the philadelphia eagles are blessed by the angels and graced by the light of heaven. i'm sorry if this offends you but it is demonstrably true

@johannawinant.bsky.social is in oregon but her dahlias are blooming in pennsylvania

today outside the Rutgers English department: two mini hand-presses printing Hopkins poems and neat little postcards for Type-High Day, 9/18, the height of piece of moveable type 😍😍

More humanities jobs at SUNY- Binghamton this fall!!!!! 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 My own department, English, is looking for a creative writer and is running a TT search in Poetry (specialization otherwise open). Please share the job ad widely if you know of anyone good! Send us your poets!

Read this book!

everyone else apologizes for continuing to hawk their book. well not me. does a weed apologize for growing. does a ghost apologize for haunting the manor. does a dog who won't stop barking apologize for continuing to bark

this is your annual reminder to please take off your hetero-imitative frogskin and dance to a lesbian/gay spirit

It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.

women don't want AI we want public transit and the Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud

this afternoon's teaching prep/prop. Get in loser we're teaching close reading with the Rider Waite deck

NJ students in grades 6-12 will now learn about “the history of organized labor, notable strikes throughout history, unionization drives, and the collective bargaining process and existing legal protections in the workplace.” This is genuinely so important, and so good to see. Jersey strong, baby!!

bishop/lowell day:

I’m convinced that people generally want much more intellectually interesting content than most media producers want to provide

Someone is misquoting Janet Malcolm in my neighborhood!!!! Art is armed robbery and don’t you forget it

"This book recasts the work of poetry and the poetry of work." -- Evie Shockley For #LaborDay: STITCH, UNSTITCH: MODERNIST POETRY & THE WORLD OF WORK, by Kristin Grogan bit.ly/4opXLp8 @kristingrogan.bsky.social #ModernistLatitudes @columbiaup.bsky.social

Yvette Cooper looked at current British asylum policies and thought, what we need is for *more* children to die in the English Channel

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anyone commuting between Newark/Wilmington and Philly tomorrow, just fyi the beautiful clear reverse commute before 8 am is gone. took me 75 minutes to get to work today. bout to call some Republicans and promise to vote for them if they change their mind and fund SEPTA

if I have to be bullied by Janet Malcolm this Monday morning then so do you: “We all invent ourselves, but some of us are more persuaded than others by the fiction that we are interesting.”

Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year. Y'all this isn't sustainable.

on the first day of septa cuts, my local bus routes are all posting ~40mins or more wait between buses. I’m so fucking bummed, man

goodbye Smith, thanks for the haunting encounter with Sylvia Plath’s psyche (and the fun sticker)

hey modernists (and not really modernists) if you're going to MSA in Boston, consider signing up to the seminar Brian and I are running on ✨relational uncertainty✨. It's about why people are messes and why that's productive for art and theorizing @glavey.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social

someone has been placing mysterious cairns along the robert frost trail

a normal archival day with Sylvia Plath’s copy of Doctor Spock

gather round children for my one tried and true staying sane on an archival trip tip: when the library closes for the day, find a body of water and throw yourself right in

hey modernists (and not really modernists) if you're going to MSA in Boston, consider signing up to the seminar Brian and I are running on ✨relational uncertainty✨. It's about why people are messes and why that's productive for art and theorizing @glavey.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social

pls RT, modernists - CFP now out for 'Weird Modernisms', the collaborative conference between @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social ! July 2026, Loughborough University. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

traveling for a week just as the first dahlias open. O ye cruel garden gods!

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

"is there language teaching that we can do via ChatGPT" is the last thing you hear before you die

hello fellow citizens of the country of Philadelphia, have you urged your representatives to do their goddamn jobs and fully fund SEPTA today??? savesepta.com

maybe the close reading was the vibes we checked along the way

this sign remembering Frank Kameny and Barbara Gittings is opposite the fanciest Wawa in the city, and I think that’s beautiful

i love to be a Professor of Poetry

super delighted to have signed a contract with Amherst College Press for a little book on Sylvia Plath’s Ariel, a book I cannot stop reading and thinking about and troubling over

We're so delighted to have @kristingrogan.bsky.social 's brilliance for Re/Verse!!! (co-editors @glavey.bsky.social, @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social, and I have a couple more amazing books in the pipeline too)

super delighted to have signed a contract with Amherst College Press for a little book on Sylvia Plath’s Ariel, a book I cannot stop reading and thinking about and troubling over

I love demos of this scale. I love demos that are a practice of everyday life. I want to memorialize acts like this, generalize them, make them just what we’re doing all the time.

entirely enthralled by the shuttered Rite Aid, had to physically restrain myself from buying all the fixtures and setting up a Rite Aid in my basement, like seeing inside capitalism’s small intestine

After Bill Clinton’s 108-year presidency, no one dared follow for 16 years. Until Climon

arrived back in Philly to a box full of copies of my book: the very best welcome-home present 💗 Official release date is later this month, but you can buy for 20% off with the code CUP20: bit.ly/4opXLp8 -#modernistlatitudes @columbiaup.bsky.social @philipleventhal.bsky.social

oh my god we are setting the world on fire and taking a wrecking ball to universities and hospitals and governments for a machine that will invent a president named Climon

put on a pair of overalls last worn in the spring; pockets full of loose calendula seeds

run don’t walk!!!

arrived back in Philly to a box full of copies of my book: the very best welcome-home present 💗 Official release date is later this month, but you can buy for 20% off with the code CUP20: bit.ly/4opXLp8 -#modernistlatitudes @columbiaup.bsky.social @philipleventhal.bsky.social

in six years Rutgers never chased an overdue library book (I have some that have been out for years) until I borrowed Wittgenstein in Cambridge, which they've been pursuing with the passion of its namesake, and which they have declared Lost, and every day I get an email about my Lost Wittgenstein

Now Available! STITCH, UNSTITCH: MODERNIST POETRY & THE WORLD OF WORK, by Kristin Grogan. Use the couple code CUP20 and save 20%! bit.ly/4opXLp8 #ModernistLatitudes @columbiaup.bsky.social

AI is speed-up dot org

Stop doing this! Whoever is paying @timeshighered.bsky.social‬ for story after story is also funding environmental vandalism on a catastrophic scale. This isn't journalism, it's naive ethical bankruptcy - and intellectually and pedagogically obtuse.