Audrey Hall

The entire point of doing reviews is for us, the scholars, to THINK and read, and write and learn at the same time.
Why are we devaluing all of that in academia?
Shameful piece.

Psst: 👇

Today on #BetwixtTheSheets I am talking to the utterly spectacular Emily Van Duyne about her research on the legendary poet, Sylvia Plath.

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LOVING SYLVIA PLATH by Emily Van Duyne appeared on @readbookpage.bsky.social's list of 12 best biographies of 2024.

Available now wherever books are sold.
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A scene from Seinfeld where George Constanza says “I've been suffering for the past 30 years up to and including yesterday.” to Jerry

the millennial experience of living in America

The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin

I would love some recommendations for ecologically and environmentally-focused poems, poets, and collections! Anyone got anything for me?

“if you’re interested” is such great phrasing 😂 of course!

yeet | interjection | used to express surprise, approval, or excited enthusiasm

A tan fluffy corgi-Pomeranian cross sleeping on a purple text blanket. She looks so serene.

May this pup bring you good luck

man me neither 😂 I’m here and I’m no more witty than I was there! but I’m pissed! so there’s that

Bishop at inaugural service pleads for Trump to ‘have mercy' on LGBTQ people, migrants At the inaugural prayer service, the Right Rev. Mariann Budde, the Episcopal bishop of Washington, made a direct appeal to President Donald Trump to have mercy on the LGBTQ community and undocumented ...

THIS (some of) IS WHAT CLERGY ARE TO DO NOW

(video at link)

You don't cozy up to power

You speak prophetic truth to those who have power when you have the mic

You use your voice and position to demand moral reckoning, safety, care, love, protection.

YOU. TAKE. RISKS.

It's your damn job.

they should invent unprecedented times that are good

Text of Wendy Cope's poem "The Orange"

the world feels impossibly heavy for all *the reasons* and a few more, but there's always Wendy Cope's lovely poem

IN THE MORNING, BEFORE ANYTHING BAD HAPPENS The sky is open all the way. Workers upright on the line like spokes. I know there is a river somewhere, lit, fragrant, golden mist, all that, whose irrepressible birds can’t believe their luck this morning and every morning. I let them riot in my mind a few minutes more before the news comes.

Molly Brodak

Over the course of the year, I looked through hundreds of poetry books to write my monthly roundups for @literaryhub.bsky.social. It was immensely rewarding and pleasurable and time-consuming. I approached each book I reviewed as a conundrum to be transformed into a reflection of some kernel

Looking to do more poetry book reviews in 2025! If you’ve recently had a book published or have one forthcoming in the new year, please drop it in the replies! I’d love to consider your work and will reach out for an ARC if I think it’s a good fit! 🥰📚

The Test by Ashley Varela It's not a test, you say, but what would you do with me as a worm, as a single ice cube, an escaping gas, a fleck of glitter on your thumb. I know it's hard. You couldn't introduce me,

"It's not a test, you say, but
what would you do with me

as a worm, as a single ice cube,
an escaping gas, a fleck of glitter

on your thumb. I know it's hard."

❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 today from Ashley Varela

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The Third Thing: Poet Donald Hall on the Secret to Lasting Love “Third things are essential to marriages, objects or practices or habits or arts or institutions or games or human beings that provide a site of joint rapture or contentment.”

We lived in the house of poetry, which was also the house of love and grief; the house of solitude and art; the house of Jane’s depression and my cancers and Jane’s leukemia.

Donald Hall

In "Interrogating the ‘African troupe’: The construction of Africanness and Blackness in Chinese consumption of K-pop videos," Xu and Wilson analyze Chinese K-pop fan responses to ‘Rica Rica.’ Read their analysis now:

If you know of any excellent small press books coming out in January 2025, I would love to hear about it.

Ibuprofen isn’t enough I need to become an invertebrate

The audacity of the university asking employees for donations. Every institution! Every year!

Another day incapable of sitting in a chair like a normal human being

Still Life Glass with Wild Flowers

Still Life Glass with Wild Flowers, 1890

Tomorrow will be the third consecutive day that it’s Saturday.

big day coming up for people who like dinner