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Dipping a toe in here... Oxford Professor of Poetry
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Smalljones aka Paul Jones
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Auguries -
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The wilted season: peacocks drop their tails, The vines drop leaves And wear a bunch of raisins on their sleeves. The scoured sky pales. Cicadas grate and grate the air Like pencil sharpeners. Hope Shrinks like a bar of soap [...]
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A.E. Stallings · Poem: ‘Auguries’
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n12/a.e.-stallings/auguries
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Athens (Gr) people, doing this on Monday:
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This is good
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A.E. Stallings · Poem: ‘Auguries’
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n12/a.e.-stallings/auguries
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London Review of Books
1 day ago
... Colin Kidd on Jacobitism Susannah Clapp at Dungeness Raymond N. MacKenzie on Jules Verne Christine Okoth on Margaret Busby Tess Little on Malachi Whitaker Blake Morrison on Elizabeth Strout Armando Ledezma in Venezuela a poem by
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and a cover by Anne Rothenstein.
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Καλό Μήνα!
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OK, today I am going to make tracks on admin and translation and chores. Coffee!
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Edith Hall
3 days ago
On
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, an air-bag deployed on a Neo-Assyrian gypsum wall panel relief, c. 865BCE, from Nimrud North West Palace. Now in British Museum. I love the fish swimming along in the same direction.
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Ian Webster
3 days ago
Unbridled vandalism
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/i-thoug...
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‘I thought we were safe’: shock at Exeter’s humanities ‘gamble’
Leading department being in the firing line shows how changing student preferences are fundamentally reshaping universities
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/i-thought-we-were-safe-shock-exeters-humanities-gamble
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Off to a slow start. Girding loins for lots of proofs (tracking down page numbers, ugghh). Coffee.
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The peacocks are moulting, and the garden is littered with this splendid trash:
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Chapps
5 days ago
Bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin (1888) representing a classical caryatid, normally standing upright and bearing her burden for eternity. Here she has collapsed, pressed down by the weight of the heavy vessel she carries. It was originally titled ‘Sorrow’.
#ClassicalReception
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becimay
6 days ago
In case you didn’t know, Exeter uni, where I work, has announced a plan to make 25% of staff in my English department redundant. Left-over staff will do double the teaching while their research time will be shrunk to 1%. Meanwhile admissions for English at Exeter are HIGH, and on the rise this year
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OK, today turning in my unorated oration to be published in the (Oxford) Gazette, and proofs for an article which include lots of queries to the author (mostly page numbers! Yikes.) Coffee.
7 days ago
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Dr Michael Fraser
7 days ago
Thread of appreciation and a petition to sign.
www.change.org/p/stop-redun...
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Well, my oration was cancelled today... due to heat! Alas. (It will eventually be printed in the Oxford Gazette.)
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Sarah E. Bond
11 days ago
“Theon to his father Theon, greeting (χαίρειν). It was a fine thing of you not to take me with you to the city! If you won't take me with you to Alexandria I won't write you a letter or speak to you or say bye to you” — a Romano-Egyptian son in Oxyrhynchos (P.Oxy. 1 119).
papyri.info/ddbdp/p.oxy;...
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naylandblake
13 days ago
By Signing His Name to Massive Jars, This Enslaved Artist Defied Literacy Bans in the South. Now, His Masterpiece Is on View With a Famed Paul Revere Bowl
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By Signing His Name to Massive Jars, This Enslaved Artist Defied Literacy Bans in the South. Now, His Masterpiece Is on View With a Famed Paul Revere Bowl
Born into slavery around 1800, David Drake was a skilled ceramicist. His work will be on display at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston as the institution marks America's 250th birthday
https://share.google/6rNf7pwdm76OiPAro
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OK, today must make tracks on the oration. No ifs, ands, or buts! Coffee.
15 days ago
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OK, today a final push to get some (stages) of projects over the finish line. Plus there is an oration to write. Coffee!
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Lynda Lopez
23 days ago
“Brad Paisley, a Grammy Award-winning American country music singer and songwriter, urged his followers to sign a petition to stop the construction of a 69,000-square-foot data center that would be 50 yards from the Nashville Zoo, which he called “an absolute nightmare scenario”
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Brad Paisley criticizes data center planned next to Nashville Zoo
The petition, created by the zoo’s communications team, has 331,824 signatures and 126,599 shares.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/brad-paisley-criticizes-data-center-planned-nashville-zoo-rcna349045?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&taid=6a281c6d88183000016c6d53&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
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Aliki Chapple
29 days ago
Oh hell. Comics legend and my personal heroine Marjane Satrapi, dead at 56. What a terrible loss!
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Kevin Wilbraham
30 days ago
Detail from the sculpture by Fenwick Lawson which portrays six monks carrying St. Cuthbert’s coffin to safer places in response to the Viking raids on Lindisfarne. This version of the sculpture is from St. Mary’s Church on Lindisfarne. 📸 My own.
#Woodensday
#Lindisfarne
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OK, today, reading and zoom meetings about said reading. Coffee!
30 days ago
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The London Magazine
about 1 month ago
'Would poetry be more effective – that is, interest more people more deeply – if it were more directly concerned with the issues of our time?'
@joriegraham.bsky.social
, Don Paterson,
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and more have their say in our 2026 Survey of Poets.
