Summer and Fall 2024 Links

I was so busy this fall I fell behind on pretty much everything, so I’m making up for it with a big two-season link post, roughly mid-May until the end of 2024.


Nuclear and Environmental

The Editorial Board of The New York Times, “The President’s Arsenal.”

Elizabeth Kolbert, “When the Arctic Melts” and “Why Hurricane Milton Is a Sign of the New Abnormal.”

Damian Carrington, “Earth’s ‘Vital Signs’ Show Humanity’s Future in Balance, Say Climate Experts” and “‘No Sign’ of Promised Fossil Fuel Transition as Emissions Hit New High.”

Patrick Greenfield, “Trees and Land Absorbed Almost no CO2 Last Year. Is Nature’s Carbon Sink Failing?”

Kathleen Kingsbury, W.J. Hennigan, and Spencer Cohen, “The Last Survivors [of Hiroshima] Speak. It’s Time to Listen.”

Megan Specia and Lynsey Chutel, “Nobel Updates: Peace Prize Is Awarded to Japanese Group of Atomic Bomb Survivors.”

Christopher Kempf, “Disaster Triumphant.”

David E. Sanger, “Biden Approved Secret Nuclear Strategy Refocusing on Chinese Threat.”

William Langewiesche, “The Secret Pentagon War Game That ​Offers a Stark​ Warning for Our Times.”

W. J. Hennigan, “The Price.”

Damian Carrington, “Hopeless and Broken: Why the World’s Top Climate Scientists Are in Despair.”

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Cleaver Issue 48 Contributors Reading

UPDATE: I’m recovering from a nasty flu and won’t be able to make the reading tonight.

On Sunday, February 2 from 7:00–8:30 p.m. (EST) via Zoom, I’ll be reading “2023.32,” recently published in issue 48 of Cleaver, along with other contributors to the issue: David Lydon-Staley, Christopher David Rosales, Tracie Adams, Sinclair Cabocel, Eden Royce, Connor Fisher, Jeff Gabel, Coleman Bigelow, Jeffrey G. Moss, Krista Puttler, Herman Beavers, and Kiely Todd Roska.

You can register for the reading here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/mSovtLTCRmmjkSMqEZkqFg#/registration.

Hartwick College’s Faculty Lecture Series, Spring 2025

This spring, the Faculty Development Committee and the Office of Academic Affairs at Hartwick College will present three speakers in the annual Faculty Lecture Series.

All talks 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.


Mark Wolff, “Did a Computer Write This? The Ethics of Reading in an Age of Artificial Intelligence,” Friday, February 7, 2025.

Karl Seeley, “Food First! Reconceptualizing Economic Growth in Light of Climate Change,” Friday, March 7, 2025.

Weiwei Zhang, “Harnessing Materiality: Building Cultural Resonance in the Digital Age,” Friday, April 11, 2025.

For more information, visit the Faculty Lecture Series webpage.

Reading at CANO’s Writers Salon

I recently published a book, 2013–2017: Sonnets (LJMcD Communications, 2024), the first in an ongoing sonnet sequence. I have written the next book in the sequence, 2018–2024: Sonnets, and I’ve started the third, 2024–20XX: Sonnets, and I will be reading poems from these two most recent projects at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, November 21, 2024 at the Community Arts Network of Oneonta (CANO)’s Writers Salon at the Wilber Mansion on 11 Ford Ave. I promise a poem about the election (writing it right now).