Brandon Menke

@bamenke.bsky.social

Poet and assistant professor at Notre Dame | 20/21 c. American poetry and visual art | Queer aesthetics and transnational intimacies | Poetics and place | Intermediality and translation | Ekphrasis enthusiast | Insta: queer_lyricism

Wood Boar, part of my Asian Diasporic Zodiac series which reimagine the zodiac animals as if they were shaped by the landscapes of Turtle Island / North America. Inspired by the spruce trees and snow on my daily walk to the Leighton Studios during my Banff Centre art residency. #inkdrawing 🐡

Surreal ink drawing of a wild boar whose skin is patterned with wood bark and back is covered in spruce tree branches.

[A foppish twink takes the ice.] Johnny Weir, unironically: This strapping young man, he's like if the Brawny Man could skate. [Skater holds the pose below.] Johnny, probably: This rough, blustering top is bound to stun with his feats of raw masculine power.

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The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

Remember when shamelessly colluding with the POTUS and his family for financial gain was considered a bad thing? DJT, Jr., has invested millions in Polymarket—because, uh, Coplan is a "young entrepreneur" who doesn't know the political world.

60 Minutes@60minutes.bsky.social · 10mo ago

“There's tens of millions of people who are looking at the odds. And it's mid-hundreds of thousands of people who are trading,” says Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan. His ultimate goal? A billion users. cbsn.ws/3KiKkIs

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 · 10mo 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

As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store. Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.

Check out this awesome tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Early American Literature at Notre Dame! Special attention given to those applicants specializing in periods pre-1865, especially those with expertise in multiethnic lit., religion, media studies, and/or transnational approaches.

Brandon Menke@bamenke.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Early Americanists! Be sure to check out this extraordinary job opportunity for an Assistant Professor in American Literature, Pre-WWI, in our fabulous English department at @notredame.bsky.social. Expertise in multiethnic lit., religion & lit., media studies, and/or transnational approaches a plus!

Early Americanists! Be sure to check out this extraordinary job opportunity for an Assistant Professor in American Literature, Pre-WWI, in our fabulous English department at @notredame.bsky.social. Expertise in multiethnic lit., religion & lit., media studies, and/or transnational approaches a plus!

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Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government.... On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames time.com/7323442/sout...

House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze

Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.

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