Scott Challener

Expressive Networks: Poetry and Platform Cultures Expressive Networks convenes an urgent conversation on digital media and the social life of contemporary poetry. Tracing how poems circulate through online spaces and how capitalized platforms have co...

New book—and free! EXPRESSIVE NETWORKS: POETRY AND PLATFORM CULTURES, ed. Matthew Kilbane. Love the open access. Check it out . . . www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...

Stitch, Unstitch | Columbia University Press The labor of literature is often thought of as a specialized craft, distinct from everyday work. In Stitch, Unstitch, Kristin Grogan traces an alternative vi... | CUP

for the Monday crowd: my first book, Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work, is now up on the Columbia UP site, with a gorgeous cover and gorgeous (and too-generous) blurbs. Out this August and pre-orderable from May! @columbiaup.bsky.social cup.columbia.edu/book/stitch-...

Tiana Reid: “Zora Neale Hurston’s Rediscovered Novel” Tiana Reid examines what a lost Zora Neale Hurston novel reveals about her legacy and the narratives built around forgotten works.

For the @yalereview.bsky.social’s Spring issue, I wrote about a new publication of Zora Neale Hurston’s historical novel on Herod the Great and how recuperative readings reveal our desire for redemption and heroism. yalereview.org/article/tian...

one more time for the weekend — was thrilled to have the chance to write about Ronald Johnson, connecting him back to some of his early influences & source texts as well as pointing towards some contemporary poets continuing in his idiosyncratic Queer Romantic tradition

The Los Angeles wildfires are climate disasters compounded Conditions for a January firestorm in Los Angeles like this have not existed before now, writes a meteorologist and climate journalist

“…since the city’s first tropical storm encounter, LA has endured its hottest summer in history and received just 2% of normal rainfall to start this year’s rainy season—its driest such stretch on record. The grasses from 2023’s tropical storm deluge are still around, adding to the fuel for fires.”

Putting it out there that I want to translate work from the Spanish Americas in the new year … I worked as a translator in college (long ago now!) and I’ve done various essays and poems for myself, but I’d like to take on a formal project …

especially cutting when thinking about hydrants running dry

Ty!!

Very worth your time.

reference this regularly

Let this sink in: there’s not a single state, city, or county in America where someone with a disability who receives SSI can afford a one-bedroom apartment.

SSI payments are capped at $943 a month nationwide.

The average monthly rent is $1,399—or an astounding *148%* of an SSI recipient’s income.

Here’s a new poem of mine from the Berkeley Poetry Review. Grateful for the editors for putting this issue together and tending the fires.

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The latest issue of Berkeley Poetry Review is now available as a PDF: www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bpr/past-is....

You can also purchase it and the previous issue.

A Q&A with the author of "Black, Not Historically Black" Political scientist Joseph L. Jones argues in his new book that historically Black colleges should strive to be what he calls “pan-Black” institutions.

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Thanks Listen

poets.org/poem/thanks just sharing this banger with @shipmanagency.bsky.social who I am truly grateful for

The Education Gospel, Enshittify.edu, & The Expansion of Lower Ed (A Tale of Today, Episode #8) - Center for Mark Twain Studies The finance of Higher Ed in the New Gilded Age.

The response to this episode has already been tremendous.

I was worried these past two episodes would be too bleak given recent events, but I should trust the audience

Tressie says there’s still time, & I agree, but we must begin by being unequivocal about what’s going on

That’s where hope begins

Opinion | Down About the Election? There Is a Speech I Want You to Read. Frederick Douglass knew what to do when faced with Jim Crow.

🧵 Thanks to @jamellebouie.net for highlighting Frederick Douglass's "Lessons of the Hour." It is indeed a must read, but I would suggest that Douglass's last great speech was an address to school children a few months later on September 3, 1894. Douglass traveled... 🗃️
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What if we get off everything and just start reading?

All - Bluesky Directory A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.

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Is there a “starter pack” for poetry & poetics y’all

Was just talking about this thinking about this and how Wendy Trevino’s poems teach me again and again about friendship

A true friend will support you in your despair but not in your self-delusions.

Lemonheads in September - whenever that was

With ongoing horror in Middle East I hesitate to write abt Odesa, Ukraine. But if I don’t—who will?

While Russia bombs Odesa, we’ve been collaborating on a poetry studio for kids.

During air raids, kids hide in shelters, thinking about poems. If you would like to help:

vo.od.ua/rubrics/tema...