There’s lots of good insights on it, including many from teachers, in this recent Post45 cluster: post45.org/sections/con...

It is a sign of how deeply I was underwater at the end of two weeks without childcare with an infant and a toddler that I didn't even see this cluster came out until now. THIS CLUSTER IS SO IMPORTANT! There is an emerging dialogue between high school and college English, long overdue

Contemporaries at Post45@atpost45.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📚New cluster!! Ed. Robert LeBlanc "The Specter of High School English" initiates a conversation across institutional boundaries that discusses literacy, censorship, technology, writing instruction, and so much more! Check it out: post45.org/sections/con...

"It's time to read the CliffsNotes, study the AP exam, and work alongside our high school colleagues" I am extremely enthusiastic about the work @manshel.bsky.social is doing here. Also, he's a lot of fun to read. Part of a crucial new @atpost45.bsky.social cluster post45.org/2026/06/inst...

The Institution(s) of High School English – Post45

When it comes to the history of American education, Clifton Hillegass has not gotten his due. In his decades-long career, Hillegass’s name graced the cover of hundreds of books, works that have sold t...

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Thrilled to share a new @atpost45.bsky.social cluster on "The Specter of High School English" that I co-edited with Robert LeBlanc. It's an effort to foster richer dialogue between secondary and university English—and it was a joy to work with such brilliant contributors. post45.org/sections/con...

My new essay, on "The Institution(s) of High School English," and the chasm that exists between high school and university English departments, is out now in Post45! Such a pleasure to be thinking alongside this fabulous collection of teachers and scholars! post45.org/2026/06/inst...

The Institution(s) of High School English – Post45

When it comes to the history of American education, Clifton Hillegass has not gotten his due. In his decades-long career, Hillegass’s name graced the cover of hundreds of books, works that have sold t...

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Contemporaries at Post45@atpost45.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📚New cluster!! Ed. Robert LeBlanc "The Specter of High School English" initiates a conversation across institutional boundaries that discusses literacy, censorship, technology, writing instruction, and so much more! Check it out: post45.org/sections/con...

Well hey, this looks RAD

Contemporaries at Post45@atpost45.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📚New cluster!! Ed. Robert LeBlanc "The Specter of High School English" initiates a conversation across institutional boundaries that discusses literacy, censorship, technology, writing instruction, and so much more! Check it out: post45.org/sections/con...

📚New cluster!! Ed. Robert LeBlanc "The Specter of High School English" initiates a conversation across institutional boundaries that discusses literacy, censorship, technology, writing instruction, and so much more! Check it out: post45.org/sections/con...

I miss so much good stuff these days. I am somehow only just discovering this cluster on C. D. Wright, the best of the best (and you can, too!).

Contemporaries at Post45@atpost45.bsky.social · 8mo ago

✒️ 📔 Today's the day of our C.D. Wright cluster! Ed. @aliciawright.bsky.social ft. 11 contributors—the list is too long to fit into a single post! But you're in luck, bc the thread below tells the tale of this exceptional homage for an exceptionally talented poet! post45.org/contemporaries

there is an essay for and about everything @atpost45.bsky.social and @post45.bsky.social. Today, as I was looking for sources on blurb economy, I found this: post45.org/2018/11/the-...

As BTS comeback season inches closer, I’m thinking again about one of my fave nonfiction pieces I’ve written over the last few years—“‘Don’t Let Me Fly’: on Intimacy and Fame in BTS’s Map of the Soul: 7,” for the @atpost45.bsky.social Hallyu Project issue, ed. by Yin Yuan post45.org/2023/02/dont...

“Don’t Let Me Fly”: on Intimacy and Fame in BTS’s Map of the Soul: 7 – Post45

When it comes to the worldwide significance of Korean popular culture right now, the seven-member group BTS (or, 방탄소년단) naturally comes to mind — they are, by almost every measure, one of the most pop...

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I've got an article in this cluster on C.D. Wright—look at the gorgeous company it's in!

