Toby Altman
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Now: Discipline Park (Wendy’s Subway, 2023) | Next: Jewel Box (Essay Press, 2025) | Assistant Prof at Michigan State and Director of the RCAH Center for Poetry
East Lansing
Joined November 2010
Discipline Park—my long-brewing meditation on the demolition of Prentice Women's Hospital and the architecture of Bertrand Goldberg—is out today! Grab your copy here https://t.co/d7IioVkIIt
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I'll be back in Chicago next weekend for a workshop at the Driehaus Museum! Hope to see you there~
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We support all contributions to poetics from contributing editors!
I'm pleased to have an article on Jen Bervin's THE DESERT (2008) in RETHINKING LYRIC COMMUNITIES, a new volume edited by Irene Fantappiè, Francesco Giusti, Laura Scuriatti and published this week by ICI Press Berlin:
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The article is an exploration of the tangled threads binding together lyric and colonial discourse, with a special emphasis on their shared interest in the desert as a space beyond—and constitutive of—capitalism. You can read it in full for free.
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I'm pleased to have an article on Jen Bervin's THE DESERT (2008) in RETHINKING LYRIC COMMUNITIES, a new volume edited by Irene Fantappiè, Francesco Giusti, Laura Scuriatti and published this week by ICI Press Berlin:
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This essay places Jen Bervin’s 2008 artist book The Desert in conversation with lyric theory. It argues that Bervin disrupts the lyric as it has developed since the nineteenth century, restoring its...
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For those of you coming from off-campus, you can park for free at Snyder-Phillips hall. Here's a map with instructions!
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Tonight at the RCAH Center for Poetry at MSU! Join us for a lecture-performance from Dianna Frid:
We are excited to welcome the indelible book- and textile-artist Dianna Frid to the The RCAH Center for Poetry at MSU for a lecture-performance on the evening of October 24th! More details on the flier.
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We are excited to welcome the indelible book- and textile-artist Dianna Frid to the The RCAH Center for Poetry at MSU for a lecture-performance on the evening of October 24th! More details on the flier.
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We let the interns loose again and they absolutely delivered again. Is this a promo for Dianna Frid's lecture tomorrow at 7pm?? or is it an advertisement for a used car that will absolutely fall apart the moment after you drive off the lot??
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25 likes, 2 comments. “Has this ever happened to you?? 🤔 Join us this Thursday, October 24th, at 7pm, to see a performance by legendary visual artist Dianna Frid! We will be in the Snyder-Phillips...
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They call it rizz. Look it up.
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140 likes, 6 comments. “our new director Toby Altman understood the assignment🫡”
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This is my first event as director—I couldn't be more excited to inaugurate my tenure with an artist whose work has consistently expanded my sense of what is possible in text, textile, and bookmaking. Come and have your mind blown!
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We are excited to welcome the indelible book- and textile-artist Dianna Frid to the The RCAH Center for Poetry at MSU for a lecture-performance on the evening of October 24th! More details on the flier.
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I love this review of Discipline Park—but, more than that, I love being reviewed alongside two of the best books in recent memory. A squad, a murder, a murmuration:
Up on @WestBranchMag today, I’ve got a little write up on three recent collections (by @marty_cain, @toby_altman, and @JoyelleMcS) that I loved. Go buy them! https://t.co/4dy1RzI5oO
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I love this review of Discipline Park by Emily Brown. Like all great reviews, it's more than an appraisal of the book—it's a poem in itself, wide-ranging and sumptuous. Plus Perkins and Will makes a cameo?? what more could you ask for
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I feel jealous of Toby Altman for being so obsessed with this topic, which makes his poetry a “serious project.” I worry I am only serious about my love for people.
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I'm poking around looking for funding opportunities for college students to travel to compete in a poetry slam. Anyone have any ideas / know of anything good?
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questing—into the void—again—
has anyone out there made a pdf of all the dickinson poems in Envelope Poems / The Gorgeous Nothings in their "standard" printing? (i.e. like from the johnson or the franklin editions). surely someone has. questing into the void--
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has anyone out there made a pdf of all the dickinson poems in Envelope Poems / The Gorgeous Nothings in their "standard" printing? (i.e. like from the johnson or the franklin editions). surely someone has. questing into the void--
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Today's Featured Poet: Kelly Hoffer is a poet and book artist. Her debut collection of poetry, UNDERSHORE (2023), was selected by Diana Khoi Nguyen as the winner of the Lightscatter Press Prize. Learn more at https://t.co/89d89aPq0p.
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My newest and strongest chapbook The Second Arrow is available now. Email me (or DM) proof you donated $10+ to Chicago Abortion Fund and I’ll send The Second Arrow to you.
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Time to historicize, poets. Time to historicize poets. Read the full call for proposals: https://t.co/yfYgNi4ckh
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