Daniel Leonard

Some say the world will end in vampires,
Some say in ICE.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor vampires.

rectum? damn near kildum

Redraw Doberman

I listened to 100 accredited professionals and 100 idiots and presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed: the earth is halfway between round and flat

red lights shine on a T train pulling away in thick snow, viewed from a bridge

an inviting lamp glows along a snow-covered road on a hill with pine trees

my feet buried in snow

my eyes peer from snow gear in a snowy forest

mid-snowstorm romp

Wuchak A woodchuck won't chuck any wood. She hogs the ground, as groundhogs should. The rodent doesn't warrant blame: we colonists call beasts our name.

my poem on this topic www.bu.edu/236magazine/...

YouTube video by Shyberry yes always

I leave it to the professionals www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uWW...

Eddie Naturale and the Weak Nuclear Negative Ones

guests must remain stationery

Cemetery with sign reading, "NOTICE: CHILDREN NOT PERMITTED IN CEMETARY [sic] WITHOUT AN ADULT." Behind the sign are two very old-looking headstones labeled FATHER and MOTHER, among others. It's early January in Pennsylvania: green-brown grass and leafless trees.

family plot

Hungry, Yoda?

Edomite

Why Doegcoin Is Rocketing Higher To Start 2026

this mother–son duo channeled their impeccable sense of style into innovating their namesake garment, Daisy Dukes

sitcom about the surviving son of the pharaoh who drowned in the Parting of the Red Sea: Suddenly Suzerain

the thing they mean to declare dead could be the performing arts

Thank you, Master Doogan!

A round table with five upholstered metal chairs. One chair sits separate, facing the rest. Light pours in from a window opposite the camera. This is the room in which my defense took place, photographed two hours before the defense began.

Me and my partner Sarah. I'm in the throne-like chair at The Publick House in a burgundy suit, brown tortoiseshell glasses, brown hair past shoulder length, and a beard with a long moustache. Sarah leans in from the viewer's right in a burgundy sweater with a gray(?) scarf. She has brown hair with bangs. We're smiling wide.

My best friend Max takes a selfie of him and me walking along the Chestnut Hill Reservoir. Behind us, the reservoir has begun to ice over, and the distant trees are nearly bare. The sky looks clear. We're in winter coats: Max's is black, mine is burgundy. You can also see my green embroidered Frog and Toad sweatshirt, a dissertation-defense gift from Max and Ashley. We're smiling.

Table of Contents for the dissertation. Text (as much as will fit) copied below: Table of Contents Dedication iv Acknowledgments v Abstract vi Table of Contents viii List of Tables x List of Figures xi Introduction 1 Methodology 11 Methodology: Psychoanalysis 14 Methodology: Deconstruction 20 Methodology: Animal Studies 23 Critical Contexts and Interventions 26 Chapters 34 AI Declaration 39 Chapter 1. Scene and Herd: Agency and the Distributed Self in Lydia Davis’s The Cows 40 Introduction 40 Context for The Cows 42 Argument: Davis’s Cows are Distributed Selves 52 1. Inciting One Another to Act 56 2. Rapid Coordinated Action 68 3. Play 82 Critical Contexts and Interventions 92 Critical Contexts and Interventions: On Lydia Davis 92 Critical Contexts and Interventions: On The Cows 99 Conclusion 106 Chapter 2. Ferry Tails: Continuity, Coherence, and the Multiple Self in David Ferry’s Dog Poems 108 Introduction 108 “Garden Dog” and “Backyard Dog”: Continuity of Self Through Time 119 “Sammy on the Balcony”: An Unpublished Poem 128 “A Charm” and “Wolf Woman”: Coherence of Self Among Parts 131 “A Charm” 132 “Wolf Woman” 134 “Who Is It?” and “I, Who Am Neither”: Where Continuity and Coherence Intersect 149 “Who Is It?” 150 “I, Who Am Neither” 162 Critical Contexts and Interventions 182 Critical Contexts and Interventions: On Form 185 Critical Contexts and Interventions: On Translation 187 Critical Contexts and Interventions: On Animals 191 Conclusion 193 Chapter 3. To and Fro: Affectivity and the Intersubjective Self in Arnold Lobel’s Frog and Toad Stories 196 Introduction 196 The Affective Self: Three Component Attributes, Three Key Stories 199 Conceptual Approach: Twoness 202 Conceptual Approach: Anthropomorphism 206 Conceptual Approach: Psychoanalysis 212 Frogs: Duality, Ambiguity, Vitality, Transformation 214 Aliveness: Springing Forward (“Spring”) 220 Aliveness in “Spring”: First Pages 222 Aliveness in “Spring”: Tearing the Calendar 228 Aliveness in “Spring”: Ending 2…

In August I ran my fourth 100-miler, using it to steel myself for the final PhD push. With big runs, it's clear how far away the finish line is (this many miles) and how to get there (take a step). With the dissertation, the path wasn't so clear. Which makes it that much sweeter to ring this bell.

Photo of me with three members of my dissertation defense committee. Left to right: Anna Henchman, in a pink cardigan; me in a burgundy suit; Jonathan Foltz in a gray blazer and turtleneck; and Carrie Preston in a red dress. All smiling.

Me sitting in a throne-like chair at The Publick House in Brookline. Burgundy suit, navy tie with white dots. I'm posing proudly, with humorously regal stiffness.

Me in a thronelike chair at a bar, surrounded by nine people: a handful of longtime classmates/coworkers/D&D co-adventurers, my partner Sarah, and my best friend couple Max and Ashley, who traveled all the way from Philadelphia to celebrate with me for the weekend.

Full title page of dissertation. Text copied below: BOSTON UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Dissertation CONTINUOUS CREATURES: THE RELATIONAL ANIMAL IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LITERATURE by DANIEL LEONARD B.A., Wheaton College, 2011 M.A., Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 2012 M.F.A., Boston University, 2016 M.A., Boston University, 2018 Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy 2026

Please! Mr. Leonard was my father. Call me DOCTOR Leonard.

After 8.5 years, many courses taken and taught, and a 380-page, 100,000-word dissertation, I passed my dissertation defense. I'll graduate from Boston University with a PhD in English literature.

Will also answer to Dr. Lit Nerd.

a Greek chorus oohing at the quotes

it does put me to sleep tbh

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less directly helpful for a beginner/intermediate player but inspiring/captivating: Bobby Fischer's book My 60 Memorable Games and Morphy's Games of Chess

I recommend the Comprehensive Chess Course books by Lev Alburt and the book series (Build Up/Boost Your Chess) by Artur Yusupov

and never the twain shall meet

constitootional

constitushional

constipational

Screen of an industrial printer displaying various settings for print density, paper size, and zoom. In larger print, the message: Ready to accept another job.

gig economy

the Fartlek-to-fartleak pipeline

manhandlin

The Peaneid

great way to release oxytoatswain