Near/Miss Happy to announce new ebook: James Shivers, *Charles Bernstein / American Innovator –– More Numerous of: A Kinetic Approach*. First publication of Shivers’s 2001 dissertation, with new intro & foreword by Richard Deming. Open access PDF: tiny.cc/Shivers

Who? ColumbiaSchoolofArts faculty LIS HARRIS, author of Beacon Press In Jerusalem When? Thursday, September 26, 7:00 p.m. Where: Slifka Center, 80 Wall Street Yale New Haven How? co-sponsored by the Council on Middle East Studies

Migrants who I had interviewed back in January and then lost sight of wrote and called out of the blue this week. One of them is back in Honduras, and found my number out of a piece of paper in his wallet. The other had been in detention for nearly ten months, and is now in Cali.

10 Famous Authors With Surprising Day Jobs disq.us/t/3izz2v9

Congrats to Susan Choi, winner of National Book Foundation award 2019 in Fiction for Trust Exercise! Yale UniversityCollege1991 @Yale

See the ever dapper don of poetry @BestAmPo and his poem about/from Whitman North American Review @YCAL_JWJ #Whitman200 #WaltWhitman #LeavesOfGrass #poetry #NAR northamericanreview.org/open-space/eve…

Meghan O’Rourke ’97, new editor of The Yale Review, is reimagining the 200-year-old quarterly journal of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and criticism for the digital age bit.ly/37l4NUm Meghan O'Rourke meghanor.bsky.social #YaleAlumni

I'm challenging you to stay home, stay safe and make a film for me. Check out the video for details. I challenge Ron Howard Guillermo del Toro JESSE ☆ Lloyd Kaufman and Amy Holden Jones to get things started.

Alicia Schmidt Camacho has been appointed head of Ezra Stiles College, beginning a five-year term on July 1. Camacho is chair and professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration. bit.ly/2XK8uRx YaleRITM Yale Faculty

NEW ONLINE NOW: 2020 Yale College Poets Reading @YCAL_JWJ Yale CreativeWriting #NationalPoetryMonth youtu.be/YKUhGNVpbFI

See Toi Derricotte and her poetic process in motion: Creativity in Isolation, part 2 of 3 youtu.be/8B7urIX0LGw via YouTube

“But somewhere in all the chaos is a story, if we are given the time to see it.” Meghana Mysore on graduating virtually and learning more about her mother's immigrant experience yalereview.yale.edu/commencement-d… (cc: Yale CreativeWriting, Yale MacMillan Center)

" ... Emerson’s essay is really about teaching us how to grieve, and what’s more, to transform grief into an understanding that the world is given to change." Richard Deming Yale CreativeWriting @YCAL_JWJ WATCH: youtu.be/picNIoDC3qw

Coming 5/28: TOUCH OF EVIL by Richard Deming — the latest book in Bloomsbury Film & Media's relaunch of the BFI Film Classics series. It looks at Orson Welles' role as screenwriter, as well as director and star of the 1958 masterpiece. | wellesnet.com/touch-of-evil-…

ModPoMinute #83: On Susan Howe's "Melville's Marginalia," with Nancy Kuhl youtu.be/qZyz-PsV94A via YouTube

Another terrific video in the Creativity in Isolation series from Yale University and @YCAL_JWJ A centering discussion of Santa Fe's “Acequia del Llano" by Copper Canyon Press poet Arthur Sze: youtu.be/8kw6eVBzqcA via YouTube #SantaFe #creativity

If you are an alum of a college (If you are an alum of Yale University) Now is a good time to use that privilege to find/support your alma mater's prison education program, or push the power structures to build one. Programs like ours exist un(der)funded, unacknowledged, doing the work.

Look what I got! Out September 22 from Yale University Press. Pre-order at tinyurl.com/y55kwho9

Thomas Struth’s empty streets speak of an existential loneliness that is a shadowy but ever-present aspect of urban life psyche.co/ideas/struths-… by Richard Deming Yale CreativeWriting

A Year in Mediation fossilpoetry.substack.com/p/a-year-in-me…