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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 1d

PSA: Get yourself a Committee of No—a trusted group you can ask about opportunities, offers & obligations to figure out which you should accept and which you should decline. It's a real boon in thinking through workload issues. Plus, they'll inevitably text you funny things at stressful moments.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 1d

it's national taco day! stellar mexicanist ignacio sanchez prado has a new book right on time!

TACO, in the bloomsbury object lessons series.

chicago, go celebrate with a taco and support our neighbors in little village, pilsen, logan, everywhere

www.bloomsbury.com/us/taco-9798...

Taco

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Taco is a deep dive into the most iconic Mexican food…

www.bloomsbury.com

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 1d

Enough of acting the infant who has been told so often how he was found under a cabbage leaf that in the end he remembers the exact spot in the garden and the kind of life he led there before joining the family circle.

- Samuel Beckett, The Unnameable

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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.

sunypress.edu/Books/T/Teac...

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
List of Contributors

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Stephanie Insley Hershinow @sinsleyh.bsky.social · 2d

Truly think this volume is great, and I can’t wait for you to read it!

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Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 2d

In a constant, almost unending scream fest in my head with a particular young conservative relative of mine who never posts anything on fbook except photos of her young child but took the time to write a message about those nasty liberals and that poor podcaster

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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society @signsjournal.org · 2d

Rejected everywhere, staged as a hoax, and finally published in a lesbian sex mag — Sarah Schulman’s “A Short Story About a Penis” has quite a history. Rachel Corbman uncovers its fascinating legacy in Signs’ new issue: check it out here! (sub. req’d):

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society | Vol 51, No 1

This introduction to “Lesbian Studies, Now” reflects on the affective, intellectual, and political stakes of invoking “lesbian” as a generative scholarly category in the present as well as the three…

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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 5d

If you're interested in pitching us but aren't familiar with the magazine, read a few articles but also take a quick glance at our About Us page. It will help you pitch better! contingentmagazine.org/about/

Who We Are

Contingent is a non-profit history magazine. Our writers are adjuncts, museum workers, independent scholars—all people who work outside the tenure-track professoriate. Contingent is rooted in three pr...

contingentmagazine.org

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Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 6d

I'm running a "for fun" book club with undergrads, and their first thought was spooky/horror (of course). They rejected Frankenstein and were about pick Dracula when I manipulated them into a sharp left turn. We are now reading To the Lighthouse. That's got plenty of ghosts right?

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Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 6d

Yesterday evening like a little cocoon – at a bookshop literally named the Big Red Bookstore, on a sweet couch, grilling @markhussey.bsky.social about his superb new book, Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel, to a full room of regular "common readers"

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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 6d

Hwæt! 🐉

Ever wondered what the epic poem Beowulf sounds like spoken in Old English?

#NationalPoetryDay

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 7d

I have to imagine even his parents hate Stephen Miller

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 7d

Don’t think it bodes well for AI that this is now a way to market something

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 7d

Three Irish citizens among activists detained as Israeli forces seize flotilla ships, organisers say. Thinking of Sarah Clancy - all eyes on the flotilla #speirgorm jrnl.ie/6832196

Three Irish citizens among activists detained as Israeli forces seize flotilla ships, organisers say

The Global Sumud Flotilla is now just 45km from Gaza, but over a dozen Israeli warships are approaching.

jrnl.ie

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Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 8d

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Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 9d

Alanaaaaaaa - who does all the work, all the time and is the most fun to run into at any conference!

The International T. S. Eliot Society @intleliotsociety.bsky.social · 9d

Alana Murphy is an English PhD student at the University at Buffalo, was the Digital Managing Editor for Modernism/modernity, and is transcriber for the Amy Lowell Letters Project. She traveled to present her paper "From the Desk of Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot" at our conference

Alana at the Trinity College Dublin old library

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Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 9d

Pls give Gabriela's book a read! I'll never see Sweeney the same away again after her archival work

The International T. S. Eliot Society @intleliotsociety.bsky.social · 9d

Gabriela Minden is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Durham University, where she is researching the role of dance in the development of modern verse drama. She is the author of Modernism after the Ballets Russes: Movement in the British Theatre (OUP, 2025)

Book cover Modernism after the Ballets Russes

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The International T. S. Eliot Society @intleliotsociety.bsky.social · 9d

Hi #ModWrite #Modernism peeps! If you've been to an Eliot Society meeting, you know we love our grad students and early career scholars.
We have annual awards to show where our hearts lie! Winners of the 2025 Fathman Awards are: Gabriela Minden and Nicholas Smart

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Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 9d

For the record I would like to shop at Walmart never

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 9d

I wrote about how our weak, screen-addicted president is bullying the weak, Trump-addicted medium of television.

For @newrepublic.com, on the TV beat:
newrepublic.com/article/2000...

How Late-Night Became a Free Speech Battleground

Trump has always cared about traditional talk shows, even if they are a waning genre.

newrepublic.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 9d

This should be repeated constantly:
"In three years, roughly a tenth of US energy demand will come from data centers alone."

We need to have a real response to this!!
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

www.nplusonemag.com

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 10d

What do Charlie Chaplin, Pablo Picasso and Gabriel García Márquez have in common? The US once denied all of them visas because of their beliefs.

How the Visa Became America’s Favorite Censorship Tool

Long after most political censorship was rolled back, the US preserved its power to bar outsiders for what they believe. A new court case could test that power.

bloom.bg

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Hunter Small 📎 @dopealope.com · 12d

Just finished the first two books in @adapalmer.bsky.social 's Terra Ignota series.

They are so excellent. They took me longer than usual to read, because I would constantly have to stop and think about what I read.

Sent me down a rabbit hole about Diogenes ...

Team Utopian.

#books
#booksky

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 11d

The thing regular people don’t often grasp about ‘academic freedom’ is that if you don’t allow experts to research & teach in their fields of expertise, guided by their professional judgment & decades of training, you have effectively given up on the concept of knowledge & shut down your university

Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 11d

Universities are moving rapidly to comply with laws that don't exist.

Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 12d

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” The professor spoke by phone from the inside of a car to avoid being overheard by colleagues.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

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Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 12d

Yeah I'm all for "being humans in a room together" until it's an all-college meeting without a zoom option

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