Too much doom scrolling for me, friends I’m gonna try a social-media-dry January See y’all on the other side 🤠🫶🏽

@robmclennan.bsky.social! The chapbook care package arrived today! Thanks for your generosity! Cannot WAIT to see what it inspires for my students! If you’re ever in TX, the first pitcher of margaritas is on me THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU! 🤠🫶🏽🫔

I had way too much fun writing up 10 small press poetry books I enjoyed this year. Drumroll please! 🧵 necessarymess.wordpress.com/2024/12/30/r...

"We are attempting to survive our time, so we may live into yours."

I just got @sarahmzerwin.bsky.social’s STEP ASIDE: STRATEGIES FOR STUDENT-DRIVEN LEARNING WITH SECONDARY READERS AND WRITERS (#Routledge) in the mail, and I’m excited to dive in! The book is beautiful with colorful charts, student work, and sketches!

Corrie Williamson, January 2025

Preorders are now live for Joe Wilkins’ Pastoral, 1994 and Corrie Williamson’s Your Mother’s Bear Gun! 20% discount, and our limited edition broadside bundles coming soon 📚✨ riverriverbooks.org/store/

literature in translation should be the biggest section of any bookstore tbh

#TeachLivingPoets lithub.com/49-contempor...

A shitty narrator can quickly take you out of the audiobook experience. But Percival Everett's "James" is narrated by Dominic Hoffman, and he does a masterful job. So masterful, that I'm tempted to purchase books on audible just off the strength of his involvement.

If the Depp-Heard fiasco didn't, the Blake Lively smear campaign should drive home an important media literacy lesson that I'm afraid many are missing: when it seems like everybody is suddenly talking about something, consider the possibility that the viral moment was engineered.

Okay #poetrypeople Sharing my favorite poems to teach and what I focus on. Please do the same! First, is “Fuck your Lecture on Craft, My People are Dying” by Noor Hindi. #EduSky docs.google.com/presentation...

Thank you, @themarginalian.org.web.brid.gy for this! www.themarginalian.org/2024/10/22/m...

Teachers at work today

How do you make feedback human? Best decision I’ve made in years: speaking, rather than writing, feedback as often as possible Let Ss hear your encouragement, let Ss hear you say their name, let Ss hear how proud you are I use Mote, but it could be any number of things 🎤📝 www.mote.com/record

i recall a time when using a private email server was the single greatest scandal in american history. i guess today’s it’s just tuesday www.politico.com/news/2024/12...

English teachers, where you at? 🤔🫶🏽

@deepvellum.bsky.social, represent! 🤠🫶🏽

Okay found one more reading goal for 2025: chapbooks 🤠🫶🏽 Subscribing now, Rob, be ready!

There have been more school shootings in the past four years than in the previous nine. There have been 709 school shootings since 2008. That's 709 times a school community was shattered, and children's lives were changed in irrevocable ways. Shame on this country and every adult in it.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge #Books Day 16/20

For my fellow ancestors-facing memoirists, I'm going to recommend some books I admire and often suggest to writers. First up: Leah Myers's (@n8vwordsmith.bsky.social) slender, poetic, wide-ranging THINNING BLOOD, which I reviewed for NYT last year.

We could not be more thrilled to see that LITTLE SEED, the tender and wonderous memoir by Wei Tchou, is one of The New Yorker's Best Books of 2024!

I had to take some time to process losing Nikki Giovanni. I adored her humor, wit, brilliant mind, and immeasurable talent with words. If you need a lesson for her, please take this. I give a gift because she was a gift to me. docs.google.com/document/u/0...?

Dude. DUDE. 😬🤣😱

It's ironic because I constantly tell my students I care about what they think and they feel and that I want them to use writing as a tool to express both of those things.

Give me a single image from a film that immediately makes you hear the song from the soundtrack playing in your head:

“Living in a culture where 30% of the contents of a bookstore are translations is very different from living in a culture where only 3% of the books are.” translationpatterns.substack.com/p/3-percent-...

Dr. King’s observation that we can achieve diversity that futhers state violence but not basic justice still stands. From his classic speech “Beyond Vietnam”

I love a book in my hands. I love dogearing pages. I love annotating bits that excite & amuse & gutpunch me. AND sometimes (more & more often lately) I consider myself blessed to have a gifted reader bringing a story to life in my ears James is such a story ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ www.audible.com/pd/B0CBCY41W...

This workshop is next week! Join us to get a refresher on creating safety in the classroom via the four priorities of trauma-informed ed. Pay-what-you-can (including $0) www.tickettailor.com/events/uncon... #EduSky

Just narcissistic enough to get off on this Content Analysis: A delightful mix of conversational warmth and academic sharpness, Joel writes like a friendly professor who just threw a few puns into the syllabus :) blueskyroast.com

This list of books is 🔥🥹🤔

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. My explanation / gratitude for each & url to purchase is in the alt text 🤠🫶🏽 #Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge Day 1/20

www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-... @teenvogue.bsky.social

It's the day after Thanksgiving and Mary Ruefle is all out of gratitude

A poem I always share at Thanksgiving For those of us gathered & for those of us missing 🙏🏽🍁🍂 www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

My Ss *love* the humanizing, inspiring, complex stories that Players Tribune publishes Cannot wait for them to see “The Hard Part Out Loud”, a video by the strong, brave survivor & gold medalist multi-sport Paralympic athlete Oksana Masters 👊🏽 youtube.com/watch?v=TRmD...

I don't know what my affiliation with #NCTE will be going forward. If the organization does not prioritize people, specifically the safety and well-being of its most marginalized members, how can I continue to support it? How can I fund it with annual dues and conference fees?

Good morning on the final day of #NCTE! As @joelrgarza.bsky.social would say, “clouds, man”

@pronounced-ing.bsky.social, thank you for your art, your inspiration, & your kindness to me & loads of HS teachers this afternoon at #NCTE24! 🤠🫶🏽

@indigenouschldr.bsky.social abrazos!

Day two of #NCTE @joelrgarza.bsky.social I was inspired by many today, but this reminded me of the joy of being a student and the power of a teacher when a teacher shares what they are passionate about. m.youtube.com/watch?v=CZxs...

Tomorrow! #TeachLivingPoets #NCTE24 @jessycamathews.bsky.social @joelrgarza.bsky.social & Cleveland Winfield

Checked into my #NCTE24 hotel, turned around, and first folx I see are @jessycamathews.bsky.social and @joelrgarza.bsky.social This is a good sign 💛

Dafuq 😶

School supply flex: Check out ya boy’s laptop cover on the right 📓💻🤠🫶🏽

Excited to lean on NYT Learning Network coming out of Thanksgiving Their review unit always *kills*—and I’m excited to see how students take on the new parameters for “My List” Love how this list format allows Ss to center their own unique lens & likes 📝🤔🫶🏽 www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/l...

this is like something a character in Animal Farm would say, and every 6th grader in the classroom would understand why it's wrong www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o...