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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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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
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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 4d

I’m reading this too!

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 4d

defector.com/good-riddanc...

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 8d

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...

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...

defector.com

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 8d

@tricialockwood.bsky.social in SW Atlanta on Thursday!

www.acappellabooks.com/pages/events...

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 9d

Delighted to have joined the History of Film podcast to discuss why public media matters.

Shadow of the New Deal with Josh Shepperd | The History on Film Podcast

American Public Broadcasting

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 9d

Say it often, say it loud:

"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

Fit for Purpose? How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public Education

Digital educational platforms have become ubiquitous in American classrooms, with tools like Google Workspace for Education, Kahoot!, Zearn, Khan Academy, and many others now structuring curriculum, i...

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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 11d

Jealous!!

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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks, Cara!

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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 12d

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.

Book contract language for Brian Glavey's Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 12d

Cuts to and closures of university presses are 100% part of the separation (or as @mattseybold.bsky.social has called it "unbundling") of research and teaching in the humanities and the devaluation of both quite frankly--in this case at the expense of the career training admin claims to care about.

Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 12d

"Bucknell has decided to close its highly respected, decades-old UP in June 2026. The stated reason? The press serves scholars, not Bucknell undergrads. Bucknell undergrads—& some grad students as well—disagree." FANTASTIC piece on BUP's student internship program. networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

Bucknell UP Closure Would Also Mark End of Vital Student Internship Program | H-Net

A post from Feeding the

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 12d

[clears throat]...I have another book coming out in the near future

if you'd like to read a bit about LYRIC LOGIC, there are some very generous blurbs over at @columbiaup.bsky.social

(my thanks to Marjorie Levinson, Oren Izenberg, Theo Davis, Nan Z. Da, and also @philipleventhal.bsky.social)

Lyric Logic | Columbia University Press

Between the Civil War and the Cold War, American literary modernism and philosophy both grappled with the challenge of novelty and the chance to make it new.... | CUP

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 13d

Students want to create! With their own brains!

UIC English is hiring a TT Assistant Professor in prose fiction.

As we are one of the very few PhD programs in Creative Writing, PhD is strongly preferred.

Happy to answer questions; please share around.

uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Assistant Professor - English (Creative Writing)

Position Summary The Department of English/Program for Writers at the University of Illinois-Chicago seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Creat...

uic.csod.com

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Rose Casey @rosecasey.bsky.social · 13d

I'm glad that @chronicle.com covered EG Gee's exorbitant salary in his last year at WVU: he "rak[ed] in 2 million in total compensation in 2024 as the university made sweeping cuts to academic programs and faculty positions to manage a $45-million budget shortfall"
www.chronicle.com/article/afte...

After Sweeping Cuts at West Virginia U., Its President Made $2 Million Last Year

E. Gordon Gee was the second-highest paid public-university president last year, according to The Chronicle’s analysis of executive compensation.

www.chronicle.com

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matthew ellis @matthiasellis.com · 14d

I was quoted in this piece on the AI bubble amidst great company!

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Karen Leick @kleick.bsky.social · 14d

Job posting! Assistant Professor in Creative Writing – English Department, University of Illinois - Chicago.

To apply, submit an online application including cover letter, CV, letters of recommendation and a 20-page writing sample by November 1, 2025.

jobs.uic.edu

Position Summary

The Department of English/Program for Writers at the University of Illinois-Chicago seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Creative Writing (prose fiction).

PhD is preferred, though MFA with suitable experience will be considered; degree must be conferred by time of appointment. At least one book published or under contract is expected, as is a demonstrated record of teaching and mentoring.

UIC faculty are expected to carry out their responsibilities in person and onsite as part of a vibrant and collegial on-campus community. Our new colleague will teach courses unless otherwise specified in the fields of Creative Writing and American Literature and will engage in ongoing research in an area of expertise.

Responsibilities include: teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels (2-2 load); mentoring and advising students; providing service to the university; and actively contributing to the intellectual life of the department and the broader campus.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 14d

saint louis!

next week at Wash U, a workshop on periodization, aesthetics, and the neofeudal hypothesis, followed by a talk from Good Enough Art

english.wustl.edu/events

Calendar

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Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social · 16d

I’m taking a day off from reading the news and focusing on good things. If you’d like to focus something good for a moment, here is Mishmish, who is a Very Good Cat. You’re welcome.

A perfect orange and white cat sleeps in a ball on a gray cushion, her nose touching her back paws

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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 19d

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Devin Garofalo @devingarofalo.bsky.social · 19d

I have been impatiently waiting for this book to come out and just this morning aspirationally put selections from it on my grad seminar syllabus, the timing could not be better!

Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 21d

Major new piece from David Ben-Merre (Buffalo State) and Manu Chander @profchander.bsky.social (Georgetown), in epilogue of David's excellent new book "O: Apostrophic Ghosts and the Disappearing Acts of Lyric Poetry."

Epilogue: Every Þrose has its thorn On Poison, the Cure, and other Pharmacological Prickles; Or, Why are you so far away?

By David Ben-Merre PhD. and Manu Samriti Chander, Published on 01/01/25

digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu

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The Onion @theonion.com · 19d

Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away https://theonion.com/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-before-federal-gove-1819579589/

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 19d

If you, like I, owned a cassette of Poison’s Open Up and Say … Aah, are a big fan of David Ben-Merre & @profchander.bsky.social’s, and can’t get enough of theories of address & apostrophe, you truly must read the epilogue to David’s wonderful book forthcoming from @sunypress.bsky.social

Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 21d

Major new piece from David Ben-Merre (Buffalo State) and Manu Chander @profchander.bsky.social (Georgetown), in epilogue of David's excellent new book "O: Apostrophic Ghosts and the Disappearing Acts of Lyric Poetry."

Epilogue: Every Þrose has its thorn On Poison, the Cure, and other Pharmacological Prickles; Or, Why are you so far away?

By David Ben-Merre PhD. and Manu Samriti Chander, Published on 01/01/25

digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu