Rebecca Kosick
@rkokayokay.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Comparative Poetry and Poetics. Co-director Bristol Poetry Institute. Out now: HÉLIO OITICICA: SECRET POETICS. Out next: DISPATCHES FROM THE AVANT-GARAGE: THE ALTERNATIVE PRESS. Bristol, England // Lake Michigan
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I am SO happy to be able to share the wonderful cover for DISPATCHES FROM THE AVANT-GARAGE: THE ALTERNATIVE PRESS coming in March from Wayne State UP. The cover has it all—postcards, letterpress, a bison. Beautifully designed, as it happens, by Lindsey Cleworth, who grew up in my/our hometown.
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Robert Glück will be in London speaking with Andrew Durbin at Foyles, 107 Charing Cross Road, on Thursday January 8th.
Buy a ticket soon because it might sell out. If you don't know him: Glück is the author of Margery Kempe, Jack the Modernist, and About Ed, all of which we proud to publish.
Buy a ticket soon because it might sell out. If you don't know him: Glück is the author of Margery Kempe, Jack the Modernist, and About Ed, all of which we proud to publish.
www.foyles.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Robert Glück will be in London speaking with Andrew Durbin at Foyles, 107 Charing Cross Road, on Thursday January 8th.
Buy a ticket soon because it might sell out. If you don't know him: Glück is the author of Margery Kempe, Jack the Modernist, and About Ed, all of which we proud to publish.
Buy a ticket soon because it might sell out. If you don't know him: Glück is the author of Margery Kempe, Jack the Modernist, and About Ed, all of which we proud to publish.
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PEOPLE OF THE WORLD:
RELAX!
“People of the World: Relax!” is excerpted (at LARB) from “The Complete C Comics,” a collection of Joe Brainard’s innovative work: lareviewofbooks.org/article/peop...
RELAX!
“People of the World: Relax!” is excerpted (at LARB) from “The Complete C Comics,” a collection of Joe Brainard’s innovative work: lareviewofbooks.org/article/peop...
December 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
PEOPLE OF THE WORLD:
RELAX!
“People of the World: Relax!” is excerpted (at LARB) from “The Complete C Comics,” a collection of Joe Brainard’s innovative work: lareviewofbooks.org/article/peop...
RELAX!
“People of the World: Relax!” is excerpted (at LARB) from “The Complete C Comics,” a collection of Joe Brainard’s innovative work: lareviewofbooks.org/article/peop...
My brilliant friend and collaborator, Zhiyi Yang, has anarticle out in PLMA about fake Mao poems circulating during the Cultural Revolution. She gave a paper about this at a symposium we organized w Nathan Taylor on poetry after the lyric. It was SO interesting. resolve.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Chairman’s Voice: Revolutionary Classicism and Lyric Ventriloquism in Maoist China | PMLA | Cambridge Core
The Chairman’s Voice: Revolutionary Classicism and Lyric Ventriloquism in Maoist China - Volume 140 Issue 3
resolve.cambridge.org
December 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
My brilliant friend and collaborator, Zhiyi Yang, has anarticle out in PLMA about fake Mao poems circulating during the Cultural Revolution. She gave a paper about this at a symposium we organized w Nathan Taylor on poetry after the lyric. It was SO interesting. resolve.cambridge.org/core/journal...
I grew up next to a river and one winter a deer wandered onto the ice and fell through. It froze with its front half still in the air. Later the ice hardened, coyotes came, and they ate the frozen deer. The scene stayed frozen like that for weeks, horrifying gore against the quiet white snow.
December 3, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I grew up next to a river and one winter a deer wandered onto the ice and fell through. It froze with its front half still in the air. Later the ice hardened, coyotes came, and they ate the frozen deer. The scene stayed frozen like that for weeks, horrifying gore against the quiet white snow.
One of my best buddies is in the hospital after a sudden, catastrophic medical event and I’m really sick with worry and grief. I know this is an abstract ask, but if you could send some good energy to him in Chicago, I’d be grateful.
December 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
One of my best buddies is in the hospital after a sudden, catastrophic medical event and I’m really sick with worry and grief. I know this is an abstract ask, but if you could send some good energy to him in Chicago, I’d be grateful.
I really hope this happens.
"Negotiators are aiming to finalise a deal by January that would allow the UK to participate in Erasmus from 2027 onwards, according to two UK and EU officials."
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
UK aims to secure agreement to rejoin Erasmus student exchange scheme
Britain quit EU programme after Brexit, when Boris Johnson claimed it did not offer good value for money
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:57 AM
I really hope this happens.
I am listening-watching a conversation w Felipe Cussen, Odile Cisneros, and Reynaldo Jiménez about translating Haroldo de Campos's galáxias and it's so good it makes me want to jump off the high dive into poetry lake and stay under why do I have to have a job i'd be so happy here in poetry lake
December 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I am listening-watching a conversation w Felipe Cussen, Odile Cisneros, and Reynaldo Jiménez about translating Haroldo de Campos's galáxias and it's so good it makes me want to jump off the high dive into poetry lake and stay under why do I have to have a job i'd be so happy here in poetry lake
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Columbia University Press titles are 50% off. I know this because I ordered copies of Poetry in General today for artists and poets who gave me permission to print their work in the book. Thank you, brilliant poets! Thank you discounts! cup.columbia.edu/book/poetry-...
Poetry in General | Columbia University Press
In the second half of the twentieth century, poetry leapt out of books and became an interdisciplinary public form. Poetry entered bureaucratic systems of or... | CUP
cup.columbia.edu
December 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Columbia University Press titles are 50% off. I know this because I ordered copies of Poetry in General today for artists and poets who gave me permission to print their work in the book. Thank you, brilliant poets! Thank you discounts! cup.columbia.edu/book/poetry-...
