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Toby Altman @browatch.bsky.social · 2d

This week at the RCAH Center for Poetry! Join us for readings from Esther Belin and Jo Troxell, and help us welcome Esther to town!

Toby Altman @browatch.bsky.social · Sep 4

Nov 14: A Reading with Melba Joyce Boyd. Join us as we welcome Michigan's new Poet Laureate to town with a reading at the East Lansing Public Library, at 7pm. Reception and book signing to follow. Melba's reading is made possible thanks to a generous grant from Kresge Arts Detroit.

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Toby Altman @browatch.bsky.social · Sep 4

Oct 17: Hyphens Lecture with Tracie Morris. Poet and performance artist Tracie Morris presents the annual Hyphens Lecture in Creative Writing, "Phanopticon: Reimaginaing the ubiquity of "image" in the poetic idea." Wells Hall B210 from 3-4:15pm, in collaboration with the Creative Writing Program.

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Toby Altman @browatch.bsky.social · Sep 4

Oct 8: A Reading with Esther Belin. Join us to celebrate Esther's appointment at Michigan State University—and welcome this dynamic poet and community builder to our community! The reading will be held at 7pm in Snyder Phillips Hall, with a reception and book signing to follow.

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Toby Altman @browatch.bsky.social · Sep 4

Sep 14: A Reading with Leila Chatti. We're excited to welcome RCAH alum Leila Chatti back to East Lansing as she celebrates her new book, in partnership with the Lansing Poetry Club. 4pm at the Copper Chimney Lounge of the University United Methodist Church, 1120 S. Harrison Road.

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Toby Altman @browatch.bsky.social · Sep 4

Sep 11: "Mathematics for Poets (and Other People)," a workshop with Dr. Maxwell Levine, a mathematician from the University of Freiburg, at 11am in the Lookout Gallery in Snyder-Phillips.

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Toby Altman @browatch.bsky.social · Sep 4

The RCAH Center for Poetry at MSU is BACK! With old friends and new laureates, mathematicians and performance artists, we are here to demand, to insist, that poetry is a living thing! (See the following posts for a complete rundown of events)

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Toby Altman @browatch.bsky.social · Aug 22

Tonight!

Toby Altman @browatch.bsky.social · Aug 18

Summer Series is back this week—w/readings from Suban Nur Cooley, Korey Deans, Bianca Rae Messinger, and Adam Mitt!

Toby Altman @browatch.bsky.social · Aug 18

Summer Series is back this week—w/readings from Suban Nur Cooley, Korey Deans, Bianca Rae Messinger, and Adam Mitt!

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · Jul 16

We are hiring a tenure track poet! I’m so excited / spread the word… wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...

Assistant Professor of English

The Department of English at Wesleyan University seeks a published poet for a tenure-track appointment beginning July 1, 2026. Teaching responsibilities include two courses per semester in introductor...

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Toby Altman @browatch.bsky.social · Jul 12

Tari is unable to join us tonight, but fortunately the great Ruelaine Stokes is going to read in her stead! Don't miss this—

Toby Altman @browatch.bsky.social · Jun 30

INTRODUCING: Summer Series, a set of relaxed, off-campus readings from the The RCAH Center for Poetry at MSU, featuring local and national poetic luminaries. Summer Series I, featuring Sarah Carson and Tari Muñiz will be July 12th at 7pm at Hooked Lansing!

Toby Altman @browatch.bsky.social · Jul 11

Tomorrow night!

Toby Altman @browatch.bsky.social · Jun 30

INTRODUCING: Summer Series, a set of relaxed, off-campus readings from the The RCAH Center for Poetry at MSU, featuring local and national poetic luminaries. Summer Series I, featuring Sarah Carson and Tari Muñiz will be July 12th at 7pm at Hooked Lansing!

Toby Altman @browatch.bsky.social · Jul 8

excuse me...wat

Toby Altman @browatch.bsky.social · Jun 30

INTRODUCING: Summer Series, a set of relaxed, off-campus readings from the The RCAH Center for Poetry at MSU, featuring local and national poetic luminaries. Summer Series I, featuring Sarah Carson and Tari Muñiz will be July 12th at 7pm at Hooked Lansing!

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Toby Altman @browatch.bsky.social · Jun 13

George Oppen, with news that stays news

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Toby Altman @browatch.bsky.social · Jun 4

Given that we seem to be in a moment of crisis for literary organizations and literary funding more broadly, which organizations do you see responding to the moment in radical / interesting ways? Brainstorming for a ~thing~

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Toby Altman @browatch.bsky.social · Jun 2

huge thanks to phil kostov for this elegant and thoughtful review of Discipline Park: rhinopoetry.org/reviews/toby...

Toby Altman @browatch.bsky.social · May 20

"Music is simply trying things"—Alice Notley, from the first poem of her Iowa MFA Thesis, 1970. Thinking of her, and all of those who were lifted by her—

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Toby Altman @browatch.bsky.social · May 14

some ppl are really still living in the 20th century

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Toby Altman @browatch.bsky.social · May 13

I'll be in New York on Friday to read with Laura Jaramillo & Aristilde Kirby! hope to see you there— poetrysociety.org/events/make-...

Make Room: A New Voices Salon with Toby Altman, Laura Jaramillo & Aristilde Kirby

Placing poetry at the crossroads of American life since 1910.

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Toby Altman @browatch.bsky.social · May 9

the pope is from chicago

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The Onion @theonion.com · May 7

Increasingly Powerful Trans Person Capable Of Using Every Single Bathroom At Once

EVERYWHERE—As the influence of the nation’s transgender individuals continues to encroach on the freedoms of the U.S. populace, sources confirmed Tuesday that increasingly powerful trans person Tori R...

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · May 7

Today's Featured Poem:

"One acquires an especially lush gender." by Toby Altman (@browatch.bsky.social), from Issue 1 of Rampage Party.

Read here:
poems.com/poem/one-acq...

One acquires an especially lush gender.

A romance, the stranger and his roommate naked in the lake.

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Toby Altman @browatch.bsky.social · May 7

I'm back in @poetrydaily.bsky.social with a poem I wrote wandering around in Target:

poems.com/poem/one-acq...

One acquires an especially lush gender.

A romance, the stranger and his roommate naked in the lake.

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Toby Altman @browatch.bsky.social · Apr 28

One thing I admired about Joshua Clover: the absolute clarity of his thinking, irregardless of the object—even Spring Breakers. We need that clarity now, at a moment when we need to be mercilessly honest about what is—and isn't—a revolutionary poetics thenewinquiry.com/high-as-fina...

High as Finance

All this coke, and not a credit card in sight

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