@michaelmarcinkowski.org
Currently Digital Humanities at King’s College London. Director of Education Digital Futures Institute. Formerly Bristol, Ambient Literature, poetryfoundation.org. LIVES OF THE SAINTS available from Broken Sleep Books michaelmarcinkowski.org
Hand drawn poster that reads Poetry on Drugs
Then in London on Thursday for the Poetry on Drugs symposium: Hundred Years Gallery, 13 Pearson Street, E2 8JD w Jordan Savage, Alexandra Hamilton, Becky Wills, Jeff Hilson, @michaelmarcinkowski.org , Rebecca Kosick, Llew Watkins, Tim Atkins, Francis Gene-Rowe, Jared Stanley, Cat Chong, Frances Kruk
We have over 500 people already planning to join us for the Natalie Diaz Annual Reading later this month. But we booked the big (technically "Great") Hall, so don't worry, we have room for more. Book your place now. We can't wait to see you there! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bpi-annual...
New issue of PTR now available. Reviewed: Kulvert Press, Veer Books, If a Leaf Falls, The Fair Organ, Mouse Press, The Knives Forks and Spoons Press, The Last Books, Shearsman, Monitor, NYRB. www.michaelmarcinkowski.org/ptr
You know what time it is. consequence.net/2019/07/jugg...
This is an accurate review and corresponds to my own recent experience.
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Black and white image of a printed magazine.
Black and white image of a printed magazine.
Black and white image of a printed magazine.
A blue book cover with the words "Poetry, Theory, Review 2025."
Poetry, Theory, Review 2025 Annual now available. Collects six issue. Includes reviews of releases from Face, Crater, Girasol, Veer2, Earthbound, Broken Sleep, Distance No Object, Winter Editions, Soberscove, Kulvert, Monitor, The Last Books, and more. Link to buy: www.michaelmarcinkowski.org/ptr
💡 Featuring Dr @michaelmarcinkowski.org @kingsdh.bsky.social, Dr Felix Kwihangana, Dr Sara Black @kingsecs.bsky.social, Mark Lester and Prof Dr @saradefreitas.bsky.social.
🔗 Register here: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/digit...
Now until January 6: 45% off sale on all WSUP titles, including preorders of Dispatches from the Avant-Garage with code RHOLIDAY. Only like $23 for all that research and over 100 (!!) full-color images, truly a steal wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814350249/
New (late) late Summer issue of Poetry Theory Review now available: www.michaelmarcinkowski.org/ptr
Wednesday night! Bristol! www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/ill...
Early Summer issue of Poetry Theory Review now available. Featuring reviews of books from Kulvert, Broken Sleep, The Last Books, Monitor Books, Sad Press, and more. www.michaelmarcinkowski.org/ptr
Early Summer issue of Poetry Theory Review now available. Featuring reviews of books from Kulvert, Broken Sleep, The Last Books, Monitor Books, Sad Press, and more. www.michaelmarcinkowski.org/ptr
And someday there will be a more complete machine. One's thoughts or feelings during life—or while the machine is recording—will be like an alphabet with which the image will continue to comprehend all experience (as we can form all the words in our language with the letters of the alphabet). Then life will be a repository for death. But even then the image will not be alive; objects that are essentially new will not exist for it. It will know only what it has already thought or felt, or the possible transpositions of those thoughts or feelings. from Adolfo Bioy Casares's THE INVENTION OF MOREL (1940) translated from the Spanish by Ruth L.C. Simms
Bristoooool please join us on the 4th of July, a day of no other significance, to hear Michael Marcinkowski launching LIVES OF THE SAINTS with Yẽ Yẽ and John Phillips at Bristol’s most-best-poetry bookshop, East Bristol Books.
Friday 4 July at East Bristol Books! 7pm! Marcinkowski! Yě! Phillips! www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/eas... @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
The dream of AGI is amazingly limited.
YES I AM. See you there.
📕 Prof @drkatedevlin.bsky.social and Dr @michaelmarcinkowski.org contributed to The Routledge Handbook of AI and Literature.
The book explores how literary lenses can be used to better understand human interactions with AI 🔽
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Upcoming reading at East Bristol Books! 4 July! Linda Kemp, John Phillips, and me! Get tickets! www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/eas...
Talk from @meredithmeredith.bsky.social. Great example of using serious theory/philosophy in tech discussion. media.ccc.de/v/38c3-feeli...
A picture of the book Lives of the Saints by Michael Marcinkowski sitting upright against a wooden background and pieces of slate. It has an orange cover with an image from a disciple of Hieronymus Bosch showing grotesque creatures facing a figure in a chair with a book on his lap with other figures smaller in the background.
