Labor unions gathered for a solidarity rally outside Delaney Hall ice detention center today. People detained inside are on day 10 of a labor strike.

lesbianism is all fun and games until your wife is making you watch the piper parabo mischa barton lesbian hawk-keeping boarding school movie

drove past a house in bucks county with a sign that read NEW HOT TUB OWNER on the front lawn. No matter how long I live in America it never stops surprising me

how it’s going: my fearsome spiky monster is now a perfect beauty

most everything that is bad today (much to choose from) can be temporarily forgotten by picking some little flowers and arranging them in little vases

"All of this is a colossal and entirely avoidable act of self-harm on the part of a country whose higher education sector has until recently been one of the few things it had going for it." newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Tristram Fane Saunders on the Michael Marks shortlist. Hugh Foley "writes with an ironic, self-critical intelligence"; special mention of his beautiful long poem about fatherhood with its Coleridgey title www.the-tls.com/literature/p...

I’m at the vegan cheesesteak cookout, I’m at the Kurt Vile release party, I’m at the combination vegan cheesesteak cookout and Kurt Vile release party

new AI proof industry just dropped

new history of leftist poetry about to drop !!

things repeating on the screens at the DMV: cursèd recipes; missing person alerts from literally 1978; endless photos of Hudson Williams (?); tourism ads for Sydney Australia

Teaching students to avoid "bothering" their teachers stops learning in its tracks, undercuts essential social development, and trains kids not to seek help (from people) when they need it. Its sole function is to enable higher student-teacher ratios. @aft.org promoting this is sick and sickening.

After transitioning more than 20 years ago, never once having a problem in a public toilet in any of the 15+ countries I have visited or lived in since, it really is jarring to have the government encourage my total removal from public life. But I will not change how I live at all.

"none of my texts have used AI except the ones that have used AI"

a year ago I carried a rose cutting from a friend’s community garden in west harlem home on the Amtrak; today she bloomed for the first time

the Guardian's 100 best whatever and the discourse around it (who cares) makes me so grateful to study Poetry: The Ancient And Noble Form That Nobody Reads Or Cares About

obviously it's just engagement bait, but presenting a list of 100 novels as "the greatest literature" is indeed…symptomatic. Perhaps they would enjoy this slide I made for my intro students

progress report. She’s so large I’m a little afraid of her. My hefty progeny. My fearsome creation

the thing about tenure line professors forming Pennsylvania’s largest public sector union in 50 years is unions are for everybody!! profs are public servants! and we're doing all the big publics! we're doing Urbana we're doing Michigan we're doing California! www.statecollege.com/articles/psu...

framing llm use as "cheating" misses the point and understates the way these apps have embedded themselves in every part of students' (our) lives. why wouldn't you use it for an essay, when you ask it to tell you what to order and what to text your boyfriend and how to make a grilled cheese?

on sabbatical until January: there will be no calls, there will be no emails, there will only be terrifyingly large pots

Courtney Barnett bringing Kurt Vile out for a surprise song last night was so sweet; both a big Philly moment and a big moment for the real Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name: lesbians and their weird weird dudes

We proposed this before the Canvas outage, but we’d like to thank the Canvas hackers for driving home the need for this language: "Provided instructors are meeting accessibility and pedagogical needs, faculty shall NOT be required to use ed-technologu." Full proposal here: https://loom.ly/rBZQFeA

grading finals for my queer poetry seminar: a student rewrote a Whitman poem (In Paths Untrodden) in Polari. My work here is so done

wife described Wes Streeting as having "the face of the last potato on the shelf, with the political instincts to match."

And happy mother’s day from Sylvia Plath: You are the one Solid the spaces lean on, envious. You are the baby in the barn. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49006/...

happy mother’s day from Chantal Akerman

watched a dude just now fully scrolling his phone while driving *a truck* and cannot think we are anything other than cooked

a gem from the LRB’s election coverage

I love watching the Calder Gardens in Philly fill out. Turn every weird strip of land by a highway into a sculpture museum and a public park 🤘

Everyone should read this magisterial book by @kristingrogan.bsky.social!

delighted to see Hugh Foley’s pamphlet Recent Poems written about here:

meh gala, parade of the most uninspired gowns ever sewn. the ruling class modeling recession indicator aesthetics. Only thing worth seeing is the miracle of engineering holding up doechii’s nipple

“this is still what we do as people who write poetry — we are not renouncing this desire that is poetry by recognizing that politics sometimes wants other things of us. And it may be that we feel the need to engage the present situation with poems”

lovely to be read so well, thank you @johnattridge.bsky.social !!

obv some irony — or poetry, har har — in this given Spahr’s (excellent) recent work on poetry’s toxic and insular prize culture, but sometimes when the actually good shit, the real Marxist shit, the brilliant later work of a brilliant long career wins there’s no reason not to celebrate !!!!!!!!!

liberated myself from the tyranny of the wheel and have never been happier

happy May Day from Muriel Rukeyser: How many are we? We'll be everyone.

mediator for messy lesbian divorces called an Ombudsthem. Is this anything

one more class of semester left; today a student gave me a tiny tree

I have a new article out with TSQ today that thinks about gender nonconforming figures inside colonial romances like /Hope Leslie/. I'm asking, why do these stories imagine trans figures? What are they for, and who benefits? How do trans literary historians grapple with our colonial inheritances?

lifted 10,000 lbs; planted out a bare root rose. They’re calling her the world’s most sabbatical-ready woman

narcissus poeticus, the poet’s daffodil, makes her late entrance

"Poetry has a uniquely fraught relationship with capitalism’s values of hard work, usefulness, and productivity: that was my starting point." Read an interview w/ Kristin Grogan about her book, STITCH, UNSTITCH. buff.ly/Xm70SlH @kristingrogan.bsky.social #ModernistLatitudes @columbiaup.bsky.social

I went on This Guy Sucked to talk about a guy who sucked: Ezra Pound. 20 minute preview; full thing subscriber only; I hope you haters enjoy @ceaubin.com . @thisguysucked.com podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Kit's Pound chapter in Stitch, Unstitch is virtuosic & now we have a shit-talking podcast to accompany it! Check out This Guy Sucked--one of my favorite podcasts

I went on This Guy Sucked to talk about a guy who sucked: Ezra Pound. 20 minute preview; full thing subscriber only; I hope you haters enjoy @ceaubin.com . @thisguysucked.com podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...