Nick Sturm
@nicksturm.bsky.social
post45 poetry, small press publishing, print culture, history of arts funding | Lecturer in English @ Georgia State | co-director of @nysnetwork.bsky.social | editor of books w/ Fonograf & City Lights | book with Columbia UP | nicksturm.com
one of the best experiences as a scholar is reading one sentence--here, Dan tying the professionalization of creative writing to the formation of the NEA--about which you're preparing to write an entire book.
November 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
one of the best experiences as a scholar is reading one sentence--here, Dan tying the professionalization of creative writing to the formation of the NEA--about which you're preparing to write an entire book.
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.
Abbie Hoffman & Allen Ginsberg 58 years ago today
October 21, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Abbie Hoffman & Allen Ginsberg 58 years ago today
I’m actually writing a talk about the NEA for ASAP but this was fun, stupid, whatever
October 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I’m actually writing a talk about the NEA for ASAP but this was fun, stupid, whatever
this episode is just after the one where Monica finds out her diner poet-crush is reading Baudelaire
October 17, 2025 at 1:09 PM
this episode is just after the one where Monica finds out her diner poet-crush is reading Baudelaire
I'm going to be thinking about this forever whenever I rewatch movies now. Reminds me that some of my favorite scenes in X-Files are related to their uses of microfilm, libraries, & projectors.
October 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I'm going to be thinking about this forever whenever I rewatch movies now. Reminds me that some of my favorite scenes in X-Files are related to their uses of microfilm, libraries, & projectors.
Yes:
Poets & Writers was getting $300k from the NEA by 1980. Well before the decline era, no literary org will ever receive anything near this.
& literature has always been an outlier in the NEA. Funding levels went up in the growth era but are dwarfed by funding levels in disciplines like music
Poets & Writers was getting $300k from the NEA by 1980. Well before the decline era, no literary org will ever receive anything near this.
& literature has always been an outlier in the NEA. Funding levels went up in the growth era but are dwarfed by funding levels in disciplines like music
October 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Yes:
Poets & Writers was getting $300k from the NEA by 1980. Well before the decline era, no literary org will ever receive anything near this.
& literature has always been an outlier in the NEA. Funding levels went up in the growth era but are dwarfed by funding levels in disciplines like music
Poets & Writers was getting $300k from the NEA by 1980. Well before the decline era, no literary org will ever receive anything near this.
& literature has always been an outlier in the NEA. Funding levels went up in the growth era but are dwarfed by funding levels in disciplines like music
Adjusted for inflation, NEA funding was highest--$1.8 billion--over the four years of the first Reagan administration & has remained stagnate--about $750 million per presidential term--for the last 25 years.
October 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Adjusted for inflation, NEA funding was highest--$1.8 billion--over the four years of the first Reagan administration & has remained stagnate--about $750 million per presidential term--for the last 25 years.
I made this graph for a talk at @asapartsnow.bsky.social on ways NEA arts policy is tied to administrations & tracking how the state drives trends in arts professionalization.
Incredible to see $ stagnation over time & how -/+ don't necessarily correspond to assumptions about Dem or Rep art policy.
Incredible to see $ stagnation over time & how -/+ don't necessarily correspond to assumptions about Dem or Rep art policy.
October 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I made this graph for a talk at @asapartsnow.bsky.social on ways NEA arts policy is tied to administrations & tracking how the state drives trends in arts professionalization.
Incredible to see $ stagnation over time & how -/+ don't necessarily correspond to assumptions about Dem or Rep art policy.
Incredible to see $ stagnation over time & how -/+ don't necessarily correspond to assumptions about Dem or Rep art policy.
recent paragraph factory productions by excellent people
October 6, 2025 at 6:17 PM
recent paragraph factory productions by excellent people
life of a surplus-enjoyment girl
October 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM
life of a surplus-enjoyment girl
extremely bad vibes emanating from this piece of electronic mail
September 25, 2025 at 8:50 PM
extremely bad vibes emanating from this piece of electronic mail
Robert Glück, pictured here, says "the history of arts organizations is so ephemeral."
The new archive at Small Press Traffic, arranged for public access in the Mission, materializes the literary organization's history in Bay Area small press publishing.
www.smallpresstraffic.org/archive/arch...
The new archive at Small Press Traffic, arranged for public access in the Mission, materializes the literary organization's history in Bay Area small press publishing.
www.smallpresstraffic.org/archive/arch...
September 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Robert Glück, pictured here, says "the history of arts organizations is so ephemeral."
The new archive at Small Press Traffic, arranged for public access in the Mission, materializes the literary organization's history in Bay Area small press publishing.
www.smallpresstraffic.org/archive/arch...
The new archive at Small Press Traffic, arranged for public access in the Mission, materializes the literary organization's history in Bay Area small press publishing.
www.smallpresstraffic.org/archive/arch...
new ghost just dropped—
—a huge publication for continuing to chart Spicer’s work & legacy, & a memorial volume to Kevin Killian’s grace, wit, & generosity
www.weslpress.org/978081950190...
