As I mentioned in my last post, my work appeared in two different publications today. The second: More sonnets from my ongoing sequence, “2021.05,” “2022.03,” and “2022.04,” are in The Kitchen Sink, a brand-new publication based in Oneonta, New York (where I currently reside) run by recent graduates of the State University of New York at Oneonta. Thanks to Alexis Ochi and the other editors for accepting my work. I’m also thrilled to have these poems published alongside work from one of my students at Hartwick College.
2021
“2021.06,” “2022.01,” and “2022.05” in IceFloe Press
My work appeared in two different publications today. First, I’m thrilled to have more recent sonnets from my ongoing series, “2021.06,” “2022.01,” and “2022.05,” as part of a series of pandemic “Dispatches” at IceFloe Press. Thanks especially to Robert Frede Kenter for championing these poems and for the amazing visual poem collage he made to accompany my work.
“2020.12,” “2021.01,” “2021.02,” “2021.03,” and “2021.04” in Version (9) Magazine
The most recent sonnets in my ongoing sequence–“2020.12,” “2021.01,” “2021.02,” “2021.03,” and “2021.04”–are in the third issue of Version (9) Magazine.
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.
Links in the Time of Coronavirus, Vol. 10: December 16, 2020–January 15, 2021
Think Pieces on . . . Everything
Timothy Snyder, “The American Abyss.”
Jelani Cobb, “Georgia, Trump’s Insurrectionists, and Lost Causes.”
Mike Davis, “Riot on the Hill” and “Hopes for 2021?”
Blair McClendon, “Lost Lost Causes.”
Adam Kotsko, “An Apocalypse about Nothing.”
Yoni Appelbaum, “How America Ends.”
Gabriel R, “Trump the Despot.”
Franklin Foer, “The Triumph of Kleptocracy.”
William Callison and Quinn Slobodian, “Coronapolitics from the Reichstag to the Capitol.”
Masha Gessen, “The Trial of Donald Trump Must Tell the Full Story of the Capitol Insurrection.”
Leah Donnella, “How The Storming of the Capitol Was — And Wasn’t — About Police.”
Eric Fretwell, “From Lynchings to the Capitol: Racism and the Violence of Revelry.”
Recording of Twenty-First-Century Forms at MLA 2021
If you attended the virtual 2021 Modern Language Association Conference but were unable to come to the roundtable I organized, Twenty-First-Century Forms, you can watch a recording of it here (I believe for about six weeks). The speakers were (in order): myself, Amy Sara Carroll, Racheal Fest, Christian P. Haines, Hyemin Kim, and Eric Loy. For more information, see my previous post.
Links in the Time of Coronavirus, Vol. 8: October 16–November 15, 2020
The University of Pittsburgh is in the background.
Politics, Economics, and Trump
Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns, “Biden Wins Presidency, Ending Four Tumultuous Years Under Trump.”
Daniel Strauss and Lauren Gambino, “Kamala Harris Makes History as First Woman of Color Elected US Vice President.”
Bill McKibben, “This Election Isn’t about the Next Four Years. It’s about the Next Four Millennia.”
Naomi Klein, “We Were Told Joe Biden Was the ‘Safe Choice.’ But It Was Risky to Offer so Little.”
Jelani Cobb, “The Election Is a Morality Play in Which Biden Must Defeat Not Only Trump but Trumpism.”
Astead W. Herndon, “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Biden’s Win, House Losses, and What’s Next for the Left.”
Tom McCarthy, “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Ends Truce by Warning ‘Incompetent’ Democratic Party.”
The Hyperarchival Parallax 