When you teach contemporary poetry:

They’re saying “Guitar Rock” is back. Recession indicator.

Pompei: Below the Clouds

Give all students a Mubi subscription

Best picture in wikipedia:

Finally watched Sirat. Propulsive story about collectivity but it doesn’t quite land the ending.

Best email I’ve ever received was from CK Williams. I had missed some classes in his seminar, so he wrote:

“You know what I’m going to say. I’m not gonna say it, but consider it said.”

Need a new materialist interpretation of L. Cohen’s Famous Blue Raincoat.

I can hear Nietzsche saying, “I told you so.”’ criticalnoise.org/out-of-your-...

Epigraphs:

A difficult task: how to recommend a movie that is formally daring but deals with reactionary, violent, destructive, patriarchal traditions? Maybe staying with that problem is what Serra ultimately achieves here:

“Fascism attempts to organise the newly created proletarian masses without affecting the property structure which the masses strive to eliminate. Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves.”

liberation theology was always going to win

Adam Curtis voice: “ The rise of AI can be traced back to German Idealism…”

Would love to read a history of the ‘intellectual or scholarly book cover.” How did we go from some gothic lettering, to this:

this new anthology from @sunypress.bsky.social on teaching poetry looks timely

Recommended if you wanna teach young undergrads about colonialism

Nothing more terrifying in Greek play than:

Enter Teiresias…

the true villain in the piano teacher:

Dialectics and irony: the most rabid neo-imperialist state threatens to undo its imperialism

Summarizing logocentrism in one picture to my students:

Written in 1991, but ever so current Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

“Morris L. Ernst asked Joyce, When did you leave the Catholic Church?' and he replied unhelpfully, 'That's for the Church to say.'...”

Nobody could have foreseen this…

This week's #StaffPick is from Kate Seburyamo, Senior Marketing Manager.

"Teaching Poetry Now is like a mixtape featuring artists who have their own style, genre, and rhythm but who all participate as equals." — Crystal Leigh Endsley

sunypress.edu/Books/T/Teac...

When you want to start writing your second book

Walking around with a Dunkin doughnuts bag—embarrassing.

Benjamin’s enthusiastic letter to Schmitt, c.1930. Excised from the first edition of his correspondence by Adorno:

Re: ongoing catastrophe

“This terror from the air inaugurated an era in which the main idea was no longer to target the enemy's body, but their environment. From then on, what would be attacked in wartime as well as in peacetime would be the very conditions necessary for life.”