Good morning with Adam Zagajewski with this prayer for today Give us astonishment and a flame, high, bright

PLEASE SHARE WIDELY The Border is Everywhere: A Call to Conscience, Solidarity, and Resistance “The traditions of the oppressed teach us that the state of emergency in which we live is not the exception, but the rule” Walter Benjamin (1940) @witnessborder.bsky.social

conversation with a friend about reviewer #2 reminded me of this perfect skeet

If you are preparing courses for January and need free premodern Iberian texts (translated into Spanish or English), with intros and notes, check out the 22 (and counting) open-access teaching units at openiberiaamerica.hcommons.org

Super happy to announce that our open access edited handbook for language educators has been published! opentextbooks.library.arizona.edu/handbookappl... Ten chapters from wonderful contributors, with exercises in a number of languages. Take a look!

may I recommend writing a book review? it's fast, it's useful, it's a good thing to do. if it's an academic review, just look up the book review editor for a journal where you'd like to publish and pitch a review of a book that came out in the last few years or is forthcoming

What the resurgence of a medieval literary genre reveals about contemporary Latin America & Spain - this new book on bestiaries looks great! "From Griffin to Axolotl: Reimagining the Bestiary in Contemporary Hispanic Literature" by Ailén Cruz www.mqup.ca/Books/F/From...

“Si quieres saber qué atrocidad sartorial del siglo XVII puede hacernos pensar en Arturo Pérez Reverte, Javier Marías y las Real Housewives de Salt Lake City, todo a la vez, dale corriendo a play.” 💀 (¡nuevo episodio de las Hijas de Felipe!) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

A few weeks ago Tracy K. Smith was here and read aloud her erasure poem from the Declaration of Independence www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147468...

My most/least favorite thing about this book is that it includes a blank chapter in the TOC & the book itself in honor of the many contributors who ultimately didn’t contribute. Grateful to all who told and tell their stories. Thinking even more about those who can’t. sunypress.edu/Books/B/Brok...

“In other words, the line break (however long it lasts) is not the absence of notation but rather the notation of a specific, echoing absence” (from the Granta cluster on punctuation) granta.com/breaking-poi...

"Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism" is quite poetic in itself

but can they help write my section of the departmental self study?

For #UPWeek I teamed up w/ Alec Loganbill, my co-chair of the @aupresses.bsky.social Fac Outreach Cmte, to write tips on publishing yr 1st book for Higher Ed Jobs. Tip 1: Don't Go It Alone! Pub'ing is more collaborative than it seems & resources abound. #TeamUP www.higheredjobs.com/Articles/art...

Peg stilts: if you don’t keep moving, you fall down! After having been up on stilts for the first time a few weeks ago, I’m having a whole kinesthetic reaction to this painting, on striving & the fickleness of Fortune, shadowy lady in the window.

Francisco de Goya, The Stilts (Los zancos), c. 1791 (Museo del Prado)

This looks great! I've been wondering about connections between fencing, drilling & the codification of dance in early modern court culture. (If you're an editor looking for a review from that angle, hmu!) boydellandbrewer.com/book/dance-e...

Also known as "Celestina, Italian, 1505".

Apply! Astronomy! The Adler! At The Newberry! The Celestial Imagination in Indigenous and Early Modern Worlds: mailchi.mp/1222ede5b9c6...

¡Oh, la historia! Una desdichada homonimia propia de la lengua española designa con la misma voz la experiencia vivida, su relato fiel, su ficción mentirosa y su explicación sabia.

“When people sense that power is beyond challenge, they redirect their energy into trivial disputes. And those trivialities, collectively, are enough to erode a society’s very foundations of justice.”

la luna nueva ella también la mira desde otra puerta

notes of gunpowder & ginger & saffron & seaweed (I love this prompt!)

“Creo realmente q ejercer esta capacidad equivale a levantar una barricada ante la aplastante y violenta certidumbre del fascismo. Si no reivindicara la potencia de la literatura…ese dinamismo, ese espesor…ese zumbido o estallido q provoca un texto alucinante, no haría crítica literaria (para qué).”

Un fanzine de fuentes históricas con mucho mucho spicy (véase ejemplo) El fanzine incluye las cartas transcritas y la información para consultar los originales online Hazte con él por solo 6 leros envío incluido (para España, si es en otro sitio tengo que preguntar en correos)

crafting an administrative turducken: reporting on the reports to be reported inside a larger, meatier report

many things are bad but the new Thomas Pynchon looks great

FYI happening this Thursday—free and open to all. Just click the link to register. Featuring @dwcongdon.com, @dawnd.bsky.social, and Alyssa Napier talking all things diss to book—what’s the diff b/w them, how to find a press/approach an editor, tips for proposal writing. Join us & spread the word!

Trump’s proposed “compact” with the selected institutions “demands a near-complete surrender of core academic freedoms of the university.” balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

“The dialectic of enlightenment: all this loot, all this beauty, all this murder”

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.