My latest on Amiri Baraka's Black Communications Archive is now open access: doi.org/10.1353/AFA....
Andrew Michael Gorin
@andrewgorin.bsky.social
writer, assistant professor of poetics, media, public sphere andrewmichaelgorin.info, organismforpoeticresearch.org
"[B]rimming with original insights about art, culture and creativity, love and friendship, and the simple but profound joys of everyday life."- Sigrid Nunez Now available in paper! LOVE, JOE: THE SELECTED LETTERS OF JOE BRAINARD tinyurl.com/te5v43t8 @dkanepoetry.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
As a parent of a four-year old, I can tell you that when he says there are going to be “big problems” if the straight isn’t opened, it’s because he doesn’t have any actually effective punitive action at his disposal
April 16 and 17, the Coalition for Action in Higher Education (CAHE) is organizing a Day of Action event calling for freedom, joy, and equity in higher ed. Please register via the qr code and share widely.
If he can get a list of Jews he can get a list of Black, queer, trans, Leftist, disabled, socialist, immigrant, poor, Muslim, feminist, Indigenous, Latino, undocumented, union organizer, teacher, librarian, journalist, artist, activist, health worker, scientist, voter-rights advocate, or unAmerican
"This is a peculiar time we are living in... We are being taken into fascism and world war III.... The man has sanctions on Nicaragua for being a Democracy, but somehow no sanctions on South Africa?!!" -"How to beat Reagan," audio of poem by Amiri Baraka, performed in Buffalo, New York, 1985
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CFP - MLA 2027 Black Arts Media Emancipations Seeking papers on the Black Arts Movement, its legacy, and and non-print media (film, radio, tv, internet). Graduate students and early-career scholars are especially encouraged. Deadline: March 25 call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/03/...
CFP - MLA 2027 Black Arts Media Emancipations Seeking papers on the Black Arts Movement, its legacy, and and non-print media (film, radio, tv, internet). Graduate students and early-career scholars are especially encouraged. Deadline: March 25 call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/03/...
Excellent new report co-authored by William Herbert (@highered-cb.bsky.social) on academic freedom in union contracts. Check it out!
Check out this new report published today providing the first in-depth, industry-wide examination of how #academicfreedom has been written into collective bargaining agreements across American higher ed. 👀 This report is useful for anyone hoping to collectively bargain meaningful AF protections.
”Society’s silence in the face of these destructive and deathly pogroms is a form of collective dissociation, unhinging humanity and severing Israeli society from the moral norms of human civilization” -mental health practitioners appeal to international community in response to settler violence
An Urgent Appeal - Silence is a crime
YouTube video by שתיקה היא פשע - Silence is a Crime
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New piece: “Answers in Progress” On Amiri Baraka, the Black Communications Project, and the dream of building a radical Black media network in the late 1960s. Archive, poetry, infrastructure. Stable link here: dx.doi.org/10.1353/afa.... DM me for the pdf
New piece: “Answers in Progress” On Amiri Baraka, the Black Communications Project, and the dream of building a radical Black media network in the late 1960s. Archive, poetry, infrastructure. Stable link here: dx.doi.org/10.1353/afa.... DM me for the pdf
I'm a New York Jew and I voted for Zohran Mamdani. I think Mamdani will be the best mayor for Jews and all New Yorkers. Please vote today!
I'm a New York Jew and I voted for Zohran Mamdani. I think Mamdani will be the best mayor for Jews and all New Yorkers. Please vote today!
Happening today at 7am EST: the Eyes on Gaza series hosts writer & commentator Peter Beinart. Beinart has been one of the most prominent Jewish voices opposing the war—today he speaks on Gaza, US politics, and the struggle for justice. Details & link: eyesongaza.net #EyesOnGaza #PeterBeinart #Gaza
Home | Eyes on Gaza
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"We order that ICE be confined to its natural habitat: the North and South Poles" - Executive Orders
We declare that America is Mexico again! Whatever Flint's drinking, our elected representatives are drinking! Everyone must come to the library! More pleasure! Hereby the people's EXECUTIVE ORDERS, published #OpenAccess! Is it prose poetry or the law? 🙃🥸🫠 See more here: tinyurl.com/zsrat342
good morning this book exists in the world thanks to @punctumbooks.bsky.social punctumbooks.com/titles/execu...
NEW TODAY: 200 college and university presidents band together to condemn “unprecedented government overreach” in higher education and reaffirm the “essential freedom to determine, on academic grounds, whom to admit and what is taught, how, and by whom.” www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U
A Call for Constructive Engagement
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Happy earth day. Federal funding is being denied to any infrastructure project whose proposal includes the words “wind” or “solar.” (At least we are being governed by people smart enough to figure out how to use the CTRL F function)
Punk video-game retro-meme-agit-prop is the appropriate response to current events
AS PROMISED:
This is exactly how it happens in my classroom
Adriano Celentano canta "Prisencolinensinainciusol" da "Formula due" del 1973
YouTube video by Rai
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