Sarah Dowling
@sarahmdowling1.bsky.social
Author of ENTERING SAPPHO, TRANSLINGUAL POETICS, DOWN, & SECURITY POSTURE.
My newest book is HERE IS A FIGURE: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810147904/here-is-a-figure/
My newest book is HERE IS A FIGURE: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810147904/here-is-a-figure/
The canoe that I mention in my book got a significant makeover
December 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
The canoe that I mention in my book got a significant makeover
Our special issue of differences is out! Claire and I were asked to suggest one article that would be open access, and (although it was VERY hard to choose) we picked Whitney’s, which is about Claudia Rankine’s “American lyric” in Ibero-American translation:
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read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
December 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Our special issue of differences is out! Claire and I were asked to suggest one article that would be open access, and (although it was VERY hard to choose) we picked Whitney’s, which is about Claudia Rankine’s “American lyric” in Ibero-American translation:
read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
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Later this morning if anybody’s free + interested. One thesis: sustained acts of creative attention are deeply countersystemic. Spaces for such activity are tiny + under attack, which means that thinking is itself political & spaces for doing it must be defended together &slowly, tactically expanded
Very excited and honored to be doing an online book conversation about *Action without Hope* at @greenhouseuis.net next Monday, December 8th, at 10 am Eastern / 4 pm Central European — Zoom link below. Would be so psyched to see people there, if you can make it 🌿
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newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
![Book cover, Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse, Nathan K Hensley [Detail of Turner watercolor showing wash of gray, blue, orange, yellow, and red]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:m52czdgn43hqqylkdhrwxs5e/bafkreiehmynodhyolkh3xfywdfjpqukr7ymjbtbt5qyl4ce3ldzdiujcby@jpeg)
December 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Later this morning if anybody’s free + interested. One thesis: sustained acts of creative attention are deeply countersystemic. Spaces for such activity are tiny + under attack, which means that thinking is itself political & spaces for doing it must be defended together &slowly, tactically expanded
This afternoon in Hamilton!
December 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This afternoon in Hamilton!
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Have you considered buying a LittlePuss subscription service for your enemies or lovers? Because we would love nothing more than to consistently ship them safe transsexual literature over the course of a year. We don't like to traffic in hyperbole but it's probably the best decision you'd ever make.
i basically never sign up for any subscription service but $99 for all this is so absurdly good i can't get over it (also is going to make my life easier as a littlepuss stan who keeps buying every book)
December 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Have you considered buying a LittlePuss subscription service for your enemies or lovers? Because we would love nothing more than to consistently ship them safe transsexual literature over the course of a year. We don't like to traffic in hyperbole but it's probably the best decision you'd ever make.
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Why are authors and publishers are concerned about AI and authorship? Courtney Smotherman outlines several author concerns and details one university press's approach to AI in today's post for #FeedingTheElephant.
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AI and Authorship: Why Authors and Publishers are Concerned | H-Net
A guest post from Feeding the Elephant:
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December 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Why are authors and publishers are concerned about AI and authorship? Courtney Smotherman outlines several author concerns and details one university press's approach to AI in today's post for #FeedingTheElephant.
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🔗 networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
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Friends: if you or someone you know is interested in reviewing our edited collection Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination (see 👇) for a journal, please let me know! An arrangement can possibly be made!
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791918...
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791918...
Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination
Igniting political power through the lens of art and the imaginationPostpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination investigates the erosion of meaningful politic...
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December 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Friends: if you or someone you know is interested in reviewing our edited collection Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination (see 👇) for a journal, please let me know! An arrangement can possibly be made!
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791918...
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791918...
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Last month, we celebrated the magazine’s third birthday. Today, we write to you with an appeal: help us keep going. Next year will see the publication of Issues 08: Groups and 09: The End.
As we make these new projects, we need your help:
www.thepsychosocialfoundation.org/donate
As we make these new projects, we need your help:
www.thepsychosocialfoundation.org/donate
December 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Last month, we celebrated the magazine’s third birthday. Today, we write to you with an appeal: help us keep going. Next year will see the publication of Issues 08: Groups and 09: The End.
