By Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish.

Students, faculty, and staff The New School have voted for divestment from 13 companies implicated in Israel's offensive in Gaza!

The margins in faculty votes at SPE, Parsons, Lang, and NSSR are overwhelming, with support ranging between 80-90 percent.

How EVIL AND GROTESQUE!
Robot dogs manufactured by Ghost Robotics and designed at Pennovation Works, sold to Israel and being used in Gaza.
Sign this petition. Demand that Penn shut it down. SHAME!
actionnetwork.org/petitions/peti…

Sweet!

Update on the closure of Small Press Distribution: Essay Press is moving to Asterism as our distributor. We are in the process of getting our books moved and listed on their site.

Ross Feller did an incredible job adapting my poem to music, and Benjamin Locke's direction of the chamber singers beautifully brought the words and music to life; this collaboration was honestly a highlight of yesterday's ceremony on Kenyon College.

From our Summer Reading Recommendations, Senior Editor, Orchid "Demand Climate Action Now" Tierney, praises “You’re the Woods Too” (@EssayPress) by Dennis James Sweeney.

Orchid writes, [m]oments like “Life departs the face / Genealogy begins to pray” sucked me into the collection’s dramas.”

essaypress.org/sweeney/

I'm looking for essays on either creative criticism and/or research practices for creative writers. I'm running an honours seminar this fall, and I will have a few creative writers among the scholars. Anything will help! #AcademicChatter

If anyone wants a blue sky invite, DM me.

This event is tonight. I'll be reading from looking at the Tiny and eating vegan waffles.

ATTN: Buffalo! Come out and hear Orchid "Demand Climate Action Now" Tierney read from looking at the Tiny this Friday the 28th.

If you can't make it to the reading, you can grab a copy from our online store here: essaypress.org/tierney/

Someone send me an invite to blue sky and/or come to this reading, Friday 28 July, at 7:30 Fitz Books, Buffalo, where I will be reading looking at the Tiny (Essay Press). I have copies and existential dread.

Whoohoo! It's the lichenscene!

Thanks friend!

Did you know Orchid Tierney's book 'looking at the Tiny: Mad lichen on the surfaces of reading' is a past winner of the Essay Press Chap book contest?

Orchid "Demand Climate Action Now" Tierney is a #BlackEarthInstitute Fellow and Assistant Professor of English Kenyon College

kenyonosfp.org/2023/07/17/fac…

If anyone has a copy of Habitat Threshold by Craig Santos Perez, can you please look up which pages 'Praise Poem for Oceania' is on--I'm in Buffalo and don't have my copy on me.

“This unspecific nature of Nakamura’s poems is what opens them up to capaciousness and possibility.”

Victoria Chang introduces Jordan Nakamura, whose work can be read in the Nature’s Nature feature in our summer issue.

Read the intro here:
kenyonreview.org/piece/victoria…

New Faculty Publication from Orchid "Demand Climate Action Now" Tierney : looking at the Tiny kenyonosfp.org/2023/07/17/fac… via Kenyon OSFP Kenyon College Essay Press #poetry #chapbook #lichen

Pages from Enzo Patti's asemic book 'Asaroton' (2023).