Brian Glavey
@glavey.bsky.social
Author of Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets (forthcoming from University of Chicago Press) and The Wallflower Avant-Garde; Associate Professor of English, Univ of South Carolina
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Brian Glavey
@glavey.bsky.social
· Sep 26
I'm over the moon that my book, Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets, will be published by the University of Chicago Press in the not too distant future.
Punch me in the face for 10,000 years!
November 19, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Punch me in the face for 10,000 years!
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free memorial event for Alice (Mom) Notley happening tomorrow eve. Six months from the date of her death. Which also means we just got the French tax bill. So the memorial's free, but if anyone brings a big bag of money to lend us for a spell, that's cool
www.poetryproject.org/events/at-ni...
www.poetryproject.org/events/at-ni...
At Night the States: a Memorial Celebration for Alice Notley
This will be a gathering to read perform and listen to works by and with and about Alice Notley, who passed away this past spring in Paris. Notley said St. Mark's Church was where she imagined her wor...
www.poetryproject.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:14 PM
free memorial event for Alice (Mom) Notley happening tomorrow eve. Six months from the date of her death. Which also means we just got the French tax bill. So the memorial's free, but if anyone brings a big bag of money to lend us for a spell, that's cool
www.poetryproject.org/events/at-ni...
www.poetryproject.org/events/at-ni...
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I am full of gratitude for this conversation @redemmas.org on Saturday with @kristingrogan.bsky.social and Chris Nealon. It was such a wonderful way to launch Poetry in General. Thanks to all who came!!
November 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I am full of gratitude for this conversation @redemmas.org on Saturday with @kristingrogan.bsky.social and Chris Nealon. It was such a wonderful way to launch Poetry in General. Thanks to all who came!!
Will someone come pick me up and drive me to Baltimore for this?
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
November 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Will someone come pick me up and drive me to Baltimore for this?
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you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
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my library bought @kristingrogan.bsky.social ’s beautiful book and yours should too
November 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
my library bought @kristingrogan.bsky.social ’s beautiful book and yours should too
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November 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Sapere aude y’all
Mamdani got a humanities degree.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
November 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Sapere aude y’all
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This is tomorrow night! Please share widely and bring your friends!
How can we turn discussions about what we read and think into discussion for action? How does action lead to new forms of critical analysis?
I’ll talk about this with @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social and Vineeta Singh this Friday at 8pm ET for @debtcollective.bsky.social’s Jubilee School. Join us!
I’ll talk about this with @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social and Vineeta Singh this Friday at 8pm ET for @debtcollective.bsky.social’s Jubilee School. Join us!
University Keywords: Study and Struggle
Our session will put two keywords in relation that are essential to the fight ahead in higher education and beyond: study and struggle.
debtcollective.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
This is tomorrow night! Please share widely and bring your friends!
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Instead of watching Ross Douthat make this face 🤔 while smelling his own farts, you should read @sophiegilbert.bsky.social on the "Great Feminization." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
No, Women Aren’t the Problem
America is rapidly becoming the manosphere, but sure, let’s go after the “feminization” of culture.
www.theatlantic.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Instead of watching Ross Douthat make this face 🤔 while smelling his own farts, you should read @sophiegilbert.bsky.social on the "Great Feminization." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
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connect the dots on attacks on education, the AI grifter bubble, and consolidating authoritarianism
"I have to believe that we can still push back, that creative people can find the means to defy the ruling class and keep on creating."
"I have to believe that we can still push back, that creative people can find the means to defy the ruling class and keep on creating."
I wrote about why I can't sleep at night: the devaluation of so many things (critical thinking, creativity) I thought were paramount. lithub.com/when-we-deva...
When We Devalue Art (Books!) We Devalue the Future
When you’ve spent your whole adult life working in and around book publishing you get used to hearing that people don’t read anymore and that the industry is on its last legs. There is always a cri…
lithub.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:38 PM
connect the dots on attacks on education, the AI grifter bubble, and consolidating authoritarianism
"I have to believe that we can still push back, that creative people can find the means to defy the ruling class and keep on creating."
"I have to believe that we can still push back, that creative people can find the means to defy the ruling class and keep on creating."
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In 1830, Joseph Williams, a Spaniard incarcerated in Massachusetts State Prison was discovered to have been stealing other convicts' drained blood from the prison hospital, then drinking+vomiting it back up to feign illness & avoid work. Cans of blood in near 'putrefaction' were found in his cell 🗃️
October 31, 2025 at 3:30 AM
In 1830, Joseph Williams, a Spaniard incarcerated in Massachusetts State Prison was discovered to have been stealing other convicts' drained blood from the prison hospital, then drinking+vomiting it back up to feign illness & avoid work. Cans of blood in near 'putrefaction' were found in his cell 🗃️
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"create “public media centers”—publicly-owned hubs in every community federally guaranteed but locally governed+democratically operated. establish new anchor institutions universally available to everyone—not unlike the ideal version of public schools+libraries."
publici.ucimc.org/2025/10/the-...
publici.ucimc.org/2025/10/the-...
