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Danica Savonick @danicasavonick.bsky.social · 2d

I will email you!

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Danica Savonick @danicasavonick.bsky.social · 5d

I can’t wait for this book!

Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve been super excited to share this. The full TOC for TEACHING POETRY NOW, ed by Caroline Gelmi and Lizzy LeRud, is online & chock full of assignments, experiences, and resources from a range of college classrooms. Out in Feb, available for preorder now.

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

Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Preface: Editors' Note on the Now
Introduction
Caroline Gelmi and Lizzy LeRud
Part 1: How We Think About Poems
1. A Conversation on Dinétics
Esther G. Belin and Jake Skeets
2. Post-Craft
Michael Leong
3. Unsettling Modernist Poetry
Erin Kappeler
4. Legacies of Empire in the Western Poetic Line:
The Problem of Caesura
Heather H. Yeung
5. Unpacking the Interpretive Toolbox: Historical
Poetics in Introductory Courses
Caroline Gelmi
6. "I hear it now"; or, Teaching Students to Read Poems in Novels
Annelise Chick and Gabrielle Stecher
7. Moving "Rooms" Across Borders: Putting Pressure on the Stanza
Reem Abbas and Heather H. Yeung

8. Under the Sonnet's Menace: Helping Students Navigate Race, Constraint, and Rage in the Post-Romantic Sonnet Anton Vander Zee
9. Rawest Radical Material: Teaching Poetry's Diction
William Fogarty
10. Reading, Misreading, and Rereading "We Real Cool" Mike Chasar
Part 1 Cluster: Ideas on Teaching Lyric
11. Retheorizing Lyric via the Pedagogy of Eighteenth-Century Antislavery Poetry
Chris Chan
12. Lyric Borders: Reading and Writing with Gloria
Anzaldúa's New Mestiza
Leah Huizar
13. Lorenzo Thomas's Griot Lyric: Reading Persona and Race in the Digital Age
Lukas Moe
14. Lyric After Lyricization: Learning and Unlearning the Lyric / in the Activist Classroom
Anastasia Nikolis
Part 2: What We Do With Poems
15. Poetry as Empathetic Praxis: Black Poetics and the Creative Writing Classroom
Monique-Adelle Callahan D.

16. Performing Desire: Collaborating with Sex Worker Poets in the Composition Classroom
Philippa Chun
17. Oral Poetries Are (Not) Lost to Us: Ethnopoetics in the Digital Age
Kenneth Sherwood
18. Against Mastery: Working Through the Desire for Order in Teaching M. NourbeSe Philip's Zong!
Jess A. Goldberg
19. Future-Facing Archives: Phillis Wheatley Peters and the Intertextual Poetic Past
Sarah Nance
20. Cultivating a Culture of Enjoyment in the Poetry
Classroom
Rachel B. Griffis
21. Reframing Modernism: Creative Composition and the Analysis of Modernist Poetry at an HBCU
Candis Pizzetta
22. Whose Voice Matters? Reading Aloud Across Language and Ability Eileen Sperry
23. Reimagining the Poet's Procedure: Imitation as
Literary Analysis
Lizzy LeRud
24. From Stifling to Expansive: Reimagining Poetry
Teaching and Learning with The South African
Poetry Project
Sooriagandhi Naidoo, Toni Gennrich, and Eunice Phiri

25. Transgressive Teaching and Subverting
Censorship in the Dual-Credit Classroom
Ronnie K. Stephens
26. The Florence Poetry Collective: Death Row as a
Site of Poetic Production and Expressive
Sovereignty
Joe Lockard
Part 2 Cluster: Project-Based Learning
27. Engaging Poetry: The Review as Critique and
Conversation
Victoria Chang and Dean Rader
28. City, State, and Self: A Collaborative Book Project
James Innis McDougall
29. Experimental Indexes: Quantifying Poetic
Patterns and Project-Based Reading
Nick Sturm
30. Teaching Anti-Racist Research Practices Beyond Research Papers: Emma Lazarus, Esther Schor, and My First-Year Composition Students Mollie Barnes
31. Student Research, Digital Humanities, and Cross-Campus Collaboration: Building Mina Loy:
Navigating the Avant-Garde
Susan Rosenbaum, Suzanne W. Churchill, Linda A.
Kinnahan
List of Contributors

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Danica Savonick @danicasavonick.bsky.social · 5d

This sounds amazing!

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Danica Savonick @danicasavonick.bsky.social · 5d

This is such an honor - thank you! (Your work has been so inspiring @prisonculture.bsky.social - we’re talking about it in my grad class today.) I’d be happy to join if you want or to contribute in any way!

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 9d

I think that I will host a virtual discussion group on this book in January. www.dukeupress.edu/open-admissi... - If anyone might be interested, let me know. It would be one session.

