Contemporaries at Post45

there is an essay for and about everything @atpost45.bsky.social and @post45.bsky.social. Today, as I was looking for sources on blurb economy, I found this: post45.org/2018/11/the-...

“Don’t Let Me Fly”: on Intimacy and Fame in BTS’s Map of the Soul: 7 – Post45 When it comes to the worldwide significance of Korean popular culture right now, the seven-member group BTS (or, 방탄소년단) naturally comes to mind — they are, by almost every measure, one of the most pop...

As BTS comeback season inches closer, I’m thinking again about one of my fave nonfiction pieces I’ve written over the last few years—“‘Don’t Let Me Fly’: on Intimacy and Fame in BTS’s Map of the Soul: 7,” for the @atpost45.bsky.social Hallyu Project issue, ed. by Yin Yuan

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I've got an article in this cluster on C.D. Wright—look at the gorgeous company it's in!

C.D. Wright: University Poet – Post45 Thinking on the work and career of the poet C.D. Wright, I return, in my own elliptical fashion, to two quotes (and one idea) from two writers who write about the nature of literary production at the ...

Thanks to @aliciawright.bsky.social for all her hard work in getting this cluster together! What a joy to get to work with you!

And thanks @franciscondine.bsky.social for all your editorial & technical work! The cluster looks beautiful!

@atpost45.bsky.social

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This is an incredible cluster for a truly wonderful poet! What a dream team of contributors, and what a balm on a wild, windy Midwestern November Wednesday.

Great work @aliciawright.bsky.social & co!

Contemporaries – Post45 Post45 seeks to reinvigorate the erstwhile convention of academic critics not only describing past traditions but also actively intervening in current tastes. It provides a forum for writers to conver...

🌟✒️📔✨ We are so excited that this cluster, "C.D. Wright in Context," is at post45.org/contemporaries. Enjoy reading, enjoy your November Wednesday, & let's all read more C.D. Wright in the near future! Her poetry often offers us strange balms for strange times, & this cluster is a testament to that.

Relative Poetics: On C.D. Wright, Appropriation, and the Decentered Self – Post45 Winter outside of Providence; winter in northern lower Michigan. Light like a gnat crawling the walls of a milk-glass jar — between snow and cloud cover, the sun’s pale ricochets subdued. In a copy ro...

Rounding out the cluster is @jenssread.bsky.social—Wright’s biographer—whose essay shows how Wright’s poetry “decenters her experience” & "reveals herself fallible before the gaze of the reader.” Wright’s powerful poetry emerges from this complex, lyrical negotiation. post45.org/2025/11/cd-w...

“Moving Under My Dress”: C.D. Wright and Clothing – Post45 In Just Whistle (1993), Tremble (1996), and One Big Self (2003),((One Big Self was first published in 2003 as One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana with photographs by Deborah Luster; the text was repu...

For @rvtrousdale.bsky.social, there’s a particularity in how “C.D. Wright treats clothing as a liminal space or a semipermeable membrane between the self and the world,” especially in how clothing becomes a mode of expressing ambiguity & remembrance. post45.org/2025/11/c-d-...

“Licked by Many Other Tongues”: C.D. Wright’s Deepstep Come Shining – Post45 What will my new instrument be Just this water glassthis untunable spoon Something else is out theregoddamnit And I want to hear it − C.D. Wright, “And It Came to Pass”((C.D. Wright, “And It Came to P...

In @flannelkate.bsky.social's essay on C.D. Wright’s *Deepstep Come Shining,* there’s a strangeness & knowledge that emerges in the questions of belonging, community, and self-realization. The lyric sensibility that emerges, she observes, is “metamorphic.” post45.org/2025/11/lick...

On the Inside: Prisons and Paratexts in One Big Self – Post45 Continuing in the documentary-poetic tradition established by poets like Muriel Rukeyser and Daphne Marlatt, C.D. Wright collaborated with a photographer and conducted field interviews to gather an ar...

