Nick Sturm
@nicksturm.bsky.social
post45 poetry, small press publishing, print culture, history of arts funding | Lecturer in English @ Georgia State | co-director of @nysnetwork.bsky.social | editor of books w/ Fonograf, City Lights, & Nightboat | book with Columbia UP | nicksturm.com
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Nick Sturm
@nicksturm.bsky.social
· Jan 8
it's official--my first book will be published by @columbiaup.bsky.social
Such a Thing as New York School: Print Culture, Publishing Communities, & American Poetry--an account of how publishing practices give material forms to American literary communities & the group labels that describe them.
Such a Thing as New York School: Print Culture, Publishing Communities, & American Poetry--an account of how publishing practices give material forms to American literary communities & the group labels that describe them.
remake The Bear as The Floating Bear where Diane di Prima and LeRoi Jones run a restaurant
December 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
remake The Bear as The Floating Bear where Diane di Prima and LeRoi Jones run a restaurant
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Each individual noodle is named Dan.
December 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Each individual noodle is named Dan.
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More details to come but…
🎉🎉 I just learned that my book has won the first ever Biennial Book Prize from MELUS, the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States! I’m over the moon! 🎉🎉
cup.columbia.edu/book/writing...
🎉🎉 I just learned that my book has won the first ever Biennial Book Prize from MELUS, the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States! I’m over the moon! 🎉🎉
cup.columbia.edu/book/writing...
Writing Backwards | Columbia University Press
Winner, 2026 Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Prize, International Society for the Study of NarrativeFinalist, 2025 SHARP Book History Book Prize, Society ... | CUP
cup.columbia.edu
December 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
More details to come but…
🎉🎉 I just learned that my book has won the first ever Biennial Book Prize from MELUS, the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States! I’m over the moon! 🎉🎉
cup.columbia.edu/book/writing...
🎉🎉 I just learned that my book has won the first ever Biennial Book Prize from MELUS, the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States! I’m over the moon! 🎉🎉
cup.columbia.edu/book/writing...
my Subway Take is that Lorenzo Thomas fucking rips
December 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
my Subway Take is that Lorenzo Thomas fucking rips
Roger Stevens, first chairman of both the National Endowment for the Arts and the Kennedy Center, rolling in his grave (tho bizarrely, Stevens was also a weird real estate guy)
December 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Roger Stevens, first chairman of both the National Endowment for the Arts and the Kennedy Center, rolling in his grave (tho bizarrely, Stevens was also a weird real estate guy)
The reporting in this @publisherswkly.bsky.social is bizarrely inaccurate for framing the move "to eliminate public programs" as a top-down decision.
If you're interested in Poetry Foundation's changes & position in literary philanthropy over the last 5 years, 🧵 here:
bsky.app/profile/nick...
If you're interested in Poetry Foundation's changes & position in literary philanthropy over the last 5 years, 🧵 here:
bsky.app/profile/nick...
Employees of the foundation and community members say the decision of senior leadership to eliminate public programs, announced earlier this month, goes against the organization’s mission, and are circulating a petition to retain the jobs of two staffers set to be laid off.
Poetry Foundation Staff Protest Program Cuts, Job Loss
Employees at the foundation say the decision of senior leadership to eliminate public programs, announced earlier this month, goes against the organization’s mission, and are circulating a petition…
buff.ly
December 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The reporting in this @publisherswkly.bsky.social is bizarrely inaccurate for framing the move "to eliminate public programs" as a top-down decision.
If you're interested in Poetry Foundation's changes & position in literary philanthropy over the last 5 years, 🧵 here:
bsky.app/profile/nick...
If you're interested in Poetry Foundation's changes & position in literary philanthropy over the last 5 years, 🧵 here:
bsky.app/profile/nick...
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I've put off this chapter for a long time, but I've gotta do it now
December 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I've put off this chapter for a long time, but I've gotta do it now
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We are so excited to reveal the ASAP/17 logo for our upcoming conference in Madison, WI, on Oct. 15-17! Stay tuned for the CFP!
December 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
We are so excited to reveal the ASAP/17 logo for our upcoming conference in Madison, WI, on Oct. 15-17! Stay tuned for the CFP!
The takeaways: 1) It's useful for everyone to know that Poetry Foundation is now a nonoperating foundation, a shift in its IRS-regulated designation that means it focuses on external grantmaking rather than programming. 2) This change makes PF a national philanthropic org with a magazine attached.
