"Trembling between origin and origin thought sheds its language skin and the old I thins into blades of seeing." #TodaysPoem #poetry Shuttle by Noah Warren (@nowarwarren.bsky.social) (2025 Academy of American Poets) tinyurl.com/53b9hnk8

Andrew Cuomo is an amazing candidate if you want NYC's next mayor to be a white guy who says the n-word "slowly and with a hard r."

Last month I delivered a talk on psychoanalysis and poetry at Saint Mark's Church. Today, it appears in the @parisreview.bsky.social. I wrote it at JClo's house, and he makes a cameo: www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/05...

I wrote about my old friend Joshua Clover: elizabethmccracken.substack.com/p/so-blue-co...

“April is the seduction of the world. And yet.” — Joshua Clover (RIP)

The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again. This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.

"Can you imagine the resolve, the patience, and the extremes of pedagogical inventiveness necessary to keep lessons lively rather than rote, to make... the enterprise of learning how to write a scene of curiosity, imagination, even nourishment?" www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

catch @henricole.bsky.social in the john dewey lounge tomorrow, 2/26 at 6pm

today is the one year anniversary since aaron bushnell self-immolated in a final, desperate attempt to stop genocide and liberate palestine once and for all. he will never be forgotten. the fight he took his life to force people to notice lives on.

The University of Illinois Chicago may be dissolving its School of Literatures, Cultural Studies and Linguistics in the coming weeks and terminating all of the school’s nontenured faculty at the end of the academic year.

i am once again thinking about snow (and laura palmer)

[Walt Whitman tries to tell a joke] A priest, rabbi, and minister walk into a bar, sailor-men, merchant-men, walk into a bar, Workmen and Workwomen! into a bar, Blacksmiths with grimed and hairy chests, the carpenter dressing his plank, president and prostitute walk into a b

Not even the best satire writer in the world could have come up with “Red, White, and Blueland”

my take on the caspar david friedrich exhibit is that the oils are pure camp but magic still comes through in the brown ink drawings, which are magnificent & autistic

had the real pleasure of writing about Aria Aber’s GOOD GIRL for the @nytimesbooks.bsky.social. I've deeply admired her poems for years, & this is her debut novel, out this week 🖤 www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/b...

rave for @ariamisha.bsky.social's GOOD GIRL at the @latimes.com this morning Once in a blue moon a debut novel comes along, announcing a voice quite unlike any other, with a layered story and sentences that crackle and pop, begging to be read aloud www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

hyperinflation in the us bc of orangeman's deranged fiscal policy would be a dream outcome would rapidly erode existing wealth (billionaires, banks) and vaporize debt loads (global south, student debt, the poor)

BREAKING NEWS: New fast-moving fire erupts in Hollywood Hills near Runyon Canyon https://abc7.la/3C2joZi

Hollywood High School will serve as an evacuation site for the Sunset fire in Hollywood, KTLA reported. The school is at 1521 Highland Ave. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Here’s my conversation with writer Isabella Hammad about her book “Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative.” It’s based on a lecture she gave at Columbia University nine days before October 7, 2023.

famous bodega rat @ariamisha.bsky.social's grub street diet just dropped www.grubstreet.com/article/aria...

one of our best

biden wins this election in a blowout if he pardons the shooter

talleyrand-ass political discourse. this is what they took from us

as the days get darker, as fascism spreads its tentacles into our institutions, as stolen wealth accumulate ever upwards, as transphobia, nativism & racism get baked into policy and law, i can't help but wonder: What were Obama's favorite songs of the year?

Everyone who has witnessed addiction and recovery up close knows that sobriety always sticks when it is offered as a transactional gamble to get yourself out of embarrassment or trouble.

oh it’s over over @ucberkeleyenglish.bsky.social

fiddling on the foredeck till the icebergs claim me www.insidehighered.com/news/admissi...

“He was walking on a quiet day with his 32-year-old son, and a small drone appeared and shot his son in the head. He told us two men rushed in to help his son, and the drone shot them, too. One of those men was killed along with Shakfa's son.” www.npr.org/2024/11/20/n...

double portrait in a convex mirror (trash)

little revolutionary cemetery in the woods

one semester a year is plenty actually

I made a starter pack. You’re welcome. You looked like you needed a win.

new fady joudah Everyone one was fleeing, but he kept with his prayers, felt only peace. Then peace began to shake.

“They were trying to evacuate from the north to the south, when they were stopped at a checkpoint with a lot of others. Mosab was ordered to put his son down and then the army grabbed him, along with a lot of other men, 200, his wife said. His wife has not heard from him since.”

i figured out what the lyric is* *wrote about sara nicholson

new poem in @thenation.com

wrote a note about lg for Agni agnionline.bu.edu/blog/in-memo...

he walked so joe could run

Given the environmental cost of Chat GPT and the human cost also these little games are hugely expensive and not at all the harmless joke you think you’re having with a machine. It is like using a firing range with humans holding the targets so you can’t see their faces.