Harris Feinsod

New on Substack -- I dug up a forgotten marsh in Locust Point. feinsod.substack.com/p/devils-buc...

There's a lot of great stuff on the "offshore" in this marvelous issue of LIMN--tax havens, wind farms, call centers, you name it. I contributed an essay on the eel's offshore spawning journey, as the young Rachel Carson came to understand it. limn.press/article/rach...

Do not ask for whom the boats LOL…

I'm going to be posting some news and notes here about art, industry, and ecology in Baltimore harbor and other coastlines. Please follow along! substack.com/home/post/p-...

Finishing a first book in literary studies? Don't miss the Helen Tartar First Book Subvention Award. Applications due Nov 15. (You can submit with or without a contract, though in either event there is a brief publisher's application to join your author submission). www.acla.org/prize-awards...

Heyo, the Wisconsin Prize for Poetry in Translation is open

Dolly invented the libidinal critique of petromodernity youtu.be/l2aDwnEtxRU?...

Among the singularly recognizable enclaves of poetic enunciation--say, Shandong in 740, Paris in 1857, Havana in 1931, or what have you--I would rank Buffalo in 1991 pretty highly.

Looking forward to this one!

n+1 comes out swinging www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

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Next Monday & Tuesday, Sept. 15 & 16, I’ll give two talks in Baltimore, one at the Bird in Hand bookstore about *Freedom Ship*, the other at Johns Hopkins University about “How to Write (Maritime) History from Below.” sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev... sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...

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Reading a copy of a book I’ve been teaching since the age of the course pack. Bring pack the course pack.

"Anyway the wind blows doesn't really matter to me" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/c...

We're launching a new Tidewater Initiative at JHU. Our research group on working waterfronts and coastal infrastructures includes a new student research lab, courses, programming partnerships with the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, and more in the works. sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/

“So long, Mom, I'm off to drop the bomb, So don't wait up for me.”

AI is the intellectual equivalent of styrofoam: it’s cheap and easy for the individual user, but poisoning the ecosystem for everyone forever.

RIP Alice Notley whose poems are a Grave of Light

When it comes to the cultivation of human subjectivity I plan to go down swinging.

Jayme Collins—who podcasts about archival loss in climate disaster—discovered this envelope of dried mud from the 1966 Arno flood in the Ransom Center archives of conservator Peter Waters (the pioneer in salvaging water damaged paper). Amazing relic & great story—> global.utexas.edu/news/ransom-...

Great experience—we all sat around talking about meter, metadata, and how various societies construe poetic knowledge. Made me want to be a literature professor. Poetry’s Data, out now, wherever University Press Books are sold

I was privileged to have met Alain Peauroi a few times, and to have known many of the extraordinary landscapes he made with TERREMOTO. He was a gifted designer and beloved by all. Here is a beautiful tribute a few months after his passing. www.archpaper.com/2025/03/alai...

Pierre Joris was one of the great and rare symposiasts of the whole.

Rip Pierre Joris. Probably the translator who influenced my own practice/thinking about translation the most.

Experiential learning surges as educators try to lure students back to phenomenal reality

Just learned that James Ferguson died. That absolutely sucks. The Uses of Neoliberalism, Expectations of Modernity, The Anti-Politics Machine, those are incredible works of a kind of almost implausibly rare scholarly mind.

This general-interest book by legendary troubadour scholar Linda Paterson is a delight to read

Greg Barnhisel gave a great talk at JHU last Thurs on Code Name Puritan: Norman Holmes Pearson at the Nexus of Poetry, Espionage, and American Power. There were shades of a requiem for the bygone age of multifarious collaboration between academia and the state.

Now is the time of wee, sleeket, cowran, tim’rous beasties

Great to see Francisco Robles’s Coalition Literature in my mailbox. This book puts together some broken shards of a US literary history fired in the kilns of the late thirties and helps me see how to embrace a “collective” dimension of our aesthetic politics. @franciscondine.bsky.social

Claire Seiler's excellent new article about a 'lost' J.G. Farrell polio novel exemplifies what literary studies can do when it dares not to police the horizons and idioms of literary studies. An untimely meditation on an untimely book, it arrives exactly on time. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In college there was this thing called a campus bookstore. People groused that Barnes & Noble had taken over management, but the shelves were educational in themselves. Imagine like this whole room engineered to display knowledge production across the disciplines.

Great mail day courtesy of Nico Campisi

RIP Beatriz Sarlo, who was among the most extraordinary critics of Argentine literature and society since the 1970s

Once again in its signature “reverse spoiler” maneuver, the NYer would like me to read to the end to find out the name of the book nominally under review