Sarah Dowling

Today’s arrival

Francesca Wade’s Gertrude Stein biography, my kid’s hands, some cat matryoshkas, and a Portuguese chicken ornament

Yay weekend

I fucking love buying books.

Attention translators and friends and lovers of translators! The 2026 Humanities in Translation (Hit!) Prize Competition is now open. Deadline Jan. 16.

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UT Austin wants to eliminate its Black studies, Latino Studies, and gender studies departments. Tell them you won't stand for it. UT President, Jim Davis, president@utexas.edu UT Executive Vice President and Provost, William Inboden, provost@utexas.edu College of Liberal Arts Interim Dean, David Sosa, david_sosa@austin.utexas.edu #EducationalLiberty #SaveUT

🚨🚨 @utaustin.bsky.social is working to eliminate its Black studies, Latin studies, and gender studies depts -- utterly reneging on its mission and depriving students of the full educational opportunities they deserve. Please--scholars AND publishers--share & write to UT leaders. #SaveUT

So deserving!! And so great that awards like this exist to recognize it! They seem to really value difficult, challenging books!

According to the internet, it came out in 2021, so who knows!! But yes, awesome regardless!

Congratulations to Andrea Brady, who has just received the Truman Capote Award for her tour de force book, Poetry and Bondage!

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If you've suddenly gained a new interest in Hungarian literature, we have a few recommendations for you.

Featuring
- Péter Esterházy
- Gyula Illyés
- Ferenc Barnás

#ReadUP #Translations

Haha, yeah—if you’re going to do just one, make it count!

Idk, I guess since she only published Ulysses, not exactly!

Does the Sylvia Beach one count? Haven’t read it in a while…

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.

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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.

"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

Check whether the AI dumb-dumbs stole your book & if they did, submit a claim!

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Check whether the AI dumb-dumbs stole your book & if they did, submit a claim!

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Hahaha—thank you for making it happen!!

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

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

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)

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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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!

www.fivefortyone.ca/donate

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

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...

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?

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

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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...)

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

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

Bravo, Nick. This is beyond excellent!!

ME TOOOOOO!!!!

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