Letter | Misunderstanding American Studies A recent report and the news coverage around it failed to reflect the field’s aims, writes Alex Lubin.

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@a-lubin.bsky.social on “Misunderstanding American Studies” 💯

Me holding copy of the book

You’ve seen the halftime show … now read my friend Petra’s new book from @dukepress.bsky.social about how Bad Bunny became the global voice of Puerto Rican resistance! 👏🏽👏🏽

www.dukeupress.edu/p-fkn-r

Arthur Sze is the new U.S. Poet Laureate. The Library of Congress just announced that Arthur Sze will be the nation’s 25th Poet Laureate for 2025-2026. He will take over the position on October 9th from the previous Laureate Ada Limón, who…

“I’m also glad to see such an excellent choice by the Library of Congress, which has recently been a target of Trump and his hogmen—I was afraid this year’s Laureate would be someone like Kid Rock.”
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Back to school reading this year: “Slow Violence: Confronting Dark Truths in the American Classroom,” by Ranita Ray - just released and sparking interesting conversations. Consider teaching this book! @ranitaray1.bsky.social @stmartinspress.bsky.social

Monthly Dispatch #26 — July 2025 A letter from the editor[s]

Monthly Dispatch # 26—ft. @roaming.bsky.social Sam Glover @zissenberg.bsky.social @zenarab.bsky.social @alvinlu.bsky.social @stephensunderland.bsky.social Kat Meads, Marie-Claire Bancquart tr. Christina Cook, Lou Syrah @daisyatter.bsky.social & more—is up...

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minor literature[s] | Substack minor literatures ; stuttering cultures. Click to read minor literature[s], a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

ALSO! Monthly Dispatch # 26—ft. @roaming.bsky.social Sam Glover, Zachary Issenberg @zenarab.bsky.social @alvinlu.bsky.social @stephensunderland.bsky.social Kat Meads, Marie-Claire Bancquart tr. Christina Cook, Lou Syrah @daisyatter.bsky.social & more—goes out Friday

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Daisy Atterbury - book review of Roberto Tejada — Action, Spectacle

I wrong about Roberto Tejada’s poetics in the age of Tr*mp’s borderlands politics for Action, Spectacle www.action-spectacle.com/summer-2025-...

Space makes me nervous too <3

Job alert:

Research Associate/Post-Doctoral Fellow - Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean

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Has anyone read Red Star by Alexander Bogdanov? 😈

“[The American Southwest] is a place where the myth of the nation breaks down”: An Interview with Daisy Atterbury—Cristina Politano The Kármán Line is the boundary between Earth’s atmosphere and outer space, calculated by a Hungarian physicist Theodore von Kármán. Daisy Atterbury’s recent hybrid poetic work, named f…

"There’s such a fragility in the US right now around what national identity is [...] It’s a very hard-to-articulate kind of social structure that I've been chasing the language for for a long time..."

@daisyatter.bsky.social talks to @monalisavitti.bsky.social

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"the colonial dynamics in the Southwest are still so sore and fragile and fraught that people negotiate a sense of belonging in every single interaction..."
– Daisy Attenbury ( @daisyatter.bsky.social ) in conversation with Cristina Politano ( @monalisavitti.bsky.social )

Last month I sat down with Sydney Bollinger from Write or Die Mag to talk about heartbreak, poetry and space capitalism. Here’s what we came up with ~ writeordiemag.com/author-inter...

For anyone who’s in Buffalo, NY! Looking forward to visiting Poetics Plus and doing a class visit with MFA students :)

Excited for this and super thrilled to be able to join virtually 💜💜

Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993

I’m not going to tell people how to feel about protests… at least not today.

Instead, I’ll recommend Sarah Schulman’s book about ACT UP. It’s not just a history of the organization; she also talks strategy in a very practical way, especially regard coalitions.

Too brief in nyc but such a nice reading!

Call for TLC Fellowship Applications, 2025-2026 Announcing: TLC Fellowship Call, 2025-2026

Reminder! There's still time to apply to be a TLC Fellow @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social — but the deadline is coming up!

📅 Apps due: April 7, 2025
🔗 For info and how to apply:
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A Black Avant-Garde: How Lorraine O’Grady’s Literary Artwork Fused Poetry and Politics Lorraine O’Grady didn’t become an artist until she was in her mid-forties. She was fifty-five when she had her first show. Still, at the time of her death at the age of ninety last December she had…

Peter Trachtenberg examines how icon Lorraine O’Grady’s literary artwork fused poetry and politics.

So looking FWD to this! 🖤

Monday antidote to the madness 🖤 “As my scholarly trajectory has unfolded, I find myself continually drawn back to the concept of dolor […] dolor is undoubtedly something we carry with us.” —Francisco Galarte / @dapperchicano 2025

Circled back to my old preoccupation with space billionaires and everything makes sense

Heading to Iowa City to read @prairielights.com tomorrow! Thanks to Alyssa Perry and the Iowa Writers Workshop

Heading to Iowa City this week to read from new work and The Kármán Line 💫 suppose it’s a better time than ever to talk abt Earth/space borders and human boundaries

About to do a reading in Iowa next week, so this should be a fun time