assoc. prof. of English @HartwickCollege | C20-21 lit. & culture | poetry: The Rocking Chair, The Shape of Things, & 2013–2017: Sonnets @AuthorLachlan | he/him

Oneonta, NY
Joined August 2014
I wrote up a bit in memory of Rachel Blau DuPlessis. bradleyjfest.com/2026/09/10/…
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Thanks to Justin A. Sider for inviting me to write a review of Conrad Steel‘s excellent new book, The Poetics of Scale: From Apollinaire to Big Data (University of Iowa Press, 2024) for Genre. The piece should be free to read for at least three months. read.dukeupress.edu/genre/ar…
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This Friday at SUNY Oneonta, I'll be presenting a paper, "Teaching Without Computers," on a panel, "Against AI: Approaches to Preserving Student Learning." I'll also be presenting a longer version of this talk at Hartwick in September. ai-symposium.openlab.oneonta…
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Delighted to have a new sonnet from my ongoing series, “2025.15,” in the third issue of Abundance Literary Magazine (my poem is the second one in). online.fliphtml5.com/FunInTh…
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Happy to have a sonnet, “2025.13–14,” in Dazed Santa (a very cool new little journal) that I wrote on my recent return to Tucson, Arizona in November reflecting a bit on the half of my life I have now spent away from there and what it means to return. dazedsanta.com/2025.1314
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And lo, today is one of those great days in which I have two publications. “2025.02,” “2025.04,” “2025.05–06,” “2025.07,” and “2025.11," some of my most recent sonnets that most directly comment on ALL THIS *gestures*, just came out in Other Rooms Press. otherroomspress.blogspot.com…
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“2023.20," one of the last unpublished sonnets from the second volume of my ongoing sonnet sequence, is in the inaugural issue of The Colby Review. Thanks so much to Zach Peckham and the student editors of the journal for including my work. colbyreview.org/product/the-…
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Bradley J. Fest retweeted
This is what this country needs right now
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Also . . . the book is done. Hopefully more soon.
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My interview with @RobertTally, “Grateful and Generous Reading: An Interview with Robert T. Tally Jr.,” has just been published in the November 2025 issue of @Boundary2. read.dukeupress.edu/boundary…
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A truth about me: I can hoop w/ all my local old heads.
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This is it. Today I start the last section of my last chapter of the #megatext book. It's focused on #Krakoa. I've been reading for this for six years. Let's go. #XMen
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