Monthly Archives: January 2024

di Prima, Diane. Haiku. Illustrated by George Herms. 1967. South Pasadena, CA: X Artists’ Books, 2019. I love di Prima’s work and I love haiku, so of course I would eventually buy this book! It was originally printed in an edition of 100 unbound copies in 1967, so I’m glad it’s currently available in aContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”

Baêta, Sabrina. Impressions. N.p.: Sabrina Baêta, 2020. This is a book by one of my colleagues that I recently found out about and look forward to reading. Munroe, Randall. What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions. 2014. London: John Murray, 2022. I received this book as a gift.

I attended the 2024 Modern Language Association annual convention in Philadelphia this past week. As usual, I bought a number of texts at the book fair: Awkward-Rich, Cameron. The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. Castillo, Ana. Doña Cleanwell Leaves Home. New York: HarperVia, 2023. Chen, Mel Y., AlisonContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: MLA Edition”

The influential avant-garde publisher Hanuman Editions has just been re-started, and their first books are a boxed set reprinting some of their classics. I saw it advertised on Twitter and pre-ordered it immediately because it includes difficult-to-find books by three queer authors I love, John Ashbery, Dodie Bellamy, and Eileen Myles. My set arrived yesterday.Continue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Hanuman Editions Edition”

Since January 2021, I’ve been keeping a list of my writing activity for each month (here’s last month’s). I do so partly as a form of encouragement for myself to show that I am still able to do some writing despite the energy-sucking terrors of our times (which were especially terrible this month), and partlyContinue reading “Writing Activity, December 2023”