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!
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-...
"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...
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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