Rebecca Kosick
@rkokayokay.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Comparative Poetry and Poetics. Co-director Bristol Poetry Institute. Out now: HÉLIO OITICICA: SECRET POETICS. Out next: DISPATCHES FROM THE AVANT-GARAGE: THE ALTERNATIVE PRESS. Bristol, England // Lake Michigan
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I am SO happy to be able to share the wonderful cover for DISPATCHES FROM THE AVANT-GARAGE: THE ALTERNATIVE PRESS coming in March from Wayne State UP. The cover has it all—postcards, letterpress, a bison. Beautifully designed, as it happens, by Lindsey Cleworth, who grew up in my/our hometown.
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Bob Seger performed at the John Sinclair Freedom Rally. He’s not usually thought of in connection with 60s radicals, I guess bc he hit it big late 70s early 80s but he was there! There with Bobby Seale and Jane Fonda and Ed Sanders (& Stevie Wonder, John & Yoko & &!) I see you Bob Seger!!
Video of Lake Michigan waves crashing against our hometown lighthouse, set to a Bob Seger soundtrack has just hit the family chat. For this I give thanks.
November 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Bob Seger performed at the John Sinclair Freedom Rally. He’s not usually thought of in connection with 60s radicals, I guess bc he hit it big late 70s early 80s but he was there! There with Bobby Seale and Jane Fonda and Ed Sanders (& Stevie Wonder, John & Yoko & &!) I see you Bob Seger!!
Video of Lake Michigan waves crashing against our hometown lighthouse, set to a Bob Seger soundtrack has just hit the family chat. For this I give thanks.
November 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Video of Lake Michigan waves crashing against our hometown lighthouse, set to a Bob Seger soundtrack has just hit the family chat. For this I give thanks.
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Our fabulous Environmental Humanities Summer School is open for applications for 2026! Together, we examine human relationships with nature on a Global scale, and with the city of Bristol. According to 2025 cohort student Choon Woi “Bristol itself became part of the classroom…
November 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Our fabulous Environmental Humanities Summer School is open for applications for 2026! Together, we examine human relationships with nature on a Global scale, and with the city of Bristol. According to 2025 cohort student Choon Woi “Bristol itself became part of the classroom…
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Bristol! I will see you soon!
BAD LANGUAGE launch in conversation with @noreenmasud.bsky.social
@bookhaus.bsky.social , 6pm
www.bookhausbristol.com/events/
BAD LANGUAGE launch in conversation with @noreenmasud.bsky.social
@bookhaus.bsky.social , 6pm
www.bookhausbristol.com/events/
Bookhaus Bristol – Author Talks, Readings & More
Discover upcoming events at Bookhaus Bristol, including author talks, book readings, and literary discussions.
www.bookhausbristol.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Bristol! I will see you soon!
BAD LANGUAGE launch in conversation with @noreenmasud.bsky.social
@bookhaus.bsky.social , 6pm
www.bookhausbristol.com/events/
BAD LANGUAGE launch in conversation with @noreenmasud.bsky.social
@bookhaus.bsky.social , 6pm
www.bookhausbristol.com/events/
I wanted to write "screaming, crying, throwing up" but kept it profesh for you guys (all genders) with "grateful." #growth
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 2:12 PM
I wanted to write "screaming, crying, throwing up" but kept it profesh for you guys (all genders) with "grateful." #growth
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
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) 😭
This! I’ve been teaching in the UK for 11 years but I’ll never be convinced UKHE is better than a liberal arts model. I do poetry now (and then) but am so grateful that in UG I studied physics, geography, philosophy, statistics. I did a sociology class that consisted of teaching in prison education!
University in the UK is already astonishingly narrow. My husband & I both did five year undergrads (Canada) as did most people we know. We do the same level of specialisation (if not more) but also so much breadth. Our schooling is much mire broad as well. The UK gov wants us all to be technicians.
"A system built on specialisation, efficiency", that right there is the death knell for the current university system in the UK, if (big if) government pushes it through. They actively don't want HE to grow, they will intervene, apparently, to help it shrink.
per this morning's education committee.
per this morning's education committee.
November 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This! I’ve been teaching in the UK for 11 years but I’ll never be convinced UKHE is better than a liberal arts model. I do poetry now (and then) but am so grateful that in UG I studied physics, geography, philosophy, statistics. I did a sociology class that consisted of teaching in prison education!
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attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"
February 6, 2025 at 3:59 AM
attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"
Finished my marking three hours ago but the website has been "queued for processing" ever since so I cannot deliver the grades.....
I do not think we should give grades and this is not some wild flight-o-fancy idea. We did not receive grades in my undergraduate program at the University of Michigan and I'm only better off for it.
November 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Finished my marking three hours ago but the website has been "queued for processing" ever since so I cannot deliver the grades.....