Contemporaries at Post45@atpost45.bsky.social · 8mo ago

✒️ 📔 Today's the day of our C.D. Wright cluster! Ed. @aliciawright.bsky.social ft. 11 contributors—the list is too long to fit into a single post! But you're in luck, bc the thread below tells the tale of this exceptional homage for an exceptionally talented poet! post45.org/contemporaries

Thanks to @aliciawright.bsky.social for all her hard work in getting this cluster together! What a joy to get to work with you! And thanks @franciscondine.bsky.social for all your editorial & technical work! The cluster looks beautiful! @atpost45.bsky.social post45.org/2025/11/c-d-...

C.D. Wright: University Poet – Post45

Thinking on the work and career of the poet C.D. Wright, I return, in my own elliptical fashion, to two quotes (and one idea) from two writers who write about the nature of literary production at the ...

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This is an incredible cluster for a truly wonderful poet! What a dream team of contributors, and what a balm on a wild, windy Midwestern November Wednesday. Great work @aliciawright.bsky.social & co!

Contemporaries at Post45@atpost45.bsky.social · 8mo ago

✒️ 📔 Today's the day of our C.D. Wright cluster! Ed. @aliciawright.bsky.social ft. 11 contributors—the list is too long to fit into a single post! But you're in luck, bc the thread below tells the tale of this exceptional homage for an exceptionally talented poet! post45.org/contemporaries

✒️ 📔 Today's the day of our C.D. Wright cluster! Ed. @aliciawright.bsky.social ft. 11 contributors—the list is too long to fit into a single post! But you're in luck, bc the thread below tells the tale of this exceptional homage for an exceptionally talented poet! post45.org/contemporaries

Contemporaries – Post45

Post45 seeks to reinvigorate the erstwhile convention of academic critics not only describing past traditions but also actively intervening in current tastes. It provides a forum for writers to conver...

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The late, great CD Wright is going to be honored at Post45 Contemporaries with an incredible, moving, expansive cluster of essays edited by @aliciawright.bsky.social . We are SO excited for this cluster, and we’ll be debuting it this week. Stay tuned for these pieces!

New cluster!! post45.org/contemporari... ❣️ 📺 ⌨️ 🥰 Edited by @dfmorgan.bsky.social ! "My So-Called Life at 30" features essays on intimacy, literacy, fan studies, mobility, migration, dance, beauty culture, teen dramas, Winnie Holzman, diaspora and fandom, narratology, over-analysis, & more!

Contemporaries - Post45

Post45 seeks to reinvigorate the erstwhile convention of academic critics not only describing past traditions but also actively intervening in current tastes. It provides a forum for writers to conver...

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Hi Bluesky! The Post45 Data Collective is officially here. We publish open datasets on literary prizes, fellowships, books in translation, feminist magazines, NYT bestsellers, and more. data.post45.org Follow us for updates—we’ve got a busy summer ahead!

It’s true: Pod45 is back after a brief hiatus! Here we have an episode based on our Samuel Delany cluster, ed. @blakestricklin.bsky.social . The podcast ft. Stricklin in conversation w @franciscondine.bsky.social, Y Howard, Christopher Breu, Rebekah Sheldon, & @kirinwgrene.bsky.social !

Lee Mandelo@leemandelo.bsky.social · last yr.

Today’s morning listen (and read!) is the Post45 Contemporaries @atpost45.bsky.social podcast + cluster, “Samuel Delany’s Improbable Communities” open.spotify.com/episode/1ZFm...

Today’s morning listen (and read!) is the Post45 Contemporaries @atpost45.bsky.social podcast + cluster, “Samuel Delany’s Improbable Communities” open.spotify.com/episode/1ZFm...

Episode 21: Samuel Delany

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Kick off Pride by reading @uncannydazzler.bsky.social’s great essay about Rickie and Delia’s Haddaway dance in @atpost45.bsky.social’s latest issue on My So-Called Life 🪩

Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D.@uncannydazzler.bsky.social · last yr.