Open Admissions: The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free College

www.dukeupress.edu

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Danica Savonick @danicasavonick.bsky.social · 16d

Getting to share this book with my grad students (most of whom are high school English teachers, all of whom are brilliant readers) has been one of the highlights of 2025- a reminder that thinking, reading, and imagining with others is a kind of paradise 🌱

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Danica Savonick @danicasavonick.bsky.social · Aug 30

What skills do young people need for the future of work in the age of AI? Critical thinking, judgment, communication, the ability to learn new things & adaptability. If only there were higher ed departments dedicated to these very things...!!!

(Adding to all my syllabi)
www.npr.org/2025/08/30/n...

What are the skills critical for the future of work

A study from Stanford says AI is taking jobs and making it harder for young people to find work. Tech education company founder Sinead Bovell talks about the skills that will be critical for the futur...

www.npr.org

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Danica Savonick @danicasavonick.bsky.social · Aug 27

The book is available from @dukepress.bsky.social www.dukeupress.edu/open-admissi...
Use code E24SVNCK for a 30% discount

Open Admissions

www.dukeupress.edu

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Danica Savonick @danicasavonick.bsky.social · Aug 27

Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free College: A Conversation with Danica Savonick

Podcast Episode · Speaking Out of Place · 08/23/2025 · 43m

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Danica Savonick @danicasavonick.bsky.social · Aug 27

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3GGY...

The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free College: A Conversation with Danica Savonick

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Danica Savonick @danicasavonick.bsky.social · Aug 27

It was such a pleasure to talk about my book OPEN ADMISSIONS on @palumboliu.bsky.social's brilliant podcast Speaking Out of Place! Our conversation is available on Spotify and Apple (links below). speakingoutofplace.com/2025/08/23/t...

The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free College: A Conversation with Danica Savonick | Speaking Out OF Place

speakingoutofplace.com

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David Palumbo-Liu @palumboliu.bsky.social · Aug 25

Savonick shows how Bambara, Jordan, Lorde and Rich each came to find radical teaching methods in collaboration with newly admitted Black and Puerto Rican students, and how their experiences with this new pedagogy affected their creative and other writing in profound and lasting manners.

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Courtney Thorsson @courtneythorsson.bsky.social · Aug 19

Thank you @danicasavonick.bsky.social for this precise, thoughtful review of *The Sisterhood.* I admire the hell out *Open Admissions,* so this means a great deal to me!

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@columbiaup.bsky.social

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Danica Savonick @danicasavonick.bsky.social · Aug 20

I absolutely loved The Sisterhood - it was such a pleasure to review! Thank you for writing it!

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Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · Jul 30

“The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy.”

bell hooks’ fantastic, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. Providing a necessary reminder of the power of teaching, how teaching transforms us all.

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Danica Savonick @danicasavonick.bsky.social · Jul 30

That quote is tattooed on my soul!

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Danica Savonick @danicasavonick.bsky.social · Jul 16

Can't remember the last time I was this excited about a course -- Radical Women Writers, coming this fall!

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Danica Savonick @danicasavonick.bsky.social · Jul 9

Absolutely loved this book by Leigh Claire La Berge! Part memoir, travelogue, and critique of capitalism (all of my favorite things), it’s also hilarious and (all too rare) a page turner! Sad to have finished it but very glad it exists.

Danica Savonick @danicasavonick.bsky.social · Jun 25

HELL YEAH!!!!

The Associated Press @apnews.com · Jun 25

BREAKING: Andrew Cuomo concedes New York City Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani.

apnews.com/article/andr...

Andrew Cuomo concedes New York City Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani

Andrew Cuomo’s concession came as the race’s outcome will be decided by a ranked choice count after neither Democrat got a clear majority in the vote.

apnews.com

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Danica Savonick @danicasavonick.bsky.social · Jun 13

@jewonwoo.bsky.social & I are co-editing a special issue of Reviews in DH on teaching #digitalhumanities in community colleges! Favorite DH projects related to this topic that we should feature? Please send them our way! #DH #ReviewsinDH

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Danica Savonick @danicasavonick.bsky.social · Jun 10

Thank you!!

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Danica Savonick @danicasavonick.bsky.social · Jun 10

Thank you!!

Danica Savonick @danicasavonick.bsky.social · Jun 10

Thank you!!!

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Danica Savonick @danicasavonick.bsky.social · Jun 10

A tiny bright light amidst so much awfulness… I got tenure! ✨ And I vow to use every inch of it to resist the fascism, authoritarianism & plutocratic violence that is terrorizing so many.

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · Jun 10

If you’ve never been to a protest and you’re watching coverage with trepidation, I urge you—if you can—to challenge yourself to turn out for one. There’s anger, for sure, but the overwhelming feeling is joy in your community, admiration of your neighbors, and the real power of numbers.

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