Timothy Yu
@timpanyu.bsky.social
Poet, scholar, Cubs fan. Author of 100 Chinese Silences, Diasporic Poetics, Race and the Avant-Garde; editor of the Cambridge Companion to 21st C American Poetry.
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Timothy Yu
@timpanyu.bsky.social
· Nov 21
Here’s the new edition of my poetry collection 100 Chinese Silences, recently reissued by the wonderful open-access publisher punctum books. Order the paperback or download the free e-book here: punctumbooks.com/titles/100-c...
Fight fiercely, Harvard
The Promise of American Higher Education
No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue
www.harvard.edu
April 14, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Fight fiercely, Harvard
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Still lots of time to donate! Donations support AAS scholarships to outstanding students, and many of our events and programs! #dayofthebadger #asianamericanstudies
dayofthebadger.org/campaign/asi...
dayofthebadger.org/campaign/asi...
April 8, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Still lots of time to donate! Donations support AAS scholarships to outstanding students, and many of our events and programs! #dayofthebadger #asianamericanstudies
dayofthebadger.org/campaign/asi...
dayofthebadger.org/campaign/asi...
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Our students mean so much to us! They are what keep us going strong! Anna is an AAS concentrator (x’25) and ambassador! Read how AAS has impacted her undergrad experience! dayofthebadger.org/campaign/asi...
April 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Our students mean so much to us! They are what keep us going strong! Anna is an AAS concentrator (x’25) and ambassador! Read how AAS has impacted her undergrad experience! dayofthebadger.org/campaign/asi...
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Save the date!! Day of the Badger returns April 8-9, 2025!
April 2, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Save the date!! Day of the Badger returns April 8-9, 2025!
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A coalition of professors, diversity officers & restaurant worker advocates represented by Democracy Forward filed suit today to block Trump’s unlawful anti-DEIA actions. We'll continue using the power of the courts to challenge unlawful policies & fight to uphold decades of legal precedent. (1/3)
February 4, 2025 at 1:33 AM
A coalition of professors, diversity officers & restaurant worker advocates represented by Democracy Forward filed suit today to block Trump’s unlawful anti-DEIA actions. We'll continue using the power of the courts to challenge unlawful policies & fight to uphold decades of legal precedent. (1/3)
"Words about Words," my response to Jonathan Kramnick's Criticism and Truth, is now out in Modern Language Quarterly. You can download and read it for free (for a limited time) here.
Words about Words
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January 31, 2025 at 3:20 PM
"Words about Words," my response to Jonathan Kramnick's Criticism and Truth, is now out in Modern Language Quarterly. You can download and read it for free (for a limited time) here.
Delighted to have four poems from my 77 Chinese Dreams project up in the newest issue of Three Fold. Thanks to editor Chris Tysh for including them!
timothyyu — Three Fold
From 77 Chinese Dreams Timothy Yu 15 If we imposed our archipelago of paths unwinding midwestward on...
threefoldpress.org
January 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Delighted to have four poems from my 77 Chinese Dreams project up in the newest issue of Three Fold. Thanks to editor Chris Tysh for including them!
The legendary poet and activist Nellie Wong celebrates her 90th (!) birthday with a new collection, Nothing Like Freedom. I was deeply honored to be asked to write a foreword for this selection of work from an icon of Asian American poetry.
Order it here: www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p4922/...
Order it here: www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p4922/...
November 25, 2024 at 8:43 PM
The legendary poet and activist Nellie Wong celebrates her 90th (!) birthday with a new collection, Nothing Like Freedom. I was deeply honored to be asked to write a foreword for this selection of work from an icon of Asian American poetry.
Order it here: www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p4922/...
Order it here: www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p4922/...
“Can you add me to your starter pack” is like the “Can I sit with you” of Bluesky
November 23, 2024 at 3:09 AM
“Can you add me to your starter pack” is like the “Can I sit with you” of Bluesky
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Since I didn't yet see one, I made a starter pack for scholars with interests in POETICS & POETRY, LYRIC THEORY, VERSE GENRES, etc.
Please share, suggest friends, and/or reply to be added. The more the merrier!
go.bsky.app/4fxbKvR
Please share, suggest friends, and/or reply to be added. The more the merrier!
go.bsky.app/4fxbKvR
November 17, 2024 at 9:47 PM
Since I didn't yet see one, I made a starter pack for scholars with interests in POETICS & POETRY, LYRIC THEORY, VERSE GENRES, etc.
Please share, suggest friends, and/or reply to be added. The more the merrier!
go.bsky.app/4fxbKvR
Please share, suggest friends, and/or reply to be added. The more the merrier!
go.bsky.app/4fxbKvR
Apparently what I’m looking for on this platform is the intersection of poetry, Asian American content, and Star Trek memes
November 22, 2024 at 5:28 PM
Apparently what I’m looking for on this platform is the intersection of poetry, Asian American content, and Star Trek memes
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This is still a work-in-progress starter pack, but at least it’s now starting to feel ready to share.
Use this if you’re looking to (re)connect with some AAPI voices.
go.bsky.app/R6AoW5Q
Use this if you’re looking to (re)connect with some AAPI voices.
go.bsky.app/R6AoW5Q
November 20, 2024 at 3:01 PM
This is still a work-in-progress starter pack, but at least it’s now starting to feel ready to share.
