One of my sonnets, “2025.01,” has just been published in the second issue of The Alexander Review (if you scroll down, my poem is sixth down or you can “ctrl+f” “Bradley J. Fest” or “2025.01”). But this may be my strangest publication ever because I am not sure that the journal is real.[1]
Continue readingThe 2026–27 Visiting Writers Series at Hartwick College
The Department of Literature, Media, and Writing and the creative writing program at Hartwick College will present two readings in the 2026–27 Visiting Writers Series. Readings take place at 7:00 p.m. in the Eaton Lounge in Bresee Hall at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York.
Tessa Yang will be reading from her brand-new book, The Jellyfish Problem (Berkeley, 2026), on Wednesday, September 23, 2026.
And David James Keaton will be reading on Thursday, April 8, 2027. Keaton’s recent books include Head Cleaner (Polis Books, 2023; repr. Datura, 2026) and Shallow Ends (Podium Publishing, 2024).
For more information, visit the Visiting Writers Series webpage.
“Teaching Without Computers” at SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick College
I will be giving a talk, “Teaching Without Computers,” twice over the next month at the State University of New York, Oneonta and at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York. This talk grows out of my experience eliminating technology from my classroom and moving all writing to in-class assignments during the spring 2026 semester.
For the SUNY talk, I will be delivering a shortened version of it at the Regional Perspectives on AI cross-campus symposium this Friday, August 14, 2026 at 11:00 a.m. in Le Cafe in the Morris Conference Center as part of the panel Against AI: Approaches to Preserving Student Learning with my colleagues at SUNY Oneonta Racheal Fest and Alanna E. F. Rudzick. Here is a description of our panel:
In this session, faculty from the humanities and social sciences at SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick College will share approaches to preserving student learning in the age of AI. Strategies include developing in-class assessment practices, updating assignments to include critical AI literacy, creating an analog classroom to better foster discussion and knowledge co-construction, and inviting students to reflect on the nature and purpose of higher education and of writing as a practice. Presenters will share assignments from different disciplinary contexts and facilitate a conversation about recent challenges and successes.
And then I will be delivering a full version of “Teaching Without Computers” for a Teaching Table at Hartwick College on Friday, September 18, 2026. I hope to be publishing a version of this talk around this time as well. (I will update when I know more.)
“2025.15” in Abundance Literary Magazine
Delighted to have a new sonnet from my ongoing series, “2025.15,” in the third issue of Abundance Literary Magazine (my poem is the second one in). Thanks to Yeiri Farias and the other editors for including my work.
“2025.13–14” in Dazed Santa
Happy to have a multisonnet, “2025.13–14,” in Dazed Santa (a very cool new little journal) that I wrote on my (very rare!) recent return to Tucson, Arizona in November reflecting a bit on the half of my life I have now spent away from there and what it means to return. Thanks to the Emma Grey Rose, Jeff Edwards, and Melinda Snyder for publishing!
Hartwick College’s Faculty Lecture Series, Fall 2026
This fall, the Faculty Development Committee and the Office of Academic Affairs at Hartwick College will present two speakers in the annual Faculty Lecture Series.
All talks (unless noted) take place at during the common hour: 12:20–1:20 p.m. in Eaton Lounge, Bresee Hall at Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York.
The lectures are free and open to the public.
Joseph Von Stengel, “AI-Empowered Creativity,” Friday, September 11, 2026.
Laurel Elder, “Public Opinion on Abortion in Post-Dobbs America,” Friday, October 9, 2026 (book launch for Not Going Back: Public Opinion on Abortion in Post-“Dobbs” America, co-authored with Steven Greene and Mary-Kate Lizotte).
For more information, visit the Faculty Lecture Series webpage.
(And this is my last year organizing the Faculty Lecture Series!)
“2026.01” in As of Fire: Poets and Pentecost (Bainbridge Island Press)
Another sonnet from the third volume of my ongoing sequence, “2026.01,” was just published in As of Fire: Poets and Pentecost, edited by Tamarah Rockwood and published by Bainbridge Island Press.
“2025.02,” “2025.04,” “2025.05–06,” “2025.07,” and “2025.11” in Other Rooms Press
And lo, today is one of those great good days in which I have two publications. “2025.02,” “2025.04,” “2025.05–06” (p. 2), “2025.07,” and “2025.11,” some of my most recent sonnets that most directly comment on this moment we find ourselves living through, just came out in Other Rooms Press. Here‘s a page that gathers the poems together (and then right click the images and open them into new tab so you can zoom in) or else click on the individual poem links above.
“Art Is for Everybody: An Interview with Anna Kornbluh” in boundary 2
I increasingly think that Anna Kornbluh is one of our most important critics, and so I was overwhelmingly delighted to be able to bring her to Hartwick College to deliver the 2024–25 Babcock Lecture during the 2024 Oneonta Literary Festival. I was also extremely honored that she agreed to sit down with me the next day to discuss her work and career. That interview has now been published as “Art Is for Everybody: An Interview with Anna Kornbluh” in boundary 2 (vol. 53, no. 2; the link to the interivew should work for three months.)
Here’s an abstract of the interview:
This interview with literary critic Anna Kornbluh was conducted on October 18, 2024, in conjunction with her delivery of the 2024–25 Babcock Lecture at Hartwick College. With her most recent book, Immediacy; or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism (2024), Kornbluh has established herself as one of the most insightful and important critics of contemporary culture. In this conversation, she reflects on how she came to literary studies, the strangeness of realism, dialectical reading, and the role of style in literary criticism. Kornbluh also discusses political formalism and the value of institutions, the term neoliberalism, social media, the relationship between organizing and literary study, recent projects on climate counteraesthetics and middlebrow aesthetics, and the political realities of late 2024.
In further interview news, I have conducted and am currently transcribing and editing an interview with Paul A. Bové.
And for previous interviews: “An Interview with Jonathan Arac,” “Grateful and Generous Reading: An Interview with Robert T. Tally Jr.,” “Something Worth Leaving in Shards: An Interview with Rachel Blau DuPlessis,” and “Isn’t It a Beautiful Day? An Interview with J. Hillis Miller.”
“2023.20” in The Colby Review
“2023.20” (also here), one of the last unpublished sonnets from the second volume of my ongoing sonnet sequence, is in the inaugural issue of The Colby Review. Thanks so much to Zach Peckham and the student editors of the journal for including my work.
The Hyperarchival Parallax 
