Rebecca Kosick
@rkokayokay.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Comparative Poetry and Poetics. Co-director Bristol Poetry Institute. Out now: HÉLIO OITICICA: SECRET POETICS. Out next: DISPATCHES FROM THE AVANT-GARAGE: THE ALTERNATIVE PRESS. Bristol, England // Lake Michigan
Pinned
I am SO happy to be able to share the wonderful cover for DISPATCHES FROM THE AVANT-GARAGE: THE ALTERNATIVE PRESS coming in March from Wayne State UP. The cover has it all—postcards, letterpress, a bison. Beautifully designed, as it happens, by Lindsey Cleworth, who grew up in my/our hometown.
As Michigan diaspora, I am grateful that this week’s anniversary of the SS EFG going down has reminded the world that the Great Lakes are bad as hell, not to be fucked with, mollified only by the power of song.
November 11, 2025 at 7:09 AM
As Michigan diaspora, I am grateful that this week’s anniversary of the SS EFG going down has reminded the world that the Great Lakes are bad as hell, not to be fucked with, mollified only by the power of song.
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Estoy buscando investigadores/académicos en America Latina que esté en las humanidades (y particularmente literatura y teoría) trabajando sobre temas de la globalización, política, imperio, el medio ambiente, literatura contemporánea, etc. para conectar por aquí.
Repost por favor! Y conectemos!
Repost por favor! Y conectemos!
November 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Estoy buscando investigadores/académicos en America Latina que esté en las humanidades (y particularmente literatura y teoría) trabajando sobre temas de la globalización, política, imperio, el medio ambiente, literatura contemporánea, etc. para conectar por aquí.
Repost por favor! Y conectemos!
Repost por favor! Y conectemos!
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now that women have ruined the workplace we should just get rid of it
November 9, 2025 at 2:33 AM
now that women have ruined the workplace we should just get rid of it
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Five years & one month ago, this book came out. I’m very grateful to everyone who has read & taught it, and I very much hope to return to Sappho, WA, one day. Yes, it is a real place! Well, okay, it’s not any more, but it used to be.❤️
November 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Five years & one month ago, this book came out. I’m very grateful to everyone who has read & taught it, and I very much hope to return to Sappho, WA, one day. Yes, it is a real place! Well, okay, it’s not any more, but it used to be.❤️
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Excellent article here. Our students are our greatest advocates. Counter proposals will be put forward, and we are supporting colleagues in Music, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at Nottingham with their campaigns www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University of Nottingham students fight 'insane' cull of courses
Traitors composer Sam Watts is among those against plans to cut University of Nottingham courses.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Excellent article here. Our students are our greatest advocates. Counter proposals will be put forward, and we are supporting colleagues in Music, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at Nottingham with their campaigns www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Someone at a Russell Group university was moved to almost-poetry by their Faculty Meeting… Can anyone do better?
November 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Someone at a Russell Group university was moved to almost-poetry by their Faculty Meeting… Can anyone do better?
This is so great! There may be funds for starting new things but almost never for sustaining the infrastructure you need to do new old and ongoing things!!
This might be of interest to a few people
The Boring Fund: Small (£200) grants to UK non-profits, charities and voluntary groups who just need a bit of help to pay for boring running costs like web hosting, admin, insurance etc
Apply by 30 November
www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk/boring-fund
The Boring Fund: Small (£200) grants to UK non-profits, charities and voluntary groups who just need a bit of help to pay for boring running costs like web hosting, admin, insurance etc
Apply by 30 November
www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk/boring-fund
Boring Fund | Christina Poulton
Applications now open!
£200 grants available for small charities, CICs and voluntary groups towards some of those boring but hard-to-fund costs.
www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
This is so great! There may be funds for starting new things but almost never for sustaining the infrastructure you need to do new old and ongoing things!!
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Lit mag friends: I have a couple of undergrads who would be amazing readers for your journal. And one is looking for a summer internship, specifically (for grad hours, unpaid).
Anyone have a spot to offer?
Anyone have a spot to offer?
