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my hope is that someone somewhere is reading my poems in Buffalo Wild Wings

submitted 483 days ago • 2 comments

I refuse to accept “romantasy” as a word

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Sasha on Joshua, a terrible beauty @sashafrerejones.bsky.social

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Sasha on Joshua, a terrible beauty @sashafrerejones.bsky.social

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pouring one out* *rereading Vol. 3

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for a class on non-English-language poetry a student handed in a clearly AI-generated essay on Walt Whitman. I confronted the student, told him he could resubmit the assignment for a D if he actually wrote it himself. he simply rephrased the AI essay, still on Whitman, in his own words. we’re fucked

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this round of the playoffs is absolutely insane. math no longer exists

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everything i read lately is tinged with the ghost of what joshua would have thought of it

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the vibes

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pouring one out* *rereading Vol. 3

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the dialectic

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guess i have to root for the goddamn warriors for joshua

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two weeks ago I wrote my first poem in seven years

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Nothing is over, that is the only certainty. The other certainty is that everything ends, even this. —Joshua Clover Goodbye, friend. You made me want to do better

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oh Joshua "we meant to come here and never leave we meant this over and over but it meant something else"

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oh Joshua "we meant to come here and never leave we meant this over and over but it meant something else"

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in the wake of Charli, Caroline Polachek, Jane Remover, SOPHIE, hyperpop, etc., we are due for a wave of radically stripped-down minimalism

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I wrote about Stephen Rodefer’s Four Lectures for @bookforum.bsky.social, just reissued by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social. I’ve been waiting 20 years for this book

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now two students have asked me what song was blasting from my bluetooth speaker on the quad: sisters of mercy’s “lucretia” & the cure’s “disintegration.” corrupting the youth with 80s bass lines like socrates

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

the alumni newsletter asked the tough questions in my faculty interview

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the alumni newsletter asked the tough questions in my faculty interview

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

now two students have asked me what song was blasting from my bluetooth speaker on the quad: sisters of mercy’s “lucretia” & the cure’s “disintegration.” corrupting the youth with 80s bass lines like socrates

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

I wrote about Stephen Rodefer’s Four Lectures for @bookforum.bsky.social, just reissued by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social. I’ve been waiting 20 years for this book

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

anyway here is my four-hour Sun Ra playlist

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

my colleague, a Milton scholar, waits until today to tell me that in high school he got dunked on by Keith Langford, who starred for Kansas in 2003’s heartbreaking title-game loss to Syracuse, which my girlfriend at the time jinxed by saying she liked the Orange’s uniforms better than ours

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anyway here is my four-hour Sun Ra playlist

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

our provost has sent around a slide deck about the "restructuring" of the college of humanities. one goal is to "say goodbye to text-heavy content"—the administration's dystopian phrase for "books"