This Publishers Weekly article about protests at the Poetry Foundation, including layoffs & changes in PF programming, is so strange. Because this shift is so important to poets, to readers, & to the field, here's a 🧵 about how we got here:
tinyurl.com/326xy2tm
tinyurl.com/326xy2tm
Poetry Foundation Staff Protest Program Cuts, Job Loss
Employees at the foundation say the decision of senior leadership to eliminate public programs, announced earlier this month, goes against the organization’s mission, and are circulating a petition to...
www.publishersweekly.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The takeaways: 1) It's useful for everyone to know that Poetry Foundation is now a nonoperating foundation, a shift in its IRS-regulated designation that means it focuses on external grantmaking rather than programming. 2) This change makes PF a national philanthropic org with a magazine attached.
This Publishers Weekly article about protests at the Poetry Foundation, including layoffs & changes in PF programming, is so strange. Because this shift is so important to poets, to readers, & to the field, here's a 🧵 about how we got here:
tinyurl.com/326xy2tm
tinyurl.com/326xy2tm
Poetry Foundation Staff Protest Program Cuts, Job Loss
Employees at the foundation say the decision of senior leadership to eliminate public programs, announced earlier this month, goes against the organization’s mission, and are circulating a petition to...
www.publishersweekly.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This Publishers Weekly article about protests at the Poetry Foundation, including layoffs & changes in PF programming, is so strange. Because this shift is so important to poets, to readers, & to the field, here's a 🧵 about how we got here:
tinyurl.com/326xy2tm
tinyurl.com/326xy2tm
I have an extremely niche question related to post-WWII Cameroonian poetry & a writer name Jean Ikelle-Matiba. Is there anyone out there in our beautiful world who knows his work?
December 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I have an extremely niche question related to post-WWII Cameroonian poetry & a writer name Jean Ikelle-Matiba. Is there anyone out there in our beautiful world who knows his work?
my proposal for the Allen Ginsberg & Amiri Baraka Center for the Study of Western Civilization will be a hit
NEH Invites Applications to Build Endowments for Research and Teaching of Western Civilization, American History and Government, and Civics: bit.ly/49ca7eW
New Endowments Program at NEH
bit.ly
December 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
my proposal for the Allen Ginsberg & Amiri Baraka Center for the Study of Western Civilization will be a hit
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this is a really good discussion, and I'm so pleased there is a whole podcast dedicated to bad art
If you enjoyed my "Good Riddance to The Best American Poetry" article, you'll dig the podcast "Bad Art"--about the politics of art in the 21st century--where I discuss more about BAP's genre management & canonization practices. Thanks to @jt24.bsky.social!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
The Reactionary Politics of “The Best American Poetry” – with guest Nick Sturm
Podcast Episode · Bad Art · 11/25/2025 · 1h 29m
podcasts.apple.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:37 PM
this is a really good discussion, and I'm so pleased there is a whole podcast dedicated to bad art
If you enjoyed my "Good Riddance to The Best American Poetry" article, you'll dig the podcast "Bad Art"--about the politics of art in the 21st century--where I discuss more about BAP's genre management & canonization practices. Thanks to @jt24.bsky.social!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
The Reactionary Politics of “The Best American Poetry” – with guest Nick Sturm
Podcast Episode · Bad Art · 11/25/2025 · 1h 29m
podcasts.apple.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
If you enjoyed my "Good Riddance to The Best American Poetry" article, you'll dig the podcast "Bad Art"--about the politics of art in the 21st century--where I discuss more about BAP's genre management & canonization practices. Thanks to @jt24.bsky.social!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
my 6th grade teacher who introduced me to poetry--Dickinson, Poe, Frost, & Whitman, completely changing my life--is now an AI-in-education business consultant I HATE IT HERE
December 9, 2025 at 7:50 PM
my 6th grade teacher who introduced me to poetry--Dickinson, Poe, Frost, & Whitman, completely changing my life--is now an AI-in-education business consultant I HATE IT HERE
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may I recommend writing a book review? it's fast, it's useful, it's a good thing to do. if it's an academic review, just look up the book review editor for a journal where you'd like to publish and pitch a review of a book that came out in the last few years or is forthcoming
December 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
may I recommend writing a book review? it's fast, it's useful, it's a good thing to do. if it's an academic review, just look up the book review editor for a journal where you'd like to publish and pitch a review of a book that came out in the last few years or is forthcoming
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it's time to disrupt the notebook industry by bringing back palimpsesting
why are notebooks more expensive than books with words in them
December 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
it's time to disrupt the notebook industry by bringing back palimpsesting
huge Ron Padgett flex
Happy pub day to Ron Padgett. ☺️
2013👇 2025👇
2013👇 2025👇
December 2, 2025 at 3:26 PM
huge Ron Padgett flex
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A huge thanks to @llassabe.bsky.social for inviting me to spend some time talking about AI in higher ed on American Campus!
