new Eileen Myles book! April 2026! (introduced by me!) 🐤

perhaps my greatest problem with the rise of the Taylor Swift literary critic (naming no names!!!!) is that I firmly believe they have simply never listened to MARINA, fka Marina & the Diamonds

Our next event will take place on Monday, 11/24 at 8pm EST: a Zoom panel with Stephanie Anderson, Patricia Spears Jones, Maureen Owen, & MC Hyland about the book Women in Independent Publishing, edited by Anderson. Register for the free online event via Eventbrite at this link! bit.ly/4oP2z6K

friends! strangers! the Bad Archivist in me has a request: does anyone have hard copies of the October 20 (2025) edition of @newyorker.com; Vol. 46 No. 13 (2024) of @lrb.co.uk; & September 27, No. 6339 (2024) of @thetls.bsky.social? it's all the places The Miraculous Season has been reviewed 🙏

A Boston débutante, a burlesque dancer, and a poet, the shape-shifting V. R. Lang—who died at 32—wrote some of the most aching, entrancing lines of the 20th century. Anthony Lane writes about a forgotten queen bee of modern poetry.

nothing more humbling than walking past one’s students & overhearing ‘I think 22 sounds way more chill than 21 because at that point, like, you’re over the hill’

absolutely delighted to see this piece on my Bunny Lang Selected Poems in the @newyorker.com, & perhaps even more delighted with the illustration by Lauren Tamaki of Lang in Frank O’Hara’s grimy tub, as described by Joe LeSueur 🛀

I scream, you scream, we all scream for we live in the UK

I’m extremely skeptical about the power of writing to one’s MP, but it is true that constituent numbers can be leverage, so to that end I’ve written to everyone I can think of who might have influence on this; below is a template for you to do the same

read this v good poem while sweating & waiting for lamb chops in the garden of a restaurant in Athens; tested out some incredibly poor Greek on an extremely patient waiter; good to be alive etc

Mothers fill bottles with water, whatever food they can find as Israel’s blockade continues to fuel starvation crisis.

The EHRC – the body which is meant to protect our human rights – is proposing guidance which would turn the Equality Act into a bathroom ban. If this becomes law, it would force trans people out of public life. And terrifyingly - this is all happening behind closed doors 🧵

lots of incredibly cool items available from this kickstarter to help the brilliant @fonografeditions.bsky.social bring Eileen Myles’ first three books back into print, along with a never-before-published book length poem from the 1970s ⚡️

anyway here’s Elizabeth Bishop’s ‘It is marvellous to wake up together’ on this first morning of post-heatwave rain in Edinburgh ☔️

obviously it’s terribly boring to say I’m depressed by this, but I’m very depressed by this!!!!!!!

Anne Waldman, from “Things That Go Away & Come Back Again”

The world's most famous medical NGO concludes Israel is committing genocide. It joins a consensus of genocide scholars, including in Israel, and NGOs like Amnesty International. No politician or journalist can claim "I did not know at the time!" to evade future justice.

The death toll of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza is now estimated at 100,000 The list is 1,227 pages long. The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months. The first 381 pages are all children. archive.is/2025.06.28-0...

so good to see @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social’s Close Readings finally back, & with a beautiful ep on beloved Alice Notley w/ @nicksturm.bsky.social

Along with a man and a woman who are trans, and someone who is intersex, we are suing the EHRC and the Equalities Minister in respect of the disgraceful and unlawful EHRC guidance. In line with our transparency principles we are publishing the full 32 page legal letter. goodlaw.social/2ihj

“Only ten years ago we were the best in the world in the annual LGBTI Rights Ranking. We’re now 22nd... This is not just an embarrassment abroad – it’s also a tragedy at home for tens of thousands of people struggling to live lives of quiet dignity.” goodlaw.social/5mgp

right. fucking fantastic.

The UK Data (Use and Access) Bill is currently being debated in Parliament and anti-trans campaigners are trying to amend the Bill so it requires public authorities to collect data about 'biological sex' (see below). 🚨 THIS NEEDS TO BE OPPOSED 🚨 publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...

Labour apparently deciding it is only acceptable to criticise court judgements when you do it to demonise marginalised groups rather than defend them.

Time is of the essence and we need to fight the EHRC interim guidance before it becomes statutory and Parliament make it law. Don’t just shout about it, write to them. Also tell the media, if you can get them to care. I’ve posted this on Instagram. Speak to your unions and staff networks at work

The EHRC was gutted by the Tories. Anyone progressive including many Black and Muslim staff, were made redundant and replaced with leadership and compliant staff upholding white supremacy and transphobia www.ier.org.uk/news/the-ehr...

Now would be a really good time for cis allies to start wearing trans pride badges and make it even more impossible for the toilet police to determine who is and isn’t trans

thank god for Josie Giles

“every border implies the violence of its maintenance” includes gender

again and again and yet again the privileged’s fantasies of oppression take precedence over the marginalised’s real, daily, violent oppression

disgusting, shameful, naked bigotry, devoid of humanity & frankly incoherent

posting about @vittles.bsky.social again, but this essay on American diners in lesbian fiction by Hannah Levene is hitting so so good as I drink my hard kombucha in a bookshop-bar in Echo Park

a 🧵 prompted by the shameful punitive cuts to disability benefits

am back in the V.R. Lang papers at the Houghton: here’s Bunny in love with tout le particular highly definitive weentsy monde

Upcoming event: 5.15pm Wed 26 Feb, in the Garden Room, Kennedy Hall Dr Simon Grimble (Durham University) will be giving a seminar titled 'Everyone hates a sad professor': imagining the literary critic in contemporary Britain & America More info: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/engli...

Upcoming event: 5pm Thurs 27 Feb in the Garden Room, Kennedy Hall Dr Corey Gibson (University of Glasgow) will be giving a seminar titled 'The Worm Queen Turns: Helen Adam from Dundee Manse to California Coven' More information: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/engli...

am absolute @vittles.bsky.social devotee, but this Olivia Laing piece has brought on a kind of apoplexy—what do you MEAN you brought Waitrose tortellini to Rome, what do you MEAN you ate muesli for weeks?? horrifying! incomprehensible!!!

excited for this lovely poems + prints event on Thursday at @edinburghprints.bsky.social 🪵 edinburghprintmakers.co.uk/events/81/

Lucille Clifton

this account was going to just be for academic networking but then a certain glasgow queer cafe announced a brooklyn reboot & I’m simply levitating

living up to every stereotype about humanities scholarship in our household today

in thrall as always to the lure of stupid app fomo, j’arrive