I’ll be reading a small handful of poems with some other poets on Saturday, July 5 from 1:00–3:00 p.m. at The Gatehouse, 129 Main Street, Morris, New York. Hosted by Julene Waffle, also reading will be Robert Bensen, Racheal Fest, Julie Suarez-Hayes, Vicki Whicker, and Teresa Winchester.
Of Archival Interest
Cleaver Issue 49 Contributors Reading
To make up for missing the issue 48 Contributors Reading because I was sick, Cleaver has kindly asked me to read for their issue 49 Contributors Reading.
On Sunday, April 27, 2025 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 issue 49: Sarah C. Baldwin, Brian Benson, Andrea Bishop, Lisa K. Buchanan, John Calderazzo, Jocelyn Jane Cox, Adam Doniger, Jeff Friedman, Vicki Mayk, Ess Pokornowski, Rachel Talbot, Matt Thomas, Gretta Trafficante, and Robyn Wheelock.
You can register for the reading here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/r3sThAH-R7K8aLsV_SNYEw.
Update June 2, 2025
A recording of the reading is now available on YouTube. I’m the first reader:
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.”
“2022.07,” “2022.08–09,” “2022.10,” “2023.17–18,” and “2023.19” in Lothlorien Poetry Journal
It’s been a dark week, so a tiny ray of something else: more sonnets from my ongoing sequence, “2022.07,” “2022.08–09,” “2022.10,” “2023.17–18,” and “2023.19,” are in Lothlorien Poetry Journal. Thanks to Strider Marcus Jones for taking these!
Spring Semester 2025: Syllabus
Because I am the 2022–25 Cora A. Babcock Chair in English, I again have a course release this spring. As such, I’ll only be teaching one class this semester, but I’m super excited to teach ENGL 412 Advanced Poetry Workshop again, one of my favorite classes to teach at Hartwick College.
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.
“2023.26,” “2023.27,” and “2023.28” in Magazine1
Delighted to have “2023.26,” “2023.27,” and “2023.28” from my ongoing sonnet sequence in the third issue of Magazine1.
Fall Semester 2024: Syllabi
I was so busy this fall semester that I forgot to post syllabi for my classes! Here they are. I’m particularly proud of the work my students did in my department’s senior seminar for this year: ENGL 470 Mark Z. Danielewski’s The Familiar.
ENGL 213 Introduction to Creative Writing
“2023.32” in Cleaver
Thanks so much to Cleaver for publishing another sonnet from my ongoing sequence, “2023.32,” in their forty-eighth issue.
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.
The Hyperarchival Parallax 