Grotesquerie has long been the language of rebellion. On our screens and in the contemporary art gallery, an era of ugly, morbidly playful satire is back

The Distended Forms of Grotesque Satire

Grotesquerie has long been the language of rebellion. On our screens and in the contemporary art gallery, an era of ugly, morbidly playful satire is back

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One of the ways PoP hopes to contribute to future poetry performance scholarship is through the creation of H-Poetry-Performance, a network that serves to connect researchers and practitioners across the globe! Register now for next week's launch: forms.gle/vcsAuZbmDBRb...

✨ EXCITING NEWS ✨ We are thrilled to announce Angelina Eimannsberger (Gender Studies & Romance Scholar) as our respondent for the DLC+ mini-conference! PLUS: We're extending the CFP for "Trope" and "Maxxing" by one week. 📅 New deadline: Oct 9 🔗 dlcplus.org/fall-2026-tr... #AcademicBluesky #CFP

After two fantastic evenings in Winchester and Guildford, the first leg of my autumn tour is at an end. Thank you to everyone who came along, despite all the poetry. A mere forty more shows to go.

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Camilla Holm Soelseth@supercamilla.bsky.social · 2w ago

Me at every conference and academic event after a couple drinks

📣 #CFP: TROPE / MAXXING Tropes are everywhere. Everything is being maxxed. What happens when we treat these as serious keywords for digital literary culture? We want papers that theorize these terms & test their limits. 📅 Abstracts due Oct. 2. dlcplus.org/fall-2026-trope-maxxing/

Come celebrate 5 years of Poetry Off the Page!🎉 Including a brief retrospective on the project & its outcomes, its future and the launch of a network of poetry performance scholars, and a live performance by poet Kat François. See you there!👋 Register: docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...

Erklär mir, Liebe!

Mindestens eines davon bis Mitternacht: - gute Gesellschaft erkennen - gute Gesellschaft aufsuchen - gute Gesellschaft loben - gute Gesellschaft sein - gute Gesellschaft als politisches Ziel begreifen #MindestensEines

Ich gründe einen Origami-Club, der sich nur zu später Stunde trifft. Ich nenne ihn "Nachtfalter".

Unser komparatistischer Band »Posthumane Verflechtungen: Lyrik im Technozän« ist heute als E-Book erschienen! doi.org/10.1515/9783...

Antje Schmidt@antjeschmidt.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Wie reagiert die Lyrik auf unsere technologisch unübersichtliche und ökologisch fragile Gegenwart? Unser komparatistischer Sammelband zu dieser Frage ist für Sommer bei @degruyterbrill.bsky.social angekündigt!

Bit of an infrequent visitor these days but sharing this review I wrote of Beth Driscoll's "What Readers Do" 💕 -- I think this is a very important book for anyone working on reading in the post-digital age

Big Teich > Big Tech

Had so much fun talking to students about intspoetry as a form of (self-)publishing today in Shefali Banerji's & Rachel Bolle-Debessay's course "DIY: Alternative Modes of Cultural Production in Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Literatures" 👾🗨️

In winter semester 2025/26, a group of student teachers of English at @univie.ac.at , under the guidance of @clairemsp.bsky.social, developed teaching materials for spoken word poetry in the English as a Foreign Language classroom at upper secondary level. poetryoffthepage.net/teaching-res...

PSA: It is still July today which means it is still hot academic summer

Gee baby, you are rare.'

#CfP 📣 The workshop “Confessions of Bad Taste” aims to explore the historically & culturally shifting relationships between consumption, status, value judgments, and affect that are articulated through performances of guilty pleasures. Submit your ideas! 🗓️ 2-4 June 2027 📍 KWI Essen 👉 urlr.me/AZqwbf

Part I of my blog series for @poetryoffthepage.bsky.social titled "Multimodal Post-Digital Ethnography: Researcher Qualities, Ethical Concepts, and Legal Challenges in Research Praxis (Part I)" is online 🥳🎭 poetryoffthepage.net/multimodal-p...

Certain numbers accompany us through our lives, connected to our memories of people and places, of significant events. What numbers remain with you decades later? And why? This poem is taken from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023), my second full collection...

Speaking of @dlcplus.org ... we're crowdsourcing keywords for our upcoming mini-conferences! What keywords should we add next? 👀

DLC keyword suggestions - Mentimeter

Create, interact, and analyze — engage audiences and spark real conversations in meetings and classes.

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Hellscape

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Meta used AI to target workers with medical conditions for layoffs, according to a new lawsuit. Twenty-six former Meta employees are suing, accusing the company of using AI that disproportionately targeted people with disabilities or workers who took medical leave in selecting people ​for layoffs.

We'll talk about what it means to curate an independent space for digital literature and culture, how to support graduate students and emerging scholars, and how #instapoetry started all this ツ

If you're at ELO, come to our panel tomorrow organized by @kieraobbard.bsky.social for @dlcplus.org: "On the Peripheries of E-lit: Studying Digital Literary Cultures (Plus)"! Ft. us, @supercamilla.bsky.social. @magdalenakorecka.bsky.social + adv. board members @antimony27.bsky.social + Tess McNulty

Ich bin wütend, ich bin traurig, ICH BIN SO WÜTEND. Union und SPD planen eine Reform der psychotherapeutischen Versorgung, die für viele Psychotherapeut:innen existenzbedrohend ist und die Versorgung von Millionen Menschen gefährdet. (1/13)

Alle lesen jetzt Rebecka Dürrs gerade veröffentlichte Dissertation 'Zur sprechkünstlerischen Gestaltung von Live-Lyrik: Lesung, Slam und Rap'🥳:

"In der Bücherei kann man so wunderbar die Zeit vergessen." Von Handys, USB-Sticks und Schirmen ganz zu schweigen.

“Women in Iran are the second sex, not the first sex, and that has not changed. Iranian women still face the same problems they have always had”, the late Shahrnush Parsipur told Shirin Neshat in Parsipur’s last published interview before she died on 3 July

The Interview: Shirin Neshat & Shahrnush Parsipur

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