#DonaldHall with a much younger Martin Lammon in 1993 at Fairmont State WV! Add your voice to our tribute to Don at #AWP19 in Portland OR!

Timely, funny, and haunting poem. “Privacy” newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…

63,997 BA degrees were conferred in English lit in 1972; 55,265, in 2005; and 41,317, in 2017. This is a worrisome trend if you care about audience development for literature and if you wish for the success of writers, publishers, and writing programs.

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Diane Zinna Thank you. We are neighbors. Let me host you or buy you a beverage when you are ready for some in-person support. Sharing this for all who want to return the love, Diane. penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/602443/t…

Pres. Donald J. Trump explain how you will fund Social Security if you eliminate its funding source, the payroll tax contribution. Social Security is a promise that must be kept, and this is a top issue for me. #ProtectVoters50Plus

When the poem actually needed to be in couplets x.com/cptnrawrpnts/s…

.Chris Murphy 🟧: "Michael Caputo has to go. You cannot encourage the armed insurrection of Americans against the government and have a job in this administration." #AMRstaff

.Joe Biden has a plan to build our country back better and create millions of jobs—jobs that can help working families get ahead. Joe helped manage the Recovery Act, which jumpstarted the longest stretch of job growth in our history. And he’ll do it again.

Oh no!

Reminder fo what capitol "security" in full military-grade riot gear looked like for Black Lives Matter protests this summer.

Retweet if you think Ted Cruz should resign.

Looks terrific Phil Klay !

I just signed a Action Network petition: Tell McGraw-Hill to Stop Charging Freelancers for Processing Invoices. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell…

Daniel Mulhall, Ambassador for Embassy of Ireland, USA has urged people to help to save the Yeats Society IRL. Ambassador Mulhall is the Honorary President of the Society. bit.ly/3hb6cnQ

This should be a fun diversion. Departments of English are, after all, rather bizarre zones of generational strife. chronicle.com/article/watch-…

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I wrote about the Hobart thing. meghandaum.substack.com/p/who-killed-c…

I just signed the The Authors Guild's Open Letter to Generative AI Leaders calling on them to compensate writers fairly for the use of copyrighted materials in their AI programs. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/auth…

I have a new essay on Vox Populi on the decline of the English major. If you care about the development of future audiences for good books, this is a worry. Once 7 out of every 100 BAs were conferred in English lit; now it's down to 2 or fewer. The Dept. of English is failing.