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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 15h

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.

Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 16h

"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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Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social · 2d

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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Alan Drew @alanauthordrew.bsky.social · 7d

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

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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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.

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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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Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social · 8d

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...

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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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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 22d

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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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 24d

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.

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Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social · 24d

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.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24d

“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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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 24d

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

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24d

“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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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 27d

Read this book!

Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · Sep 8

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

Now available! Cover of Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work.
Kristin Grogan. it includes a blurb by Brian Glavey and a 20% discount with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu.

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Connor Douglas Rice @connordrice.bsky.social · Jun 13

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. 🙏🏻

Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social · Jun 11

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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thetenderbetween @thetenderbetween.bsky.social · Aug 30

In case you’re in the mood…

Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social · Jun 9

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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Nick Sturm on Alice Notley ("At Night the States")

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Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social · Aug 21

Also this! youtu.be/MIZJcVr3m8Y

John Ashbery reads "What Is Poetry" at the Kelly Writers House

YouTube video by Kelly Writers House

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Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social · Aug 21

This can pair interestingly with Mill: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Project MUSE - What Is Poetry?

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Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social · Aug 14

Thank you so much for listening!

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · Aug 14

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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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · Aug 11

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)

Kristin Grogan @kristingrogan.bsky.social · Aug 11

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

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Kristin Grogan @kristingrogan.bsky.social · Aug 11

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

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Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social · Aug 11

Thank you!

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Aug 10

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.

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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · Aug 1

"Even gifted scholars lose their way / through faulty etymology." Incredible poem and conversation.

Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social · Jul 28

“What is more precise than precision? Illusion.” Today, a long-overdue episode on Marianne Moore, with the great Siobhan Phillips. We talked about Moore’s wonderful poem “Armor’s Undermining Modesty.” open.spotify.com/episode/2FPe...

Siobhan Phillips on Marianne Moore ("Armor's Undermining Modesty")

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Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social · Jul 28

You can also find our conversation here, as always. Highly recommend this one, both as an introduction to Marianne Moore and the poem, and as an exploration of how constraints can become generative, of how conditions of boundedness can contain infinities. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Siobhan Phillips on Marianne Moore (

Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 07/28/2025 · 1h 47m

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Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social · Jul 28

“What is more precise than precision? Illusion.” Today, a long-overdue episode on Marianne Moore, with the great Siobhan Phillips. We talked about Moore’s wonderful poem “Armor’s Undermining Modesty.” open.spotify.com/episode/2FPe...

Siobhan Phillips on Marianne Moore ("Armor's Undermining Modesty")

Close Readings · Episode

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Khadijah M Silver (they/them), JD/MPH @khadijah.bsky.social · Jul 23

Do I dare to eat a peach?

I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear my trousers rolled

Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social · Jul 21

You can of course also find us here. Megan is the ideal guest for this great, truly weird, hugely influential poem. Plus we like to give each other a hard time. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Megan Quigley on T. S. Eliot (

Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 07/21/2025 · 2h 7m

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