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johannawinant.bsky.social
Teaches at West Virginia University; lives in Pittsburgh. Posts are my own. Poetry is everyone's. She/her.
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this essay, by Pete Coviello, is simply and extraordinarily beautiful

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I have friends visiting this weekend who taught me one of the most important things I know: cheese boards should include girl scout cookies

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the perfect tee shirt does not exi—

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I’m back baby, thanks again to @stuwatson.bsky.social & @kqandrews.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/cult...

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poets:

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I want to go to this

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brb asking both of my publishers to make my books look like this

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Higher Ed Labor United, AAUP, CWA, AFT, and the UAW—that’s who’s fighting; join or die www.labor4highered.org

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This is today!

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I really believe that the only way to fight this is to mobilize people to build something better, more ambitious, more just than ever existed in the first place. We won’t get there with egg prices.

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back on my bullshit (reading Stanley Cavell at my daughter’s roller derby practice)

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On Friday, February 21st at 4pm, @marymullen.bsky.social and I are leading a workshop on writing groups. (This event is under the auspices of the 1819 social/ @ksaacomm.bsky.social) It will be pretty fun and very useful, just like writing groups are! Here's the info, including registration link--

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Good news! My beloved little wonder book is freshly published by @cambridgeup.bsky.social ! Digital access is available for free through 27 Feb 2025. Please share! Please welcome this beauty into the world! #C18L #18thcentury DOI: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

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there is a very specific good but vertiginous feeling that I can only describe as "going east on 376 into Pittsburgh and passing through the Fort Pitt tunnel, dim and underground, only to -- all of a sudden -- find yourself on a very high bridge with a view of totally everything"

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changing "would" to "will" again and again

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Already on my fall syllabus!

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CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY now has a website at @princetonupress.bsky.social, complete with very generous blurbs from David James, @rbuurma.bsky.social & @laheffernan.bsky.social , and Andrew DuBois. @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social

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Biggest employer in West Virginia? West Virginia University.

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hosting a dinner party for meat eaters? here’s one of the very best recipes I’ve ever made

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the joy of having in my inbox right now the wildly, rigorously, dazzlingly brilliant and sui generis book manuscript written by my friend

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[clearing throat]

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starting the day right: reading about Samuel Pepys's account of children playing "light as a feather, stiff as a board"

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I’m thinking about how last summer I grew so many dahlias that I ran out of vases, started using water glasses, and then gave up on cutting them all. Now all those tubers are slumbering quietly in a cardboard box in the basement, just waiting.

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when I was a grad student, a professor told me that it takes a year or two to break a department and a decade or two to rebuild one that was broken. I’ve seen this to be true in departments—and also just about everywhere.

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