I’d rather ExxonMobil build up tolerance to lower profits.

“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.” — Walt Whitman

snoopy (joe cool) image of the day

Dr. Wesley McMasters, winner of the 2023 Teaching Excellence and Leadership Award! Congrats, Wes!!!

(through gritted teeth) i love being rejected by poetry magazine it is necessary for my personal development

Franz Wright insomnia ❤️‍🔥

Japanese poster for Batman Returns

This photo of Nina Simone and James Baldwin is such a joy:

wanting to see in morning flowers the face of God Basho

Czeslaw Milosz:

Bastard.

I belong to you, in the city, in the train, on the highway, with strange grandparents, in the woods, on hillsides, wherever I walk or sit. Franz Kafka, 1913.

PhDs reviving under appreciated arguments from the 1970s

"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say." Italo Calvino's essay Why Read the Classics? appeared in the New York Review of Books OTD in 1986.

A terrific reading this afternoon from Grace Wilentz. The Carson-Newman University students were mesmerized by her poetry and kindness. Thanks The Gallery Press and Culture_Ireland for your support.

Fantastic Henrietta Jenkins Memorial Homecoming poetry reading today by Donna Doyle. Thanks to Wesley McMasters for organizing it. Hope to see our alums and friends tomorrow from 11-1:30 at our tent on the Henderson lawn!

Congrats to Wesley McMasters on receiving an Appalachian College Association grant to travel for scholarly research during the Fall 2024 semester. Wes is the third member of the C-N English department to win an ACA grant in the past four years. We rock! #BigBucks Carson-Newman University

I’m so sorry. 78 percent??????

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