Caleb Curtiss

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You want both, you gotta be California sober, which is cool, too, I guess.

Just cheese.

“Perhaps,
in the exaggerated grace
of his weight
settling,

the wings
raised, held in
strike-or-embrace
position,

I recognized
something more
than swan, I can't say.”

Tremendous.

Wisconsin Sober.

A Loud Death Like the sound waves in space that tear / the remnants of supernovas, and twist the paths

“A Loud Death” a poem after Fatima Hassouna, by my dear @vcfa colleague, Richard Jackson.

poets.org/poem/loud-de...

Nick Sirianni looks like his own Ghost Christmas Yet to Come.

This, ofc, should come as no surprise if you attended @danhoyt.bsky.social’s Rock n Roll reading in KC.

Enough to listen to it in my free time? Absolutely not.

Enough to nod or maybe even sing along a little when I hear L*t it G* playing in a public place? 🙂‍↕️

Regret to inform that I have parented so hard that I kind of love the Frozen soundtracks.

"Giving thanks for what we are allowed to think about it, grateful for it even as it wanes. For knowing it is there... All of it a blessing. The being there. Being alive then. Like a giant bell ringing long after you can’t hear it." —Jack Gilbert, "Burma"

If you’ve ever been close with someone who regularly dispenses with big promises only to suffer sudden bouts of selective amnesia, none of this is really that surprising.

Or rather, a single at bat.

Before the clock, one of the things I loved the most about baseball was that a game, any game, could theoretically go on forever and ever and ever.

Is it strange if last night I had a dream in which you played an important role only to find out today it was your birthday? or is that normal?

💕

Much appreciated, my friend.

Thanks, Daniel!

This past year of mine has been profoundly difficult by almost any metric one measures a life by. It has also been the best year of my life. Very thankful to those who have helped hold me down as I transitioned out of my old, untenable situation into this new, nearly tenable one.

Hey, fiction writers! Want to be my colleague?

LMK if you have any questions about this TT job listing at Jax State in Alabama.

careers.jsu.edu/en-us/job/49...

In honor of Mariners/Tigers’ epic Game 5, I thought I’d drop this one again. Seemed prescient. ❤️✨⚾️ If you see it in the morning give it a like.

It’s wild to me that MLB gives their plate umpire a body worn camera now.

I teach Peggy McIntosh's "White Privilege and Male Privilege…" every semester in my rhetorical analysis unit, and it always feels a little datedly 1988-y & simultaneously incredibly current/contemporary, and rereading it this semester, it feels like it is hitting even harder than any prev semester.

Hey, I know that place!

Tom McAllister’s 'It All Felt Impossible' Explores Growing Up in Philadelphia in 42 Essays McAllister’s heartfelt and darkly funny new book navigates the ups and downs of being raised in Philly, and the adult who came out the other side.

Over at @phillymag.com we have an excerpt from @tmcallister.bsky.social's great new book, out this week:

To be fair, I think most 6ers fans had that same dream last night.

La-da-da-da-da wait til I regulate my nervous system