K. A. Wisniewski

💀 A new “resident” has taken over the top of Concord Point Lighthouse! Just in time for Halloween 👻

Visit us this weekend & next—our final open weekends of the season—to see our bony lookout and join the fun! 🕯️🎃

#HavredeGrace #ConcordPointLighthouse #Halloween

📚 New from Textshop Editions:
You Can’t Talk This Way and Other Stories by Danuta Borchardt.

27 surreal & striking tales that blur reality’s edges—from Soviet shadows to American deserts.

More info at: textshopexperiments.org/you-cant-tal...

#NewBook #ShortStories #Surrealism #Textshop

NEA cancels decades-long creative writing fellowship For decades the program has supported writers who would become big names – Alice Walker, Michael Cunningham, Louise Erdrich and more. Last week, applicants got an email saying the program would be no more.

For decades the program has supported writers who would become big names – Alice Walker, Michael Cunningham, Louise Erdrich and more. Last week, applicants got an email saying the program would be no more.

Lafayette returned to Havre de Grace! 🇫🇷🎉 Yesterday’s Bicentennial at Concord Point Lighthouse celebrated 200 years of history, honor, and community.
Merci de l’avoir rendu inoubliable! #Lafayette200 #HavredeGrace #ConcordPointLighthouse

Fulbright Board Resigns After Accusing Trump Aides of Political Interference

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

New office view isn’t so bad!! So peaceful here and so difficult to imagine the chaos all around this pocket.

Excited to share that I've been named Executive Director of the historic Concord Point Lighthouse in Havre de Grace, MD!

Thanks to everyone who came out this (rainy!) weekend—what a warm welcome! Excited for a summer full of history & community! #LighthouseLife

A reminder that THIS is coming up next month. A week-long deep dive into the artists' book, with some amazing guest speakers and visits to key collections. Places still available so PLEASE SHARE!!!
16-20th June, London Rare Books School
Book here: ies.sas.ac.uk/london-rare-...

Excerpt from Rutgers University Senate resolution calling for a Mutual Academic Defense Compact. The excerpt reads: "BE IT RESOLVED THAT, the Rutgers University Senate urges the President of Rutgers University to formally propose and help establish a Mutual Academic Defense Compact (MADC) among all members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, under this compact, all participating institutions shall commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund. This fund shall be used to provide immediate and strategic support to any member institution under direct political or legal infringement;"

This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.

From "Ample Food for Stupid Thought" (1965) by Robert Filliou. A Fluxus publication.

Opinion | Trump Has Gone From Unconstitutional to Anti-Constitutional Where all this goes is still up to us.

Trump Has Gone From Unconstitutional to Anti-Constitutional
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/o...

The US government has sent Columbia University a ransom note | Sheldon Pollock Like a mob boss, the government threatens to cut off two of the university’s fingers: academic freedom and faculty governance

The US government has sent Columbia University a ransom note
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Calling all film lovers!

Polish Heritage Association of Maryland is hosting a hybrid event this Sat., March 22, in Towson, MD, on the controversial 2023 film The Peasants.

#PolishFilm #PolishLiterature
#BaltimoreEvents

Another share from my ephemera teaching collection. A pair of c.1910s postcards for St. Patrick's Day!

The library and the post office are the only two systems we have that circulate things widely and to everyone, no matter who they are or what they believe. The library is the only one that, for now, is not forced to pay for itself at point of sale. Attacks on IMLS are attacks on every one of us.

The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from DOGE?

The Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Trump Orders Gutting of 7 Agencies, Including Voice of America’s Parent The order targeting the agencies, largely obscure entities that address issues like labor mediation and homelessness prevention, appeared to test the bounds of the president’s power.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/u...

You know how much you love the "magic" of ILL?

Defend it by defending IMLS.

Another postcard from the collection, 1919.
#popcornloversday

1892 print for Popcorn Lover's Day!

Switching track this week in classes with Tadeusz Peiper's "Zwrotnica" ("Railroad Switch"). But first up is his "Nowe usta. Odczyt o poezji" (1925). #PolishLiterature

This Black Fungus Might Be Healing Chernobyl By Drinking Radiation—A Biologist Explains Cladosporium sphaerospermum is a remarkable species of radiotrophic fungus that is thriving in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and which scientists are studying to unlock applications in a wide range of ...

This Black Fungus Might Be Healing Chernobyl By Drinking Radiation
www.forbes.com/sites/scottt...

A major book publisher announced a change. The industry freaked out. How those little quotes on book covers became a flashpoint.

The debate over blurbs in publishing
www.vox.com/culture/3988...

A Tiny Press Took a Big Risk on Experimental Books. It Paid Off. The British publisher Tilted Axis specialized in innovative translated literature. It won them major awards. Now they’re coming to the U.S.

A Tiny Press Took a Big Risk on Experimental Books. It Paid Off.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/b...

Trump and Musk are eliminating any part of government that works well, because that undermines their thesis that government doesn’t work.

GSA (which houses 18F) turns a profit as an agency. Naturally it has to be destroyed. 18F’s healthy revenue stream also means it must go.

18F is *precisely* what Musk and team claim should exist within government. But when his team found it, they destroyed it, because it is evidence that government works well (can’t have that!), and because like Zelensky, 18F didn’t bend the knee.

Class, are there ways you could use the same basic sentence structure to frame the events in a different manner? Which party does the current framework favor?

YouTube video by K. A. Wisniewski "Specimens" from Rand, Avery, and Co. (1874).

youtu.be/tQrKQpBkvFo

Weekend Work with Wells…

Exciting news! I have a new poem published in the latest issue of Allegory Poetry Magazine. #CheckItOut! #Poetry

www.allegropoetry.org/p/issue-34-m...