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I enjoy good books and good shitposts. I don’t post much.
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Very cool to be included in this feature by @poetrydaily.bsky.social, my favorite poetry newsletter, for writing 100 about Bert Meyers!

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

First, heaven be the record to my speech

submitted 21 days ago • 10 comments

Elizabeth Bishop — even flipping through her collected poems at random to one of the less familiar ones, chances are you’ll find something astonishing and new. How great is this stanza (from “Song for the Rainy Season”) #booksky 💙📚

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Shakespeare news makes the Times #booksky 💙📚

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Books bought (left) and finished (right) in the first two months of 2025. OLIO and ANGELS in particular are absolute masterpiece bangers that not enough people have read, and which you’d thank yourself for picking up #booksky 📚💙

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Gift link to this very long (almost 5,500-word) NYT piece with way more detail and context than most of us probably want on how and why Elon Musk is putting thousands of civil servants out of work and killing people.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Ladies and gentlemen, we can make this happen

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Obsessed with this 1st ed. of Richard Wilbur’s second book (pub. 1950) that I got for $15 in Boston last summer. It seems to have been once owned by Barbara Swan, who did Wilbur’s portrait sketch and also collaborated with Anne Sexton and Maxine Kumin. I want to know who “Bill” was, though #booksky

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

This delightful relic from the 70s came in the mail today . #booksky

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Dude this is so fucking bleak; I know I’m naive but I still genuinely cannot believe we have people in the humanities normalizing this stuff

submitted 90 days ago • 27 comments