Use this if you’re looking to (re)connect with some AAPI voices.
go.bsky.app/R6AoW5Q
Use this if you’re looking to (re)connect with some AAPI voices.
go.bsky.app/R6AoW5Q
“We found common ground in the poetry of bpNichol, Roy Kiyooka, and William Carlos Williams, and, concurrently, an even more crucial interest in the 80s/90s social housekeeping around redress, ‘writing thru race,’ and the radicalization of identity.”
Fred Wah on Roy Miki:
Fred Wah on Roy Miki:
From the Archives / Remember the Future: Remembering Roy Miki (1942–2024) • The Capilano Review
On our walls are several of Roy Miki’s collages, a medium he worked in following his retirement from SFU in 2007. They all engage poetic structures in the ways that … Continued
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November 21, 2024 at 11:12 PM
“We found common ground in the poetry of bpNichol, Roy Kiyooka, and William Carlos Williams, and, concurrently, an even more crucial interest in the 80s/90s social housekeeping around redress, ‘writing thru race,’ and the radicalization of identity.”
Fred Wah on Roy Miki:
Fred Wah on Roy Miki:
Here’s the new edition of my poetry collection 100 Chinese Silences, recently reissued by the wonderful open-access publisher punctum books. Order the paperback or download the free e-book here: punctumbooks.com/titles/100-c...
November 21, 2024 at 4:45 PM
Here’s the new edition of my poetry collection 100 Chinese Silences, recently reissued by the wonderful open-access publisher punctum books. Order the paperback or download the free e-book here: punctumbooks.com/titles/100-c...
Kevin Killian turned the Amazon review into an art form.
Review | This writer perfected an unusual literary form: Amazon reviews
In ‘Selected Amazon Reviews,’ Kevin Killian carves out a leaned and funny space of his own within the corridors of capitalism.
wapo.st
November 17, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Kevin Killian turned the Amazon review into an art form.
Hello new people! Apparently I haven’t posted on here in *checks notes* 8 months?
Well I never really used Twitter either so I guess I didn’t miss it that much.
Well I never really used Twitter either so I guess I didn’t miss it that much.
November 13, 2024 at 7:34 PM
Hello new people! Apparently I haven’t posted on here in *checks notes* 8 months?
Well I never really used Twitter either so I guess I didn’t miss it that much.
Well I never really used Twitter either so I guess I didn’t miss it that much.
I've got an essay-review on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha in the new issue of American Literary History, reflecting on Cha's long-delayed "breakthrough" into the mainstream and the role of biography and scholarship in that breakthrough.
urldefense.com
February 19, 2024 at 8:13 PM
I've got an essay-review on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha in the new issue of American Literary History, reflecting on Cha's long-delayed "breakthrough" into the mainstream and the role of biography and scholarship in that breakthrough.
JOB: The Asian American Studies Program and the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison seek to hire a tenure-track assistant professor in the area of Asian American Studies and gender/sexuality. Please share widely!
Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies and Gender and Women's Studies - Madison, Wisconsin, U...
Job Summary:
The Asian American Studies Program and the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison seek to hire a tenure-track assistant professor in the area of...
jobs.wisc.edu
October 6, 2023 at 4:37 PM
JOB: The Asian American Studies Program and the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison seek to hire a tenure-track assistant professor in the area of Asian American Studies and gender/sexuality. Please share widely!
Ok but has anyone asked men how often they think of the Romulan Empire?
September 19, 2023 at 11:24 PM
Ok but has anyone asked men how often they think of the Romulan Empire?
Getting and spending
September 11, 2023 at 5:42 PM
Getting and spending
My daughter says many of her middle school classmates drink coffee regularly.
What’s a typical age for kids to start drinking coffee? (I’m not a coffee drinker so I have no idea.)
What’s a typical age for kids to start drinking coffee? (I’m not a coffee drinker so I have no idea.)
September 4, 2023 at 11:17 PM
My daughter says many of her middle school classmates drink coffee regularly.
What’s a typical age for kids to start drinking coffee? (I’m not a coffee drinker so I have no idea.)
What’s a typical age for kids to start drinking coffee? (I’m not a coffee drinker so I have no idea.)
Am I correct in thinking that “boba” has completely defeated “bubble tea” as the preferred term for the drink in the US? There was a time when it seemed people in different parts of the US used one or the other but now I only hear boba.
August 31, 2023 at 4:15 PM
Am I correct in thinking that “boba” has completely defeated “bubble tea” as the preferred term for the drink in the US? There was a time when it seemed people in different parts of the US used one or the other but now I only hear boba.
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This is it, this is the definitive essay on WVU's current situation. It's written by the brilliant, furious, and clear-sighted Myya Helm, recent WVU graduate, first-gen student, Black West Virginian, and now Marshall Scholar.
I Graduated From West Virginia University. The Travesty Unfolding There Is Breaking My Heart.
The student population got smaller and smaller while fancy new buildings appeared.
slate.com
August 18, 2023 at 10:25 PM
This is it, this is the definitive essay on WVU's current situation. It's written by the brilliant, furious, and clear-sighted Myya Helm, recent WVU graduate, first-gen student, Black West Virginian, and now Marshall Scholar.
Traditional Wisconsin sunset
August 16, 2023 at 3:09 AM
Traditional Wisconsin sunset