Meet @hughmartin.bsky.social, poet and author of IN COUNTRY and THE STICK SOLDIERS, editor of War, Literature, and the Arts, professor, and Iraq veteran! michellereneebrady.podbean.com/e/9-poetry-t... On all the apps!

Department of Winning

“For almost 50 years, higher education has ceased to make the public case that educating for democracy has always been central to our mission,” said historian Carol Geary Schneider, past president of the American Association of Colleges and Universities

“Honoring Babbitt …blurs the line between lawful sacrifice and unlawful violence. It tells those who gave their lives in defense of the Constitution that their oath was no more meaningful than the motivations of the mob that attacked the Constitution.” www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...

PREPOSITION reviews MESOPOTOPIA (@penguinbooksusa.bsky.social, 2025) by Anne Waldman. "[...] casts its gaze backward in the hope of shaking loose some redemptive fragment of history. It is an impossible project—but/and this book is a stunning achievement." www.prepositionmag.com/waldman-meso...