Kamran Javadizadeh
@kjavadizadeh.bsky.social
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On Tuesday, 12/2, join acclaimed poets and scholars Stephanie Burt, Dan Chiasson, Christopher Spaide, and @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social for a lively evening of reflections on the genius and influence of revered critic Helen Vendler, whose last essays were just published by LOA. RSVP for free!
Helen Vendler’s Sixth Sense
Poets and scholars Stephanie Burt, Dan Chiasson, Christopher Spaide, and Kamran Javadazideh reflect on a giant of poetry criticism
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November 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
On Tuesday, 12/2, join acclaimed poets and scholars Stephanie Burt, Dan Chiasson, Christopher Spaide, and @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social for a lively evening of reflections on the genius and influence of revered critic Helen Vendler, whose last essays were just published by LOA. RSVP for free!
She does not like it
October 31, 2025 at 10:18 PM
She does not like it
I’m so sad to hear that the poet Ellen Bryant Voigt has died. I knew her only slightly. When her friend Louise Glück died, two years ago, she and I spoke on my podcast about fate, and loss, and poetry. I think about that conversation all the time. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
Ellen Bryant Voigt on Louise Glück (
Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 11/10/2023 · 1h 5m
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October 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I’m so sad to hear that the poet Ellen Bryant Voigt has died. I knew her only slightly. When her friend Louise Glück died, two years ago, she and I spoke on my podcast about fate, and loss, and poetry. I think about that conversation all the time. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
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Monday! Rutgers! Cake! Come along!
next Monday is the home turf launch for my book, Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work. With responses from the wonderful @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social and brilliant Rutgers grad students Lena Crown and Colton Hicks. Come along if you're local? RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Seminar / book party: Kristin Grogan's Stitch, Unstitch
Come celebrate the publication of Kristin Grogan's Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work with a seminar discussing the Introduction and Chapter 5: Lorine Niedecker and the Work of R...
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October 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Monday! Rutgers! Cake! Come along!
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next Monday is the home turf launch for my book, Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work. With responses from the wonderful @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social and brilliant Rutgers grad students Lena Crown and Colton Hicks. Come along if you're local? RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Seminar / book party: Kristin Grogan's Stitch, Unstitch
Come celebrate the publication of Kristin Grogan's Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work with a seminar discussing the Introduction and Chapter 5: Lorine Niedecker and the Work of R...
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October 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
next Monday is the home turf launch for my book, Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work. With responses from the wonderful @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social and brilliant Rutgers grad students Lena Crown and Colton Hicks. Come along if you're local? RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Inger Christensen, from alphabet (trans. Susanna Nied)
October 11, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Inger Christensen, from alphabet (trans. Susanna Nied)
Good job, MIT.
October 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Good job, MIT.
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Strong truth here from @himself.bsky.social. Civil society has to get its act together and coordinate for the greater good, even if that's not its usual mode. Universities most especially.
"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...
Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.
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October 8, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Strong truth here from @himself.bsky.social. Civil society has to get its act together and coordinate for the greater good, even if that's not its usual mode. Universities most especially.
A reminder that we’re hiring a poet at Villanova this year—tenure-track job, wonderful department, close proximity to Philly. Poets, please think about applying! jobs.villanova.edu/postings/33001
Assistant Professor of Poetry (Creative Writing)
The Department of English at Villanova University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor with a specialization in poetry. The appointment will begin in Fal...
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October 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
A reminder that we’re hiring a poet at Villanova this year—tenure-track job, wonderful department, close proximity to Philly. Poets, please think about applying! jobs.villanova.edu/postings/33001
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Hey poets and teachers out there! Villanova is hiring for a tenure-track assistant prof position. Great school and a wonderful English Department. Check it out below.
jobs.villanova.edu/postings/33001
jobs.villanova.edu/postings/33001
Assistant Professor of Poetry (Creative Writing)
The Department of English at Villanova University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor with a specialization in poetry. The appointment will begin in Fal...
jobs.villanova.edu
October 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Hey poets and teachers out there! Villanova is hiring for a tenure-track assistant prof position. Great school and a wonderful English Department. Check it out below.
jobs.villanova.edu/postings/33001
jobs.villanova.edu/postings/33001
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It's the end of The Best American Poetry.
I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse.
defector.com/good-riddanc...
I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse.
defector.com/good-riddanc...
Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’ | Defector
When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology project...
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September 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
It's the end of The Best American Poetry.
I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse.
defector.com/good-riddanc...
I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse.
defector.com/good-riddanc...
We’re hiring a poet at Villanova this year! Tenure-track job, wonderful colleagues, eager students—and Philadelphia, too! Happy to try to answer any questions about the job. Poets! Apply! jobs.villanova.edu/postings/33001
Assistant Professor of Poetry (Creative Writing)
The Department of English at Villanova University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor with a specialization in poetry. The appointment will begin in Fal...
jobs.villanova.edu
September 30, 2025 at 7:49 PM
We’re hiring a poet at Villanova this year! Tenure-track job, wonderful colleagues, eager students—and Philadelphia, too! Happy to try to answer any questions about the job. Poets! Apply! jobs.villanova.edu/postings/33001
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I'm over the moon that my book, Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets, will be published by the University of Chicago Press in the not too distant future.
