Brandon Menke
@bamenke.bsky.social
Poet and assistant professor at Notre Dame | 20/21 c. American poetry and visual art | Queer aesthetics and transnational intimacies | Poetics and place | Intermediality and translation | Ekphrasis enthusiast | Insta: queer_lyricism
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Brandon Menke
@bamenke.bsky.social
· Nov 17
Since I didn't yet see one, I made a starter pack for scholars with interests in POETICS & POETRY, LYRIC THEORY, VERSE GENRES, etc.
Please share, suggest friends, and/or reply to be added. The more the merrier!
go.bsky.app/4fxbKvR
Please share, suggest friends, and/or reply to be added. The more the merrier!
go.bsky.app/4fxbKvR
[A foppish twink takes the ice.]
Johnny Weir, unironically: This strapping young man, he's like if the Brawny Man could skate.
[Skater holds the pose below.]
Johnny, probably: This rough, blustering top is bound to stun with his feats of raw masculine power.
Johnny Weir, unironically: This strapping young man, he's like if the Brawny Man could skate.
[Skater holds the pose below.]
Johnny, probably: This rough, blustering top is bound to stun with his feats of raw masculine power.
February 8, 2026 at 5:04 PM
[A foppish twink takes the ice.]
Johnny Weir, unironically: This strapping young man, he's like if the Brawny Man could skate.
[Skater holds the pose below.]
Johnny, probably: This rough, blustering top is bound to stun with his feats of raw masculine power.
Johnny Weir, unironically: This strapping young man, he's like if the Brawny Man could skate.
[Skater holds the pose below.]
Johnny, probably: This rough, blustering top is bound to stun with his feats of raw masculine power.
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1991: The United States thinks it has decisively won the Cold War against Russia.
2025: The United States' foreign policy is being dictated by Russia.
2025: The United States' foreign policy is being dictated by Russia.
December 28, 2025 at 10:58 PM
1991: The United States thinks it has decisively won the Cold War against Russia.
2025: The United States' foreign policy is being dictated by Russia.
2025: The United States' foreign policy is being dictated by Russia.
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The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.
December 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.
Remember when shamelessly colluding with the POTUS and his family for financial gain was considered a bad thing? DJT, Jr., has invested millions in Polymarket—because, uh, Coplan is a "young entrepreneur" who doesn't know the political world.
“There's tens of millions of people who are looking at the odds. And it's mid-hundreds of thousands of people who are trading,” says Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan. His ultimate goal? A billion users. cbsn.ws/3KiKkIs
December 1, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Remember when shamelessly colluding with the POTUS and his family for financial gain was considered a bad thing? DJT, Jr., has invested millions in Polymarket—because, uh, Coplan is a "young entrepreneur" who doesn't know the political world.
I'm so glad that John Michael Higgins, Jr., won Best in Show! Snatch that trophy, sis!
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I'm so glad that John Michael Higgins, Jr., won Best in Show! Snatch that trophy, sis!
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This is an incredible cluster for a truly wonderful poet! What a dream team of contributors, and what a balm on a wild, windy Midwestern November Wednesday.
Great work @aliciawright.bsky.social & co!
Great work @aliciawright.bsky.social & co!
✒️ 📔 Today's the day of our C.D. Wright cluster!
Ed. @aliciawright.bsky.social
ft. 11 contributors—the list is too long to fit into a single post! But you're in luck, bc the thread below tells the tale of this exceptional homage for an exceptionally talented poet!
post45.org/contemporaries
Ed. @aliciawright.bsky.social
ft. 11 contributors—the list is too long to fit into a single post! But you're in luck, bc the thread below tells the tale of this exceptional homage for an exceptionally talented poet!
post45.org/contemporaries
Contemporaries – Post45
Post45 seeks to reinvigorate the erstwhile convention of academic critics not only describing past traditions but also actively intervening in current tastes. It provides a forum for writers to conver...
post45.org
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This is an incredible cluster for a truly wonderful poet! What a dream team of contributors, and what a balm on a wild, windy Midwestern November Wednesday.
Great work @aliciawright.bsky.social & co!
Great work @aliciawright.bsky.social & co!
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As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
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Post-doc applications for next year's seminar on "Translation" at Rutgers' Center for Cultural Analysis are "live"! The seminar will be co-ed by Preetha Mani and Jeff Lawrence. Fellow academics: let your early-career colleagues, students, and former students know! jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/263...
November 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Post-doc applications for next year's seminar on "Translation" at Rutgers' Center for Cultural Analysis are "live"! The seminar will be co-ed by Preetha Mani and Jeff Lawrence. Fellow academics: let your early-career colleagues, students, and former students know! jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/263...
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Using ChatGPT
What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?
August 23, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Using ChatGPT
Congratulations, Brian! Looking forward to the "Work"!
I'm over the moon that my book, Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets, will be published by the University of Chicago Press in the not too distant future.
October 16, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Congratulations, Brian! Looking forward to the "Work"!
