Scott Challener
@scottchallener.bsky.social
VA humanities HBCU Scholarship Fellow || Asst Prof of English Hampton U || c20-21 US & Latinx lit & culture, LatAm lit, poetry & poetics, lover of the almost
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New book—and free! EXPRESSIVE NETWORKS: POETRY AND PLATFORM CULTURES, ed. Matthew Kilbane. Love the open access. Check it out . . . www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
Expressive Networks: Poetry and Platform Cultures
Expressive Networks convenes an urgent conversation on digital media and the social life of contemporary poetry. Tracing how poems circulate through online spaces and how capitalized platforms have co...
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June 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
New book—and free! EXPRESSIVE NETWORKS: POETRY AND PLATFORM CULTURES, ed. Matthew Kilbane. Love the open access. Check it out . . . www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
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for the Monday crowd: my first book, Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work, is now up on the Columbia UP site, with a gorgeous cover and gorgeous (and too-generous) blurbs. Out this August and pre-orderable from May! @columbiaup.bsky.social cup.columbia.edu/book/stitch-...
Stitch, Unstitch | Columbia University Press
The labor of literature is often thought of as a specialized craft, distinct from everyday work. In Stitch, Unstitch, Kristin Grogan traces an alternative vi... | CUP
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March 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
for the Monday crowd: my first book, Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work, is now up on the Columbia UP site, with a gorgeous cover and gorgeous (and too-generous) blurbs. Out this August and pre-orderable from May! @columbiaup.bsky.social cup.columbia.edu/book/stitch-...
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For the @yalereview.bsky.social’s Spring issue, I wrote about a new publication of Zora Neale Hurston’s historical novel on Herod the Great and how recuperative readings reveal our desire for redemption and heroism. yalereview.org/article/tian...
Tiana Reid: “Zora Neale Hurston’s Rediscovered Novel”
Tiana Reid examines what a lost Zora Neale Hurston novel reveals about her legacy and the narratives built around forgotten works.
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March 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
For the @yalereview.bsky.social’s Spring issue, I wrote about a new publication of Zora Neale Hurston’s historical novel on Herod the Great and how recuperative readings reveal our desire for redemption and heroism. yalereview.org/article/tian...
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one more time for the weekend — was thrilled to have the chance to write about Ronald Johnson, connecting him back to some of his early influences & source texts as well as pointing towards some contemporary poets continuing in his idiosyncratic Queer Romantic tradition
Ronald Johnson’s style, according to this friends and critics, was premised on “concentrated seeing”: A mode of poetic observation that slowed the world down and captured both its sound and nature.
Ronald Johnson’s American Romanticism
An inheritor of a distinct tradition that stretched back to Coleridge and Emerson, Johnson’s naturalistic poetry was immersive and intimate all at once.
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February 28, 2025 at 7:54 PM
one more time for the weekend — was thrilled to have the chance to write about Ronald Johnson, connecting him back to some of his early influences & source texts as well as pointing towards some contemporary poets continuing in his idiosyncratic Queer Romantic tradition
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“…since the city’s first tropical storm encounter, LA has endured its hottest summer in history and received just 2% of normal rainfall to start this year’s rainy season—its driest such stretch on record. The grasses from 2023’s tropical storm deluge are still around, adding to the fuel for fires.”
The Los Angeles wildfires are climate disasters compounded
Conditions for a January firestorm in Los Angeles like this have not existed before now, writes a meteorologist and climate journalist
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
“…since the city’s first tropical storm encounter, LA has endured its hottest summer in history and received just 2% of normal rainfall to start this year’s rainy season—its driest such stretch on record. The grasses from 2023’s tropical storm deluge are still around, adding to the fuel for fires.”
Putting it out there that I want to translate work from the Spanish Americas in the new year … I worked as a translator in college (long ago now!) and I’ve done various essays and poems for myself, but I’d like to take on a formal project …
January 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Putting it out there that I want to translate work from the Spanish Americas in the new year … I worked as a translator in college (long ago now!) and I’ve done various essays and poems for myself, but I’d like to take on a formal project …
especially cutting when thinking about hydrants running dry
“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”
AI doesn’t just require tons of electric power. It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
fortune.com
January 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
especially cutting when thinking about hydrants running dry
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Very worth your time.
Here’s a new poem of mine from the Berkeley Poetry Review. Grateful for the editors for putting this issue together and tending the fires.
@shipmanagency.bsky.social
@shipmanagency.bsky.social
December 8, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Very worth your time.
reference this regularly
high school teacher asks: "is there a site w short videos of people describing their professions+their college major, to help guide students, show them all the different things people do?" we made humanitiesworks.org and individual depts have alumni roundtables, but got video testimonials? please RT
HUMANITIES WORKS – posters, postcards, and handouts to support the humanities
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December 8, 2024 at 1:46 PM
reference this regularly
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Let this sink in: there’s not a single state, city, or county in America where someone with a disability who receives SSI can afford a one-bedroom apartment.
SSI payments are capped at $943 a month nationwide.
The average monthly rent is $1,399—or an astounding *148%* of an SSI recipient’s income.
SSI payments are capped at $943 a month nationwide.
The average monthly rent is $1,399—or an astounding *148%* of an SSI recipient’s income.
About 7.4 mil Americans benefit from Supplemental Security Income (SSI), but 50% of SSI recipients live below the poverty line.
