On Louise Glück’s birthday, three recent episodes of the podcast:

Elisa Gonzalez (Elisa Gonzalez) on “A Village Life”: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/clo…

Langdon Hammer on “A Foreshortened Journey”: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/clo…

Ellen Bryant Voigt on “Brooding Likeness”: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/clo…

Please sign this letter to support the CU/Barnard academic boycott. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Today is Bita’s birthday yalereview.org/article/kamran…

The Columbia University radio station is covering the situation on campus live: wkcr.org

We can sometimes find a person again, but we cannot abolish time.

On Seamus Heaney’s birthday, my favorite of his poems.

“I think of the innocent lives / Of people in novels who know they’ll die / But not that the novel will end. How different they are / From us.”

On what would have been Mark Strand’s 90th birthday.

my idleness having given me the habit, when it was a question of my work, of putting it off from one day to another, I imagined that death too might be postponed in the same fashion

Flowers are pretty good

Fellow North American academics: please sign this open letter about the horrific scholasticide in Gaza.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

For his Close Readings podcast, Kamran Javadizadeh talked with Dr Emily Wilson about Sappho’s “Ode to Aphrodite”:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/clo…

ok but this is actually a hauntingly beautiful piece of writing

Distance – is not
the Realm of Fox
Nor by Relay of
Bird
Abated – Distance is
Until thyself, Beloved.
Emily –

(sent from Emily Dickinson to Susan Gilbert Dickinson, 1866)

Volume up—go listen to the fabulous Dr Emily Wilson here!

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It was wonderful to talk to the brilliant Kamran Javadizadeh about Sappho, poetics, sparrows, and crushes!