"Is poetry of any use in the face of actual planetary crisis?" In Contemporary Literature 66.3, Elin Käck tackles poetry, politics, environment and emergency. cl.uwpress.org/content/curr...
Our newest issue, Contemporary Literature 66.3, is now live, with exciting recent work by Laura García Moreno, Elin Käck, Kasia Mika-Bresolin, Monika Szuba, Rachele Puddu, Miriam Jaffe and Aimee Pozorski. Read it here: cl.uwpress.org/content/current
From
@beatdomjournal
, an interview with CL author Brett Sigurdson about Jack Kerouac's archives: beatdom.substack.com/p/a-multicul...
Contemporary Literature issue 66.2 is out now, featuring new work on the poetics of recipes, small-press publishing, neurohumanities, and more! Contributors include Lucy Biederman, Monika Kaup, Pei-Chen Liao, Emmy Waldman, and Nayound Yang. Read it here: cl.uwpress.org/content/current
How was the future of literary criticism imagined in the past?
From the archives: two essays by Hayden White and Edward Said, included in Contemporary literature V17.N3.
Read it here: tinyurl.com/mr2r6de3
How have poets post Black Arts Movement navigated the politics of form? In issue 66.1, Lizzy LeRud explores interplays of formalism and (non)conformity in recent radical poetry. Read "A Thousand 'We Real Cools':New Forms in Recent African American Poetry" here: cl.uwpress.org/content/current
Contemporary Literature issue 66.1 is out now, featuring exciting new work by Inbar Gidron, Cynthia Hogue, Lizzy LeRud, Brett Sigurdson, and Emily K. Yoon. Read it here: cl.uwpress.org/content/curr....
Contemporary Literature issue 65.4 is out now, featuring new work by Brooke Conti, Katy Dadacz, Kristin Emanuel, Hannah A. Jorgensen, and Weishun Lu. Read it here: cl.uwpress.org/content/curr....
How does digital celebrity shape the self-consciousness of contemporary autofiction? Hannah A. Jorgensen answers in "Authentic Flesh, Digital Bits," featured in CL 65.4. Read it here: cl.uwpress.org/content/65/4/514
2000 Blacks by Ajibola Tolase is on the shortlist for the 2025 Walcott Prize! Honoring the work of St. Lucian Nobel Prize poet Derek Walcott, the prize is offered annually for a book of poetry by a non-US citizen published anywhere in the world.
Congrats, Ajibola!
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If you missed our last talk of the 2024-25 academic year, you can find it on our YouTube channel: Ken Wissoker and Macarena Gómez-Barris discussing the vital need for academic writing and publishing in impossible times!
youtu.be/52PR11MgTn0
Thank you @cl-journal.bsky.social, & Congratulations Jessica Swoboda! 'Rachel Cusk's Attention Ecology' is a brilliant article
To read Georgina Colby and Michael Dowdy's stunning essays in 64.1 and 64.4:
"Housing the Stranger: Feminist Sheltering in the Work of Bhanu Kapil" (cl.uwpress.org/content/64/1...)
"'Mexican or Something': Reading the Novels of Mexicanesque Appalachia (cl.uwpress.org/content/64/4...)
to read Swoboda's narratological treatment of attention economies/ecologies, click here: cl.uwpress.org/content/64/3...
In "Rachel Cusk's Attention Ecology," Swoboda suggests that we might respond to the demands of an attention economy by modeling and attending to "attention ecologies," environments "that heighten alertness to the networks...among which humans exist, perceive, and interrelate."
We are thrilled to announce that Jessica Swoboda has been awarded the 2025 L.S. Dembo prize for her wonderful article, "Rachel Cusk's Attention Ecology."
Honorable mention also goes to @georginacolby.bsky.social and Michael Dowdy. Details to follow... 🧵
New work on waste in @cl-journal.bsky.social
Don’t miss new work by @corinnanorue.bsky.social and @astarre.bsky.social on “Genre, Diversity, and Metanarrative” in Reese Witherspoon’s book club. Now available completely open access.
I went clubbing - book clubbing that is - with @corinnanorue.bsky.social and you can read about it in the new issue of @cl-journal.bsky.social. open access!
