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/
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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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.
Instagram account: www.instagram.com/thepoeticsoc...
Instagram account: www.instagram.com/thepoeticsoc...
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!
The University of Nottingham (UK) has proposed the closure of all of its Modern Languages programs, comprising Russian, Mandarin, German, French, Spanish and Portuguese. This is a dire situation for students and their teachers. Please sign to oppose!! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Letter from International Researchers of Modern Languages Regarding the Proposed Closure of All Modern Languages Programs at the University of Nottingham
Dear University Council, President Norman and Deputy Vice-Chancellor Kingman,
We, the undersigned, write with grave concern at the announcement of the proposed closure of all Modern Languages program...
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November 19, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The University of Nottingham (UK) has proposed the closure of all of its Modern Languages programs, comprising Russian, Mandarin, German, French, Spanish and Portuguese. This is a dire situation for students and their teachers. Please sign to oppose!! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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This is the importance of buying the books we write and teach from university presses. The same administrations that don’t care about the humanities would be just as happy to have academic publishing handled by these companies. We can save our own publishing ecosystem- but we have to do it.
"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
November 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
This is the importance of buying the books we write and teach from university presses. The same administrations that don’t care about the humanities would be just as happy to have academic publishing handled by these companies. We can save our own publishing ecosystem- but we have to do it.
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The bar is in hell BUT IT CAN STILL GET LOWER. Beginning to understand, in new ways, why Dante needed nine levels
Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch
The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who ch...
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November 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The bar is in hell BUT IT CAN STILL GET LOWER. Beginning to understand, in new ways, why Dante needed nine levels
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Carney’s Tory government will survive its budget vote. Canadians decimated the only rudderless party that could exact some slight measure of hold. Canada has two conservative parties — the Liberal tories under Carney’s coup of that party and the far right Conservatives. The people have been screwed.
November 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Carney’s Tory government will survive its budget vote. Canadians decimated the only rudderless party that could exact some slight measure of hold. Canada has two conservative parties — the Liberal tories under Carney’s coup of that party and the far right Conservatives. The people have been screwed.
Congrats to @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social on a great launch last night! The final poem that ryan performed got the entire room singing, spontaneously taught by the poem itself, but without explicit instruction, how we could actualize & activate this thing, together. It was very moving!
November 15, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Congrats to @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social on a great launch last night! The final poem that ryan performed got the entire room singing, spontaneously taught by the poem itself, but without explicit instruction, how we could actualize & activate this thing, together. It was very moving!
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Keegan’s book is just so, so good - on how poetry expresses, refracts, and critiques state-managed capitalism, and how it does this by developing interdisciplinary public forms. I’ve been reading this book all week and cannot wait to talk with Keegan and Chris later today!
This Saturday at 7 pm, two @columbiaup.bsky.social authors, Keegan Cook Finberg and Kristin Grogan discuss their extraordinary new books, POETRY IN GENERAL and STITCH, UNSTITCH: in conversation w/ Christopher Nealon at @redemmas.org! bit.ly/3LAvRYz @keegancf.bsky.social @kristingrogan.bsky.social
Keegan Cook Finberg and Kristin Grogan present "Poetry in General: How a Literary Form Became Public" and "Stitch, Unstitch Modernist Poetry and the World of Work" in conversation w/ Christopher Nealo...
Join us for an evening of rethinking the power and labor of poetry in everyday spaces.
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November 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Keegan’s book is just so, so good - on how poetry expresses, refracts, and critiques state-managed capitalism, and how it does this by developing interdisciplinary public forms. I’ve been reading this book all week and cannot wait to talk with Keegan and Chris later today!
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My book A FUNNY THING: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE UNDISCIPLINED is now available for pre-order in a paperback priced for humans! Go get it!
A Funny Thing | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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November 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
My book A FUNNY THING: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE UNDISCIPLINED is now available for pre-order in a paperback priced for humans! Go get it!
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If there are any survivors of childhood sexual abuse at the hands of men in powerful positions reading this amid the avalanche of posts about Epstein, and you have not read my book Excavation, dm me. I have two copies I’d be happy to send. I hope you’re taking care as the timeline unfolds.
