I know this is insignificant, but why did the periods after Vance's two-initial-firstname go away in the NYT in the past year?

Truly. Everyone I know who went to Hampshire is smart and weird, and I worry-- for this and many other reasons-- that we are building a version of higher education that simply has no place for the smart and the weird.

If only every month were national poetry month? While we work on that, check out this list of CUP books by @kristingrogan.bsky.social and @xenoglossic.bsky.social and @johannawinant.bsky.social and @afilreis.bsky.social and yours truly. 🤩

A huge loss, a bad sign. Plus the elimination of Hampshire College means an end to one of the best things about Hampshire: getting to take classes there on UMass tuition. (I did, all the sweeter for having been accepted to but not being able to afford Hampshire.) RIP “the Five Colleges.”

tfw when you offer to recite all of “The Moose” for your second grader over pancakes and he says politely, with his mouth full, “no thanks, I’m good.“

for your consideration: sharing a press with sweet friends and beautiful geniuses @johannawinant.bsky.social @keegancf.bsky.social

For example, me, I will zoom into your classes to talk! My essay here is about "Apostrophe, Animation, and Abortion;" how Johnson uses Judith Jarvis Thomson's famous violinist thought experiment, and what that shows us about Johnson's famous undecidability (that actually she's made some decisions)

if you’re a subscriber I’d love some takes on the bonus audio…

Don't miss today's conversation with poet Joan Naviyuk Kane about her latest collection "with snow pouring southward past the window" Audio📻❄️: milkweed.org/between-the-... @upittpress.bsky.social @naviyuk.bsky.social @milkweededitions.bsky.social @guggfellows.bsky.social

In a desperate attempt to look forward to something: I'm making official Relatability shirts to promote my book--and you could be wearing one in the very near future! I'll send one out to the first 10 people to preorder the book and let me know about it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

The couple in this week's Guardian Blind Dates didn't work out but Jack sounds *perfect* for my sister. She's a vegan geography teacher who lives just outside Manchester, spends a lot of time outdoors, & is basically his age. Can the internet do its thing?! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

the official pub date for LYRIC LOGIC is Saturday, April 18, which is also the day before my daughter's birthday, and I'm going to finish memorizing "The Moose" by then

I think I'm pretty solid through stanza twenty now and already sad that the end is coming into view

for ease of navigating, and because you don't want to miss it, here's @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social 's essay yalereview.org/article/kamr...

happy national poetry month from my kid's class; they are basically right about poems

"Technical and buoyant in equal measure, LYRIC LOGIC ... is a pleasure to think with."-- Oren Izenberg Now available: LYRIC LOGIC: HOW MODERN AMERICAN POETRY REASONS, by Johanna Winant. Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20%! bit.ly/4duLXyW @johannawinant.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

there's no first person at all until stanza fourteen, almost halfway through the poem

for national poetry month (which is every month if you're living right) here's a q&a for the @columbiaup.bsky.social blog about my book, STITCH, UNSTITCH: cupblog.org/2026/04/07/k...

You are a senator.

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up through stanza eleven; it's sustaining me

I'm six stanzas in and I have already learned so much about this poem that I thought I knew so well.

When I find something good, I never keep it to myself!!! Upon reading Sarah Mesle's REASONS & FEELINGS, I understood it as a three-way mirror. I saw myself and my surroundings—the university and far beyond it—more clearly than ever before. Everything we value is under attack, so I wanted others …

I posted this and then bluesky wouldn't load for an hour

ride or die for matzo brei

Just finished this very rewarding read by @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social and can’t recommend it enough. The poems chosen to discuss are lovely to read, and the close readings taught me so much.

coast

I've decided to memorize "The Moose" this month

Portland! Good Enough Art at Reed College, one week from today events.reed.edu/event/good-e...

LYRIC LOGIC is out in the world now!

This issue of VP is incredible — it was important to me to make space in the pages of VP for a timely convo abt the forces surrounding its simultaneous editor & press transitions. First time I’ve said anything in print as ed for reasons that become clear in intro. More importantly, the essays are 🔥.

you may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now / Is hung with bloom along the bough

Cover drop! Extremely excited to have this incredible sculpture, Marisol’s Love (1962), on the cover of Relatability, out later this year press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

dinner party with: a slightly challenging menu restriction, group theatricality, forced singing, overall narrative of solidarity and liberation, gentle humiliation of the youngest, unexpectedly delicious combo of chunky applesauce and horseradish, a treasure hunt, and four glasses of wine

I’ve done this too and it worked

every spring, tulips come up and I wonder about ACLA's next location

once again, I am asking where the ACLA will be next year? does anyone know???

here I am in Paris but actually now I’m back

a little treat for you, bluesky

I’m so happy to be part of this

marbling

the whole introduction of LYRIC LOGIC— titled "Philosophical Poetry"— is available to read via preview at @columbiaup.bsky.social 's site cup.columbia.edu/book/lyric-l...

city of light

suddenly weeping! at l’orangerie

gave my gen-ed lit class @johannawinant.bsky.social and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social's process for close-reading as summarized by @profdgd.bsky.social a few weeks ago & it has totally changed how we're able to talk about the assigned reading 🙏

I am in Paris and I saw this houseboat

obviously this story wouldn't have been any less dark if this wasn't true, but I really wasn't prepared for one of the victims to have been Dolores Huerta

This episode puts to bed the most ambitious bit of live podcasting I've yet attempted. I'm thrilled we were able to give a taste of this unique event to an exponentially larger audience. Thanks to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social @johannawinant.bsky.social, Emory & all the panelists who saw the potential.

Come for @glavey.bsky.social ’s talk being so superb that @mattseybold.bsky.social inserted a standing ovation, stay for me close reading the title of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century