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.

"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.

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!

My essay on madness and the hysterical essay is out in Tusculum Review.

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?]

"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

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...

On this day I'm going to read my essay on Lew Welch, the Greatest Poet from the Beat Generation.

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.

I'm reading on my birthday with two very cool students.

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.

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...)

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.