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Michael Martin Shea @immanentfields.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

First week of semester five at UL in the books, featuring new syllabi numbers nine and ten. Things can be difficult here, our students and many of my colleagues deserve better (Athletics deserves worse). But what a joy to get to teach this dream-slate of classes.

A photo of a desk taken from above, featuring two printed syllabi: one with the title "Modern and Contemporary Poetry" featuring a photo of Gertrude Stein and her dog; another with the title "Experimental Poetics" featuring a photo of Nathaniel Mackey. Other assorted desk items (keyboard, mouse, sticky notes) partially visible at the edges.

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Michael Martin Shea @immanentfields.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I have maybe three Lafayette followers here but, nevertheless!

Flyer for a book launch party for Michael Martin Shea's The Immanent Fields, a collection of poems. Michael will be reading at Wild Child Wines on Thursday, September 3rd at 6 pm, along with Rodrigo Toscano and Nicole Stockburger. The flyer shows a black and white image of a ranch style home with a woman's silhouette in the front window. The details of the reading (listed above) are in black font on pink text boxes.

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Michael Martin Shea @immanentfields.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The special issue of College Literature on "Infrastructural Poetics" that Claire Farley and I co-edited has just been published! We're so proud of this volume and all the brilliant writing that we get to feature here. You can find the full TOC at the link below: muse.jhu.edu/issue/57479

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Michael Martin Shea @immanentfields.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Cover reveal for THE IMMANENT FIELDS, my debut poetry collection. Coming 7/25, but you can pre-order it at the link below newmundo.bigcartel.com/product/the-...

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Michael Martin Shea @immanentfields.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The special issue of College Literature on "Infrastructural Poetics" that Claire Farley and I co-edited is forthcoming this fall and this week we turned in our introduction. It's the piece of scholarship I'm most proud of--looking forward to sharing! 📷: every draft of every article we're publishing

A large stack of papers on a desk. This is every draft of the eight articles we're publishing.

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Michael Martin Shea @immanentfields.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Still can't quite believe it, but THEORY OF THE VOICE AND DREAM is the winner of the 2026 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. So, so grateful to @penamerica.bsky.social, to the judges, and to everyone who has supported this project over the past ten years!

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Michael Martin Shea @immanentfields.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Incredibly, incredibly honored that my translation of Liliana Ponce's THEORY OF THE VOICE AND DREAM has been named to the longlist for the 2026 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. Grateful to the judges, to the @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social team, and to everyone who has supported this project.

The covers of the books named to the longlist for the 2026 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation

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Michael Martin Shea @immanentfields.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Heading to MSA this weekend to chat infrastructure and residue. Bright and early Saturday morning✌️

Program text for MSA 2025, panel 69:

Infrastructure, Residue, Residual
Location: Clarendon
Chair: Paul Jaussen, Lawrence Technological University

Michael Martin Shea, University of Louisiana Lafayette, “Like a careening phantom ship: Frank Stanford’s Haunted Infrastructures”

Claire Farley, UCLA, “Dams, Ports, and Railways: Residual Infrastructures
of Canadian Modernism”

Anna Zalokostas, North Carolina State University, “The Carceral
Waterfront: Red Hook and its Fictions”

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Michael Martin Shea @immanentfields.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

My latest chapbook of poems, I'M SORRY BUT NONE OF THIS IS MY FAULT, has a cover! Forthcoming later this summer from @essaypress.bsky.social, but you can pre-order it now at the link below! www.essaypress.org/shea/

An emerald green book cover with white and dark green text. The whute text lists the title and author--I'm Sorry But None of This Is My Fault by Michael Martin Shea. The cover also includes the first line of each of the poems in this chapbook, which are rendered in darker green text.

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Michael Martin Shea @immanentfields.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Four poems from Augusto Lunel's The Bridges in my translation at Digital Vestiges @blacksunlit.bsky.social! Thanks to @jareddanielfagen.bsky.social for hosting. blacksunlit.com/2025/05/four...

