Looking forward to taking part in this gathering of poets and scholars interested in the New York School of poetry, hosted by @nysnetwork.bsky.socialnewyorkschoolpoets.wordpress.com/2023/10/22/t...
"Who knows what would happen if literary scholars and sociologists started to actually talk to each other?" @lkonstan.bsky.socialwww.chronicle.com/article/the-...
A wonderful, warm conversation about/among books with friends @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social@nicksturm.bsky.social at A Capella books here in Atlanta! Stay tuned for 35mm shots, a long time from now.
This Saturday! Join Dan Sinykin (@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social@nicksturm.bsky.socialbit.ly/3Snxdrd#LiteratureNow
I’m anticipating a similar issue in a lit studies class this week & am planning to emphasize again & again developing familiarity with local sites in readings as a way into into new thinking rather than comprehension of a full text.
One of my favorite moments researching for this article was reconstructing this series of events from Hernton's FBI file. Seeing agents dispatched to NYPL at 42nd & 5th looking for copies of the little mag Umbra--a bizarre, revealing snapshot of Cold War aesthetic surveillance.
"I felt whatever people feel when they are in captivity." My essay about the life & work of Umbra poet Calvin Hernton on the occasion of the publication of his Selected Poems (ed. David Grundy & Lauri Scheyer) by Wesleyan University Press. www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/161...
Selected Poems of Calvin C. Hernton is a long-overdue retrospective of one of America’s most important Black poets.
Excited to be in NY next week with scholar-friends to talk about & listen to incredible poets & poetry.
What to do when your conference presentation is about 200 words shorter than it needs to be? Add in a coda in the conclusion telling people about @nicksturm.bsky.socialpost45.org/sections/con...