Whatever David Hume might say, I have complete confidence in the sun coming up in the morning, the intelligence of poems, and the resolute brilliance of Johanna Winant
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Whatever David Hume might say, I have complete confidence in the sun coming up in the morning, the intelligence of poems, and the resolute brilliance of Johanna Winant
Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.
Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.
I've been trying so hard to get my book reviewed (link.springer.com/book/10.1007...).
Got two good ones here and here but that's it: (read.dukeupress.edu/genre/articl...) and here (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Gwendolyn Brooks predicting Trump in 1989 (from the Brooks archive at Urbana-Champaign)
Very nice to see you at PAMLA!
We are hiring 3 tenure-track Creative Writing assistant professors (2 fiction, 1 poetry) here at UCF. jobs.ucf.edu/jobs/assista...
I still say it the wrong way! And Eugene.
Tony Harrison V.
RIP
Read this book!
This is horrible. Attacks on the humanities are another way to destroy our future. Now is when we need the humanities the most.
A rainbow crosswalk that was part of a memorial to the 49 people killed in a 2016 mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub, a popular gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, was painted over this week by the state, raising outcry from city officials and the community.
That’s amazing
in CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I wrote a 36 page three-part introduction: What Close Reading Is, What Close Reading Does, and What Close Reading Has Been
30 pages of it is now online at @princetonupress.bsky.social
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Sad to hear that artist Matthew Courtney was murdered in his apartment yesterday
RIP
S/o to my scrappy publisher who has only deep empathy for their authors stuck in the metaverse to hustle books.
Can you please (plz!) share the shit out of (& preorder!) my forthcoming book here? I want Bluesky to be THE platform for authors. regal-house-publishing.mybigcommerce.com/closer/
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I wrote for New York Times Books about a fascinating, irritating, ambitious, and did I say fascinating? book length verse essay, "Context Collapse: A Poem Containing a History of Poetry," by Ryan Ruby.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/b...
The great Nikki Giovanni alive here:
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/161883...
New book on Seamus Heaney's prose out edited by Ian Hickey and Eugene O'Brien (I have an essay on the prose poems in it): www.routledge.com/The-Frontier...
Please add!
Since I didn't yet see one, I made a starter pack for scholars with interests in POETICS & POETRY, LYRIC THEORY, VERSE GENRES, etc.
Please share, suggest friends, and/or reply to be added. The more the merrier!
go.bsky.app/4fxbKvR
Congratulations, Stephen!
Louise Glück
