Tonight 6pm at Rizzoli Bookstore in NYC (1133 Broadway) Launch for Bunny Lang's poetry collection, The Miraculous Season, with Rosa Campbell (@rosacampbell.bsky.social) Dorothea Lasky, and Jameson Fitzpatrick. "Something that remains very modern starts here." —Alice Notley
Rosa Campbell
@rosacampbell.bsky.social
“writer” & “academic” (poetry, poetics, archives, gender, failure) // British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow @ St Andrews // co-director Network for New York School Studies // Houghton Library Visiting Fellow, Harvard // she/her // 🧂 // linktr.ee/rosacampbell
going on a little @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social Bunny Lang stateside book tour for the next couple of weeks—do come if you can! tix via the various bookshops ✨
Over 100 MPs have now signed Early Day Motion 240, which calls for the EHRC's government-backed segregation charter to be "disapproved". Is your MP among them? If not, you can write to them, call them, or demand a meeting about this today!
Draft Code of Practice on Services, public functions and associations - Early Day Motions - UK Parliament
That the draft Code of Practice for Services, public functions and associations, a copy of which was laid before this House on 21 May, be disapproved.
edm.parliament.uk
86 Members of Parliament have now signed EDM 240. Let's keep up the pressure. If you haven't emailed your MP yet, there is further information on how to do so in the quoted thread. If your MP has already signed the EDM, please write and thank them for their support.
EDM 240 to reject the draft Code of Practice now has 63 signatures. We all need to keep pushing this. We need everyone to write to their MP. Regardless of their positions on trans rights. If they choose to ignore our voices, at least we will have the receipts. 🧵1/3
“It felt as if Eileen had found a box of pencils they wrote with in the 1970s and asked if I would like to take a look at them.” CAConrad digs into early work by Eileen Myles.
Lost and Found: On Eileen Myles’s “Bird Watching”
In 2023, when the lost Beatles song “Now and Then” was released, my aunt Ruth contacted every relative, friend, and acquaintance to announce the very exciting news of The Fab Four’…
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The newly published EHRC Code of Practice leaves trans people in the UK today with less rights than they had prior to last year’s Supreme Court ruling. Read our full statement here: transactual.org.uk/blog/2026/05...
Rosa Campbell @rosacampbell.bsky.social writes about Eileen Myles and their new poetry collection Bird Watching (published by Fonograf Editions on April 14, 2026) featured in @literaryhub.bsky.social. Read the full essay: lithub.com/new-york-pas...
New York Pastoral: Sitting Outside and Inside With Eileen Myles
Sitting outside in America is an Eileen Myles pursuit. Every time I do it I think of an Eileen Myles poem—from throwing open “all the doors in my home” because “There’s a pulse ou…
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who at edinburgh trams is manifesting today eh 🌿 (nb got kicked out of the app for screenshotting this like an absolute idiot)
v pleased to be talking to Sophie Robinson about her new book PRAIRIE OYSTER at lovely @fruitmarket.bsky.social tomorrow night 🦪✨ come join us! (it’s free)
Book Launch: Sophie Robinson Prairie Oyster - Fruitmarket
28.04.26. 6.30–8pm. Pearl is a thirty-something filmmaker with a drug and alcohol problem, balanced precariously on the edge of a breakdown. But when she is invited to interview her idol […]
fruitmarket.co.uk
it’s really very silly how large my name is on the cover of this book, but nevertheless I couldn’t be more delighted that Eileen Myles’ Bird Watching & early work (intro’d by me) is out today from @fonografeditions.bsky.social 🦅⚡️
FONO42 // Eileen Myles – Bird Watching and Their First Three Books of Poetry (print; paperback) | Fonograf Editions
fonografeditions.com
just did a shameful little shazam of what turned out to be Benson Boone’s ‘Young American Heart’ (what is a Benson Boone? I do not know) & my first thought is: can you literally ever imagine someone releasing something called ‘Young British Heart’ 🤢
turns out that designing a podcast/video assignment for my students this semester was one of the best pedagogical decisions I’ve made; sat on the train listening to them express such enthusiasm, curiosity & erudition! never before have I experienced such joy during marking season!!
