Working with Variant Literature is a dream! Congratulations to these fabulous poets!

One of my students this semester is ESL (French is his first language), and, dear Lord, his prose is full of epic lyricism.

I love how UAA commencement features Alaska Native artists like the Yurapik Drummers and Dancers.

Ugh! And like clockwork here is my end-of-the-semester cold. (Or so I assume since the COVID test I took is negative.)

Poet dg nanouk okpik, who is Iñupiaq and grew up with adoptive parents in Anchorage, has been recognized as a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her collection of poems, “Blood Snow.” adn.com/arts/2023/05/0…

One of the beauties by this year's Pulitzer prize winner, Carl Phillips.

My excellent #NewMexico colleagues just assessed basic needs insecurity there- including among #faculty and #staff Check out this new #RealCollege data news.unm.edu/news/survey-fi… 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Happy Mother’s Day to an absolute legend! I am so grateful for my mama’s medical team and hope to have many more holidays to celebrate with her. #fuckcancer

I'm about to lose my mind. Someone in the university bureaucracy scheduled my 5-week class first summer term as a 10-week class. The summer term started yesterday....

ANC 🛫 SEA 🛫 DIA 🚍 Boulder

Some of us read for a living. Some of us read for leisure. Some of us for both. Read how you want, when you want, and what you want.

Mike’s paper depicts a Monty Pythonesque series of espionage goofs.

Michael Selzer of the University of Akron looks at women’s often obscured roles in health care and ideas of wellness. #ASPHS52

My fab #ASPHS52 panel on art an power in early modern Spain.

So what, Stephen King put out 97 books in 9 months during the 80s using nothing but his incredible work ethic and cocaine

Lovely to spend time with these two absolute stars!!!

Stoked to have two poems in this lovely lit mag!

Today’s Team AHN includes Meghan Armstrong, @Bibliophilenick @frankie_urrutia @Hector_LinaresG and yours truly.

I can so imagine my herpetologist father humming along to this, riding the roads, looking for toads and other specimens.

Logging out of Twitter indefinitely. Take care folks.