James Gifford
@giffordjames.bsky.social
Professor & Director @FDUP.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy ¶ solo dad ¶ sing opera ¶ cut my own hair ¶ he/him ¶ own my views (views my own) ¶ typos pletniful
I'll be a lot more active at @GiffordJames.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
I'll be a lot more active at @GiffordJames.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
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My kids: “You wouldn’t understand. It’s Discord, Unc.”
Me: “I remember in 2015, when you were learning to speak, working with a team of septuagenarians on how Discord offered options different from a listserv that was literally built from Pine.” {beat} “Newbs…”
Me: “I remember in 2015, when you were learning to speak, working with a team of septuagenarians on how Discord offered options different from a listserv that was literally built from Pine.” {beat} “Newbs…”
November 24, 2025 at 9:10 AM
My kids: “You wouldn’t understand. It’s Discord, Unc.”
Me: “I remember in 2015, when you were learning to speak, working with a team of septuagenarians on how Discord offered options different from a listserv that was literally built from Pine.” {beat} “Newbs…”
Me: “I remember in 2015, when you were learning to speak, working with a team of septuagenarians on how Discord offered options different from a listserv that was literally built from Pine.” {beat} “Newbs…”
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I've reviewed Peter Midgley's chapbook 20/15 for the Poetry In Canada Newsletter. Midgley's poetry is fabulous, and the newsletter announces the 2026 Phyllis Webb Memorial Award:
https://www.poetrycanada.org/s/poetryincanada-newsletter-3.pdf#page=2
https://www.poetrycanada.org/s/poetryincanada-newsletter-3.pdf#page=2
November 17, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I've reviewed Peter Midgley's chapbook 20/15 for the Poetry In Canada Newsletter. Midgley's poetry is fabulous, and the newsletter announces the 2026 Phyllis Webb Memorial Award:
https://www.poetrycanada.org/s/poetryincanada-newsletter-3.pdf#page=2
https://www.poetrycanada.org/s/poetryincanada-newsletter-3.pdf#page=2
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24 July 1834 – Edward Taylor Fletcher contracted cholera in the pandemic and wrote about it in 1885. I edited this piece during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it changed how I read everything the man ever wrote… (the book is free online, so take a peak!) […]
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mas.to
July 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
24 July 1834 – Edward Taylor Fletcher contracted cholera in the pandemic and wrote about it in 1885. I edited this piece during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it changed how I read everything the man ever wrote… (the book is free online, so take a peak!) […]
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Friends, I've decided to post a year of content from my edition of Edward Taylor Fletcher's works. The hashtag #edtafl seems shiny and unused, so I'm taking it… This project came out during a tricky period and never really caught eyes, so I'm going to do that now! […]
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[Original post on mas.to]
July 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Friends, I've decided to post a year of content from my edition of Edward Taylor Fletcher's works. The hashtag #edtafl seems shiny and unused, so I'm taking it… This project came out during a tricky period and never really caught eyes, so I'm going to do that now! […]
[Original post on mas.to]
[Original post on mas.to]
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More #bloomscrolling a short walk from home
July 22, 2025 at 12:25 AM
More #bloomscrolling a short walk from home
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Tooting on Mastodon with reposts bridged to BSKY means never having to see the "well, actually" replies… Or at least not until months later, at which point who care about someone on the internet who's wrong.
And…"BSKY" will never cease to make me think "NKOTB." There, I said it. I'm old.
And…"BSKY" will never cease to make me think "NKOTB." There, I said it. I'm old.
July 16, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Tooting on Mastodon with reposts bridged to BSKY means never having to see the "well, actually" replies… Or at least not until months later, at which point who care about someone on the internet who's wrong.
And…"BSKY" will never cease to make me think "NKOTB." There, I said it. I'm old.
And…"BSKY" will never cease to make me think "NKOTB." There, I said it. I'm old.
