The Artemis loop to the moon reminded me of this you wrote and it's still very good, thank you thepointmag.com/reading-room... A new couple hundred thousand mile trip to the moon to go find writing from years ago, I suppose the loop continues lol

"The impersonal regularity of meter suggested to Frost an allegory for the boundedness of mortality." Kamran Javadizadeh on Robert Frost.

The instant obliteration of our congressionally mandated development assistance agency—by the world’s richest man and his cabal who “gave zero fucks” (Musk’s exact words) about the mass deaths they caused—is a historic atrocity that should stain everyone who touched it, forever.

"Frost was being clever and bitchy when he called Eliot's modernist epic 'an Anthology of the Best Lines in Poetry,' but he was also onto something." Kamran Javadizadeh on Robert Frost.

Between 1916 and 1949, The Yale Review published twenty-eight poems by Robert Frost. In honor of National Poetry Month, revisit them here — alongside a new essay by Kamran Javadizadeh.

The Yale Review published twenty-eight poems by Robert Frost. In a new essay, Kamran Javadizadeh goes into our archive and finds a poet reckoning with mortality, rivalry, and the limits of form.

"Through a closed door, in Frost's lovely image, we might hear the idiomatic rhythms of human language in the wild." Kamran Javadizadeh on Robert Frost.

"This is how meter is like mortality. Our lives are bounded by birth and death and punctuated along the way by the kinds of markers that biology and custom have established as roughly universal." Kamran Javadizadeh on Robert Frost.

I admire Kamran Javadizadeh’s writing so much. For lovers of Frost’s astronomical imagery, there’s a great section on how the stresses in the lines of “I Will Sing You One-O” vary in a way that shows “earthly clocks hurrying to synchronize with their celestial counterpart.” 🔭

“What the clocks seem to say is that we’re all, each one of us, alone.” what a beautiful essay

I wrote about mortality, meter, and Robert Frost’s midlife crisis for @yalereview.bsky.social. yalereview.org/article/kamr...

This is one of the videos the NYT has verified and links to in their reporting. NYT: "Video verified by [NYT] showed ... rescuers digging through the rubble with building cranes and shovels, and piles of bloodied, dusty backpacks." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/w...

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Claims of 40 dead after an Israeli airstrike on a elementary girl’s school in Iran www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

James Merrill. “No dread. No bitterness. The end beginning. Today’s / Dusk room aglow / For the last time / With candlelight. / Faces love lit, / Gifts underfoot. / Still to be so poised, so / Receptive. Still to recall, to praise.”

I blame the last @havehashad.com call for dropping me into an obsessive George Oppen rabbithole (but am secretly grateful). This discussion from Close Readings with @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social is an excellent starting point:

Last night, four acclaimed poets and scholars joined LOA LIVE for a fascinating personal discussion on revered critic and professor Helen Vendler. Watch @notquitehydepark.bsky.social, Dan Chiasson, @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social, and Christopher Spaide reflect on the influence of this towering figure.

On Tuesday, 12/2, join acclaimed poets and scholars Stephanie Burt, Dan Chiasson, Christopher Spaide, and @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social for a lively evening of reflections on the genius and influence of revered critic Helen Vendler, whose last essays were just published by LOA. RSVP for free!

She does not like it

I’m so sad to hear that the poet Ellen Bryant Voigt has died. I knew her only slightly. When her friend Louise Glück died, two years ago, she and I spoke on my podcast about fate, and loss, and poetry. I think about that conversation all the time. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Monday! Rutgers! Cake! Come along!

next Monday is the home turf launch for my book, Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work. With responses from the wonderful @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social and brilliant Rutgers grad students Lena Crown and Colton Hicks. Come along if you're local? RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Inger Christensen, from alphabet (trans. Susanna Nied)

Good job, MIT.

Strong truth here from @himself.bsky.social. Civil society has to get its act together and coordinate for the greater good, even if that's not its usual mode. Universities most especially.

A reminder that we’re hiring a poet at Villanova this year—tenure-track job, wonderful department, close proximity to Philly. Poets, please think about applying! jobs.villanova.edu/postings/33001

Hey poets and teachers out there! Villanova is hiring for a tenure-track assistant prof position. Great school and a wonderful English Department. Check it out below. jobs.villanova.edu/postings/33001

It's the end of The Best American Poetry. I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse. defector.com/good-riddanc...

We’re hiring a poet at Villanova this year! Tenure-track job, wonderful colleagues, eager students—and Philadelphia, too! Happy to try to answer any questions about the job. Poets! Apply! jobs.villanova.edu/postings/33001

I'm over the moon that my book, Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets, will be published by the University of Chicago Press in the not too distant future.

BREAKING: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, a team of independent experts commissioned by the U.N.’s Human Rights Council concludes.

A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.

It’s been 10 years since my sister was diagnosed, 4 years since she died. During those 6 years of illness, all we could hope for was that each treatment would buy us enough time to benefit from the treatments that hadn’t yet been discovered. I can’t fathom the cruelty & stupidity of this government.

In the coming decades, you or someone you love will be diagnosed with cancer, and you will wonder if Trump and DOGE are why treatments haven't improved

Read this book!

I too was blown away by how timely Descent of Alette is right now. The tyrant is capitalism and the billionaire class! This series has been so rewarding and comforting, especially this episode, which I'm saving. 🙏🏻

In case you’re in the mood…

Fantastic listen. 30 minutes into the episode the recording plays of TSEliot himself reading the Lovesong as an old man and then @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social and his wonderful guest have so much fun doing the close reading. Super informed but still fresh and fun

We're so delighted to have @kristingrogan.bsky.social 's brilliance for Re/Verse!!! (co-editors @glavey.bsky.social, @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social, and I have a couple more amazing books in the pipeline too)

super delighted to have signed a contract with Amherst College Press for a little book on Sylvia Plath’s Ariel, a book I cannot stop reading and thinking about and troubling over

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.

"Even gifted scholars lose their way / through faulty etymology." Incredible poem and conversation.

“What is more precise than precision? Illusion.” Today, a long-overdue episode on Marianne Moore, with the great Siobhan Phillips. We talked about Moore’s wonderful poem “Armor’s Undermining Modesty.” open.spotify.com/episode/2FPe...

Do I dare to eat a peach? I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear my trousers rolled

Super sharp, super fun - the amazing Megan Quigley is well worth a listen wherever you can catch her! Here she is with Dr Kamran Javadizadeh on our pal Prufrock - do check out the Close Readings podcast

Great podcast. Great guest. And, let’s face it, great poem.

Let us go and make our visit... to this delightful podcast!

“Do I dare / Disturb the universe?” I talked with my friend Megan Quigley, modernism scholar extraordinaire, about T. S. Eliot and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” Total dream of a conversation. open.spotify.com/episode/2oIz...