@kristingrogan
writer, professor, gardener, Philadelphia evangelist, spokeswoman for the lesbian agenda. Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work https://cup.columbia.edu/book/stitch-unstitch/9780231219648
wondering if everyone scooting around in their own personal little bubbles with sealed windows that turn everyone that isn't them into either competition for space or churned-up meat is good for the human brain. it probably is
Posh Girl Aesthetics will never die
Joe Brainard was born on this day in 1942. He died of AIDS in 1994. I first read his great book I Remember in high school. I was a bookish gay kid and he changed my life. Thank you, Joe. 💙
they don't know how many vaccines i got last summer 🤪
Excited for our panel on modernism’s meanest: Laura Riding Hates You (And You, And You, And You, And You)
Me and my drum are here with you mate
James Schuyler: “Willa Cather alone is worth the price of admission to the horrors of civilization.”
Bag of pig lollies
Germany has a fake Percy Pig and his name is Fred Ferkel, and I strongly suspect he’s a scab
Horrible german mortadella shaped like a koala face
this nightmare…koala….deli meat???? This is the last thing you see before you die!
Manager musli
Things I saw in a German supermarket that made me pray for a swift end to it all: Manager Müsli
This needs to be done because Sylvia Townsend Warner deserves all the remembering we can manage
this is so ghoulish and disgusting
Don’t i know it
Hey Im really bad at self-promoting but The Extended Universe is out in a month and a half and if you havent pre-ordered it yet and want to support my work this is a really good way to do it!
can’t wait
I read an earlier version of this book and cannot recommend it highly enough. If you're out in these streets teaching modernist poetics then you NEED this sharp and sensitive account of the racialism attaching to narratives of poetic form in the early twentieth century.
"Gestationality and not individuality is the horizon of feminism."
-revolutionary feminist Emma Heaney aka @riislover667.bsky.social (This Watery Place, 2025 www.plutobooks.com/product/this...).
‘So long as you are not actually ill, hungry, frightened or immured in a prison or a holiday camp, Spring is still Spring. […T]he police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun’.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmuY...
the david austin rose catalogue has kept me company on many a february evening
every day I think about the bareroot roses - Eustacia Vye and Vanessa Bell - that will arrive this spring
you can never hold back spring is not a flower, but it should be
what better snow day activity than to order seeds: apricot blush zinnias, giant marigolds, love-in-a-mist; you can never hold back spring
snow outside philadelphia museum of art
two wonky snowmen, one wonkier than the other
Philadelphia today: wonky snowpeople; many kids sledding; a dog carrying a very big stick covered in snow
💓 I try!
she's astonishing!
oop expecting triplets
Brenda Shaughnessy: "Why Is the Color of Snow?"
If we dream of snow, of banks and blankets
to keep our treasure safe forever,
what world is made, that made us that we keep
making and making to replace the dreaming at last.
poets.org/poem/why-col...
Lyn Hejinian: "closure is a fiction, one of the amenities that falsehood and fantasy provide", or, when poetics is also good breakup advice
a cat sits in a window, looking at thick snow outside
sometimes I sit and Yearn