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Water lilies count for #bloomscrolling
July 14, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Water lilies count for #bloomscrolling
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Yuan Shu reviews Da Zehng's *Shih-I Hsiung: A Glorious Showman* in Journal of Chinese Overseas:
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781683931072/
"Zheng’s work represents a pioneering and cutting-edge effort in Asian American studies, overseas-Chinese studies, and […]
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https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781683931072/
"Zheng’s work represents a pioneering and cutting-edge effort in Asian American studies, overseas-Chinese studies, and […]
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March 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Yuan Shu reviews Da Zehng's *Shih-I Hsiung: A Glorious Showman* in Journal of Chinese Overseas:
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781683931072/
"Zheng’s work represents a pioneering and cutting-edge effort in Asian American studies, overseas-Chinese studies, and […]
[Original post on hcommons.social]
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781683931072/
"Zheng’s work represents a pioneering and cutting-edge effort in Asian American studies, overseas-Chinese studies, and […]
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New poetry focused on form from above/ground press! (a consolation for missing @robmclennan read last week…)
March 8, 2025 at 4:26 AM
New poetry focused on form from above/ground press! (a consolation for missing @robmclennan read last week…)
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Gave a talk today for the #louisville conference #lclc52. Huge fun and a bit crazy to have done…
“From Easter Eggs to Clinamen: A Theory of Allusion in Lawrence Durrell, Samuel R. Delany, and David Eddings”
#academia #literature #modernism #sff
“From Easter Eggs to Clinamen: A Theory of Allusion in Lawrence Durrell, Samuel R. Delany, and David Eddings”
#academia #literature #modernism #sff
February 21, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Gave a talk today for the #louisville conference #lclc52. Huge fun and a bit crazy to have done…
“From Easter Eggs to Clinamen: A Theory of Allusion in Lawrence Durrell, Samuel R. Delany, and David Eddings”
#academia #literature #modernism #sff
“From Easter Eggs to Clinamen: A Theory of Allusion in Lawrence Durrell, Samuel R. Delany, and David Eddings”
#academia #literature #modernism #sff
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Isabelle Keller-Privat & Anne Zahlan's *Heresy and Heterotopia in Works by Lawrence Durrell* is now out!
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781683934448/
*Heresy and Heterotopia* gathers new essays by international scholars who examine heretical concepts and […]
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https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781683934448/
*Heresy and Heterotopia* gathers new essays by international scholars who examine heretical concepts and […]
[Original post on hcommons.social]
February 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Isabelle Keller-Privat & Anne Zahlan's *Heresy and Heterotopia in Works by Lawrence Durrell* is now out!
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781683934448/
*Heresy and Heterotopia* gathers new essays by international scholars who examine heretical concepts and […]
[Original post on hcommons.social]
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781683934448/
*Heresy and Heterotopia* gathers new essays by international scholars who examine heretical concepts and […]
[Original post on hcommons.social]
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I’m not used to television showing my neighbourhood as if it were New York. I could get used to it… #allegiance #cbc
February 11, 2025 at 7:09 AM
I’m not used to television showing my neighbourhood as if it were New York. I could get used to it… #allegiance #cbc
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Vincenzo Tomeo's *The Judge on the Screen: A Translation and Critical Edition* is now out, edited and translated by Peter Robson with Vincenzo Ferrari and Ferdinando Spina
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781683934172/
Tomeo’s pioneering research in the 1960s and […]
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https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781683934172/
Tomeo’s pioneering research in the 1960s and […]
[Original post on hcommons.social]
December 28, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Vincenzo Tomeo's *The Judge on the Screen: A Translation and Critical Edition* is now out, edited and translated by Peter Robson with Vincenzo Ferrari and Ferdinando Spina
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781683934172/
Tomeo’s pioneering research in the 1960s and […]
[Original post on hcommons.social]
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781683934172/
Tomeo’s pioneering research in the 1960s and […]
[Original post on hcommons.social]
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God bless everyone working in the transplant units, and God bless and grant comfort to every family who grieves while giving the gift of life.
December 12, 2024 at 5:45 AM
God bless everyone working in the transplant units, and God bless and grant comfort to every family who grieves while giving the gift of life.
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Sabrina Vellucci's book *Italian American Poetics of Place: An Environmental Perspective* is now out!
This volume examines the significance of place in contemporary Italian American literature from an ecocritical perspective. From mid-twentieth-century […]
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This volume examines the significance of place in contemporary Italian American literature from an ecocritical perspective. From mid-twentieth-century […]
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December 12, 2024 at 5:24 PM
Sabrina Vellucci's book *Italian American Poetics of Place: An Environmental Perspective* is now out!
This volume examines the significance of place in contemporary Italian American literature from an ecocritical perspective. From mid-twentieth-century […]
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This volume examines the significance of place in contemporary Italian American literature from an ecocritical perspective. From mid-twentieth-century […]
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Happy to share that my story “Asclepius in Albania” is out in the Nashwaak Review, vol. 50/51!
November 25, 2024 at 11:33 PM
Happy to share that my story “Asclepius in Albania” is out in the Nashwaak Review, vol. 50/51!
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Amrita Ghosh, Rohit K. Dasgupta, and Bhakti Shringarpure's book *India's Imperial Formations: Cultural Perspectives* is now out!
They explore how empire building occurs and consolidates through the Indian and diasporic cultural landscape where a collusion […]
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They explore how empire building occurs and consolidates through the Indian and diasporic cultural landscape where a collusion […]
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November 25, 2024 at 10:07 PM
Amrita Ghosh, Rohit K. Dasgupta, and Bhakti Shringarpure's book *India's Imperial Formations: Cultural Perspectives* is now out!
