Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.

Gwendolyn Brooks predicting Trump in 1989 (from the Brooks archive at Urbana-Champaign)

We are hiring 3 tenure-track Creative Writing assistant professors (2 fiction, 1 poetry) here at UCF. jobs.ucf.edu/jobs/assista...

RIP

Read this book!

This is horrible. Attacks on the humanities are another way to destroy our future. Now is when we need the humanities the most.

A rainbow crosswalk that was part of a memorial to the 49 people killed in a 2016 mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub, a popular gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, was painted over this week by the state, raising outcry from city officials and the community.

in CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I wrote a 36 page three-part introduction: What Close Reading Is, What Close Reading Does, and What Close Reading Has Been 30 pages of it is now online at @princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Sad to hear that artist Matthew Courtney was murdered in his apartment yesterday RIP

S/o to my scrappy publisher who has only deep empathy for their authors stuck in the metaverse to hustle books. Can you please (plz!) share the shit out of (& preorder!) my forthcoming book here? I want Bluesky to be THE platform for authors. regal-house-publishing.mybigcommerce.com/closer/ 🙏🙏📙📙

I wrote for New York Times Books about a fascinating, irritating, ambitious, and did I say fascinating? book length verse essay, "Context Collapse: A Poem Containing a History of Poetry," by Ryan Ruby. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/b...

The great Nikki Giovanni alive here: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/161883...

New book on Seamus Heaney's prose out edited by Ian Hickey and Eugene O'Brien (I have an essay on the prose poems in it): www.routledge.com/The-Frontier...

Since I didn't yet see one, I made a starter pack for scholars with interests in POETICS & POETRY, LYRIC THEORY, VERSE GENRES, etc. Please share, suggest friends, and/or reply to be added. The more the merrier! go.bsky.app/4fxbKvR

Louise Glück