Neil Fraistat
@fraistat.bsky.social
Prof. Emeritus of English UMD & Past President, Keats-Shelley Assoc.; Co-Gen Ed. Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Romanticism, Textual Scholarship, DH, Media. "Rise like lions after slumber."
Published today!
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November 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Published today!
Who knew?
Guess who said:
‘Would it not be nice if Frankfurt Zoo could acquire a pair of wombats? From my childhood I remember great feelings of identification with these friendly rotund animals, and would be filled with delight to see them again.’
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘Would it not be nice if Frankfurt Zoo could acquire a pair of wombats? From my childhood I remember great feelings of identification with these friendly rotund animals, and would be filled with delight to see them again.’
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Katherine Rundell · Consider the Wombat
www.lrb.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Who knew?
Sign I saw at DC protest:
October 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Sign I saw at DC protest:
This volume contains several poems edited by Stuart Curran, including The Cenci. It represents his final completed work, the acme of his stunning career.
Join us on 12 November for a @bars.bsky.social Digital Event to celebrate the publication of Volume IV of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley (gen. eds. @fraistat.bsky.social & Nora Crook, pub. by @hopkinspress.bsky.social) 🍂 Free tickets available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shelleys-a...
Shelley’s Anni Mirabiles: The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
This roundtable will celebrate the publication of the latest volume, Volume IV, of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poetry.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This volume contains several poems edited by Stuart Curran, including The Cenci. It represents his final completed work, the acme of his stunning career.
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ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds.
He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings.
He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights.
This is political intimidation.
He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings.
He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights.
This is political intimidation.
Whoa! NYC mayoral candidate and current city Comptroller Brad Lander seemingly arrested at the NYC immigration court while attending to escort someone attending their hearing.
Lander just got detained by federal agents as he tried to escort a man out of the courtroom. Lander was taken in an elevator with masked agents, along with one member of his NYPD security detail.
June 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds.
He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings.
He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights.
This is political intimidation.
He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings.
He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights.
This is political intimidation.
Perfect! #ThanksBrett
Never forget one of Brett's most visionary contributions #ThanksBrett
June 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Perfect! #ThanksBrett
And they always were!
I'll end this with this meme I made of @brettbobley.bsky.social at the 2015 Crowd Consortium forum that IMLS funded. That event built off one of the many amazing groundbreaking NEH Start Up grants that we all can #thanksbrett for :)
June 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
And they always were!
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I'll end this with this meme I made of @brettbobley.bsky.social at the 2015 Crowd Consortium forum that IMLS funded. That event built off one of the many amazing groundbreaking NEH Start Up grants that we all can #thanksbrett for :)
June 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I'll end this with this meme I made of @brettbobley.bsky.social at the 2015 Crowd Consortium forum that IMLS funded. That event built off one of the many amazing groundbreaking NEH Start Up grants that we all can #thanksbrett for :)
Thanks @brettbobley.bsky.social! You and ODH provided the infrastructure for DH infrastructures, developed the instruments for instrumenting international collaborations, and envisioned the means for us to envision the future.Here's to your next chapter! I'll always value your last! #ThanksBrett
June 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Thanks @brettbobley.bsky.social! You and ODH provided the infrastructure for DH infrastructures, developed the instruments for instrumenting international collaborations, and envisioned the means for us to envision the future.Here's to your next chapter! I'll always value your last! #ThanksBrett
I, for one, wouldn't want to miss this!
Have you registered for the May Members' Meeting yet? Register today! Sign up to read a stanza, or just sit back and relax while @fraistat.bsky.social and Nora Crook read to you.
www.k-saa.org/events/k-saa...
www.k-saa.org/events/k-saa...
May 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I, for one, wouldn't want to miss this!
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To accompany our lively discussion, we've assembled a reading list of works from past issues of @PoeStudies & other Hopkins Press journals, including work by Eliza Richards, Elissa Zellinger, Ben Bascom, Christa Holm Vogelius & more!
All free thru 30 May: tinyurl.com/rvu9kkzs
All free thru 30 May: tinyurl.com/rvu9kkzs
May 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
To accompany our lively discussion, we've assembled a reading list of works from past issues of @PoeStudies & other Hopkins Press journals, including work by Eliza Richards, Elissa Zellinger, Ben Bascom, Christa Holm Vogelius & more!
All free thru 30 May: tinyurl.com/rvu9kkzs
All free thru 30 May: tinyurl.com/rvu9kkzs
Amen!
New grants from NEH have been announced. I'm... trying to make sense of what's here, esp in light of everything that was canceled. www.neh.gov/news/neh-ann...