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Michael Martin Shea @immanentfields.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Yesterday was the official release date for my translation of Liliana Ponce's THEORY OF THE VOICE AND DREAM, and it was such a joy to be able to celebrate this book with friends and colleagues here in Lafayette. You can grab a copy direct from @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social!

A photo of myself standing at a podium reading from the book Theory of the Voice and Dream.

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Michael Martin Shea @immanentfields.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Absolutely thrilled to receive this lovely review of THEORY OF THE VOICE AND DREAM in Publishers Weekly. They call it a "beautiful and meditative compilation" where "the mind’s intense presence in the world opens to radical possibilities." Book comes out 5/20! www.publishersweekly.com/9781954218338

A screenshot of a review of Liliana Ponce's Theory of the Voice and Dream in Publishers Weekly. Full text of the review can be found at the link in the bottom of the post.

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Michael Martin Shea @immanentfields.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

THEORY OF THE VOICE AND DREAM comes out next month from @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social, and I'm so grateful to have these words of support from Kristin Dykstra, Alexis Almeida, Michelle Gil-Montero, and Cecilia Vicuña! You can pre-order a copy here: world-poetry.squarespace.com/books/theory...

A blurb from Kristin Dykstra that reads "Liliana Ponce reaches for the most elemental things, the ones you can see only under blurry light. Her serial poems are vehicles for traveling toward a more enigmatic dimension of reality."

A blurb from Alexis Almeida that reads: "Writing from ‘the ghostly passage,’ the negative core, Liliana Ponce weaves language into states of sublime condensation, where time churns and dissolves and language remains on the brink of collapse and rebirth. In this luminous translation from Michael Martin Shea, I feel pulled into the endless shaping of sensation."

A blurb from Michelle Gil-Montero that reads: "This is a poetics of the beginning—not as an origin, but as an endless thrust of becoming and undoing; a state of turbulence, dread, and ecstasy, where identity dissolves and reassembles in unknowable ways. Here, we partake in the ‘anarchic joy’ of writing, the pleasure of language as its own revolution."

A blurb from Cecilia Vicuña that reads: "A bolt of world-opening lightning."

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Michael Martin Shea @immanentfields.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Five pages from DEMONS ARE REAL in the new Chicago Review ✌️✌️

Three copies of Chicago Review 68.1, a literary journal with a blue cover, held in a kitchen.

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Michael Martin Shea @immanentfields.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

My translation of Liliana Ponce's THEORY OF THE VOICE AND DREAM is now available for pre-order from World Poetry Books! I started this project almost ten years ago, can't believe it's finally going to exist in the material realm. worldpoetrybooks.com/books/theory...

The cover of Liliana Ponce's Theory of the Voice and Dream.

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Michael Martin Shea @immanentfields.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Absolutely thrilled to be a part of Splice's MLA Offsite Reading this Saturday night in the Bywater (w/ @aliciawright.bsky.social @amishtrivedi.bsky.social and so many others). 3067 St. Claude Ave--reading starts at 7 pm!

A flyer for the Splice Reading Series's MLA Offsite Reading, featuring Evie Shockley, Michael Martin Shea, Carlos Soto Roman, Whitney Devos, Clint Burnham, Alicia Wright, Amish Trivedi, Cate Peebles, William Hazard, Edgar Garcia, Laura Jaramillo, and Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez

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Michael Martin Shea @immanentfields.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Presenting two papers with terribly similar titles at MLA25 in New Orleans--I swear they're about different things!

Panel information for panel 248 at the 2025 MLA convention.

Panel information for panel 445 at the 2025 MLA convention.

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Michael Martin Shea @immanentfields.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I am co-editing a special issue of College Literature on "Infrastructural Poetics," centered on the under-theorized relationship between infrastructural studies and poetic form. Accepting abstracts until December 15th! More at the link: www.wcupa.edu/arts-humanit...

A screenshot of the CFP for "Infrastructural Poetics," a special issue of College Literature.

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