Harvard's graduate student workers are on strike this week, and I am proud to stand in solidarity with them. ✊
Follow along with strike updates here: www.thecrimson.com/thread/2026/...
“In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political,
I must listen to the birds.
And in order to hear the birds,
the warplanes must be silent”
- Marwan Makhoul
What makes you think I haven’t already? That cool breeze you feel from your mini spilt on a warm day? The Holy Ghost.
Hampshire College is closing but the New Yorker has a long article about a new college in Ohio that trains people to be Catholic theologian HVAC technicians. I'm not sure what to make of this.
Burn the candle at both ends, it gives a lovely light
Yiyun Li’s *Things In Nature Merely Grow*
There’s something elemental about this book, solid and irrefutable.
The big day is finally here: My long (long)-awaited book launch!
Sprouting in a cranium near you...
What if all the richest people in the world were reading sweeping social novels of the late 19th/early 20th century instead of Tolkien
New book from our Member Bookshelf:
The Butterfly Who Dreamt He Was a Man: Metamorphoses, Entomological and Human
By Boria Sax
Reaktion Books, 2025
www.asle.org/stay-informe...
Come on then, and remove him.
This goddamn line from Ginsberg’s “America” keeps pinging around my head:
America how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?
Like “silly” is obv the wrong word here! And I’d never describe what I’m ever writing like that. But it still sorta captures it.
Kind of thing that should be read aloud in front of a tribunal.
Impeach Trump.
As old as Woe
As old as Woe —
How old is that?
Some eighteen thousand years —
As old as Bliss
How old is that
They are of equal years
Together chiefest they ard found
But seldom side by side
From neither of them tho' he try
Can Human nature hide
Hi, Matt and @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social. I finished *We Are Free* this morning--it is astounding. The Arendt on those pages is living and breathing (and laughing and arguing). Matt, thanks for bringing it to my attention, and Lyndsey, my deep gratitude to you for writing it.
Quote says: There are some heroes who have indeed summoned the courage to shout Think! down the barrel of a tank gun and have changed history in the process, but most people prefer to shout Stupid! into the void of social media which is not especially dangerous at all and is the very opposite of courageous. Thinking is not action.
From Lyndsey Stonebridge’s fantastic new book on Hannah Arendt, *We Are Free to Change the World*:
A queer ecology poem contest is opening in June! Get ready to send your best 3 poems to the Garden Party Collective: www.gardenpartycollective.com/queer-ecology
I’ll check BCH out! Thanks for the tip.
Ooof.
Part of me fantasizes about how glorious a career in books would be—books! I love books!—and part of me thinks it would send me spiraling into the pit of anxiety (books!!! So! Many! Books!)
Lyndsey Stonebridge’s book *We Are Free to Change The World*
It’s only Tuesday and it’s already been a week, so kicking back, listening to Angine de Poitrine, drinking a beer, and diving into this tonight:
Lyndsey Stonebridge’s book *We are free to change the world*
Just picked up from my local bookshop!
Books by Zadie Smith, Chet’la Sebree, Robert Moore, and Lyndsey Stonebridge.
Came back from the bookstore today with a nice little haul and what was waiting for me? @robertmoor.com’s gorgeous new book *In Trees* which hits the shelves in about a week.
BREAKING: Nearly 1,000 faculty members at NYU are on strike.
The union for non-tenured faculty, @CfuUaw, was optimistic about reaching an agreement this morning.
But after giving the university a 3 hour extension, the two sides could not agree, and the strike is now on.
Taughannock!
Coming to the US in June from @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social:
The paperback of his NY Times bestseller IS A RIVER ALIVE?, and his third magnificent collaboration with the artist Jackie Morris, THE BOOK OF BIRDS.
This is misleading. Here's how much the MA Millionaire Tax raised vs the most generous possible assumption of how much combined revenue was lost from millionaire movers.
Image of a nest against a black book cover. Rare Good: Essays on Art, Autism, and Astonishment by Steve Edwards
Thrilled to share that my new collection—Rare Good: Essays on Art, Autism, and Astonishment—is available for pre-order! It’s a book about belonging & becoming & finding our way together. I hope you will read it. ❤️
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