Higher ed’s rush to adopt AI with Justin Raden - American Campus Podcast
grift, edtech, enshittificationReferences and suggested readings:Justin Raden. October 23, 2025. Higher Ed’s Rush to Adopt AI is About So Much More Than AI. Defector. American Vandal podcast and ...
americancampuspodcast.buzzsprout.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
A huge thanks to @llassabe.bsky.social for inviting me to spend some time talking about AI in higher ed on American Campus!
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Excellent piece by comrade @jraden.bsky.social
Higher ed's rush to adopt AI is about so much more than AI: defector.com/higher-eds-r...
Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector
If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into…
defector.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Excellent piece by comrade @jraden.bsky.social
going to give myself a treat & read my Something Else Press edition of The Making of Americans once I finish writing this book
December 1, 2025 at 11:14 PM
going to give myself a treat & read my Something Else Press edition of The Making of Americans once I finish writing this book
I did it. I went on a podcast to talk about the Best American Poetry. It's a new show, Bad Art, about the politics of art in the 21st century--& it's a lot of fun.
Happy holidays to everyone thinking beyond the horizon of the canonical!
Happy holidays to everyone thinking beyond the horizon of the canonical!
"Literary Theorists of the World, Rise Up!"-On the latest episode of Bad Art, we are joined by Nick Sturm, author of the Defector piece “Good Riddance to the Best American Poetry,” to discuss the reactionary politics of America’s most popular poetry anthology series. It’s a fun one. Hope you enjoy.
November 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I did it. I went on a podcast to talk about the Best American Poetry. It's a new show, Bad Art, about the politics of art in the 21st century--& it's a lot of fun.
Happy holidays to everyone thinking beyond the horizon of the canonical!
Happy holidays to everyone thinking beyond the horizon of the canonical!
Jeff Alessandrelli's essay remembering Alice Notley at @clereviewbooks.bsky.social is really moving & so full of Alice's presence.
In the background of Jeff's piece is another story: small press publishing changes our lives & our shared world.
clereviewofbooks.com/alice-notley...
In the background of Jeff's piece is another story: small press publishing changes our lives & our shared world.
clereviewofbooks.com/alice-notley...
Alice Notley's Symphonic Everything - Cleveland Review of Books
The sometimes garrulous, sometimes insolent, sometimes exuberant New York School style that the beginning part of her career largely lived within was not her go-to poetic mode in the last decades of h...
clereviewofbooks.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Jeff Alessandrelli's essay remembering Alice Notley at @clereviewbooks.bsky.social is really moving & so full of Alice's presence.
In the background of Jeff's piece is another story: small press publishing changes our lives & our shared world.
clereviewofbooks.com/alice-notley...
In the background of Jeff's piece is another story: small press publishing changes our lives & our shared world.
clereviewofbooks.com/alice-notley...
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Grateful beyond words to have these gorgeous, generous blurbs from Charles Bernstein, Andrew Epstein, and @nicksturm.bsky.social with me on the back cover of Dispatches from the Avant-Garage + more beautiful blurbs from John Yau and William Barillas inside (copied into comments below) 😭
November 26, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Grateful beyond words to have these gorgeous, generous blurbs from Charles Bernstein, Andrew Epstein, and @nicksturm.bsky.social with me on the back cover of Dispatches from the Avant-Garage + more beautiful blurbs from John Yau and William Barillas inside (copied into comments below) 😭
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I’ve been super excited to share this. The full TOC for TEACHING POETRY NOW, ed by Caroline Gelmi and Lizzy LeRud, is online & chock full of assignments, experiences, and resources from a range of college classrooms. Out in Feb, available for preorder now.
sunypress.edu/Books/T/Teac...
sunypress.edu/Books/T/Teac...
October 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I’ve been super excited to share this. The full TOC for TEACHING POETRY NOW, ed by Caroline Gelmi and Lizzy LeRud, is online & chock full of assignments, experiences, and resources from a range of college classrooms. Out in Feb, available for preorder now.
sunypress.edu/Books/T/Teac...
sunypress.edu/Books/T/Teac...