Allison Adair
@fascicles.bsky.social
Poet, professor, mama, redhead - THE CLEARING (Milkweed) 📚 - Work in Georgia Review, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, Threepenny, Best American Poetry, Pushcart anthology. Hybrid enthusiast. www.allisonadair.com
This is not “revisionist,” which implies new evidence has been found, which might change the historical narrative. These are LIES. Lies. No truth in it
Ann Telnaes@anntelnaes.bsky.social · 6d agoRevisionist bullshit. www.whitehouse.gov/j6/
"Introduce yourself with 10 acts you've seen live" leads w/😭 re: missing Rakim in '16 when I had tickets but had to work. Lauryn Hill Busta Rhymes Black Star (Talib/Mos) Gillian Welch Big K.R.I.T. Earth Wind & Fire Gladys/O'Jays Steely Dan Bright Eyes KRS-One Mobb Deep & Dylan, Stones, Kanye, meh
Can't believe these Ivory Tower academics left merely because the American government decided it should arbitrarily revoke research funding and visas, dictate what scholars publish & teach, and send students & assistants to concentration camps.
Sarah J. Jackson@sjjphd.bsky.social · 2w agoMore brain drain: “Twenty-one universities in Canada announced on Thursday the hiring of dozens of researchers to join their top academic ranks, poaching the majority of the recruits from the United States. Of the incoming 64 researchers, 48 will leave American campuses…”
Stereoithaca missed Marvin Gaye, Bill Withers, Al Green...
Kate Jewell@katejewell.bsky.social · 3w agoTop 93 (67 shown) from 1971, WVBR at Cornell University
The August moon glitters in the kitchen - Yannis Ritsos, “The Meaning of Simplicity”
Curious to see how these Meta glasses make an appearance in the upcoming academic semester... 🙄
There are jobs for college instructors. They do require degrees. But the pay and the benefits are abysmal. Another take on the state of the academy:
Adjuncting Until the End of Time
Universities now have more adjuncts than tenured and tenure-track professors combined. The conditions are unsustainable—for professors and students alike.
thenation.com
These AI detection programs are starting to look an awful lot like fire extinguishers sold by arsonists
This makes me laugh and cry. The partying was so, so real.
jon christian@jonchristian.net · last mo.kids today are literally confused about whether "partying" was real or an urban legend
The one thing I can still take refuge in is John Bonham's drum performance on "Dazed and Confused." Let me have this one thing, world!
“Nothing flies well in this wet night heat: not moths, not fat gold June bugs, not / bullets, not owls, not souls.” I miss Jennifer Martelli’s presence in the poetry world / the world. This is the first book I’ve read for the #sealeychallenge. And now I want to write all the poems.
It's looking like "redesigns" can't hide the essential downward trends in US SAT scores...from the 'Harvard Gazette': news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
March in Madison from where Corey Ruiz was shot by a Madison police officer to the police department
Beautiful poem up at @rhinopoetry.bsky.social. "There Are Lights to Turn On After Dusk" by Lindsey Wayland, chosen by Matthew Olzmann.
17 years ago today, the federal minimum wage was increased to $7.25—17 years ago! That was last time we had a federal minimum wage increase. It's past time we change that.
having lived in (and seen my students living in) SO MANY SHITTY HOUSES in the past ten years I can confirm
Tony Damiano@tonydamiano.bsky.social · 2mo ago"The focus on housing affordability, however, ignores the issue of housing quality. These are not two separate issues, but rather, two sides of the same coin... [low-income famlies] rent or buy homes that are so deteriorated, that they have become “affordable.” progressive.org/op-eds/the-h...
Any Steinbeck scholars out there? I found this and was bummed at its implications. One of the most memorable lines for me from 'Travels with Charley' has always been “You got to be awful rich to dress as bad as you do"--supposedly from JS's handyman. But 'East of Eden' came out ten years earlier...
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal. -- Steinbeck
Donald Trump received $63 billion to allow Saudi Arabia to enrich nuclear energy.
'It's stunning!' CNN's Erin Burnett floored as Trump 'raking it in' with Saudi deal
The details of President Donald Trump's nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia caused alarm bells to ring out on CNN on Thursday. CNN's Erin Burnett and Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA) discussed a new report dur...
rawstory.com
Wild to see it all in one place: since Donald Trump declared his candidacy in 2022, he has filed lawsuits and claims demanding $70B from various sources. www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...
Trump has filed lawsuits and claims demanding over $70 billion since second term candidacy announcement - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
Trump has filed lawsuits and claims demanding over $70 billion since he declared his candidacy for office in November 2022.
citizensforethics.org
Police murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.
Lovely, strange poem from Estonian poet Triin Paja in @baltimorereview.bsky.social -- love how it refuses to fall into any familiar grooves (groves). baltimorereview.org/summer_2026/...
Triin Paja: Sister in the Orchard
Triin Paja is an Estonian poet. She is the author of four collections of poetry in Estonian. Her awards include the Betti Alver Literary Award, the Juhan Liiv Prize for Poetry, and the Looming…
baltimorereview.org
Can't get numb to this: The United States is stuck in a war it started, cannot end, and may further escalate to no avail, having dismantled its diplomatic apparatus, depleted its military stockpile, and destroyed its credibility. A historic strategic mistake harming millions in many different ways.
NEW INFO HAS REVEALED that the 28-year-old Mexican man killed while running from ICE last week was just visiting on short tourist visa—and already had a plane ticket to go home. newrepublic.com/post/213277/...
Man Who Died Running From ICE Was Tourist With a Ticket Home
The man has been identified as Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran, who was in the U.S. on a tourist visa and already had a plane ticket to go back to Mexico.
newrepublic.com
Wow, received fan mail from Annie Ernaux today! Definitely not spam.
Nobody talks about how we're all paying $15 for sandwiches now and just pretending that's normal. Five years ago that same sandwich was $8. The price doubled and the only explanation we got was "supply chain issues" which apparently means "forever."