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tonight! the @nysnetwork.bsky.social hosts an incredible online panel discussion on Joe Brainard’s comics, published by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social 🫟 6:30 EST / 11:30 GMT www.eventbrite.com/e/joe-braina...

a crumb? a modicum? of hope?? in spring??? groundbreaking!!!

trying to explain the current state of the academic job market to those not on its hamster wheel just makes you sound increasingly hysterical

clearing out my open tabs for the new year & have been flipping to this one on the semi-regs recently—a really really good poem by Sara Elkamel

The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.

I absolutely love this humane & moving essay on teaching close reading by @johannawinant.bsky.social; saving it for the dark depths of semester when I need a reminder of why it all matters

a really huge number of bad poem titles and good sci fi titles in evidence here

excited to read at this on wednesday! ☔️

When I'm asked what kind of friend groups I have:

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

not, I should stress, that I think Marina's the 21st century's Sylvia Plath or whatever it is they're claiming about Swift (there are still POETS AVAILABLE IN THE 21ST CENTURY btw), but because they'd realise that lots of other people are creating perfect (& much weirder/more fun) pop music

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!

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aha! was struggling to find precisely this—ty!

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 🙏

this is a tremendous line up

V. R. Lang, a Forgotten Queen Bee of Modern Poetry A débutante, a burlesque dancer, and a poet, the shape-shifting Lang—who died at thirty-two—wrote some of the most aching, entrancing poetry of the twentieth century.

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’

V. R. Lang, a Forgotten Queen Bee of Modern Poetry A débutante, a burlesque dancer, and a poet, the shape-shifting Lang—who died at thirty-two—wrote some of the most aching, entrancing poetry of the twentieth century.

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 🛀

yesss!! delighted to hear this

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

no?? jesus fucking christ

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

Palestinian newborns starving in Gaza as infant formula runs out Mothers fill bottles with water, whatever food they can find as Israel’s blockade continues to fuel starvation crisis.

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

had this precise set of feelings while walking down Leith Walk from Waverley wearing a big backpack on Sunday; had to make sure I looked bored but also never at my phone in case they thought I was on google maps

Don't let them take away our rights behind closed doors The EHRC's proposed Code of Practice would devastate trans+ lives and put everybody at risk. This trans bathroom ban is set to become law with no debate, no scrutiny and no vote in Parliament. We have to act now.

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 🧵

Bird Watching by Eileen Myles: An Archival Collection Support Fonograf Editions in publishing a volume of four early Eileen Myles books, including the never-before-published Bird Watching

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 ☔️