The second part of “Big, Ambitious Novels by Twenty-First-Century Women,” a special issue of Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture edited by James Zeigler and Courtney Jacobs, was just published. My essay, “‘Is an Archive Enough?’: Megatextual Debris in the Work of Rachel Blau DuPlessis” appeared in part 1 (more here).
Of Archival Interest
Links in the Time of Coronavirus, Vol. 20: October 16–November 15, 2021
Nuclear and Environmental (and Apocalyptic)
Alex Traub, “Sunao Tsuboi, 96, Dies; Hiroshima Victim Who Lived to Tell His Story.”
Abigail Curtis, “Every Year, They Hike to Remember the Day the Rapture Didn’t Happen.”
Coronavirus
Shane O’Neill, “Is It Just Us or Does Everyone Have a Cold Right Now?”
Politics and National Security State
Jim Tankersley, “Biden Signs Infrastructure Bill, Promoting Benefits for Americans.”
Carol Rosenberg, “US Military Jury Condemns Terrorist’s Torture and Urges Clemency.”
Dave Philipps and Eric Schmitt, “How the US Hid an Airstrike That Killed Dozens of Civilians in Syria.”
Katie Benner, “Steve Bannon Turns Himself in on Contempt of Congress Charges.”
Hyperarchival
Ian Bogost, “The Metaverse Is Bad.”
Links in the Time of Coronavirus, Vol. 19: September 16–October 15, 2021
Nuclear and Environmental
Min Hyoung Song, Climate Lyricism.
Coronavirus
Cary Funk and John Gramlich, “Ten Facts about Americans and Coronavirus Vaccines.”
Apoorva Mandavilli, “If You’ve Had COVID, Do You Need the Vaccine?”
Zeynep Tufekci, “The Unvaccinated May Not Be Who You Think.”
Politics and Economics
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, “Pandora Papers.”
David Pegg and Dominic Rushe, “Pandora Papers Reveal South Dakota’s Role as $367bn Tax Haven.”
Raychel Gadson, “‘There’s No There There’: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the Future of the Left.”
Links in the Time of Coronavirus, Vol. 18: August 16–September 15, 2021
This past fall semester I was teaching three classes and, it seems that whenever I do that, I don’t have time for other things, so the links have fallen away. I will post the backlog over the next few days and hope to be back and current by the fifteenth of December.
Nuclear and Environmental
Jessica Hurley and Jeffrey Insko, “Introduction: The Infrastructure of Emergency” and ed. “The Infrastructure of Emergency,” special issue, American Literature.
Heather Murphy, “Will These Places Survive a Collapse? Don’t Bet on It, Skeptics Say.”
Christian Wessels, “The Garbage of Our Time.”
Dorothy Wickenden, “Kim Stanley Robinson on ‘Utopian’ Science Fiction.”
Coronavirus
New York Times, “COVID Updates: Biden Receives Preliminary Report on Virus Origin.”
Juliette Kayyem, “Vaccine Refusers Don’t Get to Dictate Terms Anymore.”
“2020.01” Nominated for Best of the Net 2021
I have a huge amount of gratitude to Always Crashing for nominating my poem, “2020.01,” for Best of the Net 2021. It’s one of my favorite poems from my ongoing sequence: a system-wide volta.
The Visiting Writers Series at Hartwick College, Fall 2021
This fall, Hartwick College and the Department of English will present the first two readings of the 2021-22 Visiting Writers Series. All readings take place at 7 p.m. in Eaton Lounge, Bresee Hall at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York.
Admission to the readings is free and the events are open to the public. Attendees and all campus visitors must be vaccinated for COVID-19 and will be required to provide either their vaccination card or the New York State Excelsior Pass. Any visitor requiring an exception to this requirement must complete this form and receive prior approval from the College. Masks are required in all College buildings.
Roger W. Hecht will read on Wednesday, October 13, 2021.
Su Cho will read on Wednesday, November 10, 2021.
For more information, visit the Visiting Writers Series webpage.
“2015.04,” “2015.15,” “2015.18,” “2015.26,” “2016.02,” and “2016.28” in The Aesthetic Directory
I am incredibly indebted to Samuel Verdin, editor of The Aesthetic Directory, for publishing “2015.04,” “2015.15,” “2015.18,” “2015.26,” “2016.02,” and “2016.28,” the last unpublished sonnets from 2013–2017: Sonnets, the first volume of my ongoing sonnet sequence.
Promotion and Tenure at Hartwick College
Today, I was officially promoted to associate professor of English with tenure at Hartwick College.
This is the result of many years of hard work, but to a large degree, I owe this success to decades of support from friends, family, teachers, mentors, and colleagues. The people I would like to thank are too numerous to name individually, and I fear I would leave someone out if I attempted doing so, as so many have done so many things to help me achieve this lifelong goal.[1] But I would like to thank, first of all, my wonderful students and current and former colleagues in and out of the Department of English at Hartwick College, all those who took the time out of their day to visit my classes, all those who wrote letters of support, including my external reviewers and students, and all those who talked with me about the process, providing crucial advice. I would also like to thank my colleagues up the road at SUNY Oneonta, my amazing students, teachers, mentors, fellow graduate students, and other colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh, and my students and colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University. Thanks to all the anonymous reviewers over the years, the sometimes unseen/unheard but not unacknowledged people who have suggested my name for peer review or to contribute to a journal, and the many editors and publishers who have supported my work, with particular gratitude going to the editors and publishers of boundary 2, Blue Sketch Press, and Salò Press. And I have the deepest abiding gratitude and appreciation for my family and their endless patience listening to me talk about the job market and the tenure process. Most importantly, my partner and spouse: Racheal, I simply could not have done this without everything you bring to our family’s life and your oh-so-keen eye for errata. Your support has meant everything. And if I have somehow overlooked you amongst those mentioned above: thank you thank you thank you.
Thank you.
[1] For some of these individual thanks, see the acknowledgment pages of my dissertation, “The Apocalypse Archive: American Literature and the Nuclear Bomb” (2013), of my two books of poetry, The Rocking Chair (2015) and The Shape of Things (2017), in various articles (here, here, here, and elsewhere too) and interviews (also here), and in works in process and to come.
Review of Poetics for the More-Than-Human World
Camilla Nelson has written a thoughtful and incisive review of Poetics for the More-Than-Human World: An Anthology of Poetry and Commentary, edited by by Mary Newell, Bernard Quetchenbach, and Sarah Nolan, published last year by Spuyten Duyvil (and in which I have a couple poems). The review appeared in vol. 2, no. 1 of Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities.
Fall Semester 2021: Syllabi
The start to this academic year is again unconventional, but feeling much closer to normal, especially owing to Hartwick College’s reopening plans. I’m again teaching two frequently taught creative writing courses and revisiting Poetry and Technology. The syllabi:
ENGL 213 Introduction to Creative Writing
