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Rebecca Kosick

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Associate Professor of comparative poetry and poetics. Out now: HÉLIO OITICICA: SECRET POETICS. Out next: DETROIT'S ALTERNATIVE PRESS: DISPATCHES FROM THE AVANT-GARAGE


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Okay but what if I am being held hostage and the one thing the kidnappers want is 16 more united states dollars for small press poetry OR ELSE.

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Why did I go with rat ratings with rat-ings was right there?

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Rat with tail hidden that I first thought was a bunny sticking out from the bushes in nearby park 0/10 what the fuck I leaned in close with love in my heart and this is what I get

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Decomposed skin-only rat in campus courtyard 7/10 seems well-preserved, could make a small hat in a pinch.

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Same dead rat on footpath having left and then returned 3 days later significantly more rotten 10/10 Lazarus shit and this time my kids were prepared.

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Dead rat in the middle of a footpath on the way to school 2/10 scared my kids very rude of it.

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Rats crossing a riverside path 8/10 just living their lives wish they were further away from mine but can't blame them.

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Bristol rat ratings:

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Rebecca Kosick's avatar Rebecca Kosick @rkokayokay.bsky.social
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Love a left-wing alliance.

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Rebecca Kosick's avatar Rebecca Kosick @rkokayokay.bsky.social
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Less doomerism more gallows humor

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Rebecca Kosick's avatar Rebecca Kosick @rkokayokay.bsky.social
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it's up against the dollar this morning!

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Unfortunately for me the only thing that stills my restless self is outrunning the restlessless with a total lack of rest.

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UMich advertising for an Afro-Brazilian Studies postdoc (July 8 deadline) www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

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I got a book shipped via ILL all the way from Mexico and lovingly scanned every page (for research!) thinking I would never see this precious information again and then another ILL book came in and it was the same book, except in English, and there I was seeing this precious information again.

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Talk about a prestigious and important job. Birmingham is hiring a "Stuart Hall Interdisciplinary Chair."

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The Biden campaign has found me but all the emails are addressed to “Angel.” “Angel, we have an important question to ask.” “Look, Angel, we know you get a lot of emails from us.”

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I was messing around with [LLM chat bot] and it said I had written a book called Archival Poetics: Reading and Writing the Literary Archive, which is neither a book I have written nor, it seems, a book at all.

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Natalia Cecire 's avatar Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social
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At Goldsmiths the redundancy letter still said Kent; the consultants didn't even do a find and replace, which is presumably what they get paid for

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Rebecca Kosick's avatar Rebecca Kosick @rkokayokay.bsky.social
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AI art could never have that accident which pricks me (but also bruises me, is poignant to me)

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(After Eileen Myles) It’s no fun to be 41 dealing with student loan “servicers”

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It is 9:08 in Bristol a Thursday three days after the Early May Bank Holiday, yes it is 2024 and we are going to read Lunch Poems in Royal Fort Gardens today at 1

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It’s good when open window season comes. We smell and hear each other better, sense evidence that we’re all in this together, the this that’s all there is.

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Éireann's avatar Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social
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if it can happen with The Onion, can't a bunch of us get together and buy a college, then live and teach there?

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Just a staggering number of educational administrators out there failing the incredibly easy-to-pass Principal Skinner test.

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If anything what my generation saw was the profound discontinuity between the spirit of ‘68 nostalgia we grew up swimming in and the consensus of power as it laid itself barer and barer in the world as we actually lived it.

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My first time voting was Bush/Gore. 9/11 happened at the beginning of my sophomore year in Ann Arbor and I spent the next year abroad in Spain in the streets amid constant student strikes protesting the US invasion of Iraq.

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My colleague Catherine Herfeld is looking for a postdoc working in digital philosophy of science. This is a 3.5 year position, part of Catherine's ERC-funded project on model transfer
www.uni-hannover.de/en/jobs/id/7...

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columbia university achieving the daring dream of a no-student no-faculty all administration university

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Arresting students is bad and also only going to radicalize more.

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Today at 4:30, were teaming up with Bristol’s Brigstow Institute to host a panel discussion on AI and Poetry. Hope to see you there! www.lyrafest.com#e105210

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Bristol! Thursday 6PM in the Wills Memorial Building Old Council Chamber I’ll be reading from and talking about Hélio Oiticica’s SECRET POETICS. No need to book just show up!

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Nick Wiltsher's avatar Nick Wiltsher @nickwiltsher.bsky.social
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I recently took on the role of editor for the Aesthetics section of the Diversity Reading List. The site's aim is to make it easier for people to write more diverse philosophy syllabi by creating a useful database of work. #philsky 1/4

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Ten years into parenting and I'm finally trained in the finer arts of securing summer childcare. Camp registration opened today at 1:00. Managed to have both kids registered by 1:01. Last year I finished at 1:05 and they were waitlisted!

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When I wrote this piece about John Sinclair, who died yesterday, I was adamant that it end on his quote about looking forward to what's coming next, because he spent the entire interview stressing how he has been working, is still working, and has more work to do. I'm so sad he's gone.

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Ángel Díaz Miranda 's avatar Ángel Díaz Miranda @poeta.bsky.social
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Aquí les presento mi contribución a "A History of Mexican Poetry" publicada por Cambridge. Estoy supercontento!

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Ya en mayo se puede comprar mi libro en México (y en cualquier otra parte del mundo). Es un poema largo acerca de la memoria, los terremotos y Puerto Rico

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The Latino Racial Justice Circle in Baltimore is raising money to help support the families of workers who died in the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse: gofund.me/05cfe3e9

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"After more than a decade of austerity, British five-year-olds are a full centimeter shorter now than they were in 2010, and they are becoming significantly shorter than children in other countries."

www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

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Rebecca Kosick's avatar Rebecca Kosick @rkokayokay.bsky.social
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Driving through a snowstorm in Upstate New York made me like so homesick for this fucked up country with its tall pines and enormous distances. 💔

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I’ve been upgraded to business. How do I let the people walking by know I’m not their class enemy?

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I am like negative percent done with my ACLA paper in that I wrote 2500 words, but none of them are about what I'm supposed to be talking about. But nevermind that, join us Saturday afternoon for some poetry, which I have in fact already written/translated: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/transits-i...

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The best place to sit is at a counter facing out the window and the second best, but only by a hair, is at the bar.

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