Toby Altman
@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
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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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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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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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RT @toby_altman: We are excited to welcome the indelible book- and textile-artist Dianna Frid to the The RCAH Center for Poetry at MSU for…
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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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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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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'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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RT @Poetry_Daily: Today's Featured Poet: Kelly Hoffer is a poet and book artist. Her debut collection of poetry, UNDERSHORE (2023), was se…
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