“What does it take to not be shocked?” In a book that proves Tumarkin to be a clear-eyed excavator of much pain and sorrow in our world, it’s a question that initially provokes some surprise.

In all of our pocket histories and self- congratulatory palaver about the antiquity of “print” and the triumph of digital forms, we’ve neglected the history of page images.

The book is “a celebration of cusps.” Those of adulthood; of motherhood; of desire and ambition; of memory and history, and those that that decipher generations.

More than a droll sobfest or a gothic howl, the poem is a tragic ode to our age’s wasted potential.

“What does it take to not be shocked?” In a book that proves Tumarkin to be a clear-eyed excavator of much pain and sorrow in our world, it’s a question that initially provokes some surprise.

The book is “a celebration of cusps.” Those of adulthood; of motherhood; of desire and ambition; of memory and history, and those that that decipher generations.

More than a droll sobfest or a gothic howl, the poem is a tragic ode to our age’s wasted potential.

The dark suggestion at the heart of MOUTHFUL OF BIRDS is that perhaps the surreal and the strange is in fact the ordinary.

You really need to think strategically about how universities work, how they are trying to invest their capital, and then go after them on those grounds, and use our positionality as contingent academics to our advantage.

A bunch of white government dudes in bear cats and ballistic vests don’t have much unquestioned moral authority in America today

There was this sacrificial logic to the whole thing, and at the same time this American comedy. We’ll just throw some bleachers out in the sun.

My hope is to give enough poetry to trigger a mood or atmosphere, while trying my best not to get drunk on my own affinity for language and texture.    

In all of our pocket histories and self- congratulatory palaver about the antiquity of “print” and the triumph of digital forms, we’ve neglected the history of page images.

Incorporating undergraduates into graduate unions, which are already mobilizing student workers on campus, is one potential method for organizing this growing labor force.

Calls for more data and institutional leadership can only do so much: we must also change who holds power in our universities and who is subject to that power.

I found myself constantly assigned to the kitchen, a supposedly naturally shared sphere, where I was to keep other women company and help with what I could. I had none of the requisite skills.

Boyd McDonald, founding editor of Straight to Hell, was the main creative force behind one of the most distinctive underground publications, in fact, the first queer zine. Self-published and crude, Straight to Hell’s sense of urgency was as strong as its contempt for authority.

Although saying the right political thing and giving some money, that can just be part of the pageant so no one knows how awful you are.

We are really excited to share with you our second episode of the Full Stop Podcast, which ties into our most recent special quarterly issue on Graduate Student Organizing.

Drug brand names have a weird music all their own.