November 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
If there are any survivors of childhood sexual abuse at the hands of men in powerful positions reading this amid the avalanche of posts about Epstein, and you have not read my book Excavation, dm me. I have two copies I’d be happy to send. I hope you’re taking care as the timeline unfolds.
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Congrats to Omar El Akkad & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson both shortlisted for the 2025 Writers' Trust Hilary Weston Prize for Nonfiction
ICYMI here are my 2025 conversations with each
Omar: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
Leanne: tinhouse.com/podcast/lean...
@biidaasamose.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org
ICYMI here are my 2025 conversations with each
Omar: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
Leanne: tinhouse.com/podcast/lean...
@biidaasamose.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org
November 11, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Congrats to Omar El Akkad & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson both shortlisted for the 2025 Writers' Trust Hilary Weston Prize for Nonfiction
ICYMI here are my 2025 conversations with each
Omar: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
Leanne: tinhouse.com/podcast/lean...
@biidaasamose.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org
ICYMI here are my 2025 conversations with each
Omar: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
Leanne: tinhouse.com/podcast/lean...
@biidaasamose.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org
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For University Press Week, we're highlighting the important, collaborative work that Senior Acquisitions Editor @rcolesworthy.bsky.social does to build bridges across the scholarly publishing ecosystem: tinyurl.com/3t7mdnef/
#TeamUP #ReadUP
#TeamUP #ReadUP
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
For University Press Week, we're highlighting the important, collaborative work that Senior Acquisitions Editor @rcolesworthy.bsky.social does to build bridges across the scholarly publishing ecosystem: tinyurl.com/3t7mdnef/
#TeamUP #ReadUP
#TeamUP #ReadUP
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AUTHORS!!
Remember that case where a bunch of authors sued AI for stealing their work? And WON?
Well, the settlement money has been announced. Each WORK that got thefted will be compensated $3k (split 50/50 bw publisher + author). So authors will be compensated $1500 per WORK stolen.
More here:
Remember that case where a bunch of authors sued AI for stealing their work? And WON?
Well, the settlement money has been announced. Each WORK that got thefted will be compensated $3k (split 50/50 bw publisher + author). So authors will be compensated $1500 per WORK stolen.
More here:
Homepage | Bartz v Anthropic Settlement Site
www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
AUTHORS!!
Remember that case where a bunch of authors sued AI for stealing their work? And WON?
Well, the settlement money has been announced. Each WORK that got thefted will be compensated $3k (split 50/50 bw publisher + author). So authors will be compensated $1500 per WORK stolen.
More here:
Remember that case where a bunch of authors sued AI for stealing their work? And WON?
Well, the settlement money has been announced. Each WORK that got thefted will be compensated $3k (split 50/50 bw publisher + author). So authors will be compensated $1500 per WORK stolen.
More here:
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NEW: No Arms In The Arts launches boycott of the Scotiabank Photo Award.
70 artists, curators and photographers, including many past winners and nominees, are withdrawing their work ahead of the 2025 nominations.
boycottphotoaward.org
70 artists, curators and photographers, including many past winners and nominees, are withdrawing their work ahead of the 2025 nominations.
boycottphotoaward.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
NEW: No Arms In The Arts launches boycott of the Scotiabank Photo Award.
70 artists, curators and photographers, including many past winners and nominees, are withdrawing their work ahead of the 2025 nominations.
boycottphotoaward.org
70 artists, curators and photographers, including many past winners and nominees, are withdrawing their work ahead of the 2025 nominations.
boycottphotoaward.org
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No proof will ever be enough for the denialists but here’s yet another example of the thing they say isn’t happening - children’s remains being returned to their families. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
After 8 decades, Alma Beaulieu, who died at an N.W.T. residential school, is home | CBC News
For generations, the family of five-year-old Alma Beaulieu didn’t know what happened when she died at St. Joseph’s Residential School in Fort Resolution, N.W.T. More than 80 years later, Alma's sister...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
No proof will ever be enough for the denialists but here’s yet another example of the thing they say isn’t happening - children’s remains being returned to their families. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...