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Daisy Atterbury
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Writer, faculty in American Studies and the WGSS Program at UNM ✨ author of THE KÁRMÁN LINE (2024) @rescuepress.
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“I’m also glad to see such an excellent choice by the Library of Congress, which has recently been a target of Trump and his hogmen—I was afraid this year’s Laureate would be someone like Kid Rock.”
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Arthur Sze is the new U.S. Poet Laureate.
The Library of Congress just announced that Arthur Sze will be the nation’s 25th Poet Laureate for 2025-2026. He will take over the position on October 9th from the previous Laureate Ada Limón, who…
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September 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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This was so fun!!! Thank you @daisyatter.bsky.social for being the most fabulous interlocutor 💗
September 4, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Back to school reading this year: “Slow Violence: Confronting Dark Truths in the American Classroom,” by Ranita Ray - just released and sparking interesting conversations. Consider teaching this book! @ranitaray1.bsky.social @stmartinspress.bsky.social
August 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Monthly Dispatch # 26—ft. @roaming.bsky.social Sam Glover @zissenberg.bsky.social @zenarab.bsky.social @alvinlu.bsky.social @stephensunderland.bsky.social Kat Meads, Marie-Claire Bancquart tr. Christina Cook, Lou Syrah @daisyatter.bsky.social & more—is up...

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Monthly Dispatch #26 — July 2025
A letter from the editor[s]
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August 3, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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ALSO! Monthly Dispatch # 26—ft. @roaming.bsky.social Sam Glover, Zachary Issenberg @zenarab.bsky.social @alvinlu.bsky.social @stephensunderland.bsky.social Kat Meads, Marie-Claire Bancquart tr. Christina Cook, Lou Syrah @daisyatter.bsky.social & more—goes out Friday

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July 27, 2025 at 7:40 AM
I wrong about Roberto Tejada’s poetics in the age of Tr*mp’s borderlands politics for Action, Spectacle www.action-spectacle.com/summer-2025-...
Daisy Atterbury - book review of Roberto Tejada — Action, Spectacle
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July 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Space makes me nervous too <3
I'm once again getting thru my anxiety by reading a lot so I wrote a bit about @daisyatter.bsky.social 's excellent hybrid work The Kármán Line and about how space, in general, makes me nervous. open.substack.com/pub/sadrevie...
sadreads #21: space makes me scared
On boundaries, wastelands, the size of the universe, and Daisy Atterbury's new book The Kármán Line
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July 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Job alert:

Research Associate/Post-Doctoral Fellow - Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean

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July 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Has anyone read Red Star by Alexander Bogdanov? 😈
“With the US space program on shaky ground, are we just left with the billionaires up in the stars, bidding for defense contracts and humming Katy Perry?” (@daisyatter.bsky.social)
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July 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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"There’s such a fragility in the US right now around what national identity is [...] It’s a very hard-to-articulate kind of social structure that I've been chasing the language for for a long time..."

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“[The American Southwest] is a place where the myth of the nation breaks down”: An Interview with Daisy Atterbury—Cristina Politano
The Kármán Line is the boundary between Earth’s atmosphere and outer space, calculated by a Hungarian physicist Theodore von Kármán. Daisy Atterbury’s recent hybrid poetic work, named f…
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July 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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"the colonial dynamics in the Southwest are still so sore and fragile and fraught that people negotiate a sense of belonging in every single interaction..."
– Daisy Attenbury ( @daisyatter.bsky.social ) in conversation with Cristina Politano ( @monalisavitti.bsky.social )
July 9, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Last month I sat down with Sydney Bollinger from Write or Die Mag to talk about heartbreak, poetry and space capitalism. Here’s what we came up with ~ writeordiemag.com/author-inter...
May 6, 2025 at 8:02 PM
For anyone who’s in Buffalo, NY! Looking forward to visiting Poetics Plus and doing a class visit with MFA students :)
April 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Excited for this and super thrilled to be able to join virtually 💜💜
So ready for this lineup: @daisyatter.bsky.social Dawn Lundy Martin @jiminseo.bsky.social Rachel Mannheimer
April 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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I’m not going to tell people how to feel about protests… at least not today.

Instead, I’ll recommend Sarah Schulman’s book about ACT UP. It’s not just a history of the organization; she also talks strategy in a very practical way, especially regard coalitions.
Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993
A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993
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April 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Too brief in nyc but such a nice reading!
I’m reading at the Poetry Project on Wednesday with Daisy Atterbury @daisyatter.bsky.social 🎉📚
April 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Reminder! There's still time to apply to be a TLC Fellow @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social — but the deadline is coming up!

📅 Apps due: April 7, 2025
🔗 For info and how to apply:
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Call for TLC Fellowship Applications, 2025-2026
Announcing: TLC Fellowship Call, 2025-2026
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March 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Peter Trachtenberg examines how icon Lorraine O’Grady’s literary artwork fused poetry and politics.
A Black Avant-Garde: How Lorraine O’Grady’s Literary Artwork Fused Poetry and Politics
Lorraine O’Grady didn’t become an artist until she was in her mid-forties. She was fifty-five when she had her first show. Still, at the time of her death at the age of ninety last December she had…
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March 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
So looking FWD to this! 🖤
I’m reading at the Poetry Project on Wednesday with Daisy Atterbury @daisyatter.bsky.social 🎉📚
March 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Monday antidote to the madness 🖤 “As my scholarly trajectory has unfolded, I find myself continually drawn back to the concept of dolor […] dolor is undoubtedly something we carry with us.” —Francisco Galarte / @dapperchicano 2025
March 17, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Circled back to my old preoccupation with space billionaires and everything makes sense
March 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Heading to Iowa City to read @prairielights.com tomorrow! Thanks to Alyssa Perry and the Iowa Writers Workshop
March 6, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Heading to Iowa City this week to read from new work and The Kármán Line 💫 suppose it’s a better time than ever to talk abt Earth/space borders and human boundaries
March 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
About to do a reading in Iowa next week, so this should be a fun time
NEW: Iowa governor signs bill removing gender identity from state civil rights protections, making Iowa the first state to remove civil rights from a previously protected class.

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Iowa governor signs bill removing gender identity from state civil rights protections
The move is the first time a state has removed a protected class from a state law prohibiting discrimination.
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March 1, 2025 at 12:08 AM