Brian Glavey
@glavey.bsky.social
Author of Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets (forthcoming from University of Chicago Press) and The Wallflower Avant-Garde; Associate Professor of English, Univ of South Carolina
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Brian Glavey
@glavey.bsky.social
· Sep 26
I'm over the moon that my book, Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets, will be published by the University of Chicago Press in the not too distant future.
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I wasn’t sure they were going to publish this. So good for them.
The ‘Crisis of the Humanities’ Is Over. That’s Not a Good Thing.
All of higher ed now suffers the attacks of politics and technology.
www.chronicle.com
December 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I wasn’t sure they were going to publish this. So good for them.
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Poor @erinbartram.bsky.social is worried abt the black box thumbnail but it feels representative of how challenging it was for @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social & I to compile the list this year.
Kudos to the authors! Pls read, cite, teach, buy, & share their work—& know there is much more out there!
Kudos to the authors! Pls read, cite, teach, buy, & share their work—& know there is much more out there!
As always, we're happy to bring you a lit studies companion to our yearly history book/article lists. Assembled by @rcolesworthy.bsky.social and @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social
2025 Literary Studies Book and Journal Article List
A companion list for lit studies scholars.
contingentmagazine.org
December 17, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Poor @erinbartram.bsky.social is worried abt the black box thumbnail but it feels representative of how challenging it was for @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social & I to compile the list this year.
Kudos to the authors! Pls read, cite, teach, buy, & share their work—& know there is much more out there!
Kudos to the authors! Pls read, cite, teach, buy, & share their work—& know there is much more out there!
I’m into being adverbialized but it is funny to be in the sweet spot career-wise where people ask me to blurb their books and then misspell my name
December 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I’m into being adverbialized but it is funny to be in the sweet spot career-wise where people ask me to blurb their books and then misspell my name
Anyway, here's Glavey Rock open.spotify.com/playlist/6My...
Glavey Rock 2025
open.spotify.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Anyway, here's Glavey Rock open.spotify.com/playlist/6My...
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Virtually every institution I engage with regularly—the university, healthcare—is falling to pieces in front of my eyes.
But live music? It continues to deliver everything its social contract has always promised: community, joy, a vision of a better world.
Go to the gig.
But live music? It continues to deliver everything its social contract has always promised: community, joy, a vision of a better world.
Go to the gig.
December 3, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Virtually every institution I engage with regularly—the university, healthcare—is falling to pieces in front of my eyes.
But live music? It continues to deliver everything its social contract has always promised: community, joy, a vision of a better world.
Go to the gig.
But live music? It continues to deliver everything its social contract has always promised: community, joy, a vision of a better world.
Go to the gig.
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starting Dec 1st! ie tomorrow!
for structure to eke out pages at a bonkers time of year (that is also a precious writing-est time):
you can do 250 words a day! books get written that way! if more, amazing! if not when grading or festive-ing, that's ok!
check in daily at #acadecawriteathon
for structure to eke out pages at a bonkers time of year (that is also a precious writing-est time):
you can do 250 words a day! books get written that way! if more, amazing! if not when grading or festive-ing, that's ok!
check in daily at #acadecawriteathon
is there a NaNoWriMo but for December and academic/ nonfiction? Should we start it?
December 1, 2025 at 12:28 AM
starting Dec 1st! ie tomorrow!
for structure to eke out pages at a bonkers time of year (that is also a precious writing-est time):
you can do 250 words a day! books get written that way! if more, amazing! if not when grading or festive-ing, that's ok!
check in daily at #acadecawriteathon
for structure to eke out pages at a bonkers time of year (that is also a precious writing-est time):
you can do 250 words a day! books get written that way! if more, amazing! if not when grading or festive-ing, that's ok!
check in daily at #acadecawriteathon
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Tonight at 8pm EST--a free online event with Stephanie Anderson, Patricia Spears Jones, Maureen Owen, & MC Hyland hosted by @nysnetwork.bsky.social. Register via the link!