NEH Announces $9.55 Million for 68 Humanities Projects
www.neh.gov
May 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Amen!
Very interesting project, with 861 entries to date. So far no entries for Shelley, but Coleridge is well represented.
The #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive's database of contextuality contains details about every context, including its type, function, and contributor.
#RPPA visualizes the work performed by each context drawing on a number of built-in tools.
www.romanticperiodpoetry.org
#Romanticism #DigitalHumanities
#RPPA visualizes the work performed by each context drawing on a number of built-in tools.
www.romanticperiodpoetry.org
#Romanticism #DigitalHumanities
May 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Very interesting project, with 861 entries to date. So far no entries for Shelley, but Coleridge is well represented.
A helpful graphic to grasp things as they are and may be.
On 5/2, the @nytimes.com published a graphic showing the % change for each agency in Trump's proposed budget, compared to the 2025 budget.
For my undergraduate class, I made a variant that gives $ amounts. It uses the NYT data.
Happy to share w/ other instructors. DM or email if you want the ppt.
For my undergraduate class, I made a variant that gives $ amounts. It uses the NYT data.
Happy to share w/ other instructors. DM or email if you want the ppt.
May 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
A helpful graphic to grasp things as they are and may be.
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BREAKING: Federal judge finds, in multistate lawsuit, that Trump's EO targeting three entities — Institute of Musuem and Library Services, Minority Business Development Agency, and Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service — likely violates the APA, Take Care Clause, and separation of powers.
![Accordingly, because IMLS, MBDA, and FMCS have not provided a rational connection between the sweeping actions they have taken and the vague, conclusory justifications they have provided, the Court finds that the States have established a strong likelihood of success on their arbitrary and capricious claims. Ohio, 603 U.S. at 292. Further, the Court finds that the States have illustrated a strong likelihood of success on their claims that IMLS, MBDA, and FMCS acted arbitrarily and
capriciously in failing to consider reliance interests. Regents, 591 U.S. at 30; see also Smiley v. Citibank (S. Dakota), N.A., 517 U.S. 735, 742 (1996) (citations omitted)
("Sudden and unexplained change, . . . or change that does not take account of
legitimate reliance... may be 'arbitrary, capricious lor] an abuse of discretion."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreihkpfok6u653kimyiamlvbwc3wtmlevk46vbse7lkotcrap22huru@jpeg)
May 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Come on, colleagues--let's support the MLA in their lawsuit over DOGE's illegal, illegitimate dismantling of the NEA and NEH--and help them out with the legal costs.
May 5, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Come on, colleagues--let's support the MLA in their lawsuit over DOGE's illegal, illegitimate dismantling of the NEA and NEH--and help them out with the legal costs.
Great to have this terrific journal available open access. Thank you @projectmuse.bsky.social !
We are excited to announce the publication of our Spring 2025 issue, which includes essays by Shuta Kiba, Alistair Robinson, and J. Mark Smith. The issue is available Open Access on Project Muse @projectmuse.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/issue/54703. Details in the thread.
May 5, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Great to have this terrific journal available open access. Thank you @projectmuse.bsky.social !
Excellent piece!
If I can be forgiven for engaging in an act of punditry, here's a review essay I wrote on Abundance.
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, Strangers in a Strange Land | ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
Picture the year 2050: a world of ubiquitous renewable energy, cheap desalinated water, vertical skyscraper farms, lab-grown meat, “star pills” manufactured in orbit that reverse aging, addiction, and...
arcmag.org
April 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Excellent piece!
Reposted by Neil Fraistat
“Our work is a model of federal funding done responsibly and cost-effectively, by returning tax dollars to the people of West Virginia in support of programs they themselves support, create, and execute in their home communities.” - WVa Humanities council on what NEH grant termination is destroying
West Virginia Humanities Council releases statement confirming that DOGE cuts, if they go ahead, will shutter the organization. Full text in image, described there in alt text.
![West Virginia Humanities Council, Statement from the Board of Directors
The Board of Directors of the West Virginia Humanities Council [the Council], a nonpartisan nonprofit organization, was recently notified by the federal Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), that support to our Council from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) was being terminated.
This abrupt termination of long-established and congressionally appropriated NEH funding support for the Council, which serves as the NEH’s official affiliate in and for the Mountain State, if sustained, will cause the closure of all Council activities within West Virginia.
The financial support received from NEH represents 50% of the Council’s annual budget. That funding is matched dollar-for-dollar by donations from West Virginians which together provide the funds that enable the Council to host events, provide programs, and support projects that preserve our state’s history and cultural heritage, and promote public discussions about issues that matter to West Virginians.