As we make these new projects, we need your help:
www.thepsychosocialfoundation.org/donate
As we make these new projects, we need your help:
www.thepsychosocialfoundation.org/donate
I just ordered this—NAFTA is such an interesting group of translators, and I’ve been looking forward to checking this out!
Distro Highlight ✨
Anarchy Explained to Children by José Antonio Emmanuel, translated by NAFTA, illustrated by Fábrica De Estampas and publised by @sevenstories.bsky.social
Order yours from AKPress.org right now while EVERYTHING there is 25% off!
Anarchy Explained to Children by José Antonio Emmanuel, translated by NAFTA, illustrated by Fábrica De Estampas and publised by @sevenstories.bsky.social
Order yours from AKPress.org right now while EVERYTHING there is 25% off!
December 1, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I just ordered this—NAFTA is such an interesting group of translators, and I’ve been looking forward to checking this out!
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Yes, the fuhrer has banned World AIDS Day, &, just in time, I'll be in this nation’s crooked capital to read from TERRY DACTYL at Politics & Prose on… World AIDS Day! Yes, 7 pm on Monday, December 1, please spread the word!!💐 Masks strongly encouraged, let's take care of one another💕See you soon💕
November 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Yes, the fuhrer has banned World AIDS Day, &, just in time, I'll be in this nation’s crooked capital to read from TERRY DACTYL at Politics & Prose on… World AIDS Day! Yes, 7 pm on Monday, December 1, please spread the word!!💐 Masks strongly encouraged, let's take care of one another💕See you soon💕
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So. . .will Canadian universities change their reliance on MS Teams?
Microsoft admits it can—and will—hand over Canadian citizens’ data, as well as sensitive government and defence information stored on its servers, to the US government upon request. Even worse? They aren’t required to notify anyone when it happens. 👀
#cdnpoli #DataSovereignty #PrivacyMatters
#cdnpoli #DataSovereignty #PrivacyMatters
Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty
Microsoft representative says US CLOUD Act comes before other country's sovereignty.
www.digitaljournal.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:36 PM
So. . .will Canadian universities change their reliance on MS Teams?
A great guide, and I think a lot of non-poets would also love these ideas, especially a small press subscription! I currently have one from World Poetry and it’s amazing!
worldpoetrybooks.com/subscribe
worldpoetrybooks.com/subscribe
November 30, 2025 at 3:42 AM
A great guide, and I think a lot of non-poets would also love these ideas, especially a small press subscription! I currently have one from World Poetry and it’s amazing!
worldpoetrybooks.com/subscribe
worldpoetrybooks.com/subscribe
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NEW JAMES LINDSAY #KFB10 #spring2026 #preordersale #poetrywellserved #mains
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www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p203/J...
JAMES LINDSAY
from the author of Only Insistence and The Lake Generations of migrating robins have authored on the sky.Translucent desire lines. Lapsed Catholics. What a sight JAMES LINDSAYChoral Coral CarolPoetry....
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November 30, 2025 at 12:54 AM
NEW JAMES LINDSAY #KFB10 #spring2026 #preordersale #poetrywellserved #mains
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www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p203/J...
A couple of years ago I promised myself that I’d write 2 book reviews/year—I really like writing them, and it felt like a good thing to do. Well, it’s a lot easier said than done! Last year I managed to squeak in under the wire, but this year it’s not going to happen, unfortunately.
November 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A couple of years ago I promised myself that I’d write 2 book reviews/year—I really like writing them, and it felt like a good thing to do. Well, it’s a lot easier said than done! Last year I managed to squeak in under the wire, but this year it’s not going to happen, unfortunately.
@robmclennan.bsky.social is always doing the most for all of us & everyone in poetry should be thankful every day! & should buy a few above/ground chapbooks to show it!!
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abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2023/10/abov...
November 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
@robmclennan.bsky.social is always doing the most for all of us & everyone in poetry should be thankful every day! & should buy a few above/ground chapbooks to show it!!
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2023/10/abov...
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2023/10/abov...
