Brian Glavey

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Get in losers, we’re about to ride the SNaiLRuG.

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Mod Squad! Come here me in some detail about Sedgwick and the etymology of various words at 1:00 tomorrow at MSA @moderniststudies.bsky.social

Be my colleague in NYC! @huntercollege.bsky.social @cuny.edu Women and Gender Studies.

Assistant Professor with a desired focus on Black reproductive rights, maternal care and midwifery / doulas / sexuality

Applications due by November 15.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Abstract submission form QR code for the Post45 graduate symposium at Duke, February 20-21, 2026. The form is also accessible at https://tinyurl.com/2e2dr4wv.

The 11th annual Post45 Graduate Symposium will be hosted by Duke University's Department of English, February 20-21, 2026! Check out the CFP (post45.org/graduate/202...) and please share with anyone who might be interested.

Abstracts are due November 14.

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

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...

I’m reading this too!

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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...

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...

@tricialockwood.bsky.social in SW Atlanta on Thursday!

www.acappellabooks.com/pages/events...

Shadow of the New Deal with Josh Shepperd | The History on Film Podcast American Public Broadcasting

Delighted to have joined the History of Film podcast to discuss why public media matters.

Fit for Purpose? How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public Education Digital educational platforms have become ubiquitous in American classrooms, with tools like Google Workspace for Education, Kahoot!, Zearn, Khan Academy, and many others now structuring curriculum, i...

Say it often, say it loud:

"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

Jealous!!

Thanks, Cara!

Book contract language for Brian Glavey's Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets

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.

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.

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

[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)

Students want to create! With their own brains!

UIC English is hiring a TT Assistant Professor in prose fiction.

As we are one of the very few PhD programs in Creative Writing, PhD is strongly preferred.

Happy to answer questions; please share around.

uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

After Sweeping Cuts at West Virginia U., Its President Made $2 Million Last Year E. Gordon Gee was the second-highest paid public-university president last year, according to The Chronicle’s analysis of executive compensation.

I'm glad that @chronicle.com covered EG Gee's exorbitant salary in his last year at WVU: he "rak[ed] in 2 million in total compensation in 2024 as the university made sweeping cuts to academic programs and faculty positions to manage a $45-million budget shortfall"
www.chronicle.com/article/afte...

I was quoted in this piece on the AI bubble amidst great company!

Position Summary The Department of English/Program for Writers at the University of Illinois-Chicago seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Creative Writing (prose fiction). PhD is preferred, though MFA with suitable experience will be considered; degree must be conferred by time of appointment. At least one book published or under contract is expected, as is a demonstrated record of teaching and mentoring. UIC faculty are expected to carry out their responsibilities in person and onsite as part of a vibrant and collegial on-campus community. Our new colleague will teach courses unless otherwise specified in the fields of Creative Writing and American Literature and will engage in ongoing research in an area of expertise. Responsibilities include: teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels (2-2 load); mentoring and advising students; providing service to the university; and actively contributing to the intellectual life of the department and the broader campus.

Job posting! Assistant Professor in Creative Writing – English Department, University of Illinois - Chicago.

To apply, submit an online application including cover letter, CV, letters of recommendation and a 20-page writing sample by November 1, 2025.

jobs.uic.edu

saint louis!

next week at Wash U, a workshop on periodization, aesthetics, and the neofeudal hypothesis, followed by a talk from Good Enough Art

english.wustl.edu/events

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I’m taking a day off from reading the news and focusing on good things. If you’d like to focus something good for a moment, here is Mishmish, who is a Very Good Cat. You’re welcome.

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I have been impatiently waiting for this book to come out and just this morning aspirationally put selections from it on my grad seminar syllabus, the timing could not be better!

Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away

Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away https://theonion.com/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-before-federal-gove-1819579589/

If you, like I, owned a cassette of Poison’s Open Up and Say … Aah, are a big fan of David Ben-Merre & @profchander.bsky.social’s, and can’t get enough of theories of address & apostrophe, you truly must read the epilogue to David’s wonderful book forthcoming from @sunypress.bsky.social

The taco – from working-class staple to transnational icon | Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado on Taco (Object Lessons) What are the origins of the taco and what is an authentic taco? Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado argues their cultural ambiguity is the perfect symbol of modern Mexico.

Bloomsbury published today some tidbit of my forthcoming book taco. You can read here! www.bloomsbury.com/us/discover/...

How a secret recording of a gender identity lecture upended Texas A&M Officials have struggled to detail the exact reasons for the A&M professor’s termination, citing a technical issue with her course description. Faculty say the move was politically motivated.

excellent and comprehensive story about what's happening at Texas A&M

www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...

stimulating conversation with blake oetting from january just finally came out in november mag! www.novembermag.com/content/anna...