Whatever David Hume might say, I have complete confidence in the sun coming up in the morning, the intelligence of poems, and the resolute brilliance of Johanna Winant

Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.

Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.

The Politics of Speech in Later Twentieth-Century Poetry This book argues that local speech became a central facet of English-language poetry in the second half of the twentieth century.

I've been trying so hard to get my book reviewed (link.springer.com/book/10.1007...).

Got two good ones here and here but that's it: (read.dukeupress.edu/genre/articl...) and here (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Gwendolyn Brooks predicting Trump in 1989 (from the Brooks archive at Urbana-Champaign)

Very nice to see you at PAMLA!

Assistant Professor, Creative Writing - Orlando, Florida, United States The Opportunity:The College of Arts and Humanities (CAH) at the University of Central Florida (UCF) invites applications for 3 tenure-earning, 9-month, assistant professors to teach Creative Writing (...

We are hiring 3 tenure-track Creative Writing assistant professors (2 fiction, 1 poetry) here at UCF. jobs.ucf.edu/jobs/assista...

I still say it the wrong way! And Eugene.

Tony Harrison V.

RIP

Read this book!

This is horrible. Attacks on the humanities are another way to destroy our future. Now is when we need the humanities the most.

Florida Paints Over Rainbow Memorial for Pulse Nightclub Shooting Victims The mayor of Orlando, Fla., said that the crosswalk mural, which featured the Pride flag’s colors, was removed overnight this week. Community members protested and have, for now, repainted it.

A rainbow crosswalk that was part of a memorial to the 49 people killed in a 2016 mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub, a popular gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, was painted over this week by the state, raising outcry from city officials and the community.

That’s amazing

Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century A user’s guide to the fundamental practice of literary studies, providing context, examples, and practical exercises

in CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I wrote a 36 page three-part introduction: What Close Reading Is, What Close Reading Does, and What Close Reading Has Been

30 pages of it is now online at @princetonupress.bsky.social

press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

The Politics of Speech in Later Twentieth-Century Poetry: Local Tongues in Heaney, Brooks, Harrison, and Clifton. William Fogarty. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. Pp. xi+247. | Modern Philology: Vol 1...

I did! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Sad to hear that artist Matthew Courtney was murdered in his apartment yesterday
RIP

Closer Closer by Miriam Gershow

S/o to my scrappy publisher who has only deep empathy for their authors stuck in the metaverse to hustle books.

Can you please (plz!) share the shit out of (& preorder!) my forthcoming book here? I want Bluesky to be THE platform for authors. regal-house-publishing.mybigcommerce.com/closer/

🙏🙏📙📙

Poetry Review: ‘Context Collapse,’ by Ryan Ruby (Gift Article) With “Context Collapse,” Ryan Ruby aims to explain poetry’s origins and its waves of innovation all the way to the present.

I wrote for New York Times Books about a fascinating, irritating, ambitious, and did I say fascinating? book length verse essay, "Context Collapse: A Poem Containing a History of Poetry," by Ryan Ruby.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/b...

The great Nikki Giovanni alive here:

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/161883...

The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose is the first collection of essays solely focused on examining the Nobel prize winning poet’s prose. The collection offers ten different perspe...

New book on Seamus Heaney's prose out edited by Ian Hickey and Eugene O'Brien (I have an essay on the prose poems in it): www.routledge.com/The-Frontier...

Please add!

Since I didn't yet see one, I made a starter pack for scholars with interests in POETICS & POETRY, LYRIC THEORY, VERSE GENRES, etc.

Please share, suggest friends, and/or reply to be added. The more the merrier!

go.bsky.app/4fxbKvR

The Politics of Speech in Later Twentieth-Century Poetry: Local Tongues in Heaney, Brooks, Harrison, and Clifton. William Fogarty. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. Pp. xi+247. | Modern Philology: Vol 1...

journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

read.dukeupress.edu/genre/articl...

Congratulations, Stephen!

Louise Glück