Posts by Nick Sturm
I'll be a Visiting Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Iowa starting this fall. Excited to move back to the Midwest with @carrielorig.bsky.social, who pulled off a Lorig-Sturm Iowa sweep with her TT position in School Psychology.
New Orleans Poetry Festival 2026 was perfect
I'm the first in my bloodline to have more than 1000 pdfs in a folder on my hard drive
Saving the English department by relabelling our chronological survey course "the eras tour"
let's sit by the fire this winter and listen to podcasts together
Replace every how-to-publish panel with one on the material realities of publishing. This is where I’m at.
This is the shit 👇
Abstracts are due today for POETRY'S PROGRAM ERA INSTITUTIONS--a seminar at ASAP/17 in Madison this October. A heavy line-up is shaping up--join us! @asapartsnow.bsky.social
going to watch so many late '90s movies this summer
Cover drop! Extremely excited to have this incredible sculpture, Marisol’s Love (1962), on the cover of Relatability, out later this year press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
my plan is to get it in front of Matthew McHeyHey first
happy to serve the culture by setting students up for Billie Eilish's big film debut
OK team--do we know a popular or recent "dark academia" novel with a plot focused on writing, literature, and/or publishing? doesn't matter how insane it is...
Download PDFs of ed sanders' seminal magazine FUCK YOU: A MAGAZINE OF THE ARTS and blow the dust from your eye holes: www.ubu.com/vp/FuckYou.h...
UAW CAP poster from 1974.
I know that this is a repurposing of the GOP slogan from '46, but this is the vibe that the labor movement's political organizing needs to bring back for the upcoming midterms:
Deep Vellum’s POETRY OPEN CALL starts April 1st.
details and guidelines: deepvellum.submittable.com/submit
intense HTMLGiant flashbacks while reading this
A major sea change for the US movie industry is afoot, so in POWER SURGE, acclaimed author Thomas Schatz charts the era of Hollywood's last "Golden Age".
For #SCMS26, he gives us a peek into that pre-streaming golden glow: www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/h...
#SCMS2026
the political satire to fantasy pipeline is telling
I hope you find a spot for the book. It's an interesting confluence of events at PRH to get to this point...
Penguin's relation to its poetry list is shifting...
The focus on leisure & literature in the postwar boom of the mid-1960s is really interesting. Similar ideas about leisure, class, education, & technology are all throughout early NEA documents.
Iowa Women's Archive at UI is looking for an archivist. Come share a hall with me and steward extremely cool materials!
uiowa.referrals.selectminds.com/jobs/iwa-col...
happy 100th birthday to poet Frank O'Hara
check out the recording of last night's group reading celebrating O'Hara's birthday eve hosted by @nysnetwork.bsky.social, featuring Ron Padgett, Anne Waldman, Kay Gabriel, Eileen Myles, & more!
youtu.be/-PQKQ8IQM8Y
William Butler Yeats gazing in the direction of Bethlehem:
Our O'Hara birthday eve group reading starts at 4pm EST!
We've just upped our Zoom subscription to allow more than 100 participants at a time, so if you weren't able to register earlier plz try again now!
The download numbers for this episode have filled me with dread.
Hopefully, an indication that we are ready to get organized.
In the meantime, remember, print is a rent strike.
Absolutely thrilled to report that the Board of Governors at @uncpress.bsky.social have approved my book
THE RACIALIZATION OF PRINT
for publication by @oieahc.bsky.social.
Forthcoming, early 2027.