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November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Tonight at 8pm EST--a free online event with Stephanie Anderson, Patricia Spears Jones, Maureen Owen, & MC Hyland hosted by @nysnetwork.bsky.social. Register via the link!
www.eventbrite.com/e/women-in-i...
www.eventbrite.com/e/women-in-i...
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"Challenging the dicta, norms, & implicit biases that have dominated poetry pedagogy for decades, Teaching Poetry Now jump-starts a long overdue discussion of the theories, methods, & stakes of teaching poetry today."
Getting ready to send this one to the printer. 🎉
sunypress.edu/Books/T/Teac...
Getting ready to send this one to the printer. 🎉
sunypress.edu/Books/T/Teac...
Teaching Poetry Now
sunypress.edu
November 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"Challenging the dicta, norms, & implicit biases that have dominated poetry pedagogy for decades, Teaching Poetry Now jump-starts a long overdue discussion of the theories, methods, & stakes of teaching poetry today."
Getting ready to send this one to the printer. 🎉
sunypress.edu/Books/T/Teac...
Getting ready to send this one to the printer. 🎉
sunypress.edu/Books/T/Teac...
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Just ordered! At $20.97 this works out to LESS THAN $1 AN ESSAY for, e.g. @asheeshksi.bsky.social on "Board of Trustees"; @cnewf.bsky.social on "Degree"; @dennismhogan.bsky.social on "Endowment": & (one I read in draft) @andyhines.bsky.social, @kaibosworth.bsky.social et al on "Sustainability" 💥
everyone is talking about getting copies of University Keywords (or other JHU Press books) for all their friends, students, and comrades for the holidays, especially when it is 40% off with the code HHOL25.
November 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Just ordered! At $20.97 this works out to LESS THAN $1 AN ESSAY for, e.g. @asheeshksi.bsky.social on "Board of Trustees"; @cnewf.bsky.social on "Degree"; @dennismhogan.bsky.social on "Endowment": & (one I read in draft) @andyhines.bsky.social, @kaibosworth.bsky.social et al on "Sustainability" 💥
Punch me in the face for 10,000 years!
November 19, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Punch me in the face for 10,000 years!
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I am full of gratitude for this conversation @redemmas.org on Saturday with @kristingrogan.bsky.social and Chris Nealon. It was such a wonderful way to launch Poetry in General. Thanks to all who came!!
November 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I am full of gratitude for this conversation @redemmas.org on Saturday with @kristingrogan.bsky.social and Chris Nealon. It was such a wonderful way to launch Poetry in General. Thanks to all who came!!
Will someone come pick me up and drive me to Baltimore for this?
Keegan’s book is just so, so good - on how poetry expresses, refracts, and critiques state-managed capitalism, and how it does this by developing interdisciplinary public forms. I’ve been reading this book all week and cannot wait to talk with Keegan and Chris later today!
This Saturday at 7 pm, two @columbiaup.bsky.social authors, Keegan Cook Finberg and Kristin Grogan discuss their extraordinary new books, POETRY IN GENERAL and STITCH, UNSTITCH: in conversation w/ Christopher Nealon at @redemmas.org! bit.ly/3LAvRYz @keegancf.bsky.social @kristingrogan.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Will someone come pick me up and drive me to Baltimore for this?
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you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
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my library bought @kristingrogan.bsky.social ’s beautiful book and yours should too
November 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
my library bought @kristingrogan.bsky.social ’s beautiful book and yours should too
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November 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Sapere aude y’all
Mamdani got a humanities degree.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
November 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Sapere aude y’all
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This is tomorrow night! Please share widely and bring your friends!
How can we turn discussions about what we read and think into discussion for action? How does action lead to new forms of critical analysis?
I’ll talk about this with @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social and Vineeta Singh this Friday at 8pm ET for @debtcollective.bsky.social’s Jubilee School. Join us!
I’ll talk about this with @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social and Vineeta Singh this Friday at 8pm ET for @debtcollective.bsky.social’s Jubilee School. Join us!
University Keywords: Study and Struggle
Our session will put two keywords in relation that are essential to the fight ahead in higher education and beyond: study and struggle.
debtcollective.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
This is tomorrow night! Please share widely and bring your friends!
