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it’s really very silly how large my name is on the cover of this book, but nevertheless I couldn’t be more delighted that Eileen Myles’ Bird Watching & early work (intro’d by me) is out today from @fonografeditions.bsky.social 🦅⚡️

my second thought is that Sophie Robinson already did it better

just did a shameful little shazam of what turned out to be Benson Boone’s ‘Young American Heart’ (what is a Benson Boone? I do not know) & my first thought is: can you literally ever imagine someone releasing something called ‘Young British Heart’ 🤢

yeah mine have really seemed to respond to it tremendously!

like, I really really really believe in the essay as critical form, & they have to do those too, but this just releases something v distinct

turns out that designing a podcast/video assignment for my students this semester was one of the best pedagogical decisions I’ve made; sat on the train listening to them express such enthusiasm, curiosity & erudition! never before have I experienced such joy during marking season!!

One week today! 🏳️‍🌈

We’re very much looking forward to hearing all about @grindrod.bsky.social’s latest book—there’s still time for you to join us for an eve of small-town queer joy!

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John Grindrod - Tales of the Suburbs at The Portobello Bookshop Please come and join us for John Grindrod - Tales of the Suburbs on 24th March, at The Portobello Bookshop

looking forward to queering suburbia with John Grindrod for @portybooks.bsky.social next week! come along—tix here ✨

A Party Full of Friends: A Reading for Frank O'Hara's Birthday (Eve) The Network for New York School Studies is delighted to invite you to an online reading party to celebrate Frank O'Hara's centenary!

me & @nicksturm.bsky.social & @nysnetwork.bsky.social are hosting a party for Frank O’Hara’s 100th birthday with a really stellar line-up of poets—join us for free online! 🎈

tonight! the @nysnetwork.bsky.social hosts an incredible online panel discussion on Joe Brainard’s comics, published by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social 🫟 6:30 EST / 11:30 GMT www.eventbrite.com/e/joe-braina...

a crumb? a modicum? of hope?? in spring??? groundbreaking!!!

trying to explain the current state of the academic job market to those not on its hamster wheel just makes you sound increasingly hysterical

clearing out my open tabs for the new year & have been flipping to this one on the semi-regs recently—a really really good poem by Sara Elkamel

The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.

I absolutely love this humane & moving essay on teaching close reading by @johannawinant.bsky.social; saving it for the dark depths of semester when I need a reminder of why it all matters

a really huge number of bad poem titles and good sci fi titles in evidence here

excited to read at this on wednesday! ☔️

When I'm asked what kind of friend groups I have:

new Eileen Myles book! April 2026! (introduced by me!) 🐤

not, I should stress, that I think Marina's the 21st century's Sylvia Plath or whatever it is they're claiming about Swift (there are still POETS AVAILABLE IN THE 21ST CENTURY btw), but because they'd realise that lots of other people are creating perfect (& much weirder/more fun) pop music

perhaps my greatest problem with the rise of the Taylor Swift literary critic (naming no names!!!!) is that I firmly believe they have simply never listened to MARINA, fka Marina & the Diamonds

Our next event will take place on Monday, 11/24 at 8pm EST: a Zoom panel with Stephanie Anderson, Patricia Spears Jones, Maureen Owen, & MC Hyland about the book Women in Independent Publishing, edited by Anderson. Register for the free online event via Eventbrite at this link!

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aha! was struggling to find precisely this—ty!

friends! strangers! the Bad Archivist in me has a request: does anyone have hard copies of the October 20 (2025) edition of @newyorker.com; Vol. 46 No. 13 (2024) of @lrb.co.uk; & September 27, No. 6339 (2024) of @thetls.bsky.social? it's all the places The Miraculous Season has been reviewed 🙏

this is a tremendous line up

V. R. Lang, a Forgotten Queen Bee of Modern Poetry A débutante, a burlesque dancer, and a poet, the shape-shifting Lang—who died at thirty-two—wrote some of the most aching, entrancing poetry of the twentieth century.

A Boston débutante, a burlesque dancer, and a poet, the shape-shifting V. R. Lang—who died at 32—wrote some of the most aching, entrancing lines of the 20th century. Anthony Lane writes about a forgotten queen bee of modern poetry.

nothing more humbling than walking past one’s students & overhearing ‘I think 22 sounds way more chill than 21 because at that point, like, you’re over the hill’

V. R. Lang, a Forgotten Queen Bee of Modern Poetry A débutante, a burlesque dancer, and a poet, the shape-shifting Lang—who died at thirty-two—wrote some of the most aching, entrancing poetry of the twentieth century.

absolutely delighted to see this piece on my Bunny Lang Selected Poems in the @newyorker.com, & perhaps even more delighted with the illustration by Lauren Tamaki of Lang in Frank O’Hara’s grimy tub, as described by Joe LeSueur 🛀