—a huge publication for continuing to chart Spicer’s work & legacy, & a memorial volume to Kevin Killian’s grace, wit, & generosity
www.weslpress.org/978081950190...
September 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
new ghost just dropped—
—a huge publication for continuing to chart Spicer’s work & legacy, & a memorial volume to Kevin Killian’s grace, wit, & generosity
www.weslpress.org/978081950190...
—a huge publication for continuing to chart Spicer’s work & legacy, & a memorial volume to Kevin Killian’s grace, wit, & generosity
www.weslpress.org/978081950190...
I contributed a brief remembrance of Alice Notley to the new issue of The Poetry Project Newsletter
Full piece, & remembrances by Eddie, Eileen, Elinor, Peggy, Marion, Joel, Andrei, Simon, Anne, & Harris, here:
www.poetryproject.org/publications...
Full piece, & remembrances by Eddie, Eileen, Elinor, Peggy, Marion, Joel, Andrei, Simon, Anne, & Harris, here:
www.poetryproject.org/publications...
August 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I contributed a brief remembrance of Alice Notley to the new issue of The Poetry Project Newsletter
Full piece, & remembrances by Eddie, Eileen, Elinor, Peggy, Marion, Joel, Andrei, Simon, Anne, & Harris, here:
www.poetryproject.org/publications...
Full piece, & remembrances by Eddie, Eileen, Elinor, Peggy, Marion, Joel, Andrei, Simon, Anne, & Harris, here:
www.poetryproject.org/publications...
read these two pulp novels the last few days, both written under pseudonyms & with amazing poetry connections—“Always Love a Stranger” (1961) by Joe LeSueur as “Roger Davis” & “Vietnam Nurse” (1966) by Fanny Howe as “Della Field”
August 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
read these two pulp novels the last few days, both written under pseudonyms & with amazing poetry connections—“Always Love a Stranger” (1961) by Joe LeSueur as “Roger Davis” & “Vietnam Nurse” (1966) by Fanny Howe as “Della Field”
It was a lot of fun to contribute to this book--out in February from @sunypress.bsky.social
My chapter is about teaching "difficult" poetry to first-year writing students using a project I call "experimental indexes" (cc: @djbduncan.bsky.social). Describing students' work was a joy.
My chapter is about teaching "difficult" poetry to first-year writing students using a project I call "experimental indexes" (cc: @djbduncan.bsky.social). Describing students' work was a joy.
August 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
It was a lot of fun to contribute to this book--out in February from @sunypress.bsky.social
My chapter is about teaching "difficult" poetry to first-year writing students using a project I call "experimental indexes" (cc: @djbduncan.bsky.social). Describing students' work was a joy.
My chapter is about teaching "difficult" poetry to first-year writing students using a project I call "experimental indexes" (cc: @djbduncan.bsky.social). Describing students' work was a joy.
Here's an open link to a PDF of the original "Memorial Day" booklet, by Ted Berrigan & Anne Waldman with covers by Donna Dennis, published at The Poetry Project in 1971.
"The sky is dark / The dark is closed"
drive.google.com/file/d/0By56...
"The sky is dark / The dark is closed"
drive.google.com/file/d/0By56...
May 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Here's an open link to a PDF of the original "Memorial Day" booklet, by Ted Berrigan & Anne Waldman with covers by Donna Dennis, published at The Poetry Project in 1971.
"The sky is dark / The dark is closed"
drive.google.com/file/d/0By56...
"The sky is dark / The dark is closed"
drive.google.com/file/d/0By56...
pleased to remember that I can be insane
from my first interview with Alice in 2017 at the Poetry Society
poetrysociety.org/poems-essays...
from my first interview with Alice in 2017 at the Poetry Society
poetrysociety.org/poems-essays...
May 25, 2025 at 12:25 AM
pleased to remember that I can be insane
from my first interview with Alice in 2017 at the Poetry Society
poetrysociety.org/poems-essays...
from my first interview with Alice in 2017 at the Poetry Society
poetrysociety.org/poems-essays...
Alice Notley passed away yesterday evening in Paris. She said a few years ago, “What can we learn from the fact that we don’t die?” I’m heartbroken, & heartbroken for everyone who knew & loved her, her work.
May 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Alice Notley passed away yesterday evening in Paris. She said a few years ago, “What can we learn from the fact that we don’t die?” I’m heartbroken, & heartbroken for everyone who knew & loved her, her work.
front & back covers of the first issue of David Levi Strauss's magazine ACTS (1982), featuring incredible photographs of Robert Duncan's blackboard notes on Saussure, "lighght," & British-American poetic lineages
May 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
front & back covers of the first issue of David Levi Strauss's magazine ACTS (1982), featuring incredible photographs of Robert Duncan's blackboard notes on Saussure, "lighght," & British-American poetic lineages