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More in Corinna's🧵
A new wave of Chinese science fiction "depict[s] waste, not ordered progress, as the substance of China’s contemporary reality and the genre’s primary concern." In issue 65.3, Martha Swift examines the underside of science fiction's high-tech futures. cl.uwpress.org/content/curr...
Contemporary Literature issue 65.3 is out now, featuring new work by Charlie Ericson, Sam Ladkin, Corinna Norrick-Rühl, Alexander Starre, Matt Prout, and Martha Swift! Read it here: cl.uwpress.org/content/current
CL 65.3 is shaping up to be an exciting issue...stay tuned for its release later this week 📚🔜
How does autofiction contend with technologically mediated ways of seeing and projecting the self? In our read of the week, Marek Makowski produces “A New Exercise in Looking”: Experiments in Autofiction and the Novels of Olga Tokarczuk. Read it here: cl.uwpress.org/content/curr...
Cover of Typophoto: New Typography and the Reinvention of Photography by Jessica D. Brier. Title in large blue and red lettering stacked at an angle beside a vintage Kodak camera. A halftone filter evokes advertising throughout.
Cover of Shelter and Storm: At Home in the Driftless by Tamara Dean. Marbled pattern in greens and blue resembles aerial landscape. White text in large serif font.
Cover of Hermes II: Interference by Michel Serres, translated by Randolph Burks. At top, against a white background, are a collection of curved lines graphing different wave functions. Title shows below against a gold background.
Cover of Chaos and Automaton by Franco Berardi. Blue background with white title text above a series of triangles layered unevenly atop one another.
Great new titles out today!
-Typophoto by Jessica D. Brier
-Shelter and Storm by Tamara Dean
-Hermes II: Interference by Michel Serres
-Chaos and the Automaton by Franco Berardi w/ @eflux.bsky.social
#NewBooks #NewBooks2025 #PubDay
How do modern managerialism, short-termism, and the information economy shape narrative resistance to work and capital?
Huw Marsh offers a salient analysis in our read of the week: "'Bullshit' Jobs and Ticklish Comedy: Humor and Sadness in the Contemporary Novel." cl.uwpress.org/content/current
Top left and bottom right have partial teal circles with text in them: "SCMS 2025" and the University of Wisconsin Press logo. In between, eight thumbnail images of book covers on our film studies list: Chai Noon (publishing in June), Somerset Maugham and the Cinema, Hollywood's Unofficial Film Corps, Jean-Luc Godard, Visions and Victims, Colonial Tactics and Everyday Life, Peerless, and Continental Films
We're exhibiting at @scmstudies.bsky.social #SCMS25, and look forward to seeing friends old and new! Please stop by to visit @dlbookman.bsky.social & check out our recent titles!
If you're not here in person, you can still browse our virtual exhibit and use the 30% discount: tinyurl.com/yfeybvzp
The graphic created by Big Blue Marble Bookstore to promote the 4/3 event, 7 pm, at 551 Carpenter Ln in Philadelphia: a reading and conversation with Caroline Mar, Adrienne Perry, Somayeh Shams, and Eleanor Wilner, in support of Caroline Mar's new book, Water Guest. The graphic includes photos of all four writers, plus the cover of WATER GUEST.
Philadelphia: reminder! Tomorrow, April 3, Big Blue Marble Bookstore will host a reading and conversation with Caroline Mar, Adrienne Perry, Somayeh Shams, and Eleanor Wilner, in celebration of Caroline Mar's new poetry collection, WATER GUEST!
Details: tinyurl.com/479t22uy
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We join @humanitiesall to condemn actions taken by the federal govt against the National Endowment for the Humanities. https://bit.ly/4i69BkJ
Cuts to the NEH will ripple through the entire scholarly ecosystem, harm communities in every state & contribute to destroying our shared cultural heritage.
“What we are consistently hearing is that there is no data or evidence suggesting that federal funds allocated through the IMLS are being misused. In fact, these funds are essential for delivering vital services, often to the most underserved & vulnerable populations.”
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More than 40 AUPresses members around the globe publish poetry, including @ualbertapress.bsky.social, @aucpress.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social & many more.https://bit.ly/42oN1OH
Find them all in our Subject Area Grid https://bit.ly/3C7ASUc and #ReadUP!
