She's a heck of a songwriter, too

🎵Solidarity Forever🎵

RETHINKING GEORGE MACDONALD: 16 essays on MacDonald’s place in the #Victorian literary scene, his engagement with the works of his contemporaries, & his interest in the social, political, & theological movements of his age—also online via Project MUSE 5/5 asls.org.uk/publications/b…

Somebody read that spacecraft to sleep, please...

I laughed for 2 minutes straight-- before I even turned the sound on

kazuo ishiguro said it best—"but in the end, stories are about one person saying to another: this is the way it feels to me. can you understand what I’m saying? does it feel this way to you?"

I'm not saying that $600 class at the college isn't worth it. I am saying those of us with smaller budgets can get quality material from seriously great writer folk, too. Because writers are readers who want more stories & therefore more (skill-equipped) writers in the world.

A poem for the end of the year, but mostly a poem for the beginning of the next one. “Rain, New Year’s Eve” from my third book, Good Bones. I’ve annotated it with some notes on how it began, word choices, etc. Bonus points for deciphering my, ahem, idiosyncratic handwriting. 1/

‘Folklore, Geography and Environment: Ways of Knowing Water, Landscape and Climate in the Anthropocene’ I want to knooow; let me go! (The serendipity of seeing this is the true value of this platform) Call for papers open through January; conference will be in-person + online

three wishes

Barista: “I like your hat, what does that symbol mean?” Me:

Vernal pools!

Saw this, thought of you, ☠️ Paddy Bones 💀 #30DaysofBiking adamturman.com/products/cycle…

That moment when, after you've barely been online in months, someone likes an old tweet-- & when you pop over to see who they are, their second-to-last tweet references War for the Oaks. ! ! ! ! & right at the top of your feed, public radio re: a certain someone's indictment. 😍

So I only dip into Twitter irregularly now-- I still need it! Look what I'd have missed! (Also: go read this book🔥) #📚❤️

We were proud to support the publication of a nature/place-themed poetry pamphlet gifted by British-Irish Council to senior politicians, incl Humza Yousaf 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, who attended the British-Irish Council summit in June. You can read & download the bonnie anthology 👉 britishirishcouncil.org/now-sun-breaks…

treasure today: Pádraig Ó Tuama features the breathtaking, brilliant Beowulf from Maria Dahvana Headley on The On Being Project's Poetry Unbound. onbeing.org/series/poetry-…

These 6+ journals (more soon!) are blazing a trail in experimental journal policies and new/weird experimental design in the Registered Revisions Project. Want to be part of the pilot group? We'd love to chat! Email [email protected] and [email protected] cos.io/r3ct/registere…

Dr. Dryden’s article, “Disability, Teleology, and Human Development in German Idealism: Exploring Disability in the History of Philosophy” is in the third issue of the Journal of Philosophy of Disability. Read it here: pdcnet.org/jpd/content/jp…

A rediscovered soil archive – more than a century old – could show how years of farming alters soil radio.wcmu.org/2024-07-22/soi…