BIG DAY. Official release date for LIVES OF THE SAINTS. Huge thanks to @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social and @godzillakent.bsky.social for making it happen!
![An image of a page of a book showing the text of two poems:
VI
WAS DECIDED
II.
As to gauge against the true democratic question of how many times an election may be run until an answer's decided as the grandeur of democracy is that it is able to be changed from one moment to the next as the belief that any particular event may not preclude any future occurrence as democracy is weighted by its expedience to change both as a benefit to and its mandate that if nothing can be done in the span before the next vote then it is not a thing to be done as there is no lasting decision possible in a democracy or whatever except the [uhh] continuing stranglehold of the state.
VII
for Harold Garfinkel
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An image of a page of a book showing the text of two poems: VI WAS DECIDED II. As to gauge against the true democratic question of how many times an election may be run until an answer's decided as the grandeur of democracy is that it is able to be changed from one moment to the next as the belief that any particular event may not preclude any future occurrence as democracy is weighted by its expedience to change both as a benefit to and its mandate that if nothing can be done in the span before the next vote then it is not a thing to be done as there is no lasting decision possible in a democracy or whatever except the [uhh] continuing stranglehold of the state. VII for Harold Garfinkel Dependence on the already established.
A photo of a page of a book showing two poems: LII Woe! Torn down! What value knowing be?' Pastoral black landscape to name. Limp branch pin arbor ox wood pine low woollen thick of love to know box calculate gone locust thrush wrench grandeur effort rhizome splint where valley woe devotion torn in felis glory long what rest as pollen garner seed hap stress of value given bother something know. LIMI Metallic blaze shim golden bronze blaze glisten rough pine split hard cut nail pressed pine tack plate sheet fit cup back tar keep sand rend sum blaze tuck light blend keep rise want wrent long look hung plank pine sheet felt blaze rise up far knot for grace ground slant land rough grime far place sheet fit count rend shunt lank hung crisp tend seamlessness and upwardness debar.
Photo of a page of a book with a poem: LXIX fine-grain single achieve latencies 10 cycle performance measure switch tolerate parallel overhead implementation Encore Multimax scalability over large-scale describes average base binary network latency 55 cycles requires are different unprocessing parallel environment machine resident synchronisation the need add provide other bandwidth processing exploit.
An image of a poem title “about poetry today”
A picture of the book Lives of the Saints by Michael Marcinkowski sitting upright against a wooden background and pieces of slate. It has an orange cover with an image from a disciple of Hieronymus Bosch showing grotesque creatures facing a figure in a chair with a book on his lap with other figures smaller in the background.
BIG DAY. Official release date for LIVES OF THE SAINTS. Huge thanks to @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social and @godzillakent.bsky.social for making it happen!
8PM (UK) 30 DECEMBER! Online launch event for @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social !!!!!!!!! I can’t be there live, but there will be a recording of me reading from LIVES OF THE SAINTS (available December 31!)!!! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-sle...
Hand holding a copy of LIVES OF THE SAINTS.
Page from LIVES OF THE SAINTS with poetry reading: 1) Equal pay for equal work; 2) Direct election; 3) Disarm the police; 4) Abol ition of capital punishment; 5) Wages are an evil; 6) Free schools supported by the state; 7) Total separation of mo ney and state; 8) Total ban on fossil fu els; 9) Abolition of land ownership; 10) Aggressive reforestation; 11) Redistrib ution of private property; 12) Common allocation of living space; 13) Abolition of currency; 14) Open all borders; 15) Everything for everyone without labour or prejudice. I REFUTE IT THUS The organ projects what is the true question of poetry. 'If the necessity of every duty is to be estimated by the frequency with which it is inculcated and the sanctions by which it is enforced and whose decrees are established forever in a particular manner the observation of those commands which seem to be repeated that they may be strongly impressed and secured by habitual submission against violation there is scarcely any virtue we ought more diligently exercise than that of compassion to the needy and.
Page from LIVES OF THE SAINTS with poetry reading: Potato okra garlic turnip parsnip yam dill onion cabbage carrot spinach beet kohlrabi radish mushroom barley hops alfalfa lettuce chard corn ginger sprouts gourd apple bean kale rutabaga groat.
Now in the material world, @mrm1.bsky.social 's LIVES OF THE SAINTS. Out officially on 31 December from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social. New year new you new book.
8PM (UK) 30 DECEMBER! Online launch event for @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social !!!!!!!!! I can’t be there live, but there will be a recording of me reading from LIVES OF THE SAINTS (available December 31!)!!! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-sle...