Olivia Milroy Evans considers the materiality, historicity, and embeddedness of C.D. Wright’s poetry, especially as the idea of bearing witness intersects with the problems (and affordances) of lyric address. post45.org/2025/11/on-t...

The Dialogue of the Eye: Wright, Truitt, and Martin – Post45 Not to know but to go on.Anything is a mirror.There are two endless directions. In and out.((Agnes Martin, Agnes Martin: Writings = Schriften, ed. Dieter Schwarz (Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2005), ...

In her meditation on intermediality, @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social brings together Agnest Martin, Anne Truitt, and C.D. Wright. This essay is a rhapsodic read, and takes up the loving and difficult work of aesthetics with an eye towards new (im)possibilities. post45.org/2025/11/the-...

“Hateful words survive in sticky clumps”: Forms of Whiteness in C. D. Wright’s One With Others – Post45 And black is the funereal color of the prison system’s regime of death, which infiltrates the home as a worker’s uniform, “the executioner’s corduroy hood.” Capital punishment works well for a racist ...

For @cspaide.bsky.social, C.D. Wright’s considerations of region and race form significant vectors for taking up her work. Dignity, in its complexity, is the key word for Wright’s political poetics. post45.org/2025/11/form...

The Medium-Close Poetics of C.D. Wright’s One Big Self – Post45 The lines, “That’s hard / I don’t go there,” appear twice, near the beginning of C.D. Wright’s One Big Self: An Investigation, a poetic collaboration with the photographer, Deborah Luster, that uses f...

Reading the positioning of image—& ekphrasis as a mode—in C.D. Wright’s collaborations with the photographer Deborah Luster, @dr-b-i.bsky.social reformulates the form of testimony and witness that Wright undertakes in her poetry. post45.org/2025/11/the-...

“Words appeared / by which she wanted to live”: C. D. Wright’s Realism – Post45 Nobody needs to prove, in 2025, that C. D. Wright was an influential poet, or a beloved teacher, or someone who continues to be read and studied today. Few American poets of her cohort have a more var...

Did you know that George Eliot and C.D. Wright share a commitment to theorizing the shape of realism on the page? We invite you to read @notquitehydepark.bsky.social on how Wright’s poetry extends the self in relation to others as a form of solidarity. post45.org/2025/11/c-d-...

Love Without Optimism: C.D. Wright and the Tradition of American Sentimentality – Post45 “[Poetry] is the one scene where I advance determined, if not precisely ready, to do battle with what an overly cited Jungian described as the anesthetized heart, the heart that does not react.”((C.D....

Annie Bolotin reads Wright’s poetry & its antiwar sentiments across several decades of U.S. militarism as a decision to “not idealize the power of love or poetry” & thus to “honor what each does in the world without expecting them to solve problems beyond their scope.” post45.org/2025/11/love...

C.D. Wright: University Poet – Post45 Thinking on the work and career of the poet C.D. Wright, I return, in my own elliptical fashion, to two quotes (and one idea) from two writers who write about the nature of literary production at the ...

For @amishtrivedi.bsky.social, C.D. Wright offers an important case study for understanding the role played by contemporary poets & their poetry in relation to academia; it’s a nuanced understanding of an awkward yet important cultural and artistic dynamic. post45.org/2025/11/c-d-...

Deep River Pedagogy – Post45 You ready yourselffor the restless transmission. This week: Mr. Wieners.I’ll spread the word. So you turn to supplication,this filial work. Words snaked from the drainon John Street. Wadded, casting f...

Carolyn Bergonzo offers a lyric homage to C.D. Wright, sketching out remembrance, strangeness, and communal connection, writing that “each poem” becomes “a way home that forces you // to cut across.” post45.org/2025/11/deep...

Introducing “C.D. Wright in Context” – Post45 The question I had when I began the process for this cluster, “C.D. Wright in Context,” at its heart had to do with influence, but not exclusively in the way that the poet herself is famous for it. I ...

