my mom took tylenol when she was pregnant, which made me super focused on menswear and now i have a million followers on twitter

Go to indivisible.org to find your nearest NO KINGS protest on Oct. 18. Let the world know how many of us choose democracy. OCTOBER 18th! Bring a kazoo.

Last great prose read of the season. Great, dizzying satisfying finish (w/cameo appearance by Las Meninas!) to a summer of lusciously sinking into novels: Another Country, To The Lighthouse, Orbital, plus 3-4 of my old Sara Paretskys sprinkled in for good measure.

Meanwhile, at the University of Chicago... www.insidehighered.com/news/admissi...

College newspapers are doing a terrific job of reporting on the summer attacks on humanities departments and tenure lines (yea Chicago Maroon!). The Daily Emerald discusses plans now taking shape at the U of O. If you know a donor, parent, or trustee, let them know? dailyemerald.com/168880/featu...

Wise words from Weidluch et al: Useful evaluations of ChatGPT's effects on learning require careful design: compare whatever ChatGPT is doing (e.g., personalization) to an equivalent control condition (e.g, a human doing that) & focus on authentic outcome variables #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

What is happening in the UK? What is in the water there?

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

I think Another Country popped up on a Guardian list of summer reads?Grateful. Opened it to wait out a muggy downpour in the East 40s, read it through the night on the plane home. Sublime evocation of NY, of the mid-20th c., of race, jazz, sex, friendship, love; of that threshold: youth to adulthood

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Over 180 opportunities for poetry submissions in July please share this :) www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog... and authorspublish.com/39-themed-su...

Leader Jeffries is delaying by using his “magic minute”. Two hours in so far. You can tune in here 👇🏾 www.youtube.com/live/IH3XSPz...

If you're just joining, Rep Jeffries has been using his "magic minute" to speak for the last 3.5 hrs to delay the vote. The House has far fewer mechanisms to delay the process than the Senate. You can still call your Reps this morning, they haven't voted yet, we don't know how long Jeffries will go.

It is some how better to tell the poor to work harder so they can afford healthcare than to tell the rich to work harder to make up for what they pay in taxes.

Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

OK help me out? I need light, completely absorbing reading for a few long plane flights. Seeking witty prose, any century, Spanish or English.

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 76 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

“Está emergiendo un mundo muy horrible”, advierte señalando el “renacimiento del fascismo”, un fenómeno “tremendamente peligroso” del que también es testigo en Chile, donde han “revivido” discursos como los que promovió la dictadura más de cincuenta años atrás. www.elmostrador.cl/cultura/2025...

Glenn Ivey is in El Salvador, trying to speak to his constituent Kilmar Abrego Garcia, as well as other abductee. This should be the biggest story of the day.

Looking for examples of terza rima in late 20th- and 21st c. Anglophone poetry. Any tips?

Delicious immersion over the long weekend over here in the US. Didn't open my laptop at all yesterday.

One of the ways we can push the needle forward is to keep our media ACCOUNTABLE. We need a truly free and fair press. If you’re in DENVER, ATLANTA or MANHATTAN, please join the Fox Takedown protests ❤️‍🔥👇 #FoxTakedown #50501Movement

Consider the marvelous opening of "The Goddess Who Created This Passing World" (you can find it on the Poetry Foundation site). I love to teach those lines to illustrate enjambment, alliteration, assonance, and poetry in motion.

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 64 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

Good morning

Measured, eloquent, devastating.

Always a beautiful thing to see the Berkshire Eagle singled out for doing what newspapers should do best. Rock on, Berkshires.

New book alert! An English translation of 17thC literary & archival materials on Catalina/Antonio de Erauso.

We extended our deadline for general submissions to the Hispanic issue. Send us your work! mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mln

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 46 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

Got to talk about Emergency in Transit w Miranda Melcher on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social -- thanks for the conversation! Here's the episode newbooksnetwork.com/emergency-in... The open-access book is here www.ucpress.edu/books/emerge... @ucpress.bsky.social @uogsl.bsky.social @uocas.bsky.social

All rail traffic in Spain has been halted after widespread power outages. Parts of Portugal and southwest France have also been hit with blackouts. Follow live updates: cnn.it/4cRreTF

This is happening and it's beautiful. Thank you Senator Booker and Representative Jeffries.

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 43 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

I'll be launching a new culture podcast this summer. Music. Literature. Film. Visual art. (Wordplay!) And all the rest. I'll look at where the arts currently stand and where they might be going. Possible title: Fate of the Arts.

Finally got to Lucy Alford on my stack of "must reads" (I know...I know...shoulda gotten there sooner), and it's another of those Books I Have Been Waiting For...right up there with my first read of Poetry and the Fate of the Senses, or The Sighted Singer, or Post-Petrarchism. That kind of great.

If you are an artist or someone who had an NEH grant rescinded and are open to being interviewed about this for ARTnews, I can be reached on Signal at karenkho.45

“A new humanities department survey (HDS) demonstrates both the challenges the field faces today and the resilience of many departments in the face of those difficulties.” bit.ly/HDS4_Intro

@eleanorbpaynter.net needs to know this

A morning of drinking coffee and remembering there is still a lot of great stuff out there to enjoy.

Once again, it’s critical to say here that Republicans in Congress endorse this with their silence