Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Rebecca Kosick

Georgia Nasseh @georgianasseh.bsky.social · 3d

In case you haven’t seen it, the CFP is out for Translation Networks in the Decolonising World, 1950s–1970s! The conference will take place at King’s College, University of Cambridge on 24–25 April 2026.

The deadline for abstracts is 15 October 2025.

2

Reposted by Rebecca Kosick

Michael Marcinkowski @michaelmarcinkowski.org · 4d

New (late) late Summer issue of Poetry Theory Review now available: www.michaelmarcinkowski.org/ptr

1 3

Rebecca Kosick @rkokayokay.bsky.social · 6d

Page proofing over here. Not long now! wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814350249/

image of page proofs for book with the text:
Great Lakes Books
A complete listing of the books in this series can be found online at wsupress.wayne.edu.
Editor
Thomas Klug Sterling Heights, Michigan

DISPATCHES FROM THE AVANT-GARAGE
THE ALTERNATIVE PRESS
Rebecca Kosick
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
DETROIT

1 14

Reposted by Rebecca Kosick

German Screen Studies Network @g-s-s-n.bsky.social · 6d

Congratulations to our very own Paul Flaig on the publication of his book: Weimar Slapstick and Hollywood Comedy Transformed - out today with Bloomsbury, in the World Cinema series edited by Lúcia Nagib and Julian Ross

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/weimar-sl...

Weimar Slapstick and Hollywood Comedy Transformed

From cabaret songs inspired by Buster Keaton to Mickey Mouse's diagnosis as a “melo-maniac,” Weimar Slapstick and Hollywood Comedy Transformed explores the extr…

www.bloomsbury.com

8 19

Reposted by Rebecca Kosick

Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 6d

🚨Internship Alert!

An opportunity is available for a @chase-dtp.bsky.social-funded PhD student to join Wasafiri on a year-long editorial placement, providing invaluable experience within an academic and literary journal.

DEADLINE: Midnight, Sunday, 2 November 2025

Internship Opportunity: CHASE Editorial Placement at Wasafiri

An opportunity is available for a CHASE-funded PhD student to join Wasafiri on a year-long editorial placement.

buff.ly

4 6

Rebecca Kosick @rkokayokay.bsky.social · 6d

Nothing

can replace
poetry
in my life
and one day
surely
it will

-Ken Mikolowski on #NationalPoetryDay

4

Reposted by Rebecca Kosick

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

20 70 190

Reposted by Rebecca Kosick

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8d

Horrifying— Barbara Gomes Marques went with her US citizen husband and lawyer on 9/16 to a green card appointment at USCIS office in downtown LA where she was tricked into walking down a hallway away from them, was snatched by ICE and never came back. She now faces imminent deportation in Louisiana.

Los Angeles man demands answers after wife was detained at scheduled green card meeting

A man is speaking out and asking for help after his wife was detained by federal agents at the end of a scheduled green card hearing in downtown Los Angeles in early September.

www.cbsnews.com

100 2.3K 5.2K

Reposted by Rebecca Kosick

Michael Marcinkowski @michaelmarcinkowski.org · 8d

Wednesday night! Bristol! www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/ill...

Selah The Underground River Poetry Night w/ Eva Penney at The Ill Repute

Kulvert Books Presents Selah! The Underground River Poetry Night with Music by Bristol's Eva Penney. Come along to Kulvert Books 'UNDERGROUND RIVER' Poetry and Music Night with an open mic poetry slo...

www.headfirstbristol.co.uk

1 1

Reposted by Rebecca Kosick

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 9d

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 9d

regrettably if you try to point this out online you'll get yelled out by 79208 journalists going OH SO YOU WANT JOURNALISTS TO STARVE??? even if you're, say, a journalist yourself, and point out that while there are clearly no easy answers, the status quo isn't exactly working for society

86 1.2K 3.4K

Reposted by Rebecca Kosick

Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 9d

ahem there is finally going to be a zoom launch on US time and it's next Sunday, 5 October, at 2 p.m. Central (3 Eastern, 1 Mountain, noon Pacific, 8 p.m. UK/Ireland, 9 p.m. CET, please extrapolate elsewhere from there)

usd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

you'd be very welcome
bring a short poem you love

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Launch Pattern-book in the US!. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Join us for readings, discussion, and effervescence as Nina MacLaughlin (Wake, Siren; Summer Solstice; Winter Solstice) launches Éireann Lorsung's newest collection, Pattern-book (Carcanet, 2025). Ab...

usd.zoom.us

1 13 17

Rebecca Kosick @rkokayokay.bsky.social · 9d

Do you want to log onto Microsoft Teams, or do you [opens door revealing meadow with forest beyond] want to LIVE?

2

Rebecca Kosick @rkokayokay.bsky.social · 12d

www.scribd.com/document/324...

