Kamran Javadizadeh

Inger Christensen, from alphabet (trans. Susanna Nied)

Good job, MIT.

Strong truth here from @himself.bsky.social. Civil society has to get its act together and coordinate for the greater good, even if that's not its usual mode. Universities most especially.

A reminder that we’re hiring a poet at Villanova this year—tenure-track job, wonderful department, close proximity to Philly. Poets, please think about applying! jobs.villanova.edu/postings/33001

Hey poets and teachers out there! Villanova is hiring for a tenure-track assistant prof position. Great school and a wonderful English Department. Check it out below.

jobs.villanova.edu/postings/33001

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...

We’re hiring a poet at Villanova this year! Tenure-track job, wonderful colleagues, eager students—and Philadelphia, too! Happy to try to answer any questions about the job. Poets! Apply! jobs.villanova.edu/postings/33001

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.

Human rights experts join rising chorus that accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza A team of experts commissioned by the U.N.'s Human Rights Council has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

BREAKING: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, a team of independent experts commissioned by the U.N.’s Human Rights Council concludes.

A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.

It’s been 10 years since my sister was diagnosed, 4 years since she died. During those 6 years of illness, all we could hope for was that each treatment would buy us enough time to benefit from the treatments that hadn’t yet been discovered. I can’t fathom the cruelty & stupidity of this government.

In the coming decades, you or someone you love will be diagnosed with cancer, and you will wonder if Trump and DOGE are why treatments haven't improved

Read this book!

I too was blown away by how timely Descent of Alette is right now. The tyrant is capitalism and the billionaire class!

This series has been so rewarding and comforting, especially this episode, which I'm saving. 🙏🏻

In case you’re in the mood…

YouTube video by Kelly Writers House John Ashbery reads "What Is Poetry" at the Kelly Writers House

Also this! youtu.be/MIZJcVr3m8Y

This can pair interestingly with Mill: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Thank you so much for listening!

Megan Quigley on T. S. Eliot ( Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 21/07/2025 · 2h 7m

Fantastic listen. 30 minutes into the episode the recording plays of TSEliot himself reading the Lovesong as an old man and then @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social and his wonderful guest have so much fun doing the close reading. Super informed but still fresh and fun

We're so delighted to have @kristingrogan.bsky.social 's brilliance for Re/Verse!!!

(co-editors @glavey.bsky.social, @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social, and I have a couple more amazing books in the pipeline too)

super delighted to have signed a contract with Amherst College Press for a little book on Sylvia Plath’s Ariel, a book I cannot stop reading and thinking about and troubling over

Thank you!

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.

"Even gifted scholars lose their way / through faulty etymology." Incredible poem and conversation.

Siobhan Phillips on Marianne Moore ( Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 07/28/2025 · 1h 47m

You can also find our conversation here, as always. Highly recommend this one, both as an introduction to Marianne Moore and the poem, and as an exploration of how constraints can become generative, of how conditions of boundedness can contain infinities. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Siobhan Phillips on Marianne Moore ("Armor's Undermining Modesty") Close Readings · Episode

“What is more precise than precision? Illusion.” Today, a long-overdue episode on Marianne Moore, with the great Siobhan Phillips. We talked about Moore’s wonderful poem “Armor’s Undermining Modesty.” open.spotify.com/episode/2FPe...

Do I dare to eat a peach?

I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear my trousers rolled

and wriggling on the wall!

Super sharp, super fun - the amazing Megan Quigley is well worth a listen wherever you can catch her! Here she is with Dr Kamran Javadizadeh on our pal Prufrock - do check out the Close Readings podcast

Thanks Matt!