Michael Martin Shea

So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.

I'm so tired of cowards & stupid pigs like this now, scraping before the liddle poor forgotten man who hates smart people, then, the moment the camera's off, associating only with other rich soulless assholes in a job they don't deserve. Truly one of the areas in which we're most like Nazi Germany.

Lyric Logic | Columbia University Press Between the Civil War and the Cold War, American literary modernism and philosophy both grappled with the challenge of novelty and the chance to make it new.... | CUP

Finishing the index for @johannawinant.bsky.social's LYRIC LOGIC, a shining example of how a book can intervene in a field and recast the entire discipline that grounds it. Indispensable reading for everyone in literary studies and philosophy.

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The year’s end is a terrible time, and the year’s beginning is a worse.
—Henry James, letter, January 1, 1893

THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS

THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context

Power user of the "request an instructor copy" page

Best part about the new year is resetting your annual allotment of physical exam copies

Tfw you are a man more sinned against than sinning

Sound Mind - Cable Street Theory of the Voice and Dreamby Liliana Ponce/translated from the Spanish by Michael Martin Shea The task of the translator, said Walter Benjamin, is to give literature its “afterlife.” Jacques Derrid...

We loved this excellent translation of Argentinian poet Liliana Ponce by Michael Martin Shea, published by @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social 💙📚 Check out our review in Cable Street Issue 10.
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#poetry #poesía #translation #Argentina

All the centers they’re cutting add up to less than $7 million in spending.

UNC athletics budget is $185.4 million for the 2025-26 fiscal year.

The covers of the books named to the longlist for the 2026 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation

Incredibly, incredibly honored that my translation of Liliana Ponce's THEORY OF THE VOICE AND DREAM has been named to the longlist for the 2026 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. Grateful to the judges, to the @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social team, and to everyone who has supported this project.

Poetry Foundation Staff Protest Program Cuts, Job Loss Employees at the foundation say the decision of senior leadership to eliminate public programs, announced earlier this month, goes against the organization’s mission, and are circulating a petition to...

This Publishers Weekly article about protests at the Poetry Foundation, including layoffs & changes in PF programming, is so strange. Because this shift is so important to poets, to readers, & to the field, here's a 🧵 about how we got here:

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If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.

We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

the president using the office to punish americans that didnt vote for him should really be one of the biggest scandals in americas history

I thought the narrative was always that mixed reviews of a very personal and deeply weird second album prompted a retreat towards increasingly formulaic alt radio schlock

Poetry After Barbarism | Columbia University Press Against a backdrop of xenophobic and ethnonationalist fantasies of linguistic purity, Poetry After Barbarism uncovers a stateless, polyglot poetry of resista... | CUP

Congratulations to Jennifer Scappettone on the official publication day of her much-anticipated new book, POETRY AFTER BARBARISM: THE INVENTION OF MOTHERLESS TONGUES & RESISTANCE TO FASCISM. Use the code CUP20 and save 20%: tinyurl.com/4xatbnkd
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Last week, Public Books published a roundtable that we put together on higher ed under Trump. Six contributors, six essays, six ideas for what those of us in higher education can do now to make the world a little better, a little saner, and a little safer. Read the series here (my intro below):

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Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

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flipped classrooms & the unquestioned shift toward “student-led learning” were also part of the deprofessionalization->adjunctification->mechanization program whose ultimate goal was a fully administrative university

Adjusted for inflation, NEA funding was highest--$1.8 billion--over the four years of the first Reagan administration & has remained stagnate--about $750 million per presidential term--for the last 25 years.

Thank you for defending the honor of the bayou 🫡

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…

Good riddance to ‘The Best American Poetry’ defector.com/good-riddanc...

Program text for MSA 2025, panel 69: Infrastructure, Residue, Residual Location: Clarendon Chair: Paul Jaussen, Lawrence Technological University Michael Martin Shea, University of Louisiana Lafayette, “Like a careening phantom ship: Frank Stanford’s Haunted Infrastructures” Claire Farley, UCLA, “Dams, Ports, and Railways: Residual Infrastructures of Canadian Modernism” Anna Zalokostas, North Carolina State University, “The Carceral Waterfront: Red Hook and its Fictions”

Heading to MSA this weekend to chat infrastructure and residue. Bright and early Saturday morning✌️

CM Vol 25 CfP University as Infrastructure Culture Machine Vol. 25 Call for Papers: University as Infrastructure  Guest-edited by: Alexandra Anikina, Johannes Bruder, Megen de Bruin-Molé, Stephen Cornford, Kwame Phillips & Geoff Cox  …

"Universities have become increasingly dependent on a proliferation of outsourced services, database providers + info mgmt systems, w/ spiraling costs... Understanding [the uni as an infrastructure stresses] that the tech it chooses to adopt follow a colonial + extractivist model...

thinking about the dems who said we can't abolish ICE as the Department of Education gets wiped off the map

We are living through an imbecilic, tech-drunk counterenlightenment whose aim is to reverse the democratizing gains of the bourgeois revolutions & re-secure elite power by trapping ppl in a state of algorithmically-engineered darkness & numbed incapacity. It is a war, and must be won—

Lmao Jesus Christ