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Essay | A 2026 Survey of Poets - The London Magazine
The London Magazine speaks to Jorie Graham, Don Paterson, A. E. Stallings and more about the state of poetry and poets today.
https://thelondonmagazine.org/article/essay-a-2026-survey-of-poets/
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Καλό Μήνα!
about 1 month ago
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Michael Hunter
about 1 month ago
Hey Atlanta! The Skylarks are playing tonight at the Moonshadow Tavern on Larryville Highway. We hit at 9:00 pm…
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Duncan Mackay
about 1 month ago
Why, helloooooo! This happy whoever is the star of the Pictish Glenfoot quadrocephalus, photographed today in lovely Perth Museum.
#FindsFriday
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Rodger Sherman
about 1 month ago
Shrey spelling 32 words in 90 seconds to win the Spelling Bee is the new greatest athletic accomplishment of 2026. I don’t even know how he said the letters that fast. Got a “Holy Mackerel” out of
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Damnatio memoriae!
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Gosh!
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Good shortish poems about needles/thread/sewing/cloth/textiles/sewing machines?
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Sarah E. Bond
about 1 month ago
One of Aesop's fables is about a tortoise who is the only one not to attend Zeus' wedding. When ask why, they say 'Οἶκος φίλος, οἶκος ἄριστος' (basically, the home you love, that home is best). It appears to be the root of "There's no place like home." The older I get, the more I get tortoise-y.🐢
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Stopping Data Centers for the common good:
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Stopping the spread of A.I. data centers serves the common good
A.I. data centers have driven up greenhouse gas emissions and polluted communities across America. But in one town, residents fought back.
https://www.americamagazine.org/short-take/2026/05/20/ai-data-centers-common-good/?fbclid=IwY2xjawSEsbtleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETExbEF2V09jaVQ1Vk9aSUxtc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHmkHQgVfxB32P-Ztm374ftwRVHcgYJ6lTWaZpbStf0d4oN58IwEdvCzQnHcI_aem_26FmoZvmCmmV8rBI2H3yZg
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Love the idea that ancient Romans were occasionally picking up a bouquet of flowers...
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Another low sleep day (jet lag, mostly, I think), but today will polish up and turn in introduction, and maybe tinker with translation. Also, lunch with friend. Coffee!
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Light
about 1 month ago
Happy
#MemorialDay
! Come for the
#axolotls
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#cocaine
smuggled in
#KimKardashian's
undies. (Click link in thread for all 5 Poems of the Week.)
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@michaelgerber.bsky.social
@americanbystander.bsky.social
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Grateful for this in-depth and astute review of Frieze Frame from the Weekly Hubris:
weeklyhubris.com/a-e-stalling...
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A. E. Stallings’ Frieze Frame – Hubris
https://weeklyhubris.com/a-e-stallings-frieze-frame/
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The Whitsun Weddings
All down the line Fresh couples climbed aboard: the rest stood round; The last confetti and advice were thrown, And, as we moved, each face seemed to…
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48411/the-whitsun-weddings
about 1 month ago
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`Poetry reading at the Hammer museum tonight. Spent today going to Griffeth Observatory with son, saw sweeping views, etc., but also lots of hummingbirds!
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Montreal International Poetry Prize
about 2 months ago
THE MONTREAL INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED Submissions are now open until May 25th! Don’t miss your final chance to submit your poetry at
www.montrealpoetryprize.com
#poetryprize
#poets
#poetrycommunity
#prize
#lovepoetry
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Emily Dickinson Museum
about 2 months ago
Remembering Emily Dickinson on the 140th anniversary of her death (May 15, 1886).
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Arrghh. Daughter being sent home from school with fever. Uh oh. Anyway, coffee!
about 2 months ago
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The Delicious Legacy Podcast
about 2 months ago
🤨🤔
greekreporter.com/2026/05/11/g...
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Thomas of Argos: The Greek Mercenary Who Led an Army for England’s King Henry VIII - GreekReporter.com
Thomas of Argos was a Greek mercenary who served King Henry VIII of England in the 16th century in the wars against Scotland and France.
https://greekreporter.com/2026/05/11/greek-mercenary-fought-king-england/
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Chaucer Doth Tweet
about 2 months ago
"The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary." -Ursula K. Le Guin, *A War Without End*
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Julianne McShane
about 2 months ago
"One study found that increasing the number of people who receive SNAP benefits by 5 percent could have prevented nearly 32,000 suicides over 15 years. And a $1 increase in minimum wage has been linked to roughly 8,000 fewer suicide deaths over a decade."
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How minimum wage hikes and food stamps fit in to suicide prevention
Studies show income, debt and access to basic needs shape mental health outcomes, but U.S. strategies have largely focused on clinical care.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/05/10/suicide-prevention-poverty-food-wages/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
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Rachel Maddow
about 2 months ago
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CDC’s Full-Time Cruise Ship Inspectors Were Laid Off One Year Ago amid Record Outbreaks: Report
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Vessel Sanitation Program (VSP) experienced significant layoffs almost exactly one year ago despite record outbreaks at the time. A CDC spokesperson te...
https://people.com/cdc-full-time-cruise-ship-inspectors-were-laid-off-one-year-ago-amid-record-outbreaks-report-11969485
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"My Sharona" by The Knack--potentially a ghazal? Discuss.
about 2 months ago
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