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Michael Marcinkowski @michaelmarcinkowski.org · 27/09/2026

New issue of Poetry Theory Review now available for download: Early Autumn 2026! www.michaelmarcinkowski.org/ptr

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Rodrigo Toscano @rodrigo-toscano.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Anti-Marxism is still at the root of contemporary American Poetry: perennial decay with evermore elaborate schemes to rebolster Liberal Capitalist Culture. From vainglorious "avant guardes" to the reign of stifling "I"-centered consumerist subjectivities, even this morning's dewdrops groan under it.

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Rebecca Kosick @rkokayokay.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Tomorrow in Detroit!!

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Michael Marcinkowski @michaelmarcinkowski.org · 10/05/2026

Spring issue of everyone's favourite magazine, Poetry Theory Review, now available: www.michaelmarcinkowski.org/ptr

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Rebecca Kosick @rkokayokay.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Wednesday in Bristol at 1PM! Book launch for Dispatches from the Avant-Garage, with exhibition of Alternative Press materials and a chance to use Bristol Common Press's lego press! All welcome. www.bristol.ac.uk/arts-law-soc...

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April: Rebecca Kosick Book Launch | Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences | University of Bristol

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Michael Marcinkowski @michaelmarcinkowski.org · 16/04/2026

I feel you, John McCarthy, I feel you.

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There is not space in this article nor have I had the time to prepare a proper bibliography. Such a bibliography would refer to a number of papers”

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Michael Marcinkowski @michaelmarcinkowski.org · 01/04/2026

Oh to dream of being that guy in the back of a NYTimes society photo.

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Michael Marcinkowski @michaelmarcinkowski.org · 26/03/2026

I'll be moderating a conversation with Deanna Rodger, shakara, Vincent Baidoo, and Hannah Silva on questions of poetry, AI, ethics, and inclusion. 25 April in Bristol. Book now! www.lyrafest.com#e150159

An image with four people sitting on chairs on a low stage and overlayed text: "Poetry, AI, Ethics and Inclusion. Saturday 25 April, 11:00. Watershed. Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival."

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Michael Marcinkowski @michaelmarcinkowski.org · 20/03/2026

Does anyone want to tell me that this is a picture of Joe Brainard looking confused by the Campbell's Tomato Juice boxes?

A few people standing around Warhol's reproductions of boxes for Heinz tomato ketchup and Campbell's tomato juice.

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robert p. baird @robertpbaird.com · 20/03/2026

What’s really going to break our collective brains is when AI generated stuff starts coming for soi-disant quality lit. I can all but guarantee that there will be some Tao Lin or Kenny Goldsmith type who convinces a bunch of rubes that he’s being edgy & avantgarde by using LLMs to “write“ his work.

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Rebecca Kosick @rkokayokay.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Then in London on Thursday for the Poetry on Drugs symposium: Hundred Years Gallery, 13 Pearson Street, E2 8JD w Jordan Savage, Alexandra Hamilton, Becky Wills, Jeff Hilson, @michaelmarcinkowski.org , Rebecca Kosick, Llew Watkins, Tim Atkins, Francis Gene-Rowe, Jared Stanley, Cat Chong, Frances Kruk

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The Bristol Poetry Institute @bristolpoetry.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

We have over 500 people already planning to join us for the Natalie Diaz Annual Reading later this month. But we booked the big (technically "Great") Hall, so don't worry, we have room for more. Book your place now. We can't wait to see you there! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bpi-annual...

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BPI Annual Reading: Natalie Diaz

Join us in person for the Bristol Poetry Institute Annual Reading. This poetry reading is free but booking is essential.

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Michael Marcinkowski @michaelmarcinkowski.org · 07/02/2026

New issue of PTR now available. Reviewed: Kulvert Press, Veer Books, If a Leaf Falls, The Fair Organ, Mouse Press, The Knives Forks and Spoons Press, The Last Books, Shearsman, Monitor, NYRB. www.michaelmarcinkowski.org/ptr

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Michael Marcinkowski @michaelmarcinkowski.org · 29/12/2025

This is an accurate review and corresponds to my own recent experience.

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Michael Marcinkowski @michaelmarcinkowski.org · 18/12/2025

Poetry, Theory, Review 2025 Annual now available. Collects six issue. Includes reviews of releases from Face, Crater, Girasol, Veer2, Earthbound, Broken Sleep, Distance No Object, Winter Editions, Soberscove, Kulvert, Monitor, The Last Books, and more. Link to buy: www.michaelmarcinkowski.org/ptr

A blue book cover with the words "Poetry, Theory, Review 2025."

