For Christmas, my son made a sequel to this evolving game we started together on the back of a Snapfish box over a decade before when he was in 2nd grade.

i sold my antipsychotic meds to buy my ai girlfriend a new model upgrade for christmas. but then i found out she sold her data center to buy me a gun

Female reindeer in the wild are the only ones with antlers at Christmas-time, they have birth synchrony, & they can run up to 50 mph.

Just finished watching One Battle After Another & trying to erase the horrendous writing of the first 30 minutes and the last 15 minutes of the film. One fetish after another so true. open.substack.com/pub/blackgir...

Acceptances sent out! Issue #6 is gonna be a stunner

The game is afoot

Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.

The New School was founded by Columbia University professors who wanted a university run by the faculty with minimal administration. For over 100 years it has been a unique institution with progressive values and incredible students and faculty from Ai Weiwei to Hannah Arendt. We are devastated.

Subs have closed for Issue 6 of Public School Poetry, and we're reading through an an amazing bunch of submissions! Thanks for making our Vice Principal selecting work an exciting challenge.

fundamental night

Ann Arbor apocalypse sky

"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe

Here’s @sarahjeong.bsky.social somehow going even harder than the T-shirt at the AI-copyright conference: “[AI companies] have ushered in a wholesale destruction of human knowledge and culture that is as significant as the burning of the Library of Alexandria.”

Found art piece in the room I taught this morning that provoked some amazing discussion.

These tomatoes were hard & green when I picked them before the first frost last month. I was going to fry some today, & discovered a tomato ripening miracle.

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)