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Michael Martin Shea

@immanentfields.bsky.social

Poet, translator, scholar | Assistant professor, University of Louisiana at Lafayette | Writing a book about poetry, mysticism, and neoliberalism in the Americas | Also: infrastructure, translation, the seventies, cookbooks www.michaelmartinshea.com

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Karin Wulf@kawulf.bsky.social · last wk.

What’s missing: 1/ Any framing about what higher is or has been that misses the big public investment post-WW2 and then massive disinvestment starting in the 1980s which spirals into rising costs and student debt is disingenuous at best. 5/

Rob Delaney@robdelaney.bsky.social · 2w ago

Initially I was frustrated with the rise of self-checkout but I appreciated how stores passed the savings on to me rather than pocket the money, fire armies of workers & make me do a job I suck at. It’s also why I’m optimistic about AI! I have been kicked in the head by several horses.

Michael Martin Shea@immanentfields.bsky.social · 2w ago

Sample size of one and in a new course to boot but I instituted a "no phones no laptops" policy (with exceptions for accommodations) for my undergrads this semester and we're already having better conversations this semester than we were at any point in previous semesters.

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 2w ago

Get the laptops out of the classroom!! No internet!!! Print readings for the students! Use real books, pens, & paper! We are doing a “low-tech” classroom this semester, and just a week in, I can tell it has made all the difference

Elephant Mastodon@emath.bsky.social · 2w ago

Literary fiction is coming. It is going to revolutionize the economy. We know that China has already got a start on literary fiction. We can’t afford to be left out of the literary fiction economy. Think of your kids. They might already be engaging with literary fiction.

Brian Glavey@glavey.bsky.social · 3w ago

My book, Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets, will be out later this year--just in time to stuff it in your stockings--but you can preorder now with the code UCPNEW for 30% off. @uchicagopress.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Relatability

An engaging account of how the New York School poets used art to imagine their queerness as something that might be shared with other people.How did Frank O’Hara and other New York School poets—a smal...

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Michael Martin Shea@immanentfields.bsky.social · 4w ago

First week of semester five at UL in the books, featuring new syllabi numbers nine and ten. Things can be difficult here, our students and many of my colleagues deserve better (Athletics deserves worse). But what a joy to get to teach this dream-slate of classes.

A photo of a desk taken from above, featuring two printed syllabi: one with the title "Modern and Contemporary Poetry" featuring a photo of Gertrude Stein and her dog; another with the title "Experimental Poetics" featuring a photo of Nathaniel Mackey. Other assorted desk items (keyboard, mouse, sticky notes) partially visible at the edges.
Harris Feinsod@feinsod.bsky.social · 4w ago

Among the singularly recognizable enclaves of poetic enunciation--say, Shandong in 740, Paris in 1857, Havana in 1931, or what have you--I would rank Buffalo in 1991 pretty highly.

Make Common@makecommon.bsky.social · 4w ago

The Poetics Program at University at Buffalo is officially graveyard dead. Another case of administrations turning what had been a strength in the humanities into a smoking crater. To do it, UB liquidated several chairs in ways I suspect violated donor agreements. RIP big weird angsty thing.

Devin Garofalo@devingarofalo.bsky.social · last mo.

It (nearly) lives! Forthcoming from OUP in November or December! My first reaction, for once, was glee — though the terror of writing a book is that it’s never finished. Eek! Woohoo! Wild to have proofs in hand!!!!

Title page of forthcoming book by me, titled Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Cosmologies of the Human: Worlds Unmanned. From Oxford UP.Table of contents for forthcoming book. Introduction: Poetry, Person, Planet — with subsections on William Wordsworth; Sylvia Wynter and lyricization; climate, affectability, impress; and criticism, canonicity, and counterbumanism. First chapter on Wordsworth, Charles Lyell, and c19 manscapes — with subsections on Wordsworth’s and Lyell’s lyric theologies, the pathetic fallacy (Ruskin) and Wynter on desperate realization, and apostrophizing Toussaint Louverture. Second chapter on Tennyson’s In Memoriam, the possibilities and limits of posthumanism, and ambivalent reading — with subsections on extinction and apostrophe. Third chapter on Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the problem of reference, and infrastructures of reading — with subsections on Swedenborgianism, sphericity, plantation inheritances, and the slippages of rhyme. Fourth chapter on Phillis Wheatley, extractivism, extractionist reading, and salvage criticism—with subsections on solar intergumanism, allusion, reticence, and refusal. Coda on contemporary representations of climate collapse, Wynter on transumption, and the afterlives of c19 aesthetic imaginaries.