ON TOUR THIS FALL
I'll be busy this autumn launching my new book, Poetry After Barbarism: The Invention of Motherless Tongues and Resistance to Fascism, performing poetry and presenting in-progress projects about extraction and waste as well from time to time. Friends, I hope we can come together over this work, which deals with the rise of authoritarianism and how poets and artists reacted on intimate and public levels, through language itself. It's one of the things they can't really take away from us, as they attack education in every form. Sewing my mouth shut, making sure I get every possible infectious disease once controlled by humankind, stealing money from schools and museums, and issuing the most capricious, delusional executive orders will not stop me from writing. Below are cities and dates: please come! Please let me know if you can meet up if we're in one another's cities. And please let me know if you are interested in reviewing, teaching, or otherwise hosting these sentences. This 15-year chunk of blood, sweat and tears is now for sale and freely available to environing air.
9/17–9/20 Po-Ex Festival, Mexico City (+poetry)
10/9–10/11 Modernist Studies Association Conference, Boston (+copper project)
10/15 University of Chicago, Kim-Park Book History Colloquium, University of Chicago Library Special Collections, 3:30-5
10/29 NYU, Casa Italiana, 6:30-8 pm
10/30 Barnard, lunch discussing preface at 1 pm, Sulzberger Tower South; 2 pm, discussing Amelia Rosselli with Jhumpa Lahiri
10/30 NYU, Organism for Poetic Research, 5-7 pm
11/2 Day of the Dead Poets fest, Torn Page, NYC, 4 pm, with the Anti-Devastation reading group
11/3 University of Pennsylvania, Public Trust, 4017 Walnut Street, with Paul Saint-Amour, Jean-Michel Rabaté, and Christos Kelli, 5:30-7 pm
11/4 podcast/interview with Kelly Writers House Director Al Filreis
11/4 New Directions in Salvage Poetics, University of Chicago (reading from Republic of Exit 43, 3:15-4 pm)
11/14 Brown University, Italian Studies colloquium (online), 1 pm Eastern
11/27 University of Bologna/Museum of Modern Art of Bologna—in dialogue with Allison Grimaldi-Donahue
12/11 University of Warsaw, American Studies colloquium speaker series
12/15-12/16 University of Padova, Culture in Movimento: Lingua Meticce e Nuove Geografie della traduzione
1/8–1/11 Modern Language Association Convention, Toronto (+ecopoetics)
1/14 Seminary Co-op, Chicago, with Na’ama Rokem and Rachel Galvin
2/20 February ’26 Society of Fellows, American Academy in Rome, Tuesday talk, with Franco Baldasso (online)
4/20 University of Arizona, McLaughlin Weber Lecture in Global Literature