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childcare for instance is the second one. parents fund it out of pocket, meaning it's insanely expensive (bc of rising wages over time), but only for a couple years. it should instead be funded by everyone like K-12, spread the burden as wide as possible
November 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
childcare for instance is the second one. parents fund it out of pocket, meaning it's insanely expensive (bc of rising wages over time), but only for a couple years. it should instead be funded by everyone like K-12, spread the burden as wide as possible
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Now Available! Signal Flow by William Fuller. "Signal Flow is a clear statement of what's possible in the twenty-first century—non-totalizing, democratic in its equivalence of anticipation, expectation and unpredictability, and optimistic in its assessment of the power for renewal." Larry Price
November 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Now Available! Signal Flow by William Fuller. "Signal Flow is a clear statement of what's possible in the twenty-first century—non-totalizing, democratic in its equivalence of anticipation, expectation and unpredictability, and optimistic in its assessment of the power for renewal." Larry Price
Now until January 6: 45% off sale on all WSUP titles, including preorders of Dispatches from the Avant-Garage with code RHOLIDAY. Only like $23 for all that research and over 100 (!!) full-color images, truly a steal wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814350249/
Dispatches from the Avant-Garage
The innovative countercultural movement from one of the most notable twentieth-century presses.
In this long-awaited book, Rebecca Kos...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Now until January 6: 45% off sale on all WSUP titles, including preorders of Dispatches from the Avant-Garage with code RHOLIDAY. Only like $23 for all that research and over 100 (!!) full-color images, truly a steal wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814350249/
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'The Scottish Greens have lodged an amendment to the Scottish Government's Tertiary Education and Training Bill – set to be debated this week – which they believe will help to "boost the wages of ordinary workers".' 1/2
Plans lodged for crack down on 'obscene' pay of university principals
Propsals have been lodged to crack down on the 'obscene' pay inequality across Scotland's universities and colleges
www.thenational.scot
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 AM
'The Scottish Greens have lodged an amendment to the Scottish Government's Tertiary Education and Training Bill – set to be debated this week – which they believe will help to "boost the wages of ordinary workers".' 1/2
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You can get Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination with a 30% discount (also, see entire post below for more!) here: www.upress.umn.edu/amst/
November 23, 2025 at 1:08 AM
You can get Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination with a 30% discount (also, see entire post below for more!) here: www.upress.umn.edu/amst/
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RED ALERT: the University of Nottingham is threatening to close its Department of American Studies, putting all staff at risk of redundancy, and ending any American specialist knowledge in the Faculty of Arts.
Sign the petition here to save jobs:
www.change.org/p/save-ameri...
Sign the petition here to save jobs:
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Sign the Petition
SAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
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November 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
RED ALERT: the University of Nottingham is threatening to close its Department of American Studies, putting all staff at risk of redundancy, and ending any American specialist knowledge in the Faculty of Arts.
Sign the petition here to save jobs:
www.change.org/p/save-ameri...
Sign the petition here to save jobs:
www.change.org/p/save-ameri...
I like Sundays because I go for a run and then read books at my kids’ swimming lessons. Makes me feel ALIVE. Thrills of middle age.
November 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I like Sundays because I go for a run and then read books at my kids’ swimming lessons. Makes me feel ALIVE. Thrills of middle age.
I do not think we should give grades and this is not some wild flight-o-fancy idea. We did not receive grades in my undergraduate program at the University of Michigan and I'm only better off for it.
November 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I do not think we should give grades and this is not some wild flight-o-fancy idea. We did not receive grades in my undergraduate program at the University of Michigan and I'm only better off for it.
We are hiring for a Lecturer in Spanish Peninsular Studies (12 month maternity cover .8FTE). Please share! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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November 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
We are hiring for a Lecturer in Spanish Peninsular Studies (12 month maternity cover .8FTE). Please share! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Making hand dryers powerful as hell was a good technological innovation. Maybe we could do more stuff like that instead of earth-burning machines that make us dumber. Just an idea.
November 21, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Making hand dryers powerful as hell was a good technological innovation. Maybe we could do more stuff like that instead of earth-burning machines that make us dumber. Just an idea.
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⏱️ 1 month left! Emerging translators: Apply for the 2026 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program for your chance to work closely with an experienced translator on a project of your choosing! Program offered at no cost to the translators selected. Learn more and apply by 11/30! buff.ly/npHAOBE
October 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
⏱️ 1 month left! Emerging translators: Apply for the 2026 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program for your chance to work closely with an experienced translator on a project of your choosing! Program offered at no cost to the translators selected. Learn more and apply by 11/30! buff.ly/npHAOBE
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Important news: the deadline for the joint BAMS/MSA conference in Loughborough has been extended to December 29, 2025! You can review the CFP, and find links to the submission platform, here. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...
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November 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Important news: the deadline for the joint BAMS/MSA conference in Loughborough has been extended to December 29, 2025! You can review the CFP, and find links to the submission platform, here. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
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“Adversarial poetry.”
Love this. Obvs.
Love this. Obvs.
November 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
“Adversarial poetry.”
Love this. Obvs.
Love this. Obvs.
The thing about the good butter is it goes off, even in the fridge, you can’t keep it around for long trying to incrementalize your life pleasure. You have to invite all your friends over and have a big butter bonanza. It’s the only way.
November 20, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The thing about the good butter is it goes off, even in the fridge, you can’t keep it around for long trying to incrementalize your life pleasure. You have to invite all your friends over and have a big butter bonanza. It’s the only way.
I've tried to stop suppressing my poetic and colloquial tendencies in my academic writing and you know what, it's going fine. Pushing on an open door. Sometimes reviewers and editors reign me in a bit, but mostly they're game. This has been an eye-opening lesson.
November 20, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I've tried to stop suppressing my poetic and colloquial tendencies in my academic writing and you know what, it's going fine. Pushing on an open door. Sometimes reviewers and editors reign me in a bit, but mostly they're game. This has been an eye-opening lesson.