A stark reminder that the failure to keep pace with the cost of living is a policy choice. @socio-steve.bsky.social rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/50-year...
A stark reminder that the failure to keep pace with the cost of living is a policy choice. @socio-steve.bsky.social rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/50-year...
December 7, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Let this sink in: there’s not a single state, city, or county in America where someone with a disability who receives SSI can afford a one-bedroom apartment.
SSI payments are capped at $943 a month nationwide.
The average monthly rent is $1,399—or an astounding *148%* of an SSI recipient’s income.
SSI payments are capped at $943 a month nationwide.
The average monthly rent is $1,399—or an astounding *148%* of an SSI recipient’s income.
Here’s a new poem of mine from the Berkeley Poetry Review. Grateful for the editors for putting this issue together and tending the fires.
@shipmanagency.bsky.social
@shipmanagency.bsky.social
December 8, 2024 at 1:37 PM
Here’s a new poem of mine from the Berkeley Poetry Review. Grateful for the editors for putting this issue together and tending the fires.
@shipmanagency.bsky.social
@shipmanagency.bsky.social
The latest issue of Berkeley Poetry Review is now available as a PDF: www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bpr/past-is....
You can also purchase it and the previous issue.
You can also purchase it and the previous issue.
Issue 53 – Berkeley Poetry Review
www.ocf.berkeley.edu
December 8, 2024 at 1:33 PM
The latest issue of Berkeley Poetry Review is now available as a PDF: www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bpr/past-is....
You can also purchase it and the previous issue.
You can also purchase it and the previous issue.
poets.org/poem/thanks just sharing this banger with @shipmanagency.bsky.social who I am truly grateful for
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poets.org
November 27, 2024 at 8:52 PM
poets.org/poem/thanks just sharing this banger with @shipmanagency.bsky.social who I am truly grateful for
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The response to this episode has already been tremendous.
I was worried these past two episodes would be too bleak given recent events, but I should trust the audience
Tressie says there’s still time, & I agree, but we must begin by being unequivocal about what’s going on
That’s where hope begins
I was worried these past two episodes would be too bleak given recent events, but I should trust the audience
Tressie says there’s still time, & I agree, but we must begin by being unequivocal about what’s going on
That’s where hope begins
The Education Gospel, Enshittify.edu, & The Expansion of Lower Ed (A Tale of Today, Episode #8) - Center for Mark Twain Studies
The finance of Higher Ed in the New Gilded Age.
marktwainstudies.com
November 26, 2024 at 1:24 AM
The response to this episode has already been tremendous.
I was worried these past two episodes would be too bleak given recent events, but I should trust the audience
Tressie says there’s still time, & I agree, but we must begin by being unequivocal about what’s going on
That’s where hope begins
I was worried these past two episodes would be too bleak given recent events, but I should trust the audience
Tressie says there’s still time, & I agree, but we must begin by being unequivocal about what’s going on
That’s where hope begins
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🧵 Thanks to @jamellebouie.net for highlighting Frederick Douglass's "Lessons of the Hour." It is indeed a must read, but I would suggest that Douglass's last great speech was an address to school children a few months later on September 3, 1894. Douglass traveled... 🗃️
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Opinion | Down About the Election? There Is a Speech I Want You to Read.
Frederick Douglass knew what to do when faced with Jim Crow.
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November 23, 2024 at 10:32 PM
🧵 Thanks to @jamellebouie.net for highlighting Frederick Douglass's "Lessons of the Hour." It is indeed a must read, but I would suggest that Douglass's last great speech was an address to school children a few months later on September 3, 1894. Douglass traveled... 🗃️
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/o...
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What if we get off everything and just start reading?
November 15, 2024 at 3:20 PM
What if we get off everything and just start reading?
Is there a “starter pack” for poetry & poetics y’all
November 11, 2024 at 3:03 AM
Is there a “starter pack” for poetry & poetics y’all
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A true friend will support you in your despair but not in your self-delusions.
January 14, 2024 at 2:52 AM
A true friend will support you in your despair but not in your self-delusions.
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With ongoing horror in Middle East I hesitate to write abt Odesa, Ukraine. But if I don’t—who will?
While Russia bombs Odesa, we’ve been collaborating on a poetry studio for kids.
During air raids, kids hide in shelters, thinking about poems. If you would like to help:
vo.od.ua/rubrics/tema...
While Russia bombs Odesa, we’ve been collaborating on a poetry studio for kids.
During air raids, kids hide in shelters, thinking about poems. If you would like to help:
vo.od.ua/rubrics/tema...
November 23, 2023 at 5:31 PM
With ongoing horror in Middle East I hesitate to write abt Odesa, Ukraine. But if I don’t—who will?
While Russia bombs Odesa, we’ve been collaborating on a poetry studio for kids.
During air raids, kids hide in shelters, thinking about poems. If you would like to help:
vo.od.ua/rubrics/tema...
While Russia bombs Odesa, we’ve been collaborating on a poetry studio for kids.
During air raids, kids hide in shelters, thinking about poems. If you would like to help:
vo.od.ua/rubrics/tema...
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These images are historic
November 23, 2023 at 9:40 PM
These images are historic
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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into the Speaker of the House
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a Republican party no longer in possession of a its senses or values, must be in want of a speaker.
To lose one Speaker may regarded as a misfortune. To lose four looks like carelessness.
October 25, 2023 at 1:12 AM
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into the Speaker of the House