November 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Lit mag friends: I have a couple of undergrads who would be amazing readers for your journal. And one is looking for a summer internship, specifically (for grad hours, unpaid).
Anyone have a spot to offer?
Anyone have a spot to offer?
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Academic authors: self-promote! 💫
This is not a particularly popular account but:
🚨 If you have published a book in the last 5 years (since the hype wears off after a while), especially in the humanities, feel free to reply here and repost! 👇
This is not a particularly popular account but:
🚨 If you have published a book in the last 5 years (since the hype wears off after a while), especially in the humanities, feel free to reply here and repost! 👇
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Academic authors: self-promote! 💫
This is not a particularly popular account but:
🚨 If you have published a book in the last 5 years (since the hype wears off after a while), especially in the humanities, feel free to reply here and repost! 👇
This is not a particularly popular account but:
🚨 If you have published a book in the last 5 years (since the hype wears off after a while), especially in the humanities, feel free to reply here and repost! 👇
Deeply ashamed of my alma mater
Cornell agreed to pay $30m, hand over admissions data with demographic breakdowns, produce annual "campus climate" surveys to check on antisemitism and changes "since October of 2023," and—here's the dumbest part they agreed to—that the govt can open new investigations whenever it wants.
Appeasers.
Appeasers.
Cornell has reached an agreement with the federal government to restore our funding:
statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025110...
statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025110...
November 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Deeply ashamed of my alma mater
In the book, I have a great quote from legendary Detroit poet and Alternative Press contributor Jim Gustafson on all the labor that went into their letterpress publishing 1/
Thinking how antithetical was The Alternative Press’s letterpress approach: printing poetry objects (postcards, bookmarks, bumper stickers) made largely for use. Doing the work, for a period, out of a former general store in the wonderfully-named Grindstone City, up at the tip of Michigan’s Thumb.
November 7, 2025 at 9:10 AM
In the book, I have a great quote from legendary Detroit poet and Alternative Press contributor Jim Gustafson on all the labor that went into their letterpress publishing 1/
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‘Choose’
'A post-92 university will freeze staff pay if they choose to remain in a more expensive pension scheme as institutions continue to find new ways to grapple with rising cost.' 1/3
Northumbria to freeze pay if staff refuse TPS-USS pension switch
University says moving employees from more expensive scheme will save it up to £11 million a year
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:21 AM
‘Choose’
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I just staumbled across ELDP, Endangered Languages Documentation Programme, "creating a repository of resources for linguistics, the social science, and language communities."
Lots to read here!
www.eldp.net
#endangered #languages #project #langsky
Lots to read here!
www.eldp.net
#endangered #languages #project #langsky
November 7, 2025 at 7:30 AM
I just staumbled across ELDP, Endangered Languages Documentation Programme, "creating a repository of resources for linguistics, the social science, and language communities."
Lots to read here!
www.eldp.net
#endangered #languages #project #langsky
Lots to read here!
www.eldp.net
#endangered #languages #project #langsky
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Blue wave continues
BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent
Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.
www.nbcnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Blue wave continues
I feel like V should come after W. Just feels wrong the right way I dunno.
November 6, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I feel like V should come after W. Just feels wrong the right way I dunno.
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Thinking how antithetical was The Alternative Press’s letterpress approach: printing poetry objects (postcards, bookmarks, bumper stickers) made largely for use. Doing the work, for a period, out of a former general store in the wonderfully-named Grindstone City, up at the tip of Michigan’s Thumb.
November 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Thinking how antithetical was The Alternative Press’s letterpress approach: printing poetry objects (postcards, bookmarks, bumper stickers) made largely for use. Doing the work, for a period, out of a former general store in the wonderfully-named Grindstone City, up at the tip of Michigan’s Thumb.
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I recall seeing The Alternative Press’s Ken Mikolowski c. 1974 reading in Ann Arbor out of a tiny book printed by the legendary Walter Hamady’s Perishable Press. And joking about how the poems in the book, Thank You Call Again (1973), hardly deserved the impeccable fine letterpress presentation.
