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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 21h

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
List of Contributors

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Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social · 17h

Thank you so much for reading it! I’m so glad you liked it, and that’s fantastic to hear that you bought the book! It’s so fascinating—hope you enjoy it.

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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 18h

"Every night without fail I try to tear the swastika off of the Nazi flag. I'm proud of myself and happy when I do it, but the next day it's always sewn firmly on again." - a middle class housewife

Cover of the book THE THIRD REICH OF DREAMS - THE NIGHTMARES OF A NATION" by Charlotte Beradt, translated by Damion Searle, with a forward by Dunya Mikhail. It is illustrated with a giant bullet hole.
"This is the kind of book that haunts your dreams. Essential reading for anyone who has known what it is like to live within a totalitarian state-or is worried they're about to find out." Zadie Smith, author of White Teeth

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Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social · 1d

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Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social · 1d

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Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social · 1d

Hahaha—thank you for making it happen!!

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Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social · 2d

Took my show on the road to York & Guelph last week, narrowly & unfortunately missing Guelph’s butter tart festival.

A hand holding the book Here Is a Figure: Grounding Literary Form, with trees and a road in the background

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Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present @asapartsnow.bsky.social · 5d

We are so excited to announce the shortlist for the ASAP/16 Book Prize!

Congratulations to all the nominees! We’ll announce the winner of the prize at the annual conference in a few weeks in Houston! See the ALT ID and thread for more information.

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Sarah Dimick- Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures (Columbia UP)

Kency Cornejo- Visual Disobedience: Art and Decoloniality in Central America (Duke UP)

Brooke Belisle- Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation (University of California Press)

Steven Swarbrick & Jean-Thomas Tremblay- Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction (Northwestern UP)

Amber Jamilla Musser- Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined (Duke UP)

Christopher T. Fan- Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility (Columbia UP)

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Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social · 4d

Once a week I wash the dishes at this pay-what-you-can cafe/harm reduction space. On Thursday the walk-in fridge broke, and they have had to close temporarily. They also lost the food that was in there. If you have a few extra bucks, I’m sure they’d appreciate some help!

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Jules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social · 12d

My latest @theguardian.com: "Fifa banned Russia from international football. Now it must do the same for Israel." As Israel inflicts untold misery on Palestinians, it is time for soccer’s governing bodies to stand by the principles they claim to uphold www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Fifa banned Russia from international football. Now it must do the same for Israel

As Israel inflicts untold misery on Palestinians, it is time for football’s governing bodies to stand by the principles they claim to uphold

www.theguardian.com

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Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social · 5d

Some aspiring critical university studies scholar ought to write a dissertation tracking the number & location of dead bodies within the contemporary university and analyzing the mechanisms by which the commission of indignities upon them is made acceptable and necessary. Daily atrocities, for whom?

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 5d

USC is selling bodies that were likely donated to the university for medical training to the US Navy to literally train the IDF, seemingly without family consent.

This is per reporting by USC’s own journalism school.

t.co/lZ5jmQoZ1t

Near the end of 2017, the United States Navy filed a notice of intent to begin purchasing human cadavers from the University of Southern California. The purpose: Use dead bodies in trauma surgery training for the Israeli Defense Forces.

Since that notice, the Navy has paid USC more than $860,000 for at least 89 “fresh cadaver bodies,” 32 of which were used specifically for IDF training at Los Angeles General Medical Center.

One contract is still ongoing. The Navy has already paid USC over half a million dollars, but the most recent contract allows for an additional $225,000 worth of cadavers to be purchased at the Navy’s discretion, which would bring USC’s total earned for the last seven years to nearly $1.1 million.

While the three contracts in question make up less than 1% of USC’s 367 contracts with the Navy, Annenberg Media was unable to locate any other U.S. university that had similar contracts involving the IDF. (See the other contracts here and here.)

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knife | fork | book @knifeforkbook.bsky.social · 5d

Ten Years in the Making. Poetry. Well-served. #KFB10

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Scott Neigh @scottneigh.bsky.social · 6d

It's book launch season! #HamOnt folks can come and listen to me talk about my new book with Jane Mulkewich on October 23 at The City and The City Books! (I'll post about the online and Sudbury launches in the coming days...)

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Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social · 7d

Seriously, so needed & so sharply observed & well argued. I absolutely love it!!

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Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social · 7d

Nearly impossible to pull a quote from this fantastic essay—each sentence more fantastic than the last!

Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 7d

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...

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Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social · 7d

Bravo, Nick. This is beyond excellent!!

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Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social · 9d

ME TOOOOOO!!!!

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Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social · 9d

That sounds so fun—wish I could be there!!

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Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social · 9d

New Kay Gabriel on September 30th!

(Exciting review by Rainer Diana Hamilton)

www.frieze.com/article/rain...

Kay Gabriel’s Tapestry of Her Friends’ Dreams

In her new book ‘Perverts’, one of poetry’s great dreamers puts nighttime’s revelations into social relation

www.frieze.com

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Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social · 10d

So, do we think any of the press around Pan will acknowledge Clune’s testimony in support of ending DEI practices at Ohio universities? Or will that be left out? It was, after all, less than 9 months ago …

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Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social · 11d

So exciting!!

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Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social · 11d

If you are free next week & in Toronto or Guelph!

Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social · 22d

Ontario friends, I’ve got a couple of book-related events coming up the week after next! I’ll be at York on Monday the 29th, and at Guelph on Friday the 3rd. DM me if you’d like more info—it would be great to see you!

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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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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

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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

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