Julia Bloch

The cover of Kevin Killian’s Padam Padam: Collected Poems, just out from Nightboat

Good mail day

[bursts into the room] [extremely elder millennial voice]

You know, Milwaukee is the only American city to have elected three socialist mayors.

Also, “Milwaukee” is from “mili wau kay,” which is Algonquin for “the good land.”

Do LA next!

Criticism & The Chatbot Bubble (Vandal Live at UPenn English) with Christopher Newfield & Whitney Trettien

The 100th episode of American Vandal. Launching the 12th season. Live at UPenn English Faculty Lounge with @cnewf.bsky.social, @whitneytrettien.bsky.social, & an incredible assembly of faculty, students, visiting scholars, & friends of the pod.

Toad and Frog chase after Toad's list, which is blowing away in the wind. From "A List" In *Frog and Toad Together*

“Help!” cried Toad. “My list is blowing away. What will I do without my list?”

I can't wait to see it!

aaahhhhhh!

gah! 😍

It is hard to overstate the stress produced by the incoherence of academic institutions pumping generative AI when they want to play business and then leaving instructors to deal with the results when they want to play school

when public libraries' and universities' IT cannot function if AWS goes down, you have a private company operating in the capacity of a public utility, but without the regulations that (you hope) public utilities must be subject to

Philly! new feminist art opens next week!

Periodic Reminder: If it weren’t powerful, they wouldn’t be trying to destroy it.

“How to Report ICE” zines now available for these areas:

NYC
Philly
Durham, NC
All of Massachusetts

I will add more as I get them done.
Download them to print here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

It will never not be depraved that universities sanctioned and participated in the harassing and criminalization of student activists for saying one day we would all be against this when now, suddenly, everyone is against this.

There is no special primary status for alphabetic scripts above ideographic ones, iconic signage, mathematical and scientific notation, or charts and diagrams. We read them all; none of them are subordinate to another, except out of literary and cultural prejudices

Remembering #EricGarner, sharing this poem by Ross Gay, posted by poet Othuke Umokoro, from TwX:

Daniel Katz on Jack Spicer ("Psychoanalysis: An Elegy") Close Readings · Episode

How is poetry like psychoanalysis? I had a fascinating conversation with Daniel Katz (@danielkatz.bsky.social) about Jack Spicer and his poem “Psychoanalysis: An Elegy.” open.spotify.com/episode/78hE...

if i should to clark kent enter the darkest room in my house and speak with my own voice, at last, about its awful furniture, pulling apart the covering over the dusty bodies; the randy father, the husband holding ice in his hand like a blessing, the mother bleeding into herself and the small imploding girl, i say if i should walk into that web, who will come flying after me, leaping tall buildings? you? (By Lucille Clifton)

Only just now discovering this Lucille Clifton poem dedicated to Clark Kent.

Best pencil, best sized mason jar 💜

For what it's worth, this is precisely the reason the Klan wore hoods when they terrorized communities and disappeared unfavored minorities.

Historically, it wasn't called doxxing it was just recognizing a fascist community member.

A hand holding Rosa Alcalá’s book YOU, with echinacea flowers in the background

New Rosa Alcalá!

a place to start

go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

Buy their books, buy their books, buy their books; ask your libraries to buy their books

Yes! My kid was 2 or 3 when they recognized “music language” was different than “the language we speak” (musical notation vs. letters)

Fair!

Even after a lot of education about reading and writing, I didn’t really grasp its primary sensory/social/ontological experience until becoming a parent.

Statement from @aaup-penn.bsky.social on our admin’s capitulation to Trump’s department of ed