happy birthday, Elizabeth Bishop 2/8/11-1969), who thought about the banality of brutality & competition quite well. Here’s “Roosters” (1940) 1/2

happy birthday, Elizabeth Bishop 2/8/11-1969), who thought about the banality of brutality & competition quite well. Here’s “Roosters” (1940) 1/2

"we cannot begin to talk about freedom and justice in any culture if we are not talking about mass based literacy movements." bell hooks 1997 we cannot begin to talk about freedom+justice in any culture now if we are not talking about mass de-literacy cognitive-incapacitating industries.

I am calling on @icegov.bsky.social Director Todd Lyons to immediately confirm or deny the existence of a “domestic terrorist” database. If true, you’re violating the Constitution. If not, maybe talk to your “border czar” to get your stories straight. This isn’t a game–it’s the Constitution.

call your senators

informative!

Adding these folks to the growing list of ppl who eat for free at my house. hyperallergic.com/artists-stre...

so many teachers called in sick with Ice in the area taking parents at bus stops waiting for little kids, they closed our schools, which is to say: shut it down. January 30. Call your senators today, call again.

Modernism/modernity seeks a Book Reviews Editor (3-year term, 2026–2029). The role involves commissioning and editing reviews for both the print journal and Print+. Deadline to apply: March 16, 2026 Please share widely.

consider calling Mary Moriarti today to ask her to do the job open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...

www.lemonde.fr/en/internati... Only Le Monde bothers to report that the agent who shot & killed RG called her a “fucking bitch” seconds after. Wapo reports it’s said but #CNN and #BBC & #Newyorktimes do not. Also this is the 9th person shot by Ice & yes, remember Philando Castile.

This is the current front page of the Times. The Washington Post is even worse. Their headlines are privileging the accounts of the administration with a track record of lying as being as valid as eye witness accounts and videos.

Happy book birthday to Here Is a Figure!! (Flowers repurposed from my human birthday last week, haha.) I’m very grateful to everyone who’s read it over the past year. This book is about people lying down & bodies on the ground in contemporary literature—esp poetry & drama, but also fiction.

o my, they are caving

Today is the official publication day for POETRY IN GENERAL: How a Literary From Became Public. ✨ Now available wherever books are sold ✨ Use CUP20 for a discount from the press cup.columbia.edu/book/poetry-...

i’ve fallen into a hans christian andersen situation

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My 90 yo dad went to an “authors & activism” event recently (already pretty cool), then sent me the program so I could see what he saw and liked <3. He’s one of few people I know who’s gotten more woke and left-leaning with age. #oldwoke #aginggracefully #authorsandactivism @authorsguild.org

climate change riot

once upon a time

what total snowflakes they are Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

i struggle to teach sylvia plath because i have some weird fantasy about defending her from her readers

yeesh - phoenix doesn’t seem that cool

Took me a min to read Maggie Millner’s gr8 piece in @yalereview.bsky.social, but I’d noted the defensive IG comments when it appeared, which show the lightning speed w which lyric shame circulates. So chuffed she used my work so subtly!! yalereview.org/article/mill... “Is Mary Oliver Embarrassing?”

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seriously, please- someone help me understand why in a world literally running out of water, universities are so pumped about their AI investments. All I see is so so info and mundane task mastery, outsourcing of human labor, and deepfakes.

there’s something happening here; what it is ain’t exactly clear …. but i might be kind of annoyed by it

Congratulations to SUNY Faculty Senate for passing their mutual defense resolution! It's linked below. That makes 14 university/college senates nationwide: Rutgers Nebraska Indiana Michigan State Michigan Ohio State Washington Maryland Minnesota UMass Hunter City College Hostos SUNY

Umm, I don’t see this mentioned in any national news outlets… but the historic Clayborn Temple in Memphis, the site of MLK’s “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech, burned down this morning. My sadness is immeasurable. www.fox13memphis.com/news/watch-h...

No worse time John Ashbery

this is a shoutout to the brandy snifter subplot in *Rear Window*

Dear @sanders.senate.gov and @aoc.bsky.social and @democrats.org We should be talking back to tariff discourse, which many red and blue workers are getting behind, by talking about outsourcing and automation that only serves billionaires’ bottom lines www.demandsage.com/outsourcing-....

why do service jobs taken over by robots never get raised in all this talk about jobs in the us? 🙄

My colleague Ben Robinson is the first IU faculty member to be investigated under SEA 202, the law that mandates faculty can be fired for the appearance of “political bias,” which ofc in this context means left wing opinions the administration does not like. 1/4

i find this to perfectly illustrate the vibe of now: expertise and particularity count for nothing, profit and use are everything— seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil, etc, getting and spending we lay waste our powers, yadda yadda yadda - whatEVER

El Paso Herald-Post, 8/27/34

from Neil Acherson’s review of Richard Evans’ Hitler’s People: The Faces of the Third Reich

the phrase “this is not a drill” drilling thru my skull

getting down to brass tacks or something

we see what’s happening but we can’t believe it. our posts won’t stop it.

Someone with deeper knowledge may dispute this, but I'm seeing a real direct line between the 2023 Rutgers strike dynamics and the posture its faculty is taking these days.

how much patti smith will it take???

This is literally how the Holocaust started, and honestly I'm tired of saying so

Is this who we are? 😳🇺🇸

just a random PSA- getting the iodine from a CT Scan anywhere near your neck can kill your thyroid gland , which is … pretty detrimental to your overall health.

i’d guess 1500-2000 at one of 2 protests in A2

resignified