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I am profoundly grateful for small press publishing @essaypress.bsky.social @pamenarpress.bsky.social @omnidawn.bsky.social @solid-objects.bsky.social THANK YOU! Here is The Garden. My writing owes so much to the generous people behind these presses.
November 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I am profoundly grateful for small press publishing @essaypress.bsky.social @pamenarpress.bsky.social @omnidawn.bsky.social @solid-objects.bsky.social THANK YOU! Here is The Garden. My writing owes so much to the generous people behind these presses.
A great book, with the best title!!
7 years old now and I just discovered it has a whopping 5 reviews on Goodreads, which freaked me out. But in the interest of emphasizing that shelf life is real: it was just this year cited in a CFP for a panel about generous modernisms. 🎁
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November 27, 2025 at 2:17 AM
A great book, with the best title!!
Here’s Here Is a Figure! It’s about the lying-down figures that are ubiquitous in contemporary lit. It shows how they remediate apparently-opposed precedents: the dead body, the odalisque, the protester & the patient in bed. It’s about what they’re doing & what we’re asked to do in continuation.
November 27, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Here’s Here Is a Figure! It’s about the lying-down figures that are ubiquitous in contemporary lit. It shows how they remediate apparently-opposed precedents: the dead body, the odalisque, the protester & the patient in bed. It’s about what they’re doing & what we’re asked to do in continuation.
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PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!
gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!
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gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!
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November 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!
gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!
www.versobooks.com/products/303...
gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!
www.versobooks.com/products/303...
Liron Mor declines the MLA’s Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies due to the MLA leadership’s refusal, in the midst of an ongoing genocide, to pass to the Delegate Assembly for debate a resolution in support of the 2005 Palestinian call for BDS: utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/mla-...
MLA and BDS 9: Letter Declining 2025 Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies (Guest Post)
MLA Convention, New Orleans on January 11, 2025 By Liron Mor, Comparative Literature, UC Irvine To Executive Director Paula Krebs, and Me...
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November 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Liron Mor declines the MLA’s Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies due to the MLA leadership’s refusal, in the midst of an ongoing genocide, to pass to the Delegate Assembly for debate a resolution in support of the 2005 Palestinian call for BDS: utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/mla-...
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Grateful beyond words to have these gorgeous, generous blurbs from Charles Bernstein, Andrew Epstein, and @nicksturm.bsky.social with me on the back cover of Dispatches from the Avant-Garage + more beautiful blurbs from John Yau and William Barillas inside (copied into comments below) 😭
November 26, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Grateful beyond words to have these gorgeous, generous blurbs from Charles Bernstein, Andrew Epstein, and @nicksturm.bsky.social with me on the back cover of Dispatches from the Avant-Garage + more beautiful blurbs from John Yau and William Barillas inside (copied into comments below) 😭
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Heads up: The Carleton Poetics Society is looking for poets & musicians to perform at Verses for Change on December 1. tinyurl.com/vfc251201 for info and performer sign up.
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Verses for Change Performer Sign Up
We're so excited to hear that you're interested in performing at our evening of poetry and music! This event will be held in Ollie’s Pub and Patio (1st floor of 1125 Colonel By Dr) on Monday, December...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Heads up: The Carleton Poetics Society is looking for poets & musicians to perform at Verses for Change on December 1. tinyurl.com/vfc251201 for info and performer sign up.
Instagram account: www.instagram.com/thepoeticsoc...
Instagram account: www.instagram.com/thepoeticsoc...
This is such a great episode!
"I'm afraid the award has really been completely overshadowed. The eviction of the encampment was such a trauma." - Maggie Helwig on winning the City of Toronto Book Award less than 24 hours before the city cleared the encampment she writes about in the book.
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Maggie Helwig
Podcast Episode · What Happened Next: a podcast about newish books · 11/17/2025 · 26m
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November 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
This is such a great episode!
National Housing Day reading! Another great one from @btlbooks.com💜🩷
November 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
National Housing Day reading! Another great one from @btlbooks.com💜🩷
Some contributors have begun to receive their copies of our special issue!! Looks like it will become more widely available next week!
November 21, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Some contributors have begun to receive their copies of our special issue!! Looks like it will become more widely available next week!