These funds enable the Council to create sustainable partnerships between the public and private sectors which contribute well over a million dollars every year to our state’s cultural economy, in the form of the grants and programs we provide to West Virginia cultural organizations, historical societies, schools, community centers, municipalities, and other entities.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ttdnc246ov2gybpe6e7sdzwh/bafkreifimmsvatk2meuwgeuy742gmttpl6szoxunrwympul5gjcmcdgqzu@jpeg)
![[text cont from 1st photo]: As the Council’s Board of Directors, we come from all areas of West Virginia, from communities of every size. We have seen firsthand, in our hometowns and in every county, the profound impact of the Council’s work. Rescinding of congressionally appropriated funding for the NEH means that our capacity to serve West Virginians will disappear, as will our significant contribution to our state’s rapidly growing cultural economy.
The impact will be felt everywhere, nowhere more directly than in the rural areas of our state. Our work is accomplished through the work that West Virginians do themselves. These dollars are locally directed; the projects they support are locally designed and locally delivered. Our work is a model of federal funding done responsibly and cost-effectively, by returning tax dollars to the people of West Virginia in support of programs they themselves support, create, and execute in their home communities.
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West Virginians have historically demonstrated a culture of working past our differences to achieve ends that benefit us all. We call on our congressional representatives to defend and ensure the delivery of NEH funding appropriated in support of the West Virginia Humanities Council -funding that has, for 50 years, worked to serve all West Virginians.
Signed by Board President George 'Gib' Brown on April 11, 2025
on behalf and at the request of the West Virginia Humanities Council Board of Directors
Paul Papadopoulos, Vice President, Hurricane
J. Dan McCarthy, Treasurer, Fayetteville
Leslie Baker, Secretary, Beckley
Matt Bond, Charleston
Gregory Coble, Shepherdstown
Cicero Fain Ill, Huntington
Rita Hedrick-Helmick, Glenville
Elliot Hicks, Charleston
Charles Ledbetter, Charleston
Michele Moure-Reeves, Mathias
Amy Pancake, Romney
Katrena Ramsey, Ravenswood
Lisa Rose, Morgantown
Megan Tarbett, Hurricane
Pam Tarr, Charleston
John Unger, Martinsburg
Bryson VanNostrand, Buckhannon
Lydia Warren, Fairmont](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ttdnc246ov2gybpe6e7sdzwh/bafkreid47nhszcuvvpz5kghdbvbxsjcxhczaaqzejoo56qj454slw46egm@jpeg)
April 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
“Our work is a model of federal funding done responsibly and cost-effectively, by returning tax dollars to the people of West Virginia in support of programs they themselves support, create, and execute in their home communities.” - WVa Humanities council on what NEH grant termination is destroying
Interest to see Indivisible paraphrasing Percy Shelley's Mask of Anarchy for their upcoming May Day Rally:
STOP THE BILLIONAIRE TAKEOVER. WE ARE THE MANY. THEY ARE THE FEW. THIS IS MAY DAY.
STOP THE BILLIONAIRE TAKEOVER. WE ARE THE MANY. THEY ARE THE FEW. THIS IS MAY DAY.
April 21, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Interest to see Indivisible paraphrasing Percy Shelley's Mask of Anarchy for their upcoming May Day Rally:
STOP THE BILLIONAIRE TAKEOVER. WE ARE THE MANY. THEY ARE THE FEW. THIS IS MAY DAY.
STOP THE BILLIONAIRE TAKEOVER. WE ARE THE MANY. THEY ARE THE FEW. THIS IS MAY DAY.
A lovely letter in every way. That font could be called "Elementary"
Arthur Conan Doyle has one of the most delightfully legible handwriting styles of any 19thC writer. The letter below is to Bram Stoker, congratulating him on the publication of Dracula. Font people! Why has no-one made this into a font yet, like the Jane Austen font? #C19th
April 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
A lovely letter in every way. That font could be called "Elementary"
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We’re still looking for more poets and artists! 👨🎨
Romantic Poets in the Wild is back with the gothic and Keatsian poems of Clay F. Johnson! @clayfjohnson.bsky.social
We loved these imaginative formal poems and hope you do too as we enter into our cruelest month: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5919
Please share widely and support creative writing!
We loved these imaginative formal poems and hope you do too as we enter into our cruelest month: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5919
Please share widely and support creative writing!
April 17, 2025 at 3:42 AM
We’re still looking for more poets and artists! 👨🎨