Writing at Uchicago - The Little Red Schoolhouse Method | PDF | Verb | Paragraph

The document provides guidance on writing effectively using the "Little Red Schoolhouse" method taught at the University of Chicago. It discusses identifying the audience and their perspective, using ...

www.scribd.com

Rebecca Kosick @rkokayokay.bsky.social · 12d

Index position tho 🤔

Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 13d

Dear high school English teachers, not every (or even any) paragraph in an essay needs to start with a "topic sentence." In fact, rather a lot of terrific paragraphs in terrific essays have no "topic sentences" at all.

1 1

Reposted by Rebecca Kosick

English at Bristol @bristolunienglish.bsky.social · May 16

Find 'Of Light and Colours', a new poem by Dr William Wootten, in today's @thespectator1828.bsky.social. This poem is from Dr Wootten's forthcoming full collection Landline, to be published by Worple Press in the autumn. Have a read here 👉 www.spectator.co.uk/poem/of-ligh....

1 3 4

Reposted by Rebecca Kosick

williamwootten.bsky.social @williamwootten.bsky.social · 16d

My new collection Landline is now available to preorder. It's out on the 16th October: worplepress.com/product/land...

Landline - Worple Press

William Wootten’s Landline takes us from Eden to the end of the world. Its poems circumnavigate the globe and journey to Venus and the Underworld, bringing arresting voices via intricate patterns of r...

worplepress.com

1 3

Rebecca Kosick @rkokayokay.bsky.social · 14d

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DON512/h...

Head of Research, Archives and Libraries at The British Museum

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Head of Research, Archives and Libraries on jobs.ac.uk!

www.jobs.ac.uk

13 11

Reposted by Rebecca Kosick

Andrew Epstein @andrewepstein.bsky.social · 14d

Dial-A-Poem, a Very Analog Project of the ’60s, Goes Global www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/a...

Dial-A-Poem, a Very Analog Project of the ’60s, Goes Global

www.nytimes.com

1 6 23

Reposted by Rebecca Kosick

Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 15d

Museum studies people: are there any scholarly texts on new forms of museum interpretation -- Specifically label writing?

1 6 1

Rebecca Kosick @rkokayokay.bsky.social · 17d

I failed to take note of the soundtrack of Mexico City’s hotel breakfasts and for that I have been punished with a truly repulsive airport restaurant soundtrack of the gringo at the table next to me explaining to his 20-something son (?) everything wrong with every woman he has ever dated.

Rebecca Kosick @rkokayokay.bsky.social · 28d

We continue our international journey for the senses with this hotel breakfast in Brussels, soundtracks of smooth piano jazz and views of the hotel courtyard.

Rebecca Kosick @rkokayokay.bsky.social · Aug 3

Next on an international journey for the senses. This Santiago (de Chile) hotel breakfast has limited views of the day, with the winter sun only just showing through the trees outside, and a soundtrack of humming machines

2

Rebecca Kosick @rkokayokay.bsky.social · 26d

Next week in Mexico City, join us at la Ibero 17-20 septiembre for the III Simposio Internacional de Poesía Experimental, PO-EX, with an absolutely knock-out wave of poet-thinkers. Program+ at www.instagram.com/po_ex_santia...

Póster by Rhys Trimble for PO-EX III featuring a series of graphic text-based prints.

2 3

Rebecca Kosick @rkokayokay.bsky.social · 26d

I used to work as a lifeguard at this pool in Brooklyn and my coworkers there agreed I was nicer in Spanish 🤷🏻‍♀️

1

Rebecca Kosick @rkokayokay.bsky.social · 27d

altacjobs.com/j/writer-edi...

Writer/Editor

<h3>Company Description</h3><p><strong>MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES UK</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) provides life-saving emergency relief and longer-ter...

altacjobs.com

1

Rebecca Kosick @rkokayokay.bsky.social · 27d

Mothering under capitalism has been the most radicalising experience of my life & all I want for myself and my kids and all of us is “universal nonhierarchical holding and carrying of one another“

Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 28d

It's too easy to hear the story of Cindy Bi suing her surrogate for murder & infer that what we need to get rid of is surrogacy (rather than the way parenthood is organized under capitalism).
So many ppl sent me the Wired article that I ended up writing my response: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

That Wild “Wired” Article Is Not a Case Against Surrogacy

It’s a horror story about Silicon Valley, and an extreme example of what happens when we conceive of children as property.

www.thenation.com

2 17

Rebecca Kosick @rkokayokay.bsky.social · 28d

We continue our international journey for the senses with this hotel breakfast in Brussels, soundtracks of smooth piano jazz and views of the hotel courtyard.

Rebecca Kosick @rkokayokay.bsky.social · Aug 3

Next on an international journey for the senses. This Santiago (de Chile) hotel breakfast has limited views of the day, with the winter sun only just showing through the trees outside, and a soundtrack of humming machines

Rebecca Kosick @rkokayokay.bsky.social · Jul 18

This O’Hare airport hotel breakfast has sweeping views of the interior of the hotel itself and a Prince dance remix soundtrack.

1