Cornell agreed to pay $30m, hand over admissions data with demographic breakdowns, produce annual "campus climate" surveys to check on antisemitism and changes "since October of 2023," and—here's the dumbest part they agreed to—that the govt can open new investigations whenever it wants. Appeasers.

"Why do you say I’m dying when I am reading, holding the hand of an author I know like a lover though they died years before I was born?" -- @catemarvin.bsky.social, "The Death of the Humanities" www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

College students have a lot to say when you ask them about their favorite trees & this makes me incredibly happy.

My overuse of exclamation points and emotional labor has brought me to a 30-day no exclamation point experiment. Set it up IMRAD-style with a daily log. Anyone want to join the experiment or have esoteric exclamation facts?

If only this was satire. Sadly, we mean it.

Found old Toys 'R'Us batteries in this spider. Was sad when they went bankrupt in 2018. And creeped out now to discover the store's kinda been resurrected through a company called Tru Kids.

Ellen Bryant Voigt 💙

The great Sean Thomas Dougherty (also a Public School Poetry contributor in Issue #1!) word-singing the unmeasurable grams we're forced to measure

Ann Arbor resists #nokings

PSP contributors Molly Spencer, Keith Taylor, Jen Sperry Steinorth & Jeff Kass at our annual pizza party reading. Subs for Issue #6 are open!

So excited to check out Laura Passin's new book! (featuring one of our favorite 'A Wrinkle in Time'-themed poems... www.publicschoolpoetry.com/laura-passin)

Giannina Braschi performs the Madame Sosostris section of "The Waste Land." That cough! That hat! One of the best things I've seen all year. youtu.be/E17t_b7zIFg?...

Tonight's meal all provided by my little garden (well, except the rice & panko on the squash)

I love Jenn Martelli’s fierce and lovely poetry so much, and she was such a generous person. Miss you already, Jenn.

even network television shows in the 1970s grasped this simple truth

🚨NEW: For the first time in history, the single largest group of people arrested in the interior and sent to ICE detention is people with NO criminal record. As of yesterday's data release, 40%(!) of those arrested in the interior and detained by ICE had no prior conviction or pending charges.

After a several-way tie from the 50 national book award longlist selections, my Capstone students revoted. Excited to read Angela Flournoy's The Wilderness with them!

Great night ahead as I look through Criterion's nunsploitation list. So many nuns and so many devils to choose from.

Gorgeous joy at my great grandparent's farm this weekend- a big, sprawling Catholic family celebrating the marriage of 2 beautiful brides 🏳️‍🌈

Issue #5 reading tonight @ 7pm et! DM for the link. Our contributors meet each other for the first time & discover who wrote what about whose poems. Mystical experiences happen. & we send postcards!

The Countdown is over! Issue #5 has just begun www.publicschoolpoetry.com/current-issue

The TWO DAY countdown to Issue #5 has begun! And will end very shortly! See you Monday on publicschoolpoetry.com

More excited than usual about the National Book Award Longlists- my capstone students are voting on which one we're going to read together!

Columbus showed up and showed out for the launch of THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT. We love y’all so much! Now it’s on to New York… and then Boston… and then Burlington and then… and then… 💙

Way to go, Chicago. You always stand on business.

he died doing what he loved

I kind of laugh at the idea of a "reliable narrator". Have you met people?!

Open Mike Eagle @ The Fillmore last night doing it all. Amazing show, amazing artist

Almost didn't see this preying mantis right next to me

Want to know more about Public School Poetry? We answered questions!

Students have so much to say when you ask them what animal they think is the most mysterious!

Organizing my garden tomatoes so I know which ones need to be eaten first (no, I don't have my syllabi for tomorrow posted)

I just applied for a poetry residency & a Menard's rebate! Covering multiple opportunities for acceptance.

My preorder copy of Aracelis Girmay's Green of All Heads came today! Excited to dive in! Thanks @boa-editions.bsky.social

What the head of the library resistance thinks could happen instead on the tiny piece of concrete: "I envision jump rope contests. All kinds of music. We could have poetry recitals. We could have a merry-go-round put up here. . . The list is endless."

Voting yes to support Ann Arbor's downtown library today! It's at no cost to taxpayers & shame to AA anti-library folks who claim a tiny sliver of parking lot the library needs to expand is/could ever be a park. www.michiganpublic.org/politics-gov...

Stunning work from @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social, poet of the week @ Only Poems! "I start every story with/ noticing: what I can touch,/ who I cannot." www.onlypoems.net/poets/jason-...

Surreal to walk into a bookstore looking for Auden poems and see my own book of poetry next to it!

Audre Lorde 💙 from THE BLACK UNICORN

Love this page of a 13th century bestiary on cats. Much less Christian symbolism and a lot more look at what magicks cats can do!

Medieval bestiaries are an amazing collision of symbolic Christian world view with zoology and storytelling. I'm finding it a really generative form to work with right now.

Been working through some weird 21st c. bestiary prose poem ideas inspired by these folks.

“We are in a deep evening now; I was in a deep evening then. The pond and the pond’s singers—they exist, and sing.” I have an essay up today which was OH SO TENDER to write—many thanks to @jeremylybarger.bsky.social for his astute edits 🙏📚 Come for the pond, stay for the CD Wright and Linda Gregg.

Cat through the grape arbor

Goat yoga to celebrate a wonderful friend's 50th- so much goat joy!

Cat of the hydrangeas

Oh hey! PSP Vice-Principal Ellen Stone is on the radio in an hour (5pm EST) with the Living Writers series: wcbn.org