September 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I'm over the moon that my book, Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets, will be published by the University of Chicago Press in the not too distant future.
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BREAKING: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, a team of independent experts commissioned by the U.N.’s Human Rights Council concludes.
Human rights experts join rising chorus that accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza
A team of experts commissioned by the U.N.'s Human Rights Council has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
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September 16, 2025 at 7:40 AM
BREAKING: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, a team of independent experts commissioned by the U.N.’s Human Rights Council concludes.
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A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.
September 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.
It’s been 10 years since my sister was diagnosed, 4 years since she died. During those 6 years of illness, all we could hope for was that each treatment would buy us enough time to benefit from the treatments that hadn’t yet been discovered. I can’t fathom the cruelty & stupidity of this government.
“It will take decades to recover from this, if we ever do.” America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives and is in one of its most productive moments, is under threat by the Trump administration.
Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer
America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives, is under threat in one of its most productive moments.
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September 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
It’s been 10 years since my sister was diagnosed, 4 years since she died. During those 6 years of illness, all we could hope for was that each treatment would buy us enough time to benefit from the treatments that hadn’t yet been discovered. I can’t fathom the cruelty & stupidity of this government.
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In the coming decades, you or someone you love will be diagnosed with cancer, and you will wonder if Trump and DOGE are why treatments haven't improved
“It will take decades to recover from this, if we ever do.” America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives and is in one of its most productive moments, is under threat by the Trump administration.
Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer
America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives, is under threat in one of its most productive moments.
nyti.ms
September 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
In the coming decades, you or someone you love will be diagnosed with cancer, and you will wonder if Trump and DOGE are why treatments haven't improved
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Read this book!
Now available! Blending Marxist and feminist theory with attentive close readings, STITCH, UNSTITCH is a revelatory materialist account of the values of poetry. buff.ly/DlnVJeY #CreativeLabor #FeministModernism #WagesForHousework #Modernism
September 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Read this book!
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I too was blown away by how timely Descent of Alette is right now. The tyrant is capitalism and the billionaire class!
This series has been so rewarding and comforting, especially this episode, which I'm saving. 🙏🏻
This series has been so rewarding and comforting, especially this episode, which I'm saving. 🙏🏻
Today, a second conversation about the late Alice Notley. The brilliant poet and critic Joyelle McSweeney joined me to talk about grief and life in the underworld in Notley’s extraordinary epic The Descent of Alette. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
Joyelle McSweeney on Alice Notley (The Descent of Alette)
Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 06/11/2025 · 1h 41m
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June 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I too was blown away by how timely Descent of Alette is right now. The tyrant is capitalism and the billionaire class!
This series has been so rewarding and comforting, especially this episode, which I'm saving. 🙏🏻
This series has been so rewarding and comforting, especially this episode, which I'm saving. 🙏🏻
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In case you’re in the mood…
I talked with Nick Sturm (@nicksturm.bsky.social) about the brilliant Alice Notley, who died just three weeks ago, and her poem “At Night the States.”
“making life, not explaining anything”
I missed having these conversations.
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“making life, not explaining anything”
I missed having these conversations.
open.spotify.com/episode/6fLF...
Nick Sturm on Alice Notley ("At Night the States")
Close Readings · Episode
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August 30, 2025 at 9:56 PM
In case you’re in the mood…
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Fantastic listen. 30 minutes into the episode the recording plays of TSEliot himself reading the Lovesong as an old man and then @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social and his wonderful guest have so much fun doing the close reading. Super informed but still fresh and fun
Megan Quigley on T. S. Eliot (
Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 21/07/2025 · 2h 7m
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August 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Fantastic listen. 30 minutes into the episode the recording plays of TSEliot himself reading the Lovesong as an old man and then @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social and his wonderful guest have so much fun doing the close reading. Super informed but still fresh and fun
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We're so delighted to have @kristingrogan.bsky.social 's brilliance for Re/Verse!!!
(co-editors @glavey.bsky.social, @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social, and I have a couple more amazing books in the pipeline too)
(co-editors @glavey.bsky.social, @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social, and I have a couple more amazing books in the pipeline too)
super delighted to have signed a contract with Amherst College Press for a little book on Sylvia Plath’s Ariel, a book I cannot stop reading and thinking about and troubling over
August 11, 2025 at 6:59 PM
We're so delighted to have @kristingrogan.bsky.social 's brilliance for Re/Verse!!!
(co-editors @glavey.bsky.social, @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social, and I have a couple more amazing books in the pipeline too)
(co-editors @glavey.bsky.social, @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social, and I have a couple more amazing books in the pipeline too)
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super delighted to have signed a contract with Amherst College Press for a little book on Sylvia Plath’s Ariel, a book I cannot stop reading and thinking about and troubling over
August 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
super delighted to have signed a contract with Amherst College Press for a little book on Sylvia Plath’s Ariel, a book I cannot stop reading and thinking about and troubling over