@rkokayokay
Associate Professor of Comparative Poetry and Poetics. Co-director Bristol Poetry Institute. Out now: HÉLIO OITICICA: SECRET POETICS. Out next: DISPATCHES FROM THE AVANT-GARAGE: THE ALTERNATIVE PRESS. Bristol, England // Lake Michigan
Director Stephanie Williams discussing Dispatches from the Avant-Garage and other great new releases from WSUPress (plus some words on how academic books come to be) on Detroit Public Radio! wdet.org/2026/02/03/t...
East Bristol Books is hosting a great reading next week, on Tuesday 17th, with friends of the Bristol Poetry Institute. We'd love to see you there! www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/eas...
Picture of me, Rebecca Kosick, holding up my book, Dispatches from the Avant-Garage: The Alternative Press. Behind me is a mantle where you can see some Alternative Press postcards displayed, and a painting that we found at the Ithaca, NY Salvation Army.
Yesterday my copies of Dispatches from the Avant-Garage: The Alternative Press arrived! Here is a picture of the book (larger than expected) next to my face (regular sized as far as I can tell).
Hey thanks! I’d love to podcast. Send me an email at myfirstname dot mylastname at Bristol and we can figure it out!
Thank you! They did such a great job with the cover!
Picture of me, Rebecca Kosick, holding up my book, Dispatches from the Avant-Garage: The Alternative Press. Behind me is a mantle where you can see some Alternative Press postcards displayed, and a painting that we found at the Ithaca, NY Salvation Army.
Yesterday my copies of Dispatches from the Avant-Garage: The Alternative Press arrived! Here is a picture of the book (larger than expected) next to my face (regular sized as far as I can tell).
If you want to know more about these rare poetry postcards that even the NY Times didn't realize they were photographing, my book on the Alternative Press is literally shipping right now! Official pub date March 24. Use code RSC2026 for 35% off! wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814350249/
This Richard Hell apartment tour includes photos of 3 Alternative Press postcards -- one unknown that Ted Berrigan used as a regular postcard, one Ted Berrigan/Eileen Myles collaborative "Multiple Original," and one flyer-card printed for a Padgett/Berrigan reading www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
There is no "special relationship," or if there is it only goes one way. The US does not care about the UK. This has already been true and it is true now. If you ask a random USian, they will never have even heard of it.
Everywhere I go there are the poets, welcoming me.
Everhorrifyinglygreen bumper sticker poem by Ed Dorn for the Alternative Press
This is tonight in this bad world but nice city of Montréal! Autocorrect spelled Bianca’s last name wrong before, it is Messinger! See you there
This morning I tried to send someone an announcement about a poetry reading I'm doing but for some reason my phone also attached a bunch of weird photos of my kids posing with corn chips.
Please consider sending an abstract to my panel
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World Literature and the Global South: Frictions and New Horizons
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I'm also looking at other project opportunities outside of the CFP. Please repost if you can!
Omg this rules!!!
This Montréal hotel breakfast has a Stevie Wonder soundtrack and it’s snowing outside the giant windows. I love and miss the snow and jet lag is making me v. emotional. Possible first hotel breakfast to include wistful tears (mine).
My students were/are so happy to be building this Mail Art network with Élika’s students (and more!). This is part of a class on intermedia encounters in hemispheric American art and it’s been the best class I’ve ever taught.
Yesss glad they made it (and pretty quickly!)
It's 41 years to the day since the big sound clash where Jammy debuted Wayne Smith's 'Under Mi Sleng Teng didn't happen
If you've never read it, here's @thequietus.com piece I wrote for the 40th anniversary of it not happening last year thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
Caring about other people, being with people, these are the best things about living. I also enjoy bodies of water and trees and poetry.
Apply & share! @englishpen.bsky.social writing residencies for "writers currently based in England who identify as experiencing displacement – including (but not only) refugee writers, writers seeking asylum, and writers in exile."
www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...
Academics *literally have nowhere else to go*, and UK employment law and standard employer expectations do not account for that. You'd need to take 20 years' pay to make it worth quitting. Unless, ofc, they coincidentally also make your job unbearable and undoable. Oh I see
Starting tomorrow in London: Poetry on Drugs. Readings/performances Thursday, papers on Friday! I'll be talking about John Sinclair's transformation from guy with "a Princeton haircut" to guy with a decidedly un-ivy set of locks and the radical politics to go with em docs.google.com/document/d/1...
TONIGHT!
Much of my youth revolved around the website ZineLibrary. It went down around Occupy in a massive loss for a movement whose ideas and knowledge mostly doesn't circulate online but in person.
Anyway I've put it back online with a *thousand* anarchist zines:
zinelibrary.org
Make prose weird again!
Here is 30% off on Here Is a Figure!!
Pencil whose eraser no longer works: disgusting, may as well throw it out.
Pencil that never had an eraser to begin with: elegant, perfect, total object complete with missing parts.
