do both & get fed! 929 E. 60th St. Chicago, IL 60637 Free and open to the public

When this guy vows to act "instinctively" I shudder

100 children a day dead, and he's talking about American real estate and loving Nazis.

UPDATE: ICE is wildly unconcerned about where this man is and no one will tell me, his registered attorney. The universal answer so far is "let's wait and see where he ends up." This is deeply off. We would have more rights at this point if UPS had lost a pair of shoes I'd just bought from Zappos

Please join us Thursday at 6 pm at the Gray Center Co-Laboratory for Arts and Science on the UChicago campus for dinner and a chat about Art and the Environment: delighted to be in conversation with artist Elizabeth McTernan and climate systems engineer David Keith.

Finally canceled my subscription.

“Squeeze in so we can save democracy”—salvific brethren on crammed Red Line train.

Chicago Transit Authority trains are full of people with signs headed toward the center. Let’s do this.

"How does a system bent upon our ultimate destruction make the unacceptable gradually tolerable?" —Audre Lorde, "Apartheid USA"

wow

🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:

This is what shows up when you try to click on the link to Columbia University's statement of commitment to diversity. I did so as a CUP author.

On April 5, we’re uniting to say Hands Off! Join me to fight back against Trump’s unprecedented power grab. app.sosha.ai/s/KMMeLTrY. Please check out events near you. This is such an important start—we have to keep it going!!

"The Trump administration shut down three watchdog agencies in the Department of Homeland Security, gutting the offices responsible for conducting oversight of the president’s immigration crackdown. More than 100 staff members in the department’s civil rights office alone were fired."

!!! "The university said it had agreed to hire a new internal security force of 36 “special officers” who will be empowered to remove people from campus or arrest them. The wearing of face masks on campus will also be banned..." This is truly the beginning of the end of freedom

Thanks to Elisa Biagini and Montana Ray for pulling together this issue of Voyages highlighting the work of the Alfabeti del Corpo gathering, which includes my first sonnets hailing from coffee-vomit morning headlines of Tr#mp 2.0—a mere 3 months ago, yet harm-strung megaepochs.

A US-born citizen was walking near Chicago in January. ICE snatched him off the street, handcuffed him, threw into a van. His wallet, which contained his ID, was confiscated. He was detained for 10 hours before being released without a record of what occurred. immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul...

In this post Kelly provides great list of easy steps you can take: sign the EveryLibrary petition, call your senators + reps (use 5Calls!). Protect our state libraries, tribal libraries, interlibrary loan, digital equity, vital grants to libraries of all species... 📣 And please spread the word!! 📣

Bookmark “rapid unscheduled disassembly” as tactic for governance from here on in.

Human history is that of the zombies we've become. -Lyn Hejinian, Lola the Interpreter

Right-wing censors are now "quiet banning" books that they can't removed legally. Librarians in Chicago have been finding books dealing with race, LGBTQ+ issues or Islam hidden under shelves, in trash cans or otherwise "disappeared." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/22/l...

3/3: please join the Environmental Humanities & Arts Lab at the University of Chicago for a reading/talk with OG ecopoet/artist/conservationist, gorgeously furious cherisher of all life, julie ezelle patton, in from Cleveland—launching the latest Chicago Review issue devoted to patton. Free & public

Roughly 2 decades of studying a phenomenon that acts as teflon to rationality and coherence to be able to summarize it in a sentence: such is the nature of researching what wants you to be a less-than-bot of populist affect: "their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous."

1 wk and counting to compose a 2-p "update" to the copyedited Poetry After Barbarism toward post-election realities; I succeeded in composing a 1-sentence definition of fascism which makes me pretty—happy would be a grotesque thing to say—grimly satisfied.

This is apparently real.