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Nick Sturm
@nicksturm.bsky.social
post45 poetry, small press publishing, print culture, history of arts funding | Lecturer in English @ Georgia State | co-director of @nysnetwork.bsky.social | editor of books w/ Fonograf & City Lights | book with Columbia UP | nicksturm.com
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it's official--my first book will be published by @columbiaup.bsky.social

Such a Thing as New York School: Print Culture, Publishing Communities, & American Poetry--an account of how publishing practices give material forms to American literary communities & the group labels that describe them.
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Grateful beyond words to have these gorgeous, generous blurbs from Charles Bernstein, Andrew Epstein, and @nicksturm.bsky.social with me on the back cover of Dispatches from the Avant-Garage + more beautiful blurbs from John Yau and William Barillas inside (copied into comments below) 😭
November 26, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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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...
October 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Tonight at 8pm EST--a free online event with Stephanie Anderson, Patricia Spears Jones, Maureen Owen, & MC Hyland hosted by @nysnetwork.bsky.social. Register via the link!

www.eventbrite.com/e/women-in-i...
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Turns out everyone on Twitter were from like a few countries outside the US.

Meanwhile, most of BlueSky is from the greatest country in the world: Philadelphia
November 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Monday night at 8pm--join the Network for New York School Studies with Maureen Owen, Patricia Spears Jones, & Stephanie Anderson about the book WOMEN IN INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING

Register here for the free online event!!

www.eventbrite.com/e/women-in-i...
Women in Independent Publishing: Book Discussion with NNYSS
Join the Network for New York School Studies in a discussion about the book "Women in Independent Publishing," edited by Stephanie Anderson
www.eventbrite.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Monday night at 8pm--join the Network for New York School Studies with Maureen Owen, Patricia Spears Jones, & Stephanie Anderson about the book WOMEN IN INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING

Register here for the free online event!!

www.eventbrite.com/e/women-in-i...
Women in Independent Publishing: Book Discussion with NNYSS
Join the Network for New York School Studies in a discussion about the book "Women in Independent Publishing," edited by Stephanie Anderson
www.eventbrite.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Revisiting @nicksturm.bsky.social’s 2017 interview with Alice Notley after a really special Notley memorial event at the Poetry Project last night—what gifts; what a life poetrysociety.org/poems-essays...
Seeing the Future: A Conversation with Alice Notley
Conversations with poets, editors, and artists.
poetrysociety.org
November 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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The New School is now a place where students cannot major in History, Anthropology, Sociology, Global Policy & International Affairs, Global Studies, Urban Studies, or Environmental Studies. And more pauses, closures, and mergers coming down the pike this week. The future is uncertain.
November 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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Coming out of very fun conversation on Saturday and I would like to announce that it is wonderful to read and think about Stitch, Unstitch by @kristingrogan.bsky.social, which helps us shape the modernist canon in relation to how poets engage everyday, ordinary labor.
November 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Lmao fuck yooouuuu
November 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Our libraries are cutting staff so that Elsevier can have its 32% profit margin
A staggering statistic: "North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year." What are we doing?
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

a 🧵 1/n

Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
November 14, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

a 🧵 1/n

Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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my library bought @kristingrogan.bsky.social ’s beautiful book and yours should too
November 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
one of the best experiences as a scholar is reading one sentence--here, Dan tying the professionalization of creative writing to the formation of the NEA--about which you're preparing to write an entire book.
November 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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For the haters who say Big Fiction over-relies on allegory, my most explicit, spirited defense of allegorical interpretation. "Sociology and Allegory," published as part of a series on the sociology of literature in IASL. Lemme know if you want a PDF
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Sociology and Allegory
The question of the relationship between internal and external analysis of literature remains open across disciplinary inquiries. Although Pierre Bourdieu claims to offer a definitive answer to the qu...
www.degruyterbrill.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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I was interviewed by Lisa Regan on the The Academic Publishing Podcast about publishing finances -- everything from why a press might want a subvention to why the system as a whole in in big trouble if everyone goes for the free pdf and no one is paying for the books themselves. She had smart Q's!
Ken Wissoker on Finances
Ken Wissoker is Senior Executive Editor at Duke University Press where, since arriving in 1991, he has published over 1400 books. Ken acquires books across the humanities, social sciences, and the art...
academicpublishingpod.alitu.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM
AAUP-provided STC is the real path to student success
<reaches, shakily, through debris, to vial of special teaching cocaine>
November 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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From the top rope
November 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
On 11/24, @nysnetwork.bsky.social is hosting a free online event for Women in Independent Publishing, the incredible collection of interviews with women editors & publishers assembled by Stephanie Anderson

feat. Maureen Owen, Patricia Spears Jones, & MC Hyland!

www.unmpress.com/978082636707...
November 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM
saw an NYC art world girlie on IG freaking out about Mamdani & unironically saying "freedom isn't free"--absolutely thrilled for her crash
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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me arriving at mamdani's new york
November 5, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Citing a chronic shortage of financial backing for independent publishers & nonprofits dedicated to writing and reading, a coalition of seven charitable foundations has established a Literary Arts Fund that will distribute a minimum of $50 million over the next five years. https://to.pbs.org/4o6lqua
$50M Literary Arts Fund will support independent publishers and nonprofits
Citing a chronic shortage of financial backing for independent publishers and nonprofits dedicated to writing and reading, a coalition of seven charitable foundations has established a Literary Arts F...
www.pbs.org
October 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM