When Charles Olson got tired of teaching, he called his class "The Present" and told students to just read the newspaper. Thinking about trying this. (From Martin Duberman's history of Black Mountain College).

“Is the sigh the soul / or does it drink only lightly at the top / like bees from water?” -Bernadette Mayer, Milkweed Smithereens (New Directions) …n-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/11-01…

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Patricia Smith Love that you asked! When I was a college chick, I got into Chaucer. His poem, “Merciless Beauty,” which begins “Your two eyes will slay me suddenly,” in old English seemed so crazy good to me. Here’s a pic of the first few stanzas…

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I talked with the great Evie Shockley (Evie Shockley) about Ed Roberson’s “Open / Back Up (breadth of field).” What a beautiful, layered conversation this was: about nature poetry, race, the police, and paradise lost. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/clo…

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I learned about despair when / I smiled instead of weeping —Etheridge Knight

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academics/humanities folks, please weigh in: it is uncommon for PhD-granting departments to have a 3/3 teaching load

Greetings Readings: Samuel Wright Fairbanks, Filip Marinovich & Lee Ann Brown Thu, April 27, 7pm – 8pm Unnameable Books, 615 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238, Greetings Readings Poetry Free with music by Mysterious Southern Houses

Greetings Readings-Samuel Wright Fairbanks, Filip Marinovich & Lee Ann Brown Thursday, April 27⋅7:00 – 8:00pm Unnameable Books 615 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238, unnameablebooks.square.site

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