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The Journal for Architectural Education’s Palestine issue — for which I was an issue co-editor — was cancelled by the board of Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture citing risks and “new actions by the U.S. presidential administration” 😐 www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...

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The master also composed a number of works, such as Words for Wishing to Investigate the Profound and A Selection of Ancient Sayings, which enjoyed a wide circulation. [Footnote: No longer extant.]

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Searched the house desperately for an out-of-print book, a slim volume of verse, going through boxes as well as shelves and piles—no luck. Bought a replacement at no small price. A few days later, opening a different book by the same poet, found that missing one tucked inside. Oy vey.

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I’d like to think that the students who come to class unprepared and have trouble saying more than “I like the images” when asked about a poem actually wrote those incisive commentaries—but AI has poisoned that possibility. RIP Benefit of the Doubt. A lingering suspicion has replaced you.

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I really wish there was a recording of Charles Olson’s conversation with Frank O’Hara in Buffalo, 1964.

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The rocky beach was streaked with ice and snow and the wind made it hard to stay, but the coast was beautiful today.

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The university’s home page looks increasingly like an advertisement for a timeshare.

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It’s frigid and cloudy but the birds seem to know snow’s coming so they’ve come out of hiding to hop and sing. I’ll try to emulate them today.

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Paideuma 50 is now available! “Poems We Live With,” 460 pages, 60+ contributors. Table of contents here: paideuma.wordpress.com/2025/01/24/p...

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Benjamin Friedlander, from The Missing Occasion of Saying Yes

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In art, it’s not necessary to like everything that’s good or reject everything that’s bad—unless one is professionally obligated to be right (and god preserve me from such people).

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Rereading Adorno’s original statement on poetry after Auschwitz it dawned on me that Audre Lorde’s essay “The Master’s Tools” takes up the same problem from a different standpoint.

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Jimmy Durante was part of a staged reading of Auden’s Age of Anxiety?

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I’m getting my car inspected, half-listening to the tv, when it sinks in that someone is talking about Milton Rogovin.

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I suspect that many who cite James Baldwin as a hero are actually more aligned with Richard Wright’s side in their argument.

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A PhD student I knew in passing while earning my MA at Berkeley flashed up from memory, so I googled her—she’s now emerita. Good god how the shadows creep in.

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In my network of friends it looks like I’m the only one who felt a deeper connection to Bob Uecker than David Lynch. Safe travels to both!

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There’s really only one thing I like about winter—seeing the footprints in snow of all the creatures who pass through my yard.

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Searching online for an historical document, finding a digitized copy I myself made and forgot about.