Not a penny to make life more affordable for American families, but $70 BILLION for ICE to terrorize our communities.

As an Americanist, it always strikes me how many people are unaware of the violence and animosity between Christian groups that necessitated separation of church and state. I think we're about to get a good reminder of that!

📣NEW CFP📣 for Vol. 4, Issue 2 of Shirley Jackson Studies! Our theme for this issue is "Bodies and Embodiment." Abstracts due May 31st. shirleyjacksonstudies.org?page_id=35

"This year we’re kicking underwire to the curb. / This year we’re breaking up with cup spillage. "--"The Algorithm Sells Me a New Bra" by @emilyabanks.bsky.social, Winter Online Exclusive Featured art: "Embrace" by Rachel Hall. newohioreview.org/2025/11/07/t...

"I can make anyone / tell me everything / I want to hear / for a night."--"Riddle" by @emilyabanks.bsky.social newohioreview.org/2025/11/08/r...

We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege

Watching Stranger Things like WHO TF IS MADELINE

✨ New CFP ✨ We're planning for two panels at the American Literature Association's annual conference in Chicago, May 20-23. Submit abstracts for "Jackson in an Age of Anxiety" and "Jackson and Animality" by January 15th. americanliteratureassociation.org/wp-content/u...

DEADLINE EXTENDED! Submit by February 1st.

Two new poems in @newohioreview.bsky.social! newohioreview.org/2025/11/07/t... newohioreview.org/2025/11/08/r...

The absolute joy I feel when I start reading a student's paper and encounter the normal grammatical errors.

Also, all you profs who were grading strictly on grammar and style, I hope you're happy! I'm at a point where I basically cry tears of joy when I see a paragraph full of comma splices, misplaced modifers, and Edgar "Allen" Poe.

I am sorry that I ever complained about grading before AI. Please can we just have that back I'll be so much more grateful

🤡New Shirely Jackson Studies CFP!!!🎃 Submit your abstract for Vol. 4, Issue 1, "Jackson and Animality" by December 15th! shirleyjacksonstudies.org?page_id=35

Reasons to Teach High School English when the World is on Fire Black girls in advanced academics who write literary analyses about “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Queer kids who call the English Department The Fruit Factory. Allowables and Legacies by Nikki Giovanni.

Anti-Zionism is antisemitism, game 2 of the Yankees v. Red Sox Wild Card series on Yom Kippur is antisemitism, all deadlines this week are antisemitism.

That first sin after tashlich feels like an impulse purchase when you've just paid your credit card bill, I'll face that next cycle

We live in a country where the president can order a comedian to be yanked off TV. What I describe is not a democracy.

Interested in joining an SSAG roundtable on Shirley Jackson's The Witchcraft of Salem Village this March? Email [email protected] with a few sentences on what you'd like to talk about by next Monday, 9/22! ~5 minute presentations followed by discussion. americangothicsociety.com/symposium/

its 2026. the only legal jobs are ICE agent, AI server farm maintenance, and beef tallow renderer

Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nature” (1836)

Hurting a poet is soo funny like throwing free sacks of flour at a baker

I love my job it is my dream job I would have done unspeakable things for it but changing a schedule from MTRF-->MWF is absolute hell

*Academics in early August

On the latest @craftworkpod.bsky.social episode, @miriamricher.bsky.social & I had a great conversation with @emilyabanks.bsky.social about creative process, craft, and her amazing poetry collection, Mother Water. tinyurl.com/572zhet3

I loved chatting with Miriam and Mike on @craftworkpod.bsky.social!

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

ngl he kind of went off with "Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret"

I'm still seeking another panelist for Shirley Jackson: Memory and Forgetting at PAMLA in November! Submit below or let me know if you're interested. pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19720

I'm just so confused on what other context you'd hear Shylock used in.

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —The Declaration of Independence

better lyrics than katy perry

last day to submit an abstract for PAMLA! memory and forgetting!

Don't forget! Abstracts for our PAMLA 2025 panel, "Shirley Jackson: Memory and Forgetting," are due June 30th. I hope some of you will join us November 20th-23d in San Francisco. 🌉🦭🌞 Follow this link to submit your proposal: pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19720

Four days! Let's get anxious!

✨Deadline extended!✨ We are now accepting proposals for Vol. 3, Issue 2 of Shirley Jackson Studies, "Jackson in an Age of Anxiety," until June 15th. Details here: shirleyjacksonstudies.org?page_id=35

Today as I was unthinkingly bobbing my head to music at an event another prof came up and told me, "I see you are starting to dance a little." You guys we canNOT let more white people into this country

TWO NEW CFPs!!!! *Shirley Jackson Studies 3.2 - Jackson in an Age of Anxiety - abstracts due May 30th! shirleyjacksonstudies.org?page_id=35 *PAMLA 2025, November 20-23 in San Francisco - Shirley Jackson: Memory and Forgetting - abstracts due June 30th! pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19720

Going to become a millionaire with an OF that's just me parallel parking

Kids today using ChatGPT to create images of their future families with random boys... y'all will never know the struggle of Morphthing

Despite seeing several people I totally trust say this was real I still felt I had to verify it with my own eyes. And having done so I still can't believe it's real.

The whole "kids need to read the Bible in school" thing is hilarious to me because every day I am explaining the most basic biblical allusions to kids from devout Christian homes. Maybe you people should start teaching the Bible in church!

This aired on 60 Minutes tonight. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJo1...

I too am one group chat reveal away from professional annihilation.

"Astrology isn't real" okay but Pete Hegseth is a Gemini

📣 We are excited to announce the release of Shirley Jackson Studies Volume 2, Issue 2: Jackson & Folklore! 📣 This issue features illuminating articles by @amycoles.bsky.social, Margherita Orsi, @soniaoverall.bsky.social, and Candice Bailey. Read it here: shirleyjacksonstudies.org?page_id=381

I'm just really not in the Tax Day spirit this year