Dear friends, As have become a habit, I mark each #autumnequinox by sharing a small poem by Xin Qiji. I also start my translation cycle of Chinese and Japanese poems and prose that mark the twenty-four lunisolar micro-seasons. Translation notes blogged here: #everynightapoem

(personally declining to be raptured because I need to be here for the cain culto brujería drop)

“There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war.It is larger than that.The peace I am thinking of is not at the mercy of history’s rule, nor is it the passive surrender to the status quo … [It] is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.” —TMorrison

Found on my camera roll from @lazz.bsky.social’s screening of “Potential History of Francesc Tosquelles, Catalonia and Fear” a few months ago… Radical psychiatrist Francesc Tosquelles cracks a pun & a smile while dropping the secret to collective life ✨🧀

Buen martes para todos ✨️

Sé que entre todas las palabras, una hay que recordarla o figurarla. El secreto, a mi ver, está en usarla con humildad. Es la palabra luna. www.gaceta.unam.mx/la-luna-un-p...

today in library book stamps

Call for Contributions: postmedieval cluster, “Approaching Premodern Critical Race Studies in Iberia and Latin America” Titles, format of submission, and abstracts of no more than 300 words are due by October 15th, 2025. #CFP #postmedieval #medievalsky #criticalracestudies

Hopescrolling, hopescotching

Man Ray #botd The Rope Dancer Accompanies Herself with Her Shadows 1916

‘small-scaled acts of reconfiguration can torque a fallen idiom from the inside, interrupting the smooth functionality of a world whose obscenity is coded into the very structures of everyday thought and speech… 2/6

one way to combat the enshittification of the internet is to create your own research worlds in an infinitely searchable and scalable platform like zotero with local files + deep annotation. +zotero allows you to make local copies of websites i have folders for each subject of interest...

One book opens another— alchemists proverb

Promoting the idea that higher education is antiquated & failing is a win for corporations bc (1) it gives them a product to sell-ed tech-that will supposedly fix our broken teaching and (2) it deflects attention away from the real problem which is systemic assaults by corporate America on workers.

If you're like me and don't think that generative AI has to be our destiny as faculty, please do avail yourself of this amazing resource.

Hey, friends! I'm working on building up a small "studio" of private Spanish students. You'll find my ad on Superprof below. Please share it with anyone who might be interested. www.superprof.com/spanish-prof... #Spanish #tutoring #Spanishtutor #ELE #languages

“a recent study found that a majority of young people would rather lose their sense of smell than give up their phone or laptop” 😱 (reminded of Michel Serres’ description of smell/taste as a 1st “mouth”, embodied knowledge displaced in the West. metaphysical trad by the 2nd “mouth” of language)

Counterpoint: There is has never been a more urgent time to write a book. Technofascism is, among other things, an attempt to capture and enclose literature and literacy. Print is a rent strike.

Ich weiss jetzt was kein Engel weiss

Escribir poesía después de Gaza.

Pre and post '24 is going to be like world war II deep water shipwreck steel - the only source of non nuclear radiation contaminated steel for sensitive measuring equipment.

Desafío paleográfico. Testamento del año 1581 en Puebla de los Ángeles. Por más que miro no logro descifrar la naturaleza del testador, Hernán Velázquez Gasca. ¿Me echáis un cable? ¡Gracias!

Has anyone checked out the Plato & Co philosophy books for kids? press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Fellow Tucsonans! Watershed Management Group is doing a virtual education and advocacy event tomorrow (7/30) about the proposed, and potentially devastating to our water supply, Project Blue (an Amazon front). Please share! watershedmg.org/event/virtua...

The aside/inside rhyme pair in Anne Carson’s fantastic formulation of the annunciation as an epitaph. Art always inclines towards “heresy”. Even psalms are dangerous to those who police meaning for power.

Bats/Murciélagos en masse, kinda cranky or butterfly-y #medievalsky #medievalart #medievalbestiary #bat #murcielago #animalia #bestiary #bestiario

Really good thread here on why your academic books by the university press cost more than you’d like

Lots of thoughts but I guess I appreciate Bernstein's as a best case version of a pro-AI (assisted! not entirely generated) poetry argument

Interesante toda la conversación, esp. (para mí) el uso de la figura del pícaro para caracterizar la mentalidad española. Refrescante también su rechazo total del carisma personal/intelectual como "principio de la corrupción de la inteligencia"

This little #raven fella over here is on the title page of a German pamphlet from 1604, and he is presented as the author of the publication. And did I mention yet that this raven was well known for being an infamous poet, and that he distributed the printed copies himself? #earlymodern #RavenPoet

🌎🖼️ Call for Papers! 🖼️🌎 Art, Ecology & Empire in the Iberian World RSA 2026 #CFP #ArtHistory #EarlyModern #IberianWorld 1/5

Loving the picture choice in this story I wrote for for @newscientist.com www.newscientist.com/article/2489... Green-headed tanagers are stunning #birds #photography 🧪🪶

ozzy osbourne in famous works of art: thread

In case you haven't seen it, here's our call for the upcoming Forum in Early Modern Women. Consider submitting a short piece on the theme of migrancy! #EarlyModern

Hey there, so I'm starting up a new project, Tucson Essay Club / @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social. We have a substack (our primary mode of publication). If you're connected to or curious about Tucson & literary nonfiction or just like clubs, come and join us: open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...

Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed

Mi artículo sobre la inclusión de los moriscos en clases de literatura con enfoque de justicia social acaba de publicarse en la revista “Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching”. Gracias a las editoras, Ana Méndez, Glenda Nieto y Erin Cowling, por un excelente trabajo.

Yes. 25 years on, I teach differently: I read to them, we read silently together, we have weekly experiments week of setting different situations to read (with/out food, company, music; in/outdoors; varying light; &c) & discuss them. It's made ALL the difference to foreground reading as a process.

“away down south in the land of traitors / rattlesnakes & alligators” (the construction crew next door is rocking out to Tennessee Ernie Ford’s Union Dixie!) 💙 youtu.be/gvjOG5gboFU

“Poems are the impossibility of plainness rendered in plainest form.” —Susan Howe

My new article on "La lengua de Cervantes" is now out in Romance Studies!

a favorite at the Tucson Museum of Art by Tom Palmore, who paints animal portraits "as though they were commissioned by the subject itself" ("Sometimes You Really Like Yourself" - acrylic & oil on canvas - 2016) #bskyart

ASPHS Best Dissertation Prize Call emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/07/10/c...

on DACA & higher ed, by my friend & former colleague Dr. Tania García-Piña: "For an undocumented person, holding a doctoral degree is certainly a remarkable achievement, but in the current landscape faced by higher education & immigrant communities, it has turned into a special kind of challenge."

“For every $1 invested in public libraries, there is a return of at least $4.50.” Be sure to mention this when you call / email your representatives!

a bright spot

there is more demand for college than ever; higher ed is one of the US’s most significant and most $$ exports; universities ARE healthcare; and yet the demolition continues www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/u...

Es el perrito con más posibilidades de la historia de la pintura ¿no?