My marvelous colleague Prof Christopher Brown (CU History Department) brought the 🔥 at today's Columbia faculty action opposing the arrests of students, suppression of free speech and the congressional threat to independence in higher education. Here's the whole thing.
#NoCopsOnCampus

By far the best piece I've read on Wrong Norma so far -- a generous reckoning with the 'intrusion of the political' into Carson's out-of-timeness.

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Tuesday reads: Peter Savodnik for The Free Press, Stephen Eide for City Journal, Lincoln Michel for his S*bstack, Samanth Subramanian for The New Republic, Rob Long for Commentary Magazine, Damon Linker for S*bstack, danielle chelosky for Hobart (SF/LD Books), and Adrian Lu for Cleveland Review of Books.

“With Glück, I was not so much an audience member at a ‘performance’ as a witness to another’s body delivering their art as they would in the deep midnight of their solitude.”

Returning to this today: The Live Louise Glück by Greg Gerke / Socrates on the Beach Cleveland Review of Books

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'Whatever answers are to be found lie in the blank space around them. Snow. Shame. History. Monstrosity. The steaming, stinking heap of it. Carson lets it answer for itself.'

Adrian Lu on Anne Carson's 𝘞𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘕𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢 (@NewDirections)

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CRB does DeLillo 🚨🚨🚨

somehow the best essay about DeLillo is also about Halloween (1978)♥️!!

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Monday reads: anna leszkiewicz for The New Statesman, Titus Techera for Law & Liberty, Stephen G. Adubato for Interview Magazine, Cobi for Cleveland Review of Books, Federico Perelmuter for New Left Review, Britt Menjivar for Los Angeles Review of Books, Fred Bauer for National Review, and others.

“What was strange was not that the campus had suddenly become a police station, but rather that it turned out already to have been one all along.”
-samuel catlin (Samuel Catlin)

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1 billion dollars vs the power of friendship and smiles

“These novels did not wallow in cheap empathy; they evaded pithy humanism, elided snappy dialogue exchanged between melancholic nihilists.”

cobi on Don DeLillo

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today NY received great confirmation of the especial power—to catalyze dissidence, embolden the conscience, clarify commitments—that student protests still possess. the history of their action already told us so, but one didn’t know post-BLM whether we still occupied that history

think i just saw a nun at the sheetz drive thru

hope you guys treat these little slice of life observations i have with the respect they deserve

'I suspect that everything I do or say after 11 pm is lunatic. Panic about it at 5 am. In real life a police officer shoots a man twenty times in his own backyard. Is there someplace else to stand? No. (Shaved pubes.)'

Agnes Borinksy for AWE STUDIES
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I wanted to really read the poems for their ”content.” And the content is remarkably consistent: the dead, the underworld, synesthesia, art and dreams. From Hillman’s reading of dreams I got the method: stick with the images.

With Emma Smith in Engelsberg Ideas on Isabella Whitney, Josiah Gogarty in Prospect on translator Max Lawton, Rob Doyle in UnHerd on Fernando Pessoa, Johannes Göransson in Cleveland Review of Books reviews the collected works of Tomas Tranströmer’s translated poetry… 1/2

Happy pub day to Nicolette Polek! Get BITTER WATER OPERA (@GraywolfPress) from your indie bookstore today!

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I bought a 3ds from Japanese ebay and the guy sent me this message

🖤🖤🖤 we gotta figure out who those 'cleveland review' people are // absolutely blazing reading last night // cleveland is the poetry capital of the world oops

This piece on small press publishing by my colleague Jeff Alessandrelli contains many salient points that a lot of writers don’t think about starting out, like how they have a range of mostly unspoken aims, funding models, strengths, and business practices.