CFP: 1k to 4k submissions, due by July 1, on What Kind of Poetry World Should We Have?
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Who are the literary agents of irish authors, and what do they do? I had a go at answering these questions and more in this (open access) essay - with help from some (anonymous) agents, authors and publishers who were good enough to lend me their time
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CFP: What Kind of Poetry World Should We Have? The poetry world has entered a new period of severe financial crisis. As...
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This essay examines the role played by literary agents in bringing the work of Irish writers into the global marketplace. Adapting Laura McGrath's notion of ‘corporate taste’ (the claim that agents ex...
“can you lift your hand now to fuck the sun?”
John Wieners, “Dope”
do we know of an article or book chapter that discusses the economic history of Gulf + Western as a corporation, either generally or in relation to culture industries?
late to the discourse but somebody send this to Timothée Chalamet
"One of the few things New York School poets agree on is that the New York School never really existed.... All of this makes them a challenge to write an academic book about."
Interestingly, I've written an academic book about exactly this!
Nick Sturm
Nick Sturm
A great review-essay about CONVERSATIONS WITH NEW YORK SCHOOL POETS in the New York Review of Books!
Poetry, gossip, publishing, New York, economics--what's not to love?
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Nick Sturm
Nick Sturm
wow, just…wow
This reminds me of that scene in The Big Short when Steve Eisman asks, “Why are they confessing?” and Vinny Daniel says, “They’re not. They’re bragging.”
Nick Sturm
K. Anthony Appiah, Paul Boghossian, Katherine Fleming, and Sean Wilentz on what’s gone wrong in the humanities.
Reading poems tonight in Durham for the Paradiso series with @carrielorig.bsky.social!
submitted ✅✅✅ 7k words on the history of NEA administrators from the 1960s to 1980s misrecognizing the small press & its values, & the consequences for literary arts funding & small press publishing during an era of tense, quick professionalization in the poetry world