I am SO happy to be able to share the wonderful cover for DISPATCHES FROM THE AVANT-GARAGE: THE ALTERNATIVE PRESS coming in March from Wayne State UP. The cover has it all—postcards, letterpress, a bison. Beautifully designed, as it happens, by Lindsey Cleworth, who grew up in my/our hometown.
November 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I recall seeing The Alternative Press’s Ken Mikolowski c. 1974 reading in Ann Arbor out of a tiny book printed by the legendary Walter Hamady’s Perishable Press. And joking about how the poems in the book, Thank You Call Again (1973), hardly deserved the impeccable fine letterpress presentation.
This is how I talk and after ten years in the UK I’ve only just discovered that some British people find it rude? Took forever to find out because I can’t hear what they’re saying over all my enthusiastic overlapping.
New Yorkers just talk over each other in increasingly loud voices to signal rapport
November 6, 2025 at 1:14 PM
This is how I talk and after ten years in the UK I’ve only just discovered that some British people find it rude? Took forever to find out because I can’t hear what they’re saying over all my enthusiastic overlapping.
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👀ICYMI: "As funding cuts squeeze arts programs across universities, research councils double down on ‘evidence-based’ approaches that often cannot capture the nuanced realities art illuminates"
#Arts #Evidence #QualitativeResearch
#Arts #Evidence #QualitativeResearch
Art as Knowledge – Why research needs a non-aligned revolution - Impact of Social Sciences
Drawing on political theories of non-alignment, Annalena Oppel argues universities should take a more plural approach to art as research.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
👀ICYMI: "As funding cuts squeeze arts programs across universities, research councils double down on ‘evidence-based’ approaches that often cannot capture the nuanced realities art illuminates"
#Arts #Evidence #QualitativeResearch
#Arts #Evidence #QualitativeResearch
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Looking forward to reading this.
I am SO happy to be able to share the wonderful cover for DISPATCHES FROM THE AVANT-GARAGE: THE ALTERNATIVE PRESS coming in March from Wayne State UP. The cover has it all—postcards, letterpress, a bison. Beautifully designed, as it happens, by Lindsey Cleworth, who grew up in my/our hometown.
November 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Looking forward to reading this.
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Read! Read! Read! 👇
I am SO happy to be able to share the wonderful cover for DISPATCHES FROM THE AVANT-GARAGE: THE ALTERNATIVE PRESS coming in March from Wayne State UP. The cover has it all—postcards, letterpress, a bison. Beautifully designed, as it happens, by Lindsey Cleworth, who grew up in my/our hometown.
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Read! Read! Read! 👇
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I am SO happy to be able to share the wonderful cover for DISPATCHES FROM THE AVANT-GARAGE: THE ALTERNATIVE PRESS coming in March from Wayne State UP. The cover has it all—postcards, letterpress, a bison. Beautifully designed, as it happens, by Lindsey Cleworth, who grew up in my/our hometown.
November 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I am SO happy to be able to share the wonderful cover for DISPATCHES FROM THE AVANT-GARAGE: THE ALTERNATIVE PRESS coming in March from Wayne State UP. The cover has it all—postcards, letterpress, a bison. Beautifully designed, as it happens, by Lindsey Cleworth, who grew up in my/our hometown.
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Read and, if you can, support university and indie presses!
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Read and, if you can, support university and indie presses!
I am SO happy to be able to share the wonderful cover for DISPATCHES FROM THE AVANT-GARAGE: THE ALTERNATIVE PRESS coming in March from Wayne State UP. The cover has it all—postcards, letterpress, a bison. Beautifully designed, as it happens, by Lindsey Cleworth, who grew up in my/our hometown.
November 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I am SO happy to be able to share the wonderful cover for DISPATCHES FROM THE AVANT-GARAGE: THE ALTERNATIVE PRESS coming in March from Wayne State UP. The cover has it all—postcards, letterpress, a bison. Beautifully designed, as it happens, by Lindsey Cleworth, who grew up in my/our hometown.