Sometimes the correct response to someone’s opinion on teaching/schooling is just “have you stepped foot in a school within the last decade?”
High schools are so crazy why did we have the entire marching band playing at 10 AM at a pep rally just for the juniors before they take the ACT tomorrow
Updated my website (which is also hosted on my domain again) with all my various poetry/critical writing links!
I actually really hate having to tell students where I went to college, like can we all promise to not react if you’re gonna make me say it
I finally read Klara and the Sun and wow does it feel infinitely more realistic now than in 2021
My students never think I’m smarter than when I can tell them the difference between “who” and “whom” right off the top of my head, no hesitation
Reading the piece on grade inflation in the most recent issue of Harvard Magazine and I do think, in hindsight, maybe the most important intellectual experiences I had in college was having my papers really broken down flaw-by-flaw in my English 20 class
LARRY SUMMERS'S TEACHING CAREER IS DEAD IN DISGRACE AND CLAUDINE GAY'S IS ALIVE
Today I heard an assistant principal say that some schools “go too far with FERPA,” whatever that means
I will not be at AWP but I think everyone should take time out of their schedules to think “Colby should be here” while there
Beginning to think it’s just because of the whole reading Beowulf every year thing because I’m also starting to eye my Chaucer every night before bed wondering if I should crack it open
Maybe it’s just that I haven’t went a year without reading it since 2021, but I’m getting an itch to reread Beowulf…
Who is doing it like Cummings
It’s 2026 right? Why are people posting about who I have to vote for in 2028 or else
I just remembered that Amanda Gorman performed at Super Bowl LV lmfao
Many thanks to my dearly beloved, former poetic compatriots (plus the frosh I never met!) on the poetry board for publishing it! An honor to be printed in a magazine I hold so very dear.
I have a new poem out in @harvardadvocate.bsky.social’s 160th Anniversary “Fear” Issue — “SIXTY-FOUR SYLLABLES ON DRINKING ALONE”
A concept that can unite America in being sooo mad: a poetry halftime show
i wrote a collection with my bestie and it’s gonna be out in the world soooooon. like, actually.
Anne Frank died from a typhus epidemic that spread through the concentration camp where she was imprisoned.
Thanks, Google, that’s really cool and what I want you to be spending time and money to create
for sale: shoes, baby!!!
Everyone has that one magazine they were rejected by very early on as a writer that inexplicably has become their white whale
RIP Keats, you would have loved Twitter in its prime
Since Kid Rock is in the news again, here are some excerpts from the absolutely absurd interview/profile of him from Rolling Stone in 2024
The Crimson has been doing absolutely stellar reporting on the Epstein-Harvard relationship and I genuinely think some of these student journalists should be getting considered for a Pulitzer
Also a lot of feeding student work into LLMs with no regard for (or, perhaps, awareness of) privacy concerns is probably one of the more absurd things happening
I think a lot of people would be shocked and horrified to realize how many K-12 educators depend wholly on generative AI nowadays and muse about how they have no idea how they did their jobs before it existed.