The Media We Need Requires Structural Transformation | Public i Contact
publici.ucimc.org
October 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"create “public media centers”—publicly-owned hubs in every community federally guaranteed but locally governed+democratically operated. establish new anchor institutions universally available to everyone—not unlike the ideal version of public schools+libraries."
publici.ucimc.org/2025/10/the-...
publici.ucimc.org/2025/10/the-...
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something good:
Downbound Books has installed its Richard Scary Busy People mini print automat!
www.downboundbooks.com
Downbound Books has installed its Richard Scary Busy People mini print automat!
www.downboundbooks.com
October 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
something good:
Downbound Books has installed its Richard Scary Busy People mini print automat!
www.downboundbooks.com
Downbound Books has installed its Richard Scary Busy People mini print automat!
www.downboundbooks.com
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not sure how this vote went but the rallies are ongoing for the next few days, there may be one in your area
The strike authorization vote has begun!
While voting commences, union baristas are holding 70 rallies and pickets through November 1st. It's time to get serious about finalizing fair contracts, Starbucks.
While voting commences, union baristas are holding 70 rallies and pickets through November 1st. It's time to get serious about finalizing fair contracts, Starbucks.
Baristas are rallying at Starbucks stores across the country this weekend. Here's why
As 70 rallies kick off across the country, unionized baristas say they’re fighting for fair pay and hours—just as fall coffee orders surge.
www.fastcompany.com
October 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
not sure how this vote went but the rallies are ongoing for the next few days, there may be one in your area
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If you find yourself in the NJ suburbs next month, come to my talk! You can register at ridgewoodlibrary.org.
October 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
If you find yourself in the NJ suburbs next month, come to my talk! You can register at ridgewoodlibrary.org.
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I'll be talking about the NEA, literary nonprofits, & poetry's professionalization at @asapartsnow.bsky.social in Houston on Friday.
October 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I'll be talking about the NEA, literary nonprofits, & poetry's professionalization at @asapartsnow.bsky.social in Houston on Friday.
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One of the best Louvre heist stories -- the time Apollinaire and Picasso were wrongly accused of stealing the Mona Lisa (but were definitely neck-deep in a case of statues being stolen from the museum)
www.thecollector.com/did-guillaum...
www.thecollector.com/did-guillaum...
Did Guillaume Apollinaire Steal the Mona Lisa? | TheCollector
The great 20th century writer Guillaume Apollinaire was once embroiled in an art heist. But did he really steal the Mona Lisa?
www.thecollector.com
October 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
One of the best Louvre heist stories -- the time Apollinaire and Picasso were wrongly accused of stealing the Mona Lisa (but were definitely neck-deep in a case of statues being stolen from the museum)
www.thecollector.com/did-guillaum...
www.thecollector.com/did-guillaum...
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If you don't yet have a copy of Mel Micir's brilliant THE PASSION PROJECTS, Princeton is having an ungodly 70% off sale. Now's your chance. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
The Passion Projects
How modernist women writers used biographical writing to resist their exclusion from literary history
press.princeton.edu
October 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
If you don't yet have a copy of Mel Micir's brilliant THE PASSION PROJECTS, Princeton is having an ungodly 70% off sale. Now's your chance. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Thank you to Daniel Neman of the ST Louis Post dispatch for this feature on my book.
www.stltoday.com/life-enterta...
www.stltoday.com/life-enterta...
Neman: Book by WashU professor says tacos are more than tacos
How did tacos become popular? "Technology plus organization plus broad social acceptance across classes, and all of that happened in the '20s."
www.stltoday.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Thank you to Daniel Neman of the ST Louis Post dispatch for this feature on my book.
www.stltoday.com/life-enterta...
www.stltoday.com/life-enterta...
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Finland! this is so exciting — thank you @lievenameel.bsky.social
Seen in the wild in Finland: @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social &
@johannawinant.bsky.social Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century. Got my copy this morning, used it in teaching a seminar in the afternoon!
@johannawinant.bsky.social Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century. Got my copy this morning, used it in teaching a seminar in the afternoon!
October 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Finland! this is so exciting — thank you @lievenameel.bsky.social
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A friend just asked me where I got this beautiful To the Lighthouse tee shirt and—in honor of the publication of a NEW (!) book by Virginia Woolf—I feel it’s my civic and literary duty to remind you all that @allgrim.bsky.social has lots of fantastic Woolf stuff allgrimprints.shop/search?q=woo...
October 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
A friend just asked me where I got this beautiful To the Lighthouse tee shirt and—in honor of the publication of a NEW (!) book by Virginia Woolf—I feel it’s my civic and literary duty to remind you all that @allgrim.bsky.social has lots of fantastic Woolf stuff allgrimprints.shop/search?q=woo...
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Part of a student's response to today's session on Joe Brainard... @nysnetwork.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Part of a student's response to today's session on Joe Brainard... @nysnetwork.bsky.social
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I have read every word of this book many times and I am eager to read them all again and for you to read them too. You will learn so much about poetry’s interdisciplinarity and its ties to political economic shifts.
Congrats @keegancf.bsky.social!
Congrats @keegancf.bsky.social!
October 16, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I have read every word of this book many times and I am eager to read them all again and for you to read them too. You will learn so much about poetry’s interdisciplinarity and its ties to political economic shifts.
Congrats @keegancf.bsky.social!
Congrats @keegancf.bsky.social!
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