They explore how empire building occurs and consolidates through the Indian and diasporic cultural landscape where a collusion […]
[Original post on hcommons.social]
They explore how empire building occurs and consolidates through the Indian and diasporic cultural landscape where a collusion […]
[Original post on hcommons.social]
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Wonderful book launch for *Sheets of Scattered Sand: Cantonese Protestants and the Secular Dream of the Pacific Rim* by Justin Tse
November 19, 2024 at 2:16 AM
Wonderful book launch for *Sheets of Scattered Sand: Cantonese Protestants and the Secular Dream of the Pacific Rim* by Justin Tse
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Just received the new Beagle book by @timothysmiller.bsky.social for review in #ywes! And I'll be teaching The Last Unicorn this spring, so pretty sure I'll get an early start on this one…
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-53425-6
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-53425-6
November 18, 2024 at 6:32 PM
Just received the new Beagle book by @timothysmiller.bsky.social for review in #ywes! And I'll be teaching The Last Unicorn this spring, so pretty sure I'll get an early start on this one…
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-53425-6
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-53425-6
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Time for an #introduction! Fairleigh Dickinson University Press left social media dormant for a spell, and now it's time to think about how best to be public and promote our #authors This feels like the right time and place.
With editorial offices in […]
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With editorial offices in […]
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November 15, 2024 at 5:36 AM
Time for an #introduction! Fairleigh Dickinson University Press left social media dormant for a spell, and now it's time to think about how best to be public and promote our #authors This feels like the right time and place.
With editorial offices in […]
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With editorial offices in […]
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“What interests me in poetry is the interplay of language, the page, and silence. Heaven falls out of words because possibility is in the page, another kind of heaven; I wonder if that’s the only heaven we are given to know in life.” -- Edward Dickinson […]
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[Original post on hcommons.social]
November 15, 2024 at 6:05 AM
“What interests me in poetry is the interplay of language, the page, and silence. Heaven falls out of words because possibility is in the page, another kind of heaven; I wonder if that’s the only heaven we are given to know in life.” -- Edward Dickinson […]
[Original post on hcommons.social]
[Original post on hcommons.social]
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You can watch the author Dennis Wilson Wise interviewed in this excellent PBS documentary about the revolutionary #fantasy and #sciencefiction editor Judy-Lynn del Rey: https://youtu.be/bO9oSyR-5UM
November 16, 2024 at 12:55 AM
You can watch the author Dennis Wilson Wise interviewed in this excellent PBS documentary about the revolutionary #fantasy and #sciencefiction editor Judy-Lynn del Rey: https://youtu.be/bO9oSyR-5UM
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If a literary movement arises but no one notices, is it still a movement?
Over the last ten decades, #poets working in #fantasy, #sciencefiction, and #horror have collectively brought forth a revival in alliterative #poetics akin to what once happened in […]
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Over the last ten decades, #poets working in #fantasy, #sciencefiction, and #horror have collectively brought forth a revival in alliterative #poetics akin to what once happened in […]
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November 15, 2024 at 11:45 PM
If a literary movement arises but no one notices, is it still a movement?
Over the last ten decades, #poets working in #fantasy, #sciencefiction, and #horror have collectively brought forth a revival in alliterative #poetics akin to what once happened in […]
[Original post on hcommons.social]
Over the last ten decades, #poets working in #fantasy, #sciencefiction, and #horror have collectively brought forth a revival in alliterative #poetics akin to what once happened in […]
[Original post on hcommons.social]
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An extremely kind and generous review of my anthology, *Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival," by Daniel Rabuzzi over at STRANGE HORIZONS.
Please share!
@mathjones.bsky.social @rhunedhel.bsky.social @adambolivar.bsky.social
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@mathjones.bsky.social @rhunedhel.bsky.social @adambolivar.bsky.social
Monday’s review is up at @strangehorizons.bsky.social, a critical piece on criticism. You love to see it. No, you *do*!
On @denniswise.bsky.social: “demonstrates convincingly how the structural alliteration that was central to Old English poetry … remains vital today … [in] speculative poetry.”
On @denniswise.bsky.social: “demonstrates convincingly how the structural alliteration that was central to Old English poetry … remains vital today … [in] speculative poetry.”
Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: A Critical Anthology edited by Dennis Wilson Wise
Wise's expansive view of what poetry can be, and how it can be judged, deserves a wide audience.
strangehorizons.com
September 24, 2024 at 4:13 PM
An extremely kind and generous review of my anthology, *Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival," by Daniel Rabuzzi over at STRANGE HORIZONS.
Please share!
@mathjones.bsky.social @rhunedhel.bsky.social @adambolivar.bsky.social
Please share!
@mathjones.bsky.social @rhunedhel.bsky.social @adambolivar.bsky.social