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Rena J. Mosteirin

@renamosteirin.bsky.social

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Poet. Disaster Tourism, (BOA Editions, Fall 2025); Perceptron (punctum books, coming 2025); Experiment 116 (Counterpath Press, 2021); Moonbit (punctum, 2019); & 2 chapbooks. Owns Left Bank Books.Teaches at Dartmouth College. Edits Bloodrootlit.org

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Rena J. Mosteirin @renamosteirin.bsky.social · Jul 18

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Valentin Goujon @vgoujon.bsky.social · 2d

🗓️ Let's talk about the instructional-conversational genre of LLMs with James E. Dobson (@jeddobson.bsky.social), Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College, on "Genre and GenAI"!

Tomorrow, 2-4pm (CET), at Sciences Po and online ⤵️

Sciences Po médialab @medialab-scpo.bsky.social · 6d

📆 Le médialab accueille @jeddobson.bsky.social pour son prochain séminaire, le mardi 7 octobre 2025.

Il explorera les chatbots IA à travers le prisme du genre conversationnel-didactique, en analysant les normes, idéologies et attentes intégrées aux architectures linguistiques contemporaines.

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Genre and GenAI | médialab Sciences Po

Lors de cette séance de séminaire, James E. Dobson explorera les chatbots alimentés par l'IA à travers le prisme du genre conversationnel-didactique. Sa présentation mettra en lumière les normes, idéo...

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BOA Editions @boa-editions.bsky.social · 5d

This excerpt from Adam Hughes' "Pluck" touched my heart. Were we ever taught how to hold what we love? In Hughes' poem, he uses metaphors of skipping rocks and holding kittens to remind us that sometimes a tight grip leads to failure, or violence. -Boa Editions Fall 2025 Intern

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Rena J. Mosteirin @renamosteirin.bsky.social · 5d

Safiya Sinclair

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James E. Dobson @jeddobson.bsky.social · 5d

Job posting: Critical Artificial Intelligence Librarian at Dartmouth College. searchjobs.dartmouth.edu/postings/83154

Critical Artificial Intelligence Librarian

The Critical Artificial Intelligence Librarian accelerates the Dartmouth Libraries engagement with advanced machine learning technologies and their relevant ethical, practical, and educational implica...

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Rena J. Mosteirin @renamosteirin.bsky.social · 12d

Albert Abonado

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 17d

Proud girls, you gorgons,

gorgeous in your gowns,
rising back unrepentant
out of your loam house,

tiptoe fripperies,
overlook my misreading.

‘Autumn Cyclamen’, a poem by @aestallings.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A.E. Stallings · Poem: ‘Autumn Cyclamen’

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BOA Editions @boa-editions.bsky.social · Aug 28

🔍 Incredible to see BOA poet @renamosteirin featured in the Poetry Society of America's Storefront Poems. Pre-order her upcoming collection DISASTER TOURISM @ www.boaeditions.org/products/dis...

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Rena J. Mosteirin @renamosteirin.bsky.social · 23d

Bloodrootlit.org

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Rena J. Mosteirin @renamosteirin.bsky.social · 26d

Mahmoud Darwish translated by Fady Joudah

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James E. Dobson @jeddobson.bsky.social · 28d

📣 New Article Alert: Here's a potentially 🌶️ essay on the lack of formalism in humanistic writing about neural networks (or "AI"). Form matters. Architecture matters.

Journal of Cultural Analytics @culturalanalytics.bsky.social · 28d

📐 "Beyond Computational Formalism or, Architecture Matters" by James E. Dobson (@jeddobson.bsky.social) examines how neural network architectures materially shape the capacities, outputs, and interpretive possibilities of machine learning models.

culturalanalytics.org/article/1339...

Beyond Computational Formalism or, Architecture Matters | Published in Journal of Cultural Analytics

By James E. Dobson. This article demonstrates how neural network architectures materially shape the capacities, outputs, and interpretive possibilities of machine learning models.

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James E. Dobson @jeddobson.bsky.social · 28d

This is a fantastic special issue of Cultural Analytics that comes out of a truly amazing workshop convened by Tess McNulty and Laura Chapot in April 2023!! Looking forward to reading all the essays. Check it out.

Journal of Cultural Analytics @culturalanalytics.bsky.social · 28d

🧩 Introduction by the special issue editors, Laura Alice Chapot and Tess McNulty. The articles in this special issue will be published in groups on a rolling basis over the coming weeks.

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Computation and Form, Reconsidered | Published in Journal of Cultural Analytics

By Tess McNulty, Laura Alice Chapot. In this special issue, we bring together scholars from across multiple disciplines to reconsider the intersections of computation and form at this emerging technol...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Sep 4

Did you see? The look in her mother’s eyes –
if it helps say it sounds like a fairy tale –
sold to strangers.
The girl is,
if it helps. Say the bowls are empty.

‘Fore/mother’, a poem by Sarah Howe: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Sarah Howe · Poem: ‘Fore/mother’

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Rena J. Mosteirin @renamosteirin.bsky.social · Sep 2

Yay!

BOA Editions @boa-editions.bsky.social · Aug 31

✒️ Our next author to look forward to is Moriel Rothman-Zecher, whose collection I STILL WON'T HAVE KNOWN will be published in the Spring of 2028!

Learn more about this author @ www.morielrothmanzecher.com

#BOAEditions #BOAAuthors #MorielRothmanZecher #Poetry

Rena J. Mosteirin @renamosteirin.bsky.social · Aug 30

Richard Siken

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James E. Dobson @jeddobson.bsky.social · Aug 22

Visiting @renamosteirin.bsky.social’s poem at the @poetrysociety.org in Brooklyn today! So happy and proud of her. Read “Your Father Came from a Movie.”

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James E. Dobson @jeddobson.bsky.social · Aug 20

I've got a new essay out. "Early Machine Learning and Artificial Animal Intelligences" appears in the latest volume of the Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association in a special issue titled “Intelligence” and edited by Naomi Michalowicz and Nathan Jung. muse.jhu.edu/pub/140/arti...

Title reading "Early Machine Learning and Artificial Animal Intelligences"

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Randall Mann @randallmann.bsky.social · Aug 5

Today’s Poem-a-Day @poetsorg.bsky.social is by the inimitable @theferocity.bsky.social, allusive, incantatory, and moving. @benningtonwriting.bsky.social @coffeehousepress.bsky.social ❤️🔥

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Jul 31

I gather
you snap your fingers
in the face of the east wind

feel the moon groan as she
learns the ropes again
tangled among branches

that you bend, so you say,
to shake her free.

‘Considering a Hike to Yon Tree’, a poem by Kathleen Jamie: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...