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Look when institutions are this quick to move it’s not giving up it’s what they want
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Look when institutions are this quick to move it’s not giving up it’s what they want
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ELLE is officially published today. So here's an updated post with a little video or verse one, and links to the publisher and to previous posts about the 'project': robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/11/elle...
ELLE: A VERSE NOVEL is now published
My new book Elle: A Verse Novel is now published by Broken Sleep Books Details for ORDER: Robert Sheppard - Elle, a Verse Novel | Bro...
robertsheppard.blogspot.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM
ELLE is officially published today. So here's an updated post with a little video or verse one, and links to the publisher and to previous posts about the 'project': robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/11/elle...
Look when institutions are this quick to move it’s not giving up it’s what they want
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Look when institutions are this quick to move it’s not giving up it’s what they want
Am art exhibition consisting of all the times you’ve appeared in another person’s photographs by chance.
November 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Am art exhibition consisting of all the times you’ve appeared in another person’s photographs by chance.
Even Scottish publishers are getting in on Black Friday, a made-up holiday that bafflingly crossed the pond w/o Thanksgiving due to the unfort v effective capitalist internationale but anyway it means a paperback of MATERIAL POETICS is only £19 til Monday edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-materia...
Material Poetics in Hemispheric America
Material Poetics in Hemispheric America
edinburghuniversitypress.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Even Scottish publishers are getting in on Black Friday, a made-up holiday that bafflingly crossed the pond w/o Thanksgiving due to the unfort v effective capitalist internationale but anyway it means a paperback of MATERIAL POETICS is only £19 til Monday edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-materia...
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This is tonight! Come along if you can! There will be readings by brilliant writers, and, there will be drinks.
@draughtjournal.bsky.social @jencalleja.bsky.social
@draughtjournal.bsky.social @jencalleja.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 9:35 AM
This is tonight! Come along if you can! There will be readings by brilliant writers, and, there will be drinks.
@draughtjournal.bsky.social @jencalleja.bsky.social
@draughtjournal.bsky.social @jencalleja.bsky.social
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Bob Seger performed at the John Sinclair Freedom Rally. He’s not usually thought of in connection with 60s radicals, I guess bc he hit it big late 70s early 80s but he was there! There with Bobby Seale and Jane Fonda and Ed Sanders (& Stevie Wonder, John & Yoko & &!) I see you Bob Seger!!
Video of Lake Michigan waves crashing against our hometown lighthouse, set to a Bob Seger soundtrack has just hit the family chat. For this I give thanks.
November 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Bob Seger performed at the John Sinclair Freedom Rally. He’s not usually thought of in connection with 60s radicals, I guess bc he hit it big late 70s early 80s but he was there! There with Bobby Seale and Jane Fonda and Ed Sanders (& Stevie Wonder, John & Yoko & &!) I see you Bob Seger!!
Video of Lake Michigan waves crashing against our hometown lighthouse, set to a Bob Seger soundtrack has just hit the family chat. For this I give thanks.
November 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Video of Lake Michigan waves crashing against our hometown lighthouse, set to a Bob Seger soundtrack has just hit the family chat. For this I give thanks.
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Our fabulous Environmental Humanities Summer School is open for applications for 2026! Together, we examine human relationships with nature on a Global scale, and with the city of Bristol. According to 2025 cohort student Choon Woi “Bristol itself became part of the classroom…
November 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Our fabulous Environmental Humanities Summer School is open for applications for 2026! Together, we examine human relationships with nature on a Global scale, and with the city of Bristol. According to 2025 cohort student Choon Woi “Bristol itself became part of the classroom…
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Bristol! I will see you soon!
BAD LANGUAGE launch in conversation with @noreenmasud.bsky.social
@bookhaus.bsky.social , 6pm
www.bookhausbristol.com/events/
BAD LANGUAGE launch in conversation with @noreenmasud.bsky.social
@bookhaus.bsky.social , 6pm
www.bookhausbristol.com/events/
Bookhaus Bristol – Author Talks, Readings & More
Discover upcoming events at Bookhaus Bristol, including author talks, book readings, and literary discussions.
www.bookhausbristol.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Bristol! I will see you soon!
BAD LANGUAGE launch in conversation with @noreenmasud.bsky.social
@bookhaus.bsky.social , 6pm
www.bookhausbristol.com/events/
BAD LANGUAGE launch in conversation with @noreenmasud.bsky.social
@bookhaus.bsky.social , 6pm
www.bookhausbristol.com/events/
I wanted to write "screaming, crying, throwing up" but kept it profesh for you guys (all genders) with "grateful." #growth
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 2:12 PM
I wanted to write "screaming, crying, throwing up" but kept it profesh for you guys (all genders) with "grateful." #growth
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) 😭
This! I’ve been teaching in the UK for 11 years but I’ll never be convinced UKHE is better than a liberal arts model. I do poetry now (and then) but am so grateful that in UG I studied physics, geography, philosophy, statistics. I did a sociology class that consisted of teaching in prison education!
University in the UK is already astonishingly narrow. My husband & I both did five year undergrads (Canada) as did most people we know. We do the same level of specialisation (if not more) but also so much breadth. Our schooling is much mire broad as well. The UK gov wants us all to be technicians.
"A system built on specialisation, efficiency", that right there is the death knell for the current university system in the UK, if (big if) government pushes it through. They actively don't want HE to grow, they will intervene, apparently, to help it shrink.
per this morning's education committee.
per this morning's education committee.
November 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This! I’ve been teaching in the UK for 11 years but I’ll never be convinced UKHE is better than a liberal arts model. I do poetry now (and then) but am so grateful that in UG I studied physics, geography, philosophy, statistics. I did a sociology class that consisted of teaching in prison education!