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Orchid Tierney
@orchidtierney.bsky.social
Ph.D. | poet | NZ in Ohio | no person is illegal | Essay Press and Calamari Archive author | William P. Rice Associate Professor of English at Kenyon College | Senior Editor Kenyon Review | She/her | BEI Fellow | www.orchidtierney.com
I am perpetually behind with things, but I want to thank Julia Fiedorczuk and Paweł Piszczatowski for this invitation to talk about my two of my favourite subjects: air and Keri Hulme (and water--so I guess that makes three.) I'm also excited to visit Poland and to test my Polish.
April 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
"Nuclear Deal" by Nilufar Karimi is honestly an incredible book of poems. I don't think I've read anything for a while that stays with me long after I have put it down.
April 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I will read with Claire Baechetel and Steph Chang, April 3, 4:30 at Birds of a Feather. In Gambier, of course! Please come and hear two fabulous students reading their work. There may be zines!
April 2, 2025 at 12:35 PM
My essay on madness and the hysterical essay is out in Tusculum Review.
January 22, 2025 at 10:38 PM
My desire to attend the HSI conference (Warsaw) is at odds with my lack of money--but I'll enthusiastically Zoom in! I'm really looking forward to this panel! [Scroll over for alt-text?]
November 21, 2024 at 4:01 PM
"this abattoir is a college" is forthcoming from Calamari Archive @in8id.bsky.social and engages with the College-Abattoir System, or CAS, that transforms student-workers and faculty-workers into resource units. If you want review information, interview information, or crying information, or
November 16, 2024 at 5:21 PM
I am participating in the following event next week,
October 25, 1:30 to 3:30 pm at the UConn Stamford Campus, A1.
To join the WebEx Webinar:
Meeting Number: 2621 445 9084
Password: 1881
Or find the direct link here: operations.stamford.uconn.edu/stamford-vir...
October 20, 2023 at 7:10 PM
On this day I'm going to read my essay on Lew Welch, the Greatest Poet from the Beat Generation.
October 16, 2023 at 12:37 PM
I'm reading on Monday with two students, who are VERY excited. Come for the poetry and receive a free zine! At the Annex, Mt Vernon.
October 13, 2023 at 7:31 PM
I'm reading on my birthday with two very cool students.
October 3, 2023 at 3:03 AM
Tung by Robyn Maree Pickens (University of Otago Press, 2023) is an amazing collection of ecopoetry. It's amazing to see this book out in the wild.
September 1, 2023 at 9:23 PM
I'll be teaching Ashbery's "Some Trees" today in my Plant Poetics class. Hurray! (Source: Al Filreis' Contemporary Poetry course at UPenn: writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88...)
August 30, 2023 at 3:21 PM
This is tonight, although most of friends here are outside of Buffalo, but if you know anyone who might be interested in poems and books and waffles, let them know! Fitz Books, 431 Ellicott Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, at 7:30pm.
July 28, 2023 at 5:31 PM