My husband, hearing Adele come on the radio & having a revelation about what will solve the world's ills: "We need this. We need emotional singing. From a woman."

Merriam-Webster does it again!

Learn more & submit your work here: loom.ly/JUkTfFM

The University of Chicago is now hiring for a tenure-track assistant professor of fiction writing. apply.interfolio.com/174642

psst.... we open for chapbook submissions in two days (October 1). www.glass-poetry.com/submissions....

Emily Skaja in the new Copper Nickel (!):

New dessert just dropped: Grimace Fingers (improvised blueberry curd tartlets).

Apparently the Toy Story pinball machine at our local arcade bar takes your picture (without warning!) when you get a high score 😬.

We're hiring! It's a job that asks *a lot* of you, I won't lie. But it's a department with solid, brilliant , resilient colleagues who try to fight the good fights. And we're unionized (APSCUF). West Chester University, Tenure-Track Asst Prof Brit Lit, Early Modern thru 18th Century

Submissions will officially be open in one week for Issue 58! Between Oct 1. and Oct. 31, submit your poetry, fiction, nonfiction, or drama work using the link in our bio, where you can also find more information on our submission guidelines. We can't wait to read your writing!

Went to H Mart for the first time today & nothing will ever be the same again.

My department at CU Boulder is hiring BOTH an Assistant Professor of Journalism AND an Associate/Full Professor of Journalism Studies. I am on the search committee for the Associate job. Happy to answer questions or direct you to the right people. Links in this thread.

We're coming up on Chopin and Wharton in my American lit class & it's nice to remember, as I reread The Awakening & House of Mirth, that I do actually a.) know something about & b.) enjoy reading the literature of my ostensible period 🙌.

Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23!

For our anniversary (3yrs married! 8 together!), my parents sent my husband & me this card, which features an obviously high bear trying to get to some honey:

The last "bedtime story" my mom read to my older brother & me was Les Miserables, which took 1yr+ & which we finished, I think, when my brother was in HS. We were all crying so much by the end that none of us could read it out loud; my dad had to swoop in & take us across the finish line.

Notre Dame is running a search for the next Annenberg Chair in American Studies and Journalism (associate or full). Candidates will be expected to direct and teach courses for the Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics, and Democracy. Applications due by Oct 15! apply.interfolio.com/170389

We just got a printer & the first thing my husband did was print off a fat stack of NYT Cooking recipes, so I guess we are ready to move into a retirement home now.

Big news: I have finally convinced my husband to go to Cheesecake Factory with me. I have never been; it is my white whale; I will emerge from dinner a different person.

Hello everyone. Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax has a tenure-track job in Enlightenment rhetoric and / or 18th-century literature. Tell everyone. www.msvu.ca/about-msvu/c...

Made students attempt to both mesmerize and hypnotize each other in my 19c American lit class today. Where's my teaching award?

A boy and his tomato plants.

📣📣📣 phoebe’s submissions are open now for the winter edition, 55.1! Find the Submittable link in our bio!

Tha fanciest little man in all Annapolis:

First Orioles game:

Lana Del Rey 😩.

Holy eff was Weapons good!

We're hiring! We're now accepting applications for the W. Hodding Carter III Senior/Executive Editor, an endowed position focused on acquiring trade and scholarly books in US history & related fields. Interested in helping us shape this new imprint? Learn more & apply here ⬇️ bit.ly/3US7Ihq

Me sending off my book proposal, trying to show the editor I'm v open to revisions:

Our submission period is open for Issue 16! 📝 Send us 1–3 poems via Submittable—it’s free to submit, and we pay $10 per published poem. 🔗Full guidelines here: smallharborpublishing.submittable.com/submit #PoetrySubmissions #LitMag #poetry

Me, proudly showing off our three green tomatoes to my husband:

Hi everyone, As part of my dissertation, I am researching audiobook narration. If you have listened to an audiobook within the last two years, or have previously been a frequent audiobook user, I would really appreciate your thoughts! You can find the survey here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A student presented on this poem a while back & it knocked the wind right out of me. From Catherine Pierce's 'Danger Days.'

Lit studies people, what keywords best sum up what we do? I'm working with comms on a recruitment flyer for our dept. One of the terms that the U likes is "language" (ie students will do stuff with it). I'm looking for more expansive terms: cultural analysis, deep thinking, etc. Thanks!

Gearing up for Sriracha season:

!!! Andy Butter in the latest @coloradoreview.bsky.social:

James Davis May in the latest Southern Indiana Review:

Did not realize how obscenely productive our Thai dragon plants would be, so I guess we are now people who Dry Chilis:

! Laura Read (also) in the latest @pleiadesmag.bsky.social:

! In the latest @pleiadesmag.bsky.social:

ECSTATIC to share that my second poetry collection, 𝘈𝘨𝘢𝘱𝘦, has won a 2025 Alma Award, & it will be published by Saturnalia Books late next year. Saturnalia is a press I truly, genuinely love, & I can’t wait to share this book with you all—it’s a real gay one!

Yesterday, we came back from a month in Michigan to discover corn--which we did not plant!--growing like crazy next to our mailbox:

Super jazzed to have a few poems in Poet Lore's special folio on the "more-than-human-world," guest edited by Kenzie Allen!

Are you a Phd student? Do you work on American women writers? Would you like to receive mentorship from some of the foremost specialists in the field? If yes, read below! ⬇️ ✨ 1/3

Saw my hometown CC's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream last night & it was great & hilarious! Local theater is a gift!

Review deadline extended: July 9! There is still time to apply to the Curator of Literary & Poetry Collections position at Emory! apply.interfolio.com/167978 I’m very happy to speak to folks about this role! This is a phenom. opportunity to work with a stellar staff and unparalleled collections!

It rained for the last 30sec of our run today, so this boy is feeling like a coffee machine in an office (a little abused):

My mother to me: "Derek looks beautiful in all of these pictures. And you look--increasingly distraught."

I normally don't share reviews of Fascination, but, after this horrible, horrible school year, it's really nice to see folks--like Alex Anderson in MFS--still engaging thoughtfully with the book: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...