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Instead of watching Ross Douthat make this face 🤔 while smelling his own farts, you should read @sophiegilbert.bsky.social on the "Great Feminization." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
No, Women Aren’t the Problem
America is rapidly becoming the manosphere, but sure, let’s go after the “feminization” of culture.
www.theatlantic.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Instead of watching Ross Douthat make this face 🤔 while smelling his own farts, you should read @sophiegilbert.bsky.social on the "Great Feminization." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
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connect the dots on attacks on education, the AI grifter bubble, and consolidating authoritarianism
"I have to believe that we can still push back, that creative people can find the means to defy the ruling class and keep on creating."
"I have to believe that we can still push back, that creative people can find the means to defy the ruling class and keep on creating."
I wrote about why I can't sleep at night: the devaluation of so many things (critical thinking, creativity) I thought were paramount. lithub.com/when-we-deva...
When We Devalue Art (Books!) We Devalue the Future
When you’ve spent your whole adult life working in and around book publishing you get used to hearing that people don’t read anymore and that the industry is on its last legs. There is always a cri…
lithub.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:38 PM
connect the dots on attacks on education, the AI grifter bubble, and consolidating authoritarianism
"I have to believe that we can still push back, that creative people can find the means to defy the ruling class and keep on creating."
"I have to believe that we can still push back, that creative people can find the means to defy the ruling class and keep on creating."
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In 1830, Joseph Williams, a Spaniard incarcerated in Massachusetts State Prison was discovered to have been stealing other convicts' drained blood from the prison hospital, then drinking+vomiting it back up to feign illness & avoid work. Cans of blood in near 'putrefaction' were found in his cell 🗃️
October 31, 2025 at 3:30 AM
In 1830, Joseph Williams, a Spaniard incarcerated in Massachusetts State Prison was discovered to have been stealing other convicts' drained blood from the prison hospital, then drinking+vomiting it back up to feign illness & avoid work. Cans of blood in near 'putrefaction' were found in his cell 🗃️
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"create “public media centers”—publicly-owned hubs in every community federally guaranteed but locally governed+democratically operated. establish new anchor institutions universally available to everyone—not unlike the ideal version of public schools+libraries."
publici.ucimc.org/2025/10/the-...
publici.ucimc.org/2025/10/the-...
The Media We Need Requires Structural Transformation | Public i Contact
publici.ucimc.org
October 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"create “public media centers”—publicly-owned hubs in every community federally guaranteed but locally governed+democratically operated. establish new anchor institutions universally available to everyone—not unlike the ideal version of public schools+libraries."
publici.ucimc.org/2025/10/the-...
publici.ucimc.org/2025/10/the-...
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something good:
Downbound Books has installed its Richard Scary Busy People mini print automat!
www.downboundbooks.com
Downbound Books has installed its Richard Scary Busy People mini print automat!
www.downboundbooks.com
October 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
something good:
Downbound Books has installed its Richard Scary Busy People mini print automat!
www.downboundbooks.com
Downbound Books has installed its Richard Scary Busy People mini print automat!
www.downboundbooks.com
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not sure how this vote went but the rallies are ongoing for the next few days, there may be one in your area
The strike authorization vote has begun!
While voting commences, union baristas are holding 70 rallies and pickets through November 1st. It's time to get serious about finalizing fair contracts, Starbucks.
While voting commences, union baristas are holding 70 rallies and pickets through November 1st. It's time to get serious about finalizing fair contracts, Starbucks.
Baristas are rallying at Starbucks stores across the country this weekend. Here's why
As 70 rallies kick off across the country, unionized baristas say they’re fighting for fair pay and hours—just as fall coffee orders surge.
www.fastcompany.com
October 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
not sure how this vote went but the rallies are ongoing for the next few days, there may be one in your area
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If you find yourself in the NJ suburbs next month, come to my talk! You can register at ridgewoodlibrary.org.
October 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
If you find yourself in the NJ suburbs next month, come to my talk! You can register at ridgewoodlibrary.org.