One week today! 🏳️🌈 We’re very much looking forward to hearing all about @grindrod.bsky.social’s latest book—there’s still time for you to join us for an eve of small-town queer joy! 🎟️: www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/john-...
looking forward to queering suburbia with John Grindrod for @portybooks.bsky.social next week! come along—tix here ✨
looking forward to queering suburbia with John Grindrod for @portybooks.bsky.social next week! come along—tix here ✨
John Grindrod - Tales of the Suburbs at The Portobello Bookshop
Please come and join us for John Grindrod - Tales of the Suburbs on 24th March, at The Portobello Bookshop
theportobellobookshop.com
me & @nicksturm.bsky.social & @nysnetwork.bsky.social are hosting a party for Frank O’Hara’s 100th birthday with a really stellar line-up of poets—join us for free online! 🎈
A Party Full of Friends: A Reading for Frank O'Hara's Birthday (Eve)
The Network for New York School Studies is delighted to invite you to an online reading party to celebrate Frank O'Hara's centenary!
eventbrite.com
tonight! the @nysnetwork.bsky.social hosts an incredible online panel discussion on Joe Brainard’s comics, published by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social 6:30 EST / 11:30 GMT www.eventbrite.com/e/joe-braina...
a crumb? a modicum? of hope?? in spring??? groundbreaking!!!
Gorton and Denton by-election result: GRN: 40.7% (+27.5) REF: 28.7% (+14.7) LAB: 25.4% (-25.3) CON: 1.9% (-6.0) LDEM: 1.8% (-2.1) Green GAIN from Labour.
trying to explain the current state of the academic job market to those not on its hamster wheel just makes you sound increasingly hysterical
clearing out my open tabs for the new year & have been flipping to this one on the semi-regs recently—a really really good poem by Sara Elkamel
Two Women on the Shore, 1898
My unseeable hand in death’s unseeable hand, I am pouring my eyes into a sea of ink. One time, my hand of paper will croak in the wind.
poetryfoundation.org
I absolutely love this humane & moving essay on teaching close reading by @johannawinant.bsky.social; saving it for the dark depths of semester when I need a reminder of why it all matters
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
bostonreview.net
perhaps my greatest problem with the rise of the Taylor Swift literary critic (naming no names!!!!) is that I firmly believe they have simply never listened to MARINA, fka Marina & the Diamonds
Our next event will take place on Monday, 11/24 at 8pm EST: a Zoom panel with Stephanie Anderson, Patricia Spears Jones, Maureen Owen, & MC Hyland about the book Women in Independent Publishing, edited by Anderson. Register for the free online event via Eventbrite at this link! bit.ly/4oP2z6K
Women in Independent Publishing: Book Discussion with NNYSS
Join the Network for New York School Studies in a discussion about the book "Women in Independent Publishing," edited by Stephanie Anderson
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friends! strangers! the Bad Archivist in me has a request: does anyone have hard copies of the October 20 (2025) edition of @newyorker.com; Vol. 46 No. 13 (2024) of @lrb.co.uk; & September 27, No. 6339 (2024) of @thetls.bsky.social? it's all the places The Miraculous Season has been reviewed 🙏
A Boston débutante, a burlesque dancer, and a poet, the shape-shifting V. R. Lang—who died at 32—wrote some of the most aching, entrancing lines of the 20th century. Anthony Lane writes about a forgotten queen bee of modern poetry.
V. R. Lang, a Forgotten Queen Bee of Modern Poetry
A débutante, a burlesque dancer, and a poet, the shape-shifting Lang—who died at thirty-two—wrote some of the most aching, entrancing poetry of the twentieth century.
newyorker.com