Modernism/modernity seeks a Book Reviews Editor (3-year term, 2026–2029). The role involves commissioning and editing reviews for both the print journal and Print+. Deadline to apply: March 16, 2026 Please share widely.
paisley conrad
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phd candidate @ concordia // waste+poetry // managing editor @mmodernity.bsky.social
"These lines capture the book’s tension: mastery of grammar and syntax cannot guarantee belonging." Paisley Conrad reviews 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 Read the rest at the link: mtlreviewofbooks.ca/reviews/prop... @pslycnrd.bsky.social
abstracts due end of the week ~~ anyone interested in chatting about marx, poetry, value, etc. is welcome!
paisley conrad@pslycnrd.bsky.social · 11mo agomy colleague+comrade, M.A. King, and I are organizing a roundtable at ACCUTE 2026 on poetry, capital's abstractions and antagonism, and registers of political resistance -- come thru! submit! "abstracts" are due nov 21: accute.ca/accute-2026-...
"This poetry is urgent and alive, a work of observation and invention that bends the formal and the lyrical..." Paisley Conrad reviews 𝘈𝘯 𝘖𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦, 𝘈 𝘚𝘺𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦. Read the rest at the link: mtlreviewofbooks.ca/reviews/an-o... @pslycnrd.bsky.social @ecwpress.bsky.social
I'm happy to be organizing a panel for ACCUTE 2026 in Montreal titled "Literature and the geo-logics of conquest." The submission deadline is Friday, November 21. Please share with anyone who may be interested! accute.ca/2026-call-fo...
![Geology and its figures are surfacing across the humanities: fields including political ecology, Black studies, critical Anthropocene studies, and the energy humanities have recently incorporated or interrogated geologic language and methods. Such breadth of engagement with this branch of earth science evinces a recognition of what Kathryn Yusoff names the “grammars of geology”—the figurative and formal techniques that subtend geology’s reproduction of racial capitalism. Meanwhile, geology also circulates through a popular rhetoric that calls upon textuality to make its objects meaningful: Colin N. Waters, chair of the Anthropocene Working Group, notably appealed to literary technique in his invitation to engage sites of geologic significance by “[reading] the stories that they tell you.”
What is at stake in this figuration of geology as textual? How can literary studies contribute to a critical unearthing of geology’s grammars? And how might an attention to geology in literature reroute what Tiffany Lethabo King calls the “grammar of conquest” that grids modern relation to dispossession and death? This panel invites papers that address geology’s literary and theoretical figurations with particular attention to their imbrication with histories of racialization and conquest. Possible topics may include: the geologic grammars of postcolonial studies and Black studies; the poetics of ground, earth, or extraction; literature and the metabolic rift; literatures of geology and empire; or geology and deconstruction.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ibgrnntulywfrnaj3qnreu6c/bafkreihaukztqdp3am25qwfmm25zwxzew33s7kizmssdymzzpqihc5s6ly)
my colleague+comrade, M.A. King, and I are organizing a roundtable at ACCUTE 2026 on poetry, capital's abstractions and antagonism, and registers of political resistance -- come thru! submit! "abstracts" are due nov 21: accute.ca/accute-2026-...
pleased to have some thoughts on harryette mullen's most recent and most capacious collection in the latest issue of tripwire: tripwirejournal.com/2025/09/08/p...
Paisley Conrad on Harryette Mullen’s Regaining Unconsciousness
Graywolf Press, 2025 reviewed by Paisley Conrad in Tripwire 22 In her 2013 collection, Urban Tumbleweed: Notes from a Tanka Diary, Harryette Mullen wonders: “Why accept what nature gave us? / We’re…
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"Palestinian literature is not literature for times of crisis, and its study is not an afterthought or a 'safe' way to show solidarity." Our latest 'field report' comes from Huda Fakhreddine. Read it here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
Notes from the Field of Arabic Literature in the Time of Genocide | Modernism / Modernity Print+
It is the twentieth month of genocide, our planet’s second rotation around the sun, drenched in Palestinian blood, 600 days of Palestinian slaughter, and nothing is new except the finality of the massacre. The world has sacrificed the Palestinians with its complicity and silence, and it will soon start rehabilitating itself by erecting monuments of guilt, reciting land
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