Toby Altman

We are thrilled to welcome the new Michigan Poet Laureate, Melba Joyce Boyd, to Lansing next week. She'll give a reading on Friday, November 14th at 7pm at the East Lansing Public Library, and a workshop the following morning at the Library of Michigan as part of the Poet's Roundtable conference.

This week at the RCAH Center for Poetry! Join us for readings from Esther Belin and Jo Troxell, and help us welcome Esther to town!

Nov 14: A Reading with Melba Joyce Boyd. Join us as we welcome Michigan's new Poet Laureate to town with a reading at the East Lansing Public Library, at 7pm. Reception and book signing to follow. Melba's reading is made possible thanks to a generous grant from Kresge Arts Detroit.

Oct 17: Hyphens Lecture with Tracie Morris. Poet and performance artist Tracie Morris presents the annual Hyphens Lecture in Creative Writing, "Phanopticon: Reimaginaing the ubiquity of "image" in the poetic idea." Wells Hall B210 from 3-4:15pm, in collaboration with the Creative Writing Program.

Oct 8: A Reading with Esther Belin. Join us to celebrate Esther's appointment at Michigan State University—and welcome this dynamic poet and community builder to our community! The reading will be held at 7pm in Snyder Phillips Hall, with a reception and book signing to follow.

Sep 14: A Reading with Leila Chatti. We're excited to welcome RCAH alum Leila Chatti back to East Lansing as she celebrates her new book, in partnership with the Lansing Poetry Club. 4pm at the Copper Chimney Lounge of the University United Methodist Church, 1120 S. Harrison Road.

Sep 11: "Mathematics for Poets (and Other People)," a workshop with Dr. Maxwell Levine, a mathematician from the University of Freiburg, at 11am in the Lookout Gallery in Snyder-Phillips.

The RCAH Center for Poetry at MSU is BACK! With old friends and new laureates, mathematicians and performance artists, we are here to demand, to insist, that poetry is a living thing! (See the following posts for a complete rundown of events)

Tonight!

Summer Series is back this week—w/readings from Suban Nur Cooley, Korey Deans, Bianca Rae Messinger, and Adam Mitt!

We are hiring a tenure track poet! I’m so excited / spread the word… wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...

Tari is unable to join us tonight, but fortunately the great Ruelaine Stokes is going to read in her stead! Don't miss this—

Tomorrow night!

excuse me...wat

INTRODUCING: Summer Series, a set of relaxed, off-campus readings from the The RCAH Center for Poetry at MSU, featuring local and national poetic luminaries. Summer Series I, featuring Sarah Carson and Tari Muñiz will be July 12th at 7pm at Hooked Lansing!

George Oppen, with news that stays news

Given that we seem to be in a moment of crisis for literary organizations and literary funding more broadly, which organizations do you see responding to the moment in radical / interesting ways? Brainstorming for a ~thing~

huge thanks to phil kostov for this elegant and thoughtful review of Discipline Park: rhinopoetry.org/reviews/toby...

"Music is simply trying things"—Alice Notley, from the first poem of her Iowa MFA Thesis, 1970. Thinking of her, and all of those who were lifted by her—

some ppl are really still living in the 20th century

Make Room: A New Voices Salon with Toby Altman, Laura Jaramillo & Aristilde Kirby Placing poetry at the crossroads of American life since 1910.

I'll be in New York on Friday to read with Laura Jaramillo & Aristilde Kirby! hope to see you there— poetrysociety.org/events/make-...

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One acquires an especially lush gender. A romance, the stranger and his roommate naked in the lake.

Today's Featured Poem:

"One acquires an especially lush gender." by Toby Altman (@browatch.bsky.social), from Issue 1 of Rampage Party.

Read here:
poems.com/poem/one-acq...

One acquires an especially lush gender. A romance, the stranger and his roommate naked in the lake.

I'm back in @poetrydaily.bsky.social with a poem I wrote wandering around in Target:

poems.com/poem/one-acq...

High as Finance All this coke, and not a credit card in sight

One thing I admired about Joshua Clover: the absolute clarity of his thinking, irregardless of the object—even Spring Breakers. We need that clarity now, at a moment when we need to be mercilessly honest about what is—and isn't—a revolutionary poetics thenewinquiry.com/high-as-fina...

Make Room: A New Voices Salon with Toby Altman, Laura Jaramillo & Aristilde Kirby Placing poetry at the crossroads of American life since 1910.

New York! I'm reading with Laura Jaramillo & Aristilde Kirby in a few weeks—

Good to be pondering with you!

This Saturday! Our spring festival concludes with Summer Slam 5, curated by Masaki Takahashi. This lineup is STACKED

come out to the New Orleans Healing Arts Center tomorrow for a collaborative poetry event with Tyger Quarterly at the NOPF! Featuring @browatch.bsky.social, kathy wu, Alyssa Moore, Emily Pittinos, Shira Dentz, and Emily Barton Altman