I think their magnetic fluid must be very well distributed!

Learned tonight that some of the students I taught last semester in my late 19c American Lit class mesmerize each other as a soothing technique, like, on the regular. Is this what it means to Make a Difference?

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Today's poem-a-day (!!!):

poets.org/poem/mercury

For National Poetry Month I would like to invite people to go outside without a phone and notice when two things are trying to resemble each other. You don't even have to write it down.

The proof for the title page of my poetry collection Agape, featuring an image of St. Sebastian's face

Proofs are starting to make this book feel REAL real 👀:

The most important outcome of this year's C19: we have begun The Gilded Age, & it is all I'd hoped for.

AUPresses Subject Area Grid - Association of University Presses Guide to the subject areas in which member presses have recently published.

I just had to send a bunch of “good idea for a book but not a good fit for us” rejections, which always bums me out, so: this is your periodic reminder that our pals at @aupresses.bsky.social publish a guide to which UPs publish in which subject areas —

Opportunity! 👇

A baby sleeping on me

A baby awake on me

Had a baby fall asleep on me; my husband & I were called "favorite gay uncles" by an intimidating tween = a successful Easter.

Good time Jesus, by James Tate Jesus got up one day a little later than usual. He had been dreaming so deep there was nothing left in his head. What was it? A nightmare, dead bodies walking all around him, eyes rolled back, skin falling off. But he wasn't afraid of that. It was a beautiful day. How 'bout some coffee? Don't mind if I do. Take a little ride on my donkey, I love that donkey. Hell, I love everybody.

Good morning, here is the best Easter poem ever written.

An exciting opportunity to join the editorial team at @stanfordpress.bsky.social and to gain a foundation in the world of scholarly acquisitions.

The followup photo is the exact same photo--just 45min later 😩

A pile of spaghetti on a wooden cutting board

What is my husband doing:

Not sure if this is what you mean by "experimental," but here's a favorite of mine!

copper-nickel.org/skeleton-keys/

FWIW: when I tried this with my husband, he got six out of eleven correct (!!!), so he might be the most psychic of all??

A table summarizing the results of today's experiment: one student got four out of ten correct; one got one out of ten; I got zero out of ten; everyone else got two out of ten (the statistical expectation).

The result's of today's card-pulling experiment in my honors seminar, where we tested everyone for ESP. (We're reading Hill House rn.) The verdict: one of my students might actually be psychic?? And I most definitely am not.

"the fruit of the common thirst": what a term!!

So still in higher ed! 🙃

Evil Me is almost certainly doing abusive and/or exploitative biomedical research.

A selfie of my husband, Ween, and me at the dog park

Rapturous! at the Dog Park:

Ween reading a big stone book in the cemetery

Ween reading a big stone book in the cemetery

He is his Papa's son:

I’m pleased to say that we’re advertising for a permanent lectureship in early modern English Literature (grade 7). I’m happy to answer any questions via email. Please circulate.

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An excerpt from LOTE

An excerpt from LOTE

An excerpt from LOTE

Increasingly, I think LOTE (2020) is the best novel of the 21st century.

No, Dear Spring Celebration 2026 Friends of No, Dear—join us April 21st for light grazings, libations, and live poetry. In the midst of systems of power that would see us crushed into dirt, it is spring. Time to rise from the soil.

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At the airport--so many moms befriending college boys traveling for spring break (and telling them to "make good choices")!

A shot from the Portlandia episode "Getting Away": several women stand in a river & link arms to form a dam

I, an idiot, am at an academic conference while my husband is snugging a smooth collie & watching the greatest episode of Portlandia ever made:

A sign that reads "BACK RUB MARY: INSIDE LOBBY TO RIGHT"

Seems legit:

(If you're at C19, say hey!)

An airport cocktail and a back issue of 32 Poems

Off to conference #2 of spring "break":