I can vouch for this family in need. The father was deported by ICE. Mother & 3 kids here with no income. Please consider donating or sharing this link: gofund.me/2745d7b00

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@marcusluther.bsky.social I used your “Where I’m From” Gallery Walk lesson this week. Students noticed how much they shared as a community. They were inspired to return to their own poems after witnessing other poems. Thank you!

Good morning! Poetry is resistance. 🔥

Hanging Loose history. Please send us your best work.

Okay, so let's do officially do this! a slow-read of Macbeth with Sunday discussion threads starting November 23rd! #SundayMacbethChat Everyone's welcome! And just like Beloved, I am definitely going to be looking at this with very-fresh (i.e. humble) eyes! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Also, a student submitted a short story in which the main character is inexplicably named, “Beet.” Automatic A.

After a taste of Krasznahorhai, cleanse your palate with this tasty treat: www.ndbooks.com/book/the-eng... And then, like me, buy all the storybook nd editions, because, yes, please.

For the Krasznahorkai kurious, try this lovely slice of his world: www.ndbooks.com/book/spadewo...

For the Krasznahorhai kurious: I recommend this lovely edition:

Middle age revelations: butter beans and lima beans are the same bean. One bean. Two names. 🤯 While a butter bean is a lima bean, a lima bean is not a butter bean. Clearly. As you were.

Teacher trick jkkelleywritenow.blogspot.com/2025/08/teac...

Sad to sell: David Byrne in Boston my.ticketmaster.com/ds/vQGAANoWJ...

Day 3 of school: Ms. K, what are you drinking? *It’s fresh brewed mint tea (in a mason jar). It looks like a beer! *Oh! Definitely report any teacher drinking a beer in class. If I were a teacher, I’d be drinking a beer. #buildingcommunity #somuchtounpack

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Once again, Massachusetts has more public high schools ranked in the top 25 percent of the US News & World Report Best High Schools list than any other state in the country. trib.al/Wd4FD6h

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We spent a magical week with our 4th year of Summer Camp in Transylvania. We bring the American games and the kids bring the joy. Thanks to @orsolya.szekely.92 @bpwease @imre7703 @GyőriKrisztina @barabasi and the exceptional team at Szászváros @csaladmenyhart !

A solution. Respect.

Teacher Tip: Add your school calendar to your iPhone Home Screen. jkkelleywritenow.blogspot.com/2025/08/teac...

What was your favorite text from English class? My favorite text was "10 Reasons Why Fathers Cry at Night" by Kwame Alexander. The text illustrates the struggles fathers face as their daughters journey through life. It reminded me of my own father. . . he does not live with me. Instead he is 6,000

Another big FU from Harvard… free online courses on the US government, the US constitution, civic engagement, and more. pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

“BRING HIM HOME” 🔥

Dear metaverse, this is historical fact.

“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).

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Every time I read The Great Gatsby, the final paragraph brings me to tears. Breathtakingly powerful writing:

I am accepting submissions for my emerging writer series at gay.submittable.com. You should have three publications or fewer and no book contract. Yes, this is a paid opportunity. Guidelines at the link. Plz follow the guidelines.

Why do we sentimentalise Agnes Denes’s most famous artwork, recently revived among feminist and ecological discourse, and where has this led us? artreview.com/youre-missin...

Poets, proseists: I need your recs for a math poem please. One that sees the beauty in math, that celebrates math, that breaks your heart with math ➗

Most Creative Writing Teacher (who owns a Tesla) Thing Ever goes to my new custom-ordered bumper sticker. #abdurraqib #hanifabdurraquib

My trainer greeted me in Russian at the gym. “Got to practice now that we’re owned by Russia.” I’ve worked with him for 6 years, he’s not the most political guy.

“I am slit top to bottom with jokes.” —Munro

I custom ordered my resistance bumper sticker for my Tesla. It has an image of Nikola Tesla and says: IT'S NOT LIKE NIKOLA TESLA KNEW ALL OF THOSE PEOPLE WERE GOING TO DIE. Thanks, Hanif Abdurraquib. A Fortune for Your Disaster.

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2025: Visual Metaphor

To be a Flower, is profound / Responsibility—

At 4pm EST today, @roxanegay.bsky.social and I will read some new work and discuss creative nonfiction! I’m so excited about this event series. I’m collaborating with friends and mentors like Roxane all semester. Join us via zoom: harvard.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

“In the dark times / will there also be singing? / Yes, there will also be singing. / About the dark times.” Bertolt Brecht

And Lyle, perchance? ⛅️

Governor Maura Healey signed an executive order to establish a poet laureate of Massachusetts. Prior to this announcement, Massachusetts was one of just three states, along with New Jersey and Pennsylvania, without one. trib.al/y0SD8BO

This headline is incorrect. When you are shocked because it’s your people on board, the headline is a good place to focus. #kansas #potomac