Micah Bateman

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Dorothy was one of the top mentions on the fiction lists.

Out of my own curiosity about the rise of 'archival' poetics, I charted poetry titles from the lists that have 'archival' markers in the title/metadata, showing a dramatic rise and peak during the first DT admin.

Sherman Alexie, Graham Foust, Bhanu Kapil, Alice Notley, Zachary Schomburg, with most of the authors declining after 2015 except for Alice Notley who skyrockets after 2021.

Here are 'top' five poets:

Line chart from 2006-2023 revealing the relative declines of Flood Editions, Ugly Duckling, and Ahsahta, the mixed successes of Black Lawrence, and the meteoric rise of The Song Cave.

My GA and I compiled all the Small Press Distribution (SPD) Bestseller lists from 2006-2023. Using number of mentions by press, I charted the 'top' five poetry presses of the time period, which reveals the rise and dominance of my grad school cohort Alan Felsenthal's The Song Cave.

Bringing big "sweep the leg" energy to this coda

oh Catherine O'Hara we love you get up

I am so close. To finishing. The thing.

pack of Smarties

Smarties

Trying to think of a name to capture the ego aspect of it. For me, the scraps are like, You didn't contribute to the argument or flow! But you sound SO SMART. I will preserve you as tiny little monuments to my smartness

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our Issue 0! CFP for Issue 1 coming soon

“The humanities are not peripheral to the tasks of librarianship, but, when approached with the right tools, very frequently touch upon the exposed nerve of what makes libraries tick today.”

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"I said no"

There's something too politically on the nose about the surge in popularity of the "deadlift."

I too am cathartic-lifting my way through this. Literally started lifting for the very first time in my adult life the day after the election

did Frost tweet this?

My students have always gotten fired up and turned in cool stuff after reading "Theory and Play of the Duende"

University authors, don’t sleep on Anthropic AI settlement | LIBRARIES | Blog By Liz Hamilton, Copyright Librarian If you are one of the many authors in the Northwestern community who has received an email titled “Court Notice:...

Northwestern University Libraries is helping their faculty understand the Anthropic copyright class action litigation. 📚 sites.northwestern.edu/northwestern...

*waves from poetry 👋*

RIP Whitman you would've loved all these Millennial men bulking their way through crises

So far I am two hours down *per day* in phone use

Deadline tomorrow!

I've been experimenting with how much scholarship it can write. And it's the same. As long as I, a trained scholar, granularly prompt it at every turn, to the point of spending as much energy in prompting as I would in just drafting it myself, it's pretty good!

Plato Censored as Texas A&M Carries Out Course Review A&M officials have also instructed English faculty not to teach books in core classes that have major plotlines concerning gay, lesbian or transgender identities.

An associate dean told English faculty “literature with major plot lines that concern gay, lesbian or transgender identities should not be taught in core-curriculum classes…faculty may assign textbooks with chapters that cover transgender identity, so long as they do not talk about the material.”🙃

Artificial Intelligence in the Colonial Matrix of Power - Philosophy & Technology Drawing on the analytic of the “colonial matrix of power” developed by Aníbal Quijano within the Latin American modernity/coloniality research program, this article theorises how a system of coloniali...

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Ghozali, Ibnu Fikri. "Decolonizing Algorithms: Artificial Intelligence Bias and Digital Colonialism in Global South AI Governance." Jurnal Nawala Politika 3.1 (2025): 77-92.

Augustan anti-dueling dramatist Richard Steele is rolling in his grave

CFPs here, deadline soon: americanliteratureassociation.org/wp-content/u...

Me earlier: Why tf is every writer in the NYT writing about Jan 6??

Me, hours later, having to check the date on something: Oh

I think that's what introduced me to Nirvana!