11/27 University of Bologna/Museum of Modern Art of Bologna—in dialogue with Allison Grimaldi-Donahue
12/11 University of Warsaw
12/15-12/16 University of Padova, translation seminar
1/8–1/11 Modern Language Association Convention, Toronto (+ecopoetics)

It speaks for itself. (image courtesy of NY Times)

I am seriously impressed with Karyn Ball, the president of the American Comparative Literature Association who greeted its members thus in a time when we are being asked by administrators to "reimagine" the humanities in ways that will clearly decimate teaching of "foreign" languages & knowledges:

O the prophesies of Alice Notley that we’re rereading in advance of a special live session of my reading group for the overweening Emergency. Rest in anti-tyrannical power.

On this May Day & during this week of further cruelty, violence, & devastating loss of those who regarded poetry as trenchant part of communal life, I'm emotional in being able to announce my forthcoming book, Poetry after Barbarism cup.columbia.edu/book/poetry-...

Finally canceled my subscription.

This is what shows up when you try to click on the link to Columbia University's statement of commitment to diversity. I did so as a CUP author.

3/3: please join the Environmental Humanities & Arts Lab at the University of Chicago for a reading/talk with OG ecopoet/artist/conservationist, gorgeously furious cherisher of all life, julie ezelle patton, in from Cleveland—launching the latest Chicago Review issue devoted to patton. Free & public

Buoyed up by cretins who don't know how to read, much less accept that people were placed in death camps & enslaved in the not-distant past—who're only capable of retweeting hearsay Napoleon & Mussolini & mimicking their salutes—literally the puppets of putrefying dictators hung upside down in 1945.

Public launch of the Environmental Humanities + Arts Lab at the University of Chicago, wherein I get to chat with Allison Cobb, our students, and the community about the plastic that trails our every move & apparently organ (with spoon-sized imposters of plastic in our averaged brains): free, open.

Meet us at the inaugural public event of the University of Chicago Environmental Humanities + Arts Lab (The City and its Others) for a discussion with Allison Cobb about her phenomenal book Plastic, An Autobiography. 2/14, 6 pm, Tea Room, with falafel!

From new issue 67:2/3/4 Arkitext, "Stanzas in Conversation" is comprised of dozens of conversations held in Cleveland between julie ezelle patton and Jennifer Scappettone on "s/place," "chora-geography," and the other key themes that compose Patton's work. chicagoreview.org/stanzas-in-c...

So proud of our students in Sensing the Anthropocene for exploding the book form to address the terror, absurdity & sporadic delight of coexistence at this blighted point in time & place