Today's Featured Poet:
Molly Spencer is the author of three prize-winning poetry collections: If the House (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019), Hinge (SIU Press, 2020), and Invitatory (Parlor Press, 2024). She teaches at University of Michigan.
CNN's website is now asking people to buy a monthly subscription to its website with a pop-up when you reach a three-article limit. But it is a ruse. If you click on "Pay with a Credit Card," you're told that it was just a test to find new ways to support journalism. 🧐😠
What is missing from most courses, especially online? A space where learners feel free to converse and share their thoughts, opinions, and questions - as David Blakesley of @ClemsonUniv and Angie Atwell of @EmbryRiddle put it -
💡a Burkean Parlor!
The deadline for submission to the 2023 New Measure Poetry Prize is right around the corner. This year's judge is Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Phillips! parlorpress.com/pages/new-me…
I was supposed to present during session E.2.70 today (Aug 2) at 1400, but the Zoom session never opened. Anyone who wants to check out the PDF version of "The Garden of Forking Aristotles" can look here: bit.ly/forkingaristotles#ISHRhet22
@rhetsoc Meet Hamilton Sterling, director of Absent Now the Dead, at this panel, which includes a screening of the 55-minute film. With Ellen Quandahl, Susan Jarrett, Glen McClish, and @dblakesley.
absentnowthedead.com/
A Rhetoric of Becoming: USAmerican Women in Qatar parlorpress.com/products/a-r… A new feminist tactic emerges as a substantive contribution to the scholarly field: micropraxis—small, purposeful acts of resistance and justice—creates potential for subverting patriarchal systems.
New from Parlor Press. Thirty amazing poets discuss the poetry that inspires them. The Encounter: A Handbook of Poetic Practice parlorpress.com/products/the…
Fixing social media "harms" was one of the few things w bipartisan support during #SOTU -it's a battle we ALL have to fight to keep kids safe & also keep democracy alive. Prof @DarrenLinvill combats Russian trolls for a living & talks about it w/me youtu.be/P41aoHY-NDc 1/4
North | Rock | Edge continues Susan Tichy’s commitment to thinking on foot, to making poetic language immersive and bound to the ecological specifics of place. parlorpress.com/collections/…
Managers at @Sydney_Uni want to abolish the departments of the uni's Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences. This is major vandalism. Staff are overwhelmingly opposed yet are being ignored. Share our video and tell managers @mscott@arjagose & @adkinsprof to respect staff and the uni.
American Poetics! We're pleased to announce the publication of Brian Henry's new book in the Illuminations series edited by Jon Thompson. parlorpress.com/products/thi…