In her introduction, @aliciawright.bsky.social lays out the layers and constellations of influence, relation, and commonalities that shape the cluster’s engagements with C.D. Wright’s poetry, teaching, & thinking. post45.org/2025/11/intr...

Ed. @aliciawright.bsky.social, fr. Carolyn Bergonzo, @amishtrivedi.bsky.social, Annie Bolotin, @notquitehydepark.bsky.social, @dr-b-i.bsky.social, @cspaide.bsky.social, @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social, Olivia Milroy Evans, @flannelkate.bsky.social, @rvtrousdale.bsky.social, & @jenssread.bsky.social ! 🌟

Contemporaries – Post45 Post45 seeks to reinvigorate the erstwhile convention of academic critics not only describing past traditions but also actively intervening in current tastes. It provides a forum for writers to conver...

✒️ 📔 Today's the day of our C.D. Wright cluster!

Ed. @aliciawright.bsky.social

ft. 11 contributors—the list is too long to fit into a single post! But you're in luck, bc the thread below tells the tale of this exceptional homage for an exceptionally talented poet!

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Red tree flowers with frost and twigs

The late, great CD Wright is going to be honored at Post45 Contemporaries with an incredible, moving, expansive cluster of essays edited by @aliciawright.bsky.social . We are SO excited for this cluster, and we’ll be debuting it this week. Stay tuned for these pieces!

Contemporaries - Post45 Post45 seeks to reinvigorate the erstwhile convention of academic critics not only describing past traditions but also actively intervening in current tastes. It provides a forum for writers to conver...

New cluster!! post45.org/contemporari... ❣️ 📺 ⌨️ 🥰 Edited by @dfmorgan.bsky.social ! "My So-Called Life at 30" features essays on intimacy, literacy, fan studies, mobility, migration, dance, beauty culture, teen dramas, Winnie Holzman, diaspora and fandom, narratology, over-analysis, & more!

Hi Bluesky! The Post45 Data Collective is officially here.

We publish open datasets on literary prizes, fellowships, books in translation, feminist magazines, NYT bestsellers, and more. data.post45.org

Follow us for updates—we’ve got a busy summer ahead!

Our intrepid Pod45 editor & producer, @michaeldocherty.bsky.social, did a magnificent job with the episode!

It’s true: Pod45 is back after a brief hiatus! Here we have an episode based on our Samuel Delany cluster, ed. @blakestricklin.bsky.social . The podcast ft. Stricklin in conversation w @franciscondine.bsky.social, Y Howard, Christopher Breu, Rebekah Sheldon, & @kirinwgrene.bsky.social !

Episode 21: Samuel Delany Pod45 · Episode

Today’s morning listen (and read!) is the Post45 Contemporaries @atpost45.bsky.social podcast + cluster, “Samuel Delany’s Improbable Communities”

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Kick off Pride by reading @uncannydazzler.bsky.social’s great essay about Rickie and Delia’s Haddaway dance in @atpost45.bsky.social’s latest issue on My So-Called Life 🪩

My So-Called Teen Dramas - Post45 I came into adolescence in the age of the supernatural teen drama. Spanning across novels, television, and film from the mid-aughts through the 2010s, the likes of Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight, The CW’s...

i am so proud & honored to have gotten to write about My So-Called Life and the genre of the teen drama (& to put all of the hours of my life burned away watching teen TV to use) for the @atpost45.bsky.social cluster on MSCL, edited by the brilliant @dfmorgan.bsky.social! post45.org/2025/05/my-s...

Check this out! What a blast to read, write, edit, and think about My So-Called Life 30 years after it went off the air too soon.

This essay was a blast to write! Thanks to @wendyallisonlee.bsky.social for recommending me as a contributor, to @dfmorgan.bsky.social for being a fabulous editor, and to @carlospescador.bsky.social for his expert feedback.