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Digital Futures Institute @ King's College London @kings-dfi.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

💡 Featuring Dr @michaelmarcinkowski.org @kingsdh.bsky.social, Dr Felix Kwihangana, Dr Sara Black @kingsecs.bsky.social, Mark Lester and Prof Dr @saradefreitas.bsky.social. 🔗 Register here: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/digit...

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Rebecca Kosick @rkokayokay.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Now until January 6: 45% off sale on all WSUP titles, including preorders of Dispatches from the Avant-Garage with code RHOLIDAY. Only like $23 for all that research and over 100 (!!) full-color images, truly a steal wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814350249/

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Dispatches from the Avant-Garage

The innovative countercultural movement from one of the most notable twentieth-century presses. In this long-awaited book, Rebecca Kos...

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Michael Marcinkowski @michaelmarcinkowski.org · 04/10/2025

New (late) late Summer issue of Poetry Theory Review now available: www.michaelmarcinkowski.org/ptr

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Michael Marcinkowski @michaelmarcinkowski.org · 12/07/2025

Early Summer issue of Poetry Theory Review now available. Featuring reviews of books from Kulvert, Broken Sleep, The Last Books, Monitor Books, Sad Press, and more. www.michaelmarcinkowski.org/ptr

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Poetry Theory Review

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Michael Marcinkowski @michaelmarcinkowski.org · 12/07/2025

Early Summer issue of Poetry Theory Review now available. Featuring reviews of books from Kulvert, Broken Sleep, The Last Books, Monitor Books, Sad Press, and more. www.michaelmarcinkowski.org/ptr

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PTR

Poetry Theory Review

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Rebecca Kosick @rkokayokay.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Bristoooool please join us on the 4th of July, a day of no other significance, to hear Michael Marcinkowski launching LIVES OF THE SAINTS with Yẽ Yẽ and John Phillips at Bristol’s most-best-poetry bookshop, East Bristol Books.

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Michael Marcinkowski @michaelmarcinkowski.org · 16/05/2025

The dream of AGI is amazingly limited.

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Rebecca Kosick @rkokayokay.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

YES I AM. See you there.

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Michael Marcinkowski @michaelmarcinkowski.org · 31/12/2024

BIG DAY. Official release date for LIVES OF THE SAINTS. Huge thanks to @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social and @godzillakent.bsky.social for making it happen!

A picture of the book Lives of the Saints by Michael Marcinkowski sitting upright against a wooden background and pieces of slate. It has an orange cover with an image from a disciple of Hieronymus Bosch showing grotesque creatures facing a figure in a chair with a book on his lap with other figures smaller in the background.

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Michael Marcinkowski @michaelmarcinkowski.org · 31/12/2024

BIG DAY. Official release date for LIVES OF THE SAINTS. Huge thanks to @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social and @godzillakent.bsky.social for making it happen!

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Michael Marcinkowski @michaelmarcinkowski.org · 05/12/2024

8PM (UK) 30 DECEMBER! Online launch event for @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social !!!!!!!!! I can’t be there live, but there will be a recording of me reading from LIVES OF THE SAINTS (available December 31!)!!! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-sle...

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Rebecca Kosick @rkokayokay.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Now in the material world, @mrm1.bsky.social 's LIVES OF THE SAINTS. Out officially on 31 December from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social. New year new you new book.

Hand holding a copy of LIVES OF THE SAINTS.

Page from LIVES OF THE SAINTS with poetry reading:

1) Equal pay for equal work; 2) Direct election; 3) Disarm the police; 4) Abol ition of capital punishment; 5) Wages are an evil; 6) Free schools supported by the state; 7) Total separation of mo ney and state; 8) Total ban on fossil fu els; 9) Abolition of land ownership; 10) Aggressive reforestation; 11) Redistrib ution of private property; 12) Common allocation of living space; 13) Abolition of currency; 14) Open all borders; 15) Everything for everyone without labour or prejudice.

I REFUTE IT THUS

The organ projects what is the true question of poetry. 'If the necessity of every duty is to be estimated by the frequency with which it is inculcated and the sanctions by which it is enforced and whose decrees are established forever in a particular manner the observation of those commands which seem to be repeated that they may be strongly impressed and secured by habitual submission against violation there is scarcely any virtue we ought more diligently exercise than that of compassion to the needy and.

Page from LIVES OF THE SAINTS with poetry reading:

Potato okra garlic turnip parsnip yam dill onion cabbage carrot spinach beet kohlrabi radish mushroom barley hops alfalfa lettuce chard corn ginger sprouts gourd apple bean kale rutabaga groat.

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Michael Marcinkowski @michaelmarcinkowski.org · 28/11/2024

This year’s anthology has a wonderful selection from me!