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We have to keep AI data centers away from the Great Lakes
October 15, 2025 at 2:38 AM
We have to keep AI data centers away from the Great Lakes
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“One veteran researcher who still has his job (and, like other public-health workers I spoke with for this story, requested anonymity for fear of losing it) told me he believes that Kennedy’s ultimate goal is to “silence the scientific voice of career CDC scientists.””
"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things"
- Peter Drucker
- Peter Drucker
You’re Fired. Just Kidding!
How much more whiplash can the CDC withstand?
www.theatlantic.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:52 AM
“One veteran researcher who still has his job (and, like other public-health workers I spoke with for this story, requested anonymity for fear of losing it) told me he believes that Kennedy’s ultimate goal is to “silence the scientific voice of career CDC scientists.””
Check out this awesome tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Early American Literature at Notre Dame! Special attention given to those applicants specializing in periods pre-1865, especially those with expertise in multiethnic lit., religion, media studies, and/or transnational approaches.
Early Americanists! Be sure to check out this extraordinary job opportunity for an Assistant Professor in American Literature, Pre-WWI, in our fabulous English department at @notredame.bsky.social. Expertise in multiethnic lit., religion & lit., media studies, and/or transnational approaches a plus!
October 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Check out this awesome tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Early American Literature at Notre Dame! Special attention given to those applicants specializing in periods pre-1865, especially those with expertise in multiethnic lit., religion, media studies, and/or transnational approaches.
Early Americanists! Be sure to check out this extraordinary job opportunity for an Assistant Professor in American Literature, Pre-WWI, in our fabulous English department at @notredame.bsky.social. Expertise in multiethnic lit., religion & lit., media studies, and/or transnational approaches a plus!
October 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Early Americanists! Be sure to check out this extraordinary job opportunity for an Assistant Professor in American Literature, Pre-WWI, in our fabulous English department at @notredame.bsky.social. Expertise in multiethnic lit., religion & lit., media studies, and/or transnational approaches a plus!
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Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government....
On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames
time.com/7323442/sout...
On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames
time.com/7323442/sout...
House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze
Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.
time.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government....
On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames
time.com/7323442/sout...
On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames
time.com/7323442/sout...
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An awesome cross-disciplinary opportunity for job seekers: *six* Provost's Postdoctoral Fellowships in the College of Arts and Letters at @notredame.bsky.social in Anthro, Music, Philosophy, PoliSci, Theology, and the Institute for Latino Studies as part of the university's Strategic Framework.
October 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
An awesome cross-disciplinary opportunity for job seekers: *six* Provost's Postdoctoral Fellowships in the College of Arts and Letters at @notredame.bsky.social in Anthro, Music, Philosophy, PoliSci, Theology, and the Institute for Latino Studies as part of the university's Strategic Framework.
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“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.
September 28, 2025 at 1:38 AM
“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.
Get you a man who can do both: 1) singlehandedly hauling 242-lbs. of glassed-in bookshelves up a flight of stairs while 2) belting out Kym Mazelle's cover of "Young Hearts Run Free," as performed by Mercutio at the Capulets' masked ball in Baz Luhrman's Romeo + Juliet
August 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Get you a man who can do both: 1) singlehandedly hauling 242-lbs. of glassed-in bookshelves up a flight of stairs while 2) belting out Kym Mazelle's cover of "Young Hearts Run Free," as performed by Mercutio at the Capulets' masked ball in Baz Luhrman's Romeo + Juliet
I love everything about this.
This video from Fairmount Bagels in Montreal from their Instagram is the most impressive thing I've ever seen
August 16, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I love everything about this.
I can’t tell if my body hurts from core day yesterday at the gym or from inhaling a bunch of particulate matter today on my walk home through the Canadian wildfire smoke
July 31, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I can’t tell if my body hurts from core day yesterday at the gym or from inhaling a bunch of particulate matter today on my walk home through the Canadian wildfire smoke
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Thanks @publisherswkly.bsky.social for the birthday wishes! 💯
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University of Minnesota Press Marks a Century of Success
The press, which was founded in July 1925 to publish pamphlets and bulletins, is celebrating its centennial all year as both its scholarly publishing and its trade and regional lists continue to thriv...
www.publishersweekly.com
July 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Thanks @publisherswkly.bsky.social for the birthday wishes! 💯
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www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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i think that if you are an upper income writer living in a major urban area complaining about “the laptop class” — really, if you are a knowledge worker of any kind complaining about the “laptop class — you have an obligation to quit your job and go work in a factory for a year
Apparently Mamdani voters are the most privileged class in history AND are bitter about having no money and living in an apartment with 3 roommates into their 30s.
Pick a damn lane.
Pick a damn lane.
July 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
i think that if you are an upper income writer living in a major urban area complaining about “the laptop class” — really, if you are a knowledge worker of any kind complaining about the “laptop class — you have an obligation to quit your job and go work in a factory for a year