and GOD IS EMPTY JUST LIKE ME

I didn't need to write a dissertation on confessional poetics, Ishmael beat me to it

Moby Dick@mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 4d ago

While composing a little treatise on Eternity, I had the curiosity to place a mirror before me

While composing a little treatise on Eternity, I had the curiosity to place a mirror before me

I fucking love this. Christopher Nolan has done exactly what a blockbuster director should do, and Emily Wilson is doing exactly what a classics academic should do. Top marks all round!

EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 4d ago

I cannot rest from discourse. I will see that film again tomorrow. I will drink life to the lees. Again I will enjoy greatly, will suffer greatly, both with those that love me, and in Pleasantville NY. I am become a meme. Film showing: burnsfilmcenter.org/booking/the-...

Hard to be an old book lately, I tell you what. #sonnet

*whispers* you know we can do this cultural debate about art thing all the time, right? Websites and news organizations used to have culture critics on staff whose entire job was writing about books, movies, and TV. People read them and then discussed them. We have the technology to do this again.

I can’t believe it took me this long into the Odyssey discourse to think to post this but… if you loved the Sirens and Scylla and Charybdis and you also love stuff Elon Musk would consider too woke, have I got a book for you

Women and Other Monsters by Jess Zimmerman: 9780807055540 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A fresh cultural analysis of female monsters from Greek mythology, and an invitation for all women to reclaim these stories as inspiration for a more wild, more “monstrous” version of feminism...

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Hey there! Did you see The Odyssey? Are you haunted by Penelope's veiled and screened existence? If you can't stop thinking about Homer, this might be a good time to reread my Pushcart-winning poem, "Poem in Which I Fail to Teach Homer!" www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2021...

Poem in which I Fail to Teach Homer — Cotton Xenomorph

by Laura Passin When Sally Ride suited up for America, the NASA engineers asked her if 100 tampons was the correct number for one 32-year-old woman to spend one week in space. That is not the corr...

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Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

Pavel@spavel.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong

My Odyssey and Iliad translations are available as audiobooks, read/ performed by very talented real people: Claire Danes and Audra MacDonald. They do a much better job than the robots! www.audible.com/pd/The-Iliad...

The Odyssey

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Acclaimed actress Claire Danes burnishes an epic story of heroes, gods, and monsters in a groundbreaking translation of The Odyssey, the first great adventure story in the Western literary tradition. When the wily warrior-king Odysseus sets off for home ...

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My motto for this year

Susan Rinkunas@susanrinkunas.com · 3w ago

Overheard from a group of four guys on the subway: “Yo, why are you doomscrolling? You’re with the bros”

Finally it's my moment to shine

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

Benoit Blanc (incredulous): Is this nominally august chamber even fully cognizant of how many of its number have slipped the veil?

Lindsey Graham died the way he lived, as a minor distraction from Mitch McConnell

i know you’re looking for it. here she is, girls. here she is, world

mattie lubchansky@mattielubchansky.com · 3y ago

posting this Classic over here in honor of the big man himself. adios bitch

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

Why do I love what fades? Mark Strand

It is truly incredible how some of these male leftists who correctly criticize the police and court system will turn around and say a rape allegation can’t be taken seriously unless it passes through the cops and courts

stunning Paris was how this whole mess got started

Pop Crave@popcrave.com · 4w ago

‘The Odyssey’ women Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong'o, and Charlize Theron stun in Paris.

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

Empire collapse under the weight of metaphors.

Lawrence Hurley@lawrencehurley.bsky.social · last mo.

People are sheltering at the African-American History & Culture museum

"When Americans say a man takes liberties, they mean he’s gone too far." For this semiquincentennial, I recommend my favorite bicentennial poem: "Language Lesson 1976" by Heather McHugh. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56262/...

important to revisit the words of the Founding Fathers on this day

There's no backwards compatibility anymore

George Tsongas “The States” #smallpoemsunday #poetry #sf

Already my new lit mag @forgetcool.bsky.social (with @allisonwrites.bsky.social, who I met through @marchxness.bsky.social) is so much fun! We’re open (through July 15) for poetry and CNF about the pop culture that has shaped you. Submit and be part of our first issue!

Forget Cool@forgetcool.bsky.social · last mo.

When we say "Forget Cool" - we mean it, because we sure did! 👀

have just talked two more people into The Name of the Rose, absolute banger of a book and a perfect beach read

Tech CEOs in 2026: ‘We spent billions to hopefully one day have an ai that can make people feel like it’s portraying real emotions for tv, but we need way more money to do it’ Jim Henson in 1955: ‘yeah so I stuck some ping pong balls to a bit of old felt and called it Kermit’