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Geoffrey Babbitt

@geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social

Poet, Essayist, Editor-in-Chief of Seneca Review & SR Books, Associate Prof. at Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Books: A Grain of Sand in Lambeth (Dec. 2025, U of Nevada Press) and Appendices Pulled from a Study on Light (2018). Wm Blake devotee.

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Geoffrey Babbitt@geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social · last yr.

A Grain of Sand in Lambeth has a cover! Many thanks to Caroline Dickens and the folks at UN Press for the design. Official release is December 2nd, which I am happy to share with the wonderful Jami Macarty’s The Long Now Conditions Permit, whose cover I also love. Preorder links below in comments.

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Lauren Groff@legroff.bsky.social · 2y ago

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

Senator Bernie Sanders@sanders.senate.gov · 2y ago

Republicans will soon bring forward a “reconciliation” bill, that encapsulates the value system of greed and their obedience to oligarchy. It is the economic essence of Trumpism. It will make the rich richer & the poor poorer. It must be defeated. And we can defeat it.

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Alina Stefanescu@alinaetc.bsky.social · 2y ago

The task of the community school is to confer more dignity on work by infusing it with thinking, and not to make the worker a compartmentalized thing that sometimes works and sometimes thinks. - Simone Weil, The Need for Roots

Chen Chen@chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 2y ago

hello the sky that is blue! i am a writer! who has written these two poetry collections with super long titles, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities + Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency. book covers are superb imo.

cover of Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency. art by Vincent Chong, design by Sandy Knight. artwork is a painting of two embracing nude figures atop a dryer + a green cat atop a washer. in the background, a mountain & crescent mooncover of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities. art by Anne Havens, design by Sandy Knight. artwork is a painting of the outline of a face, rippling outward or repeated several times + a band of red egg-like shapes across the bottom
Kathryn Cowles@kathryncowles.bsky.social · 2y ago

I just read the first two pages of Elizabeth Willis’s sure-to-be-brilliant new book, and it’s already pushed me flat over. Start anywhere / THE END (Note: THE END is the name of the first section)

The first page reads, “Begin anywhere” and the second page (which contains a section title) reads “THE END” (in white on black capped lettering). The cover of the book, dark dark green with a swirling white line and half images of a lion and a piece of mountain from an old photography with a bit of blue sky next to it.
Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦@kfduggan.bsky.social · 3y ago

A rare image depicting how saints were made in the middle ages. The image on the right is a close up of what you see in the sack in the image on the left. For centuries people have mistaken the person in the image on the left for a goldbeater with a mallet. He's actually making saints. True story.

A man is sitting at a stool, pounding gold bars on an anvil with a hammer. There are gold coins around him. (Ref: The Morgan Library and Museum, MS M. 1056)An image of saints from a medieval manuscript. The image mostly shows gold circles (which are their halos), almost giving the impression that one is looking at a snake with gold scales. (Ref: BnF, Latin 920, f. 180r)
David Naimon@davidnaimon.bsky.social · 2y ago

I can't think of a better poet or a better suited conversation to confront and transform the long shadow of the days ahead than this one with today's guest Danez Smith. Join us as we navigate a way through Audio📻🖤🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/dane...

Danez Smith : Bluff - Tin House

Danez Smith’s poetry is so many things, a poetry of resistance, of elegy, of joy, of care, of repair. Their poetry is Afrofuturist and Afropessimist. It’s nature poetry, decolonial poetry, queer poetr...

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