CONGRATULATIONS NEIL! Have a great launch!

malcolm in the middle age

Tuesday poem #680 : Madelaine Caritas Longman : guzzle III after John Thompson TELEPATHY WITH GOD reads a sticker on the metro Thank God I’m an atheist reads another. Drumheller, Red Earth, Me...

Tuesday poem #680 : Madelaine Caritas Longman : guzzle III / @effervescentvoid.bsky.social @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ;
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Update. Still don't know what I meant but I've decided to keep this permanently on my to-do list. You should too. Very inspiring.

Psychologically healed by the local bookstore. Eclectic independent literature > end of semester stress.

For any writer who needs to hear this:

You don't have to write a bestselling literary masterpiece 📚💸

Write the book you wish existed 🌸✨

I did not know that! Thank you for sharing this excellent news. Can't wait to read these.

Yeah, I see what you mean. I've personally often found the portal guidelines unclear, but if you've had success in the past applying to these same grants, it seems more likely that it's a matter of them deprioritizing midcareer artists lately.

There has been a shift towards prioritizing emerging artists; many established and midcareer artists seem to not be receiving funding they used to count on :( Re: grant writing, some committees have opaque & idiosyncratic expectations, so maybe that's what they meant rather than writing quality?

that last stanza of the last poem, wow. and "The ruthlessly dedicated world…" so good!

"Walked outside and my hands struck their own / endings, more mind than my mind. My mind didn’t end."

Excerpt from @effervescentvoid.bsky.social's poem(s?) "River at Night" + detail from Matthew Wong's 𝑅𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑡 𝑁𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 (2018)

Read "River at Night" in ISSUE 2.3: longconmag.com/issue-2-3/ma...

Madelaine Caritas Longman: How a Poem Begins How does a poem begin?       Poetry comes to me often—while walking, while cleaning, while riding the metro, while having a coffee, ...

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Madelaine Caritas Longman: How a Poem Begins
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it is really bad how many people across the political spectrum on social media seem to discuss things in terms of discredited genetic pseudoscience when it comes to identity

It's giving Buster Bluth from Arrested Development saying his stuffies are his awards from army.

i'm me

Being a professor is like Picture of Dorian Gray except it’s the students who stay young and full of life while you decay year after year in front of them

level of sleep deprivation where i write "pay bill" on my list only to immediately stare at it in confusion trying to remember who Bill is

hyper beam

pokemon

Dr Kareem Carr man: i wish to publish @kareem_carr Jan 21 reviewer 2: your paper is no good man: i'll do anything to improve reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini Andre Pagliarini @apagliar Jan 21 a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC

I just thought everyone should see this

love this! beautiful work.

A rabbi asked his pupils how they could tell when the night had ended and the day was on its way back. “Could it be,”asked one student, “when you can see an animal in the distance and tell whether it is a sheep or a dog?” “No,” answered the rabbi. “ Could it be,” asked another, “ when you can look at a tree in the distance and tell whether it is a fig tree or a peach tree?” “No,” said the rabbi. “Well, then what is it?” his pupils demanded. “It is when you look on the face of any woman or man and see that they are your sister or brother. Because if you cannot do this, then no matter what time it is, it is still night.”

The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University.

(And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.)
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YOU COME RIGHT OVER HERE AND EXPLAIN WHY THEY ARE HAVING ANOTHER YEAR Dorothy Parker Telegram to Robert Benchley 31st December 1929

"Temporally and geographically expansive, 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦’s apparent digressions sediment into uncanny layers." Madelaine Caritas Longman in conversation with Stephanie Bolster. Read the rest at the link: mtlreviewofbooks.ca/reviews/long...
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edited big essay. possibly made it worse but oh well. a process has transpired.

14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.

Just read Justin Torres' We the Animals. Love when a book is so good it leaves you thinking, "Oh yeah. This is why books exist."