Early baroque morning; everything portentous and vaguely elegant.

Mr. Pepper as environmental bellwether—

Well, hello, Tree Pollen. We meet again.

the jauntiest of tunes being spun by a baltimore oriel outside my window—

Happy #MothersDay! We extend our solidarity and fortitude to all the mothers, aunts, grandmothers, caregivers, and those who love them. Support us as we continue to #FreeBlackMamas who are being held in cages because they can’t afford bail. bit.ly/freeblackmamas2025

some evening redness in the west—

Gosh, Ithaca. In May you are astonishing.

For today’s #ModWrite we are working on accessibility and presentation guidelines for #VWoolf2025: Woolf & Dissidence 💫

psychic wind attack : rough winds do shake the darling buds of May

canary as moral compass—

Open Access is key to opposing fascism, example 4,381: A writer posted this article, which is a useful study of Christian Nationalism and pronatalism. If you don't have institutional access, you will have to pay Wiley, who own & control it. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Exciting news for literary lovers! 📚 Virginia Woolf Selected Papers, Volume 31 is now available to read on ClemsonOPEN! Dive into fresh insights and scholarly takes on one of modernism’s most iconic writers. Available here: open.clemson.edu/vwoolfselect...

behold the magnolia—

We are so pleased to announce that The Selected Papers from the 31st International Conference on Virginia Woolf, “Woolf and Ethics,” ed. by conference organizer Amy Smith, is open access and now available via @cupress.bsky.social open.clemson.edu/vwoolfselect... #VirginiaWoolf #VWoolf2022

Available for preorder, Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law and Postcolonial Style is out from Fordham on 7/1/25. I analyze property law expansively, across Nigeria, India, South Africa, and the English Atlantic, to argue that both legal and literary innovations are undoing law's colonial legacies.

For this #ModWrite I’m picking up dropped research threads: what is my interest in Wordsworth’s “orbicular body” (letter to Alexander Dyce c.1833) and what does it have to do w reading antipastoral allegory in The Waves?

I mean…I think we know why our libraries are full of tears.

Fringe upon fringe of blue crocuses, crocuses, walled against blue of themselves, blue of that upper earth, blue of the depth upon depth of flowers, lost—

baroque cello

cold takes only

Take one last look at this sacred heart / before it blows

Energetic, well attended “Hands Off” March in Ithaca, in spite of less than ideal weather.

gone huffing magnolia

Oh. Ffs.

the unbearable snootiness of the midtown coffee shop disrupted by a pink heart raincoat—

fat pigeons and frozen pansies at Grand Central—

UPDATE: Hours after filing our amended petition, a federal judge ordered Rümeysa Öztürk can't be removed from the U.S. until further court order. The government must respond to the amended petition by Tuesday at 5pm. This is a critical next step. We won’t stop until Rümeysa is free.

What I really want is cookies—

Issue preview here! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfmd20/7... @fimassociation.bsky.social

Special issue launch with @moderniststudies.bsky.social ‘ s IFQP sig! Feministas Unidas will be hosting this virtual launch of the Spanish Sapphic Modernity special issue of Feminist Modernist Studies. April 11 2:30 PM ET. On Zoom!

"Inspired by the work of Victorian botanist + photographer Anna Atkins – who made use of the cyanotype process to document botanical specimens in her pioneering 1843 📘... – Mandy painstakingly created “a replica of the original publication," this time documenting the waste of fast fashion

Ah. That good old carceral feeling. Nice flex, America. Do it for the gram!

I’ll show you in spring / it’s a treacherous thing

fingerpads burnt by boiled clementines—

the very word is like a bell—

🌼 Spring has arrived, and so has our latest special issue of The Modernist Review #55! Explore our exciting collection of New Work in Modernist Studies, Part 1. Enjoy! 🌼 modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com?p=5848

snowdrops, crocus, winter aconite, iris reticulata—

"How those birds sing!” said Mrs. Swithin, at a venture. The window was open now; the birds certainly were singing. An obliging thrush hopped across the lawn; a coil of pinkish rubber twisted in its beak. (Virgina Woolf, BTA)

Just a quick reminder that the proposal deadline for our D. H. Lawrence session at #MLA2026 (Toronto) is approaching (3/17/25!)⏰ Be in touch with Ben @bdavidhagen.bsky.social (contact detail below) if you have questions about this session or need another day or two to put together a proposal.

Submissions for our upcoming special issue "Feminism, Antifeminism, and the Mobilization of Regret," are due May 1, 2025! Check out the full call at signsjournal.org/for-authors/...

A day bookended in beauties. Sunrise on Folly and this beautiful beautiful book—

bro—do you even wander lonely as a cloud?

6 mo. dentist appt: teeth so clean they hurt.

I’m getting wildly sentimental in my dotage. Just teared up buying Girl Scout cookies bc the bright-eyed young lady was posted up outside the popular breakfast spot w her Mom—hawking her wares and practicing math in her kelly green sash.

Long live the paper straw—

Once I regain feeling in my hands, my #ModWrite will be spent editing a chapter on Woolf's drafts for the Routledge Companion to Woolf (shepherded into being by the editorial dream team that is @bdavidhagen.bsky.social, @shilorae.bsky.social and Laci Mattison)

Sparkling gem of a grapefruit—

It is a truth universally acknowledged that in a house where two reader’s reports are being simultaneously written, the dwelling will grow dark around them and no one will turn on the lights.

Really need to dial in today. What are your favorite current writing / work albums or playlists? What helps you focus? Looking for recs.