At some juncture, I'd heard of Moondog--sure--but the other day a student said that John Berryman reminded them of Moondog, so I revisited Moondog. And now Berryman as Moondog--Moondog as Berryman--is all I can think about...
The UIC ENGLISH DEPARTMENT is hiring 3 full-time lecturers to start in August 2026!
The positions are eligible for membership in our United Faculty Union (UICUF), have good benefits, and paths to promotion.
Submit applications by 4/21 on the UIC Career website: uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
so crucial to US democracy.
At the same time, civil rights have been rapidly declining and freedom of expression is now at its lowest level since the 1940s.
View the report here: www.v-dem.net/documents/75...
US democracy is being dismantled is unprecedented in modern history. The main factor is a “rapid and aggressive concentration of powers in the presidency,” Lindberg says. Congress has been marginalized, jeopardizing the “checks and balances” (judicial and legislative constraints on the executive)...
has been erased, according to the report.
The researchers use 48 different metrics to assess democratic health, such as the freedom of expression and the media, the quality of elections and the observance of the rule of law. The resulting “liberal democracy index” shows that the speed with which...
... is the most severe magnitude of democratic backsliding ever in the country,” says Staffan Lindberg, founder of the institute.
US democracy is now back at the worst recorded level since 1965, when US civil rights laws first introduced de facto universal suffrage. All progress made since then...
The Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute at Gothenburg University (Sweden)--the world’s leading source for analysis of the health of global democracy--has concluded in its annual report, that the US is hurtling towards autocracy.
“Our data on the USA goes back to 1789. What we’re seeing now...
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"Diner Dinner Breakfast"
a typewriter poem
by Eric Plattner
from the Chicago Athletic Association!
poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/8108871...
"self love"
a typewriter poem
by Andrea Rehani
from Soho House!
poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/8088939...
Flea covering Frank Ocean's “Thinkin Bout You” (from his forthcoming trumpet jazz album).
Damn...
youtu.be/Id-ZDSp1Cro?...
BREAKING: Congress has scheduled a vote on the SAVE America Act, a bill that would restrict the freedom to vote for millions of Americans.
"History"
a typewriter poem
by yours truly
from the Chicago History Museum's
MLK Day celebration:
poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/8068102...
Join the UIC Progressive and Labor Coalition to rise up against education cuts, ICE, and War!
They are having a town hall on Tuesday, January 27 at 4 PM in Student Center East Room 605.
You can RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/uic-rise-u...
New ish of DIAGRAM is out.
Check these four poems from Brandon Downing.
thediagram.com/25_4/downing...
The world is an ugly place, but my ugly dog is beautiful.
Stopped in at the MCA today to see the Yoko Ono exhibit. (Check out my addition to “Mend Piece.”)
THE DAY A POET IS MURDERED BY I.C.E.
by Hannah Eve Levy
In addition to being a human that was deserving of life, Renee Nicole Macklin was a writer, a wife, a mother and--as it turns out--a poet, too.
Honor her by reading some of her work--and by voting out the hateful folks that are complicit in her murder.
poets.org/2020-on-lear...
Disobedience does not deserve a death sentence.