Thrilled to contribute a short essay to the My So-Called Life cluster in @atpost45.bsky.social! My piece reflects on Rickie Vasquez's iconic dance scene, the affective politics of Brownness, and the persistence of racial and sexual hierarchies. Check it out! #MySoCalledLife #Post45

i am so proud & honored to have gotten to write about My So-Called Life and the genre of the teen drama (& to put all of the hours of my life burned away watching teen TV to use) for the @atpost45.bsky.social cluster on MSCL, edited by the brilliant @dfmorgan.bsky.social! post45.org/2025/05/my-s...

My So-Called Teen Dramas - Post45

I came into adolescence in the age of the supernatural teen drama. Spanning across novels, television, and film from the mid-aughts through the 2010s, the likes of Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight, The CW’s...

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Check this out! What a blast to read, write, edit, and think about My So-Called Life 30 years after it went off the air too soon.

Contemporaries at Post45@atpost45.bsky.social · last yr.

New cluster!! post45.org/contemporari... ❣️ 📺 ⌨️ 🥰 Edited by @dfmorgan.bsky.social ! "My So-Called Life at 30" features essays on intimacy, literacy, fan studies, mobility, migration, dance, beauty culture, teen dramas, Winnie Holzman, diaspora and fandom, narratology, over-analysis, & more!

This essay was a blast to write! Thanks to @wendyallisonlee.bsky.social for recommending me as a contributor, to @dfmorgan.bsky.social for being a fabulous editor, and to @carlospescador.bsky.social for his expert feedback.

Contemporaries at Post45@atpost45.bsky.social · last yr.

MSCL’s main character, Angela Chase, is both loved and abhorred for her over-analyzing. Her fraught monologues have been read as both the center of the show’s relatability & as whining and entitled. @cmceleney.bsky.social probes this ambivalence in "A Lover’s Discord" post45.org/2025/05/a-lo...

It's, like, a feast.

Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · last yr.

MY SO CALLED LIFE at 30! new on Post45! post45.org/sections/con...

My So-Called Life at 30! Edited by the amazing @dfmorgan.bsky.social and with an essay by one of my favorite practitioners of the art of overanalysis @cmceleney.bsky.social

Contemporaries at Post45@atpost45.bsky.social · last yr.

That’s right! Come thru at post45.org/contemporaries to see this magnificent cluster, edited by @dfmorgan.bsky.social !

That’s right! Come thru at post45.org/contemporaries to see this magnificent cluster, edited by @dfmorgan.bsky.social !

Contemporaries - Post45

Post45 seeks to reinvigorate the erstwhile convention of academic critics not only describing past traditions but also actively intervening in current tastes. It provides a forum for writers to conver...

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Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · last yr.

MY SO CALLED LIFE at 30! new on Post45! post45.org/sections/con...

New cluster!! post45.org/contemporari... ❣️ 📺 ⌨️ 🥰 Edited by @dfmorgan.bsky.social ! "My So-Called Life at 30" features essays on intimacy, literacy, fan studies, mobility, migration, dance, beauty culture, teen dramas, Winnie Holzman, diaspora and fandom, narratology, over-analysis, & more!

Contemporaries - Post45

Post45 seeks to reinvigorate the erstwhile convention of academic critics not only describing past traditions but also actively intervening in current tastes. It provides a forum for writers to conver...

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🗣️ *My So-Called Life* turned 30 (1994-1995) this year! We've got a cluster for you, stay tuned— Ed. by @dfmorgan.bsky.social, & ft. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social, Steven T. Gravatt, @cmceleney.bsky.social, @elishacohn.bsky.social, @mythrijega.bsky.social, @ehl.bsky.social, @oliviastowell.bsky.social

In my pursuit of descriptive games writing over prescriptive, I love reading this. Also this is a beautiful way to frame the act of analyzing a work: "Close reading requires someone you want to persuade... whose judgment you care about, and for whom you want your ideas about art and life to matter"

Close Reading Is For Everyone | Defector

In Sigrid Nunez’s 2018 novel The Friend, a famous writer kills himself. Not long before, he complains to the narrator about readers: “People talking about a book as if it were just another thing, like...

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