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madelaine caritas longman
@effervescentvoid.bsky.social
author of The Danger Model (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019). poetry / essays / neurodiversity & disability studies / 🏳️‍🌈
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December 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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"Temporally and geographically expansive, 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦’s apparent digressions sediment into uncanny layers." Madelaine Caritas Longman in conversation with Stephanie Bolster. Read the rest at the link: mtlreviewofbooks.ca/reviews/long...
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December 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
edited big essay. possibly made it worse but oh well. a process has transpired.
December 19, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.
Post-doc positions:
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."

uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
Call for Applications: Early Career Rescue Fellowship – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
uni-freiburg.de
December 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Just read Justin Torres' We the Animals. Love when a book is so good it leaves you thinking, "Oh yeah. This is why books exist."
December 18, 2025 at 1:43 AM
books i have reread most often:
short talks - anne carson
the vertical interrogation of strangers - bhanu kapil
god's silence - franz wright
stilt jack - john thompson
December 11, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Scientists now believe that the human brain--a magic goo for worrying--can also be used to do other things
December 8, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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the life of dunsparce
December 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Every 30 minutes I let out a long blood curdling shriek to keep my mind sharp
December 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
sick today but just had a poem accepted in Modern Haiku :)
December 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
"Advice" by Ruth Stone. Poems that make you audibly say "oof."
November 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
love this poem by Hannah Gamble
Leisure, Hannah, Does Not Agree with You (2)
My house disgusted me, so I slept in a tent. My tent disgusted me, so I slept in the grass.
www.poetryfoundation.org
November 28, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Hey, props to writers who got literally anything done this year.
November 26, 2025 at 7:11 AM
I remember that online post lamenting the embarrassment of being an adult figuring out social/emotional dynamics that others grasped as children, but as corny as it sounds I find it uplifting to remember that learning is never finished and life in adulthood can still change and improve.
November 25, 2025 at 12:06 AM
It is a stressful time of year, but here are some books that arrived and which I am looking forward to reading:
Stone Sky - N.K. Jemisin
More Everything Forever - Adam Becker
No More Masks! An Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Women Poets
We the Animals - Justin Torres
November 24, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Generally speaking, people enjoy learning, challenging themselves, and contributing to the world; the preferred degree of intensity may vary, but when people are physically and mentally well, they *like* to do things. Working towards goals that align with one's values feels rewarding.
November 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
"My brother has a van full of rifles,
a string of wives and children
along the interstate, and I do not know
if he shaves or does not. We each think
the other has flattened a life."
Mary Ruefle, "Cul-de-sac"
November 17, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Thinking about how everyone has a unique way of experiencing thought (some more linear, some more associative, different speeds and rhythms, different relationships to visualization and language) can be overwhelming but it's also beautiful. Corny sentiment but everyone really is irreplaceable.
November 13, 2025 at 4:48 AM
I love how poetry reminds you that people have so many different emotional ranges and ways of experiencing cognition. It's such a privilige to be granted that entry to the rhythms and textures of someone's thoughts.
November 13, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Franz Wright again—
Who on earth
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November 13, 2023 at 6:31 AM
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For the day that's in it...

'All Hallows' by Louise Gluck - has a deep sense of loneliness and loss, that shifting between the seasons, and the final lines where the veil between this world and the next becomes thin

#poetry
#poemoftheday
#Halloween
October 31, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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👉 This from the brilliant review/interview/essay by @effervescentvoid.bsky.social on Stephanie Bolster's «Long Exposure», just published at mRb...

mtlreviewofbooks.ca/reviews/long...
October 30, 2025 at 11:31 PM