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

PREORDER (31.12.2024): Lives of the Saints by Michael Marcinkowski explores poetry's power as it intersects with faith and governance, set against a backdrop of ecological ruin and dystopian futures. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Cover of the book Lives of the Saints by Michael Marcinkowski, published by Broken Sleep Books. The cover features a surreal medieval-style painting with strange, fantastical creatures and figures in bizarre scenarios, typical of the works of Hieronymus Bosch. A figure in regal attire sits on a throne, surrounded by grotesque hybrid creatures and surreal characters. The background includes pastoral scenes, with additional figures and animals engaging in mysterious activities. The book title appears at the top in teal, the author's name in dark red below it, and the publisher's name at the bottom in the same red on an orange background.

Postscript to Lives of the Saints

‘As such the crush the Lord our God whose
chaunce like grief veil plait drownt death.

Haecceity “just this” the chaine of chalice
Rome vom fear buck leave gland sear and

truss in martyr’s weave. Agone hap burnt
as Passion’s Lot, hwaet penss lack waft in

wither wake blear solum mark not knowing
known as diaphragm the cannon’s march

to poem begg and vanguard soil rotten
breathe as groaning crush and blaring doubt

selah
selah
selah.’

Lives of the saints

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Number One

Which might just be something specific to the afterimage
of an empirical society and I guess it’s a question of
whether or not there’s much value in worrying about
methodology or thinking about the question of social
organisation and no matter what we might want to say
about management or teleology they’re both just
dependent on the question of cause and I had stupidly
thought that Arnold’s book was going to be about the
variability of culture and how it exists previous to our
understanding of it or the way that culture is nothing
except a refactoring of the non-sensible into the sensible
but really he just seems to talk about reticence and
cause and I guess it’s that ‘I think that the artists who
aren’t very good should become like everybody else
so that people would like things that aren’t very good’
which is still just that the intelligibility of anything is
always just the intelligibility of some previous state of
affairs which is still really just only about an older belief
in a particular understanding of the movement of time
which to me is only just a bare and somewhat foolhardy
commitment to the lasting efficacy of cause.

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Or that

it’s the readability of the poetic line or more than any-
thing it’s the lyrical proposition of the thing and no matter
my feelings toward you or the collective will of ours toward
history or the balkanisation of the state it’s forgetting

which is the supposed progressive idea of language
being the bulwark of memory and trace or the recognition
of trace and the repetition in which it’s the very idea of
trace that is underwritten in the perspectivist longevity
of trace and it’s that repetition is itself just change in the
longue durée which as in the contextualisation of the thing
or the actual density of a line built up and the particular
coherence of gravity none of this being choice but only
our situation being previous to the invention of the ideal
or the repetition of form which in the opposition to a
monist realism there’s nothing that we can say about
the line other than that it’s just the return of the same
which laid out across the moment of the lyric is change.

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all of which is just the question of whether or not we
can have some criteria against which the poem is able
to be judged or the idea that there is an outside to the
informational question of judgement or the communica-
bility of judgement and it’s about the supposition of
certain sets of particular facts which is really just a
question of judicial selection or the bracketing off of
certain parameters toward the claim of phenomenolog-
ical experience and in that there’s a need for the delineation
of certain understandings of horizon or the possibilities
of the repeatability of phenomena which are not such
as the specificity of texture or the absence of texture but
for some reason I always think that you’re unhappy with
me or that I’m somehow screwing things up and it’s that
I don’t seem to have any real purpose with things and
maybe there are other methods of reparative behaviour
or things I could do differently but the difficulty is maybe
to be able to feel the quality of a work without any recourse

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The Bristol Poetry Institute @bristolpoetry.bsky.social · 23/01/2024

The Bristol Poetry Institute is pleased to announce the 2023-2024 Annual Reading featuring Don Paterson. 6PM on 7 February in Wills Memorial. Free and open to all. Book here to secure your place! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bristol-po...

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Bristol Poetry Institute Annual Reading 2024: Don Paterson

Join the Bristol Poetry Institute in the Great Hall of the Wills Memorial Building for a reading from award winning poet Don Paterson.

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Alec Finlay @alecfinlay.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

The Golden Mountain, painted on David Hume's Treatise, in which he introduces the image as an example of how we form concepts from experiences.

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The Bristol Poetry Institute @bristolpoetry.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

Hello! We are a poetry institute based at the University of Bristol (UK). Follow us for readings, symposia, conversations, and events.

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Rebecca Kosick @rkokayokay.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

My translations of Hélio Oiticica's Secret Poetics are on @hyperallergic.com's list of 10 Art Books We're Reading This November. All ten looking 🔥. Proud to be part of this stack. 🌠

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10 Art Books We’re Reading This November

Christina Sharpe’s Ordinary Notes, Nan Goldin’s new catalogue, a visual biography of Marina Abramovic, and more.

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