Francesca Colonnese
@francescac.bsky.social
Lecturer in English Lit, focusing on Victorian poetry and the weirdness of subjective time.
What does is it mean that the Seattle tech 4 housing group picked Caltech colors rather than MIT or UW? The least engineering oriented of all the schools…
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December 3, 2025 at 5:53 AM
What does is it mean that the Seattle tech 4 housing group picked Caltech colors rather than MIT or UW? The least engineering oriented of all the schools…
Pardoned turkeys are Gobble and Waddle this year. Our finest American tradition.
Maybe the East Wing can become a turkey petting zoo.
Maybe the East Wing can become a turkey petting zoo.
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Pardoned turkeys are Gobble and Waddle this year. Our finest American tradition.
Maybe the East Wing can become a turkey petting zoo.
Maybe the East Wing can become a turkey petting zoo.
Listening to the Shoot Out the Lights album while reading Tenant of Wildfell Hall
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Listening to the Shoot Out the Lights album while reading Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Priti is always right.
NAVSA 2025 was FAB! Thks go to everyone who gave terrific papers & shared their brilliant selves in so many conversations. But the biggest thanks to NATHAN & PATRICK who put together such a strong program, were so warm, & were literally everywhere! Models of intellectual community building!
November 18, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Priti is always right.
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I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
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Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc
November 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc
Come be dazzled by all the cool approaches to poetics! I promise to weird you out about the nature of time.
Delighted to spotlight "Reimagining Victorian Poetics" at #NAVSA2025 with papers by Ryan Carroll, Francesca Colonnese, Mary Taylor Mann, Imogen Forbes-Macphail, & Cherrie Kwok.
November 4, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Come be dazzled by all the cool approaches to poetics! I promise to weird you out about the nature of time.
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It feels like maybe if we embraced baseball we could also find our way to a parliamentary system somehow.
November 2, 2025 at 1:42 AM
It feels like maybe if we embraced baseball we could also find our way to a parliamentary system somehow.
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the dumbest person you know is being affirmed by Chat-GPT right now
October 29, 2025 at 2:09 AM
the dumbest person you know is being affirmed by Chat-GPT right now
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Photos in ProPublica.
A mail service that helps people regain their footing—hard to get a job, hard to deal with the gov, hard to pay your bills without a stable address.
Many of the folks we spoke to _used_ to be unhoused & attributed part of their current situation to the aid they got from K2C.
A mail service that helps people regain their footing—hard to get a job, hard to deal with the gov, hard to pay your bills without a stable address.
Many of the folks we spoke to _used_ to be unhoused & attributed part of their current situation to the aid they got from K2C.
NEW: For years, the Phoenix nonprofit Keys to Change has run a mail room for thousands of homeless people.
Now the U.S. Postal Service is cutting its $24,000 investment, leaving the organization to raise the extra money to keep it open.
Now the U.S. Postal Service is cutting its $24,000 investment, leaving the organization to raise the extra money to keep it open.
U.S. Postal Service Cuts Funding for a Phoenix Mail Room Assisting Homeless People
The loss of support comes at a time of uncertainty for one of Arizona’s largest homeless services providers as the Trump administration calls for reducing and restructuring homelessness assistance grants.
www.propublica.org
October 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Photos in ProPublica.
A mail service that helps people regain their footing—hard to get a job, hard to deal with the gov, hard to pay your bills without a stable address.
Many of the folks we spoke to _used_ to be unhoused & attributed part of their current situation to the aid they got from K2C.
A mail service that helps people regain their footing—hard to get a job, hard to deal with the gov, hard to pay your bills without a stable address.
Many of the folks we spoke to _used_ to be unhoused & attributed part of their current situation to the aid they got from K2C.
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In the middle of all this the inflatable costume crowd has arrived and is throwing a rave? Mosh? At the end of the free speech zone closest to the ICE facility.
October 18, 2025 at 10:54 PM
In the middle of all this the inflatable costume crowd has arrived and is throwing a rave? Mosh? At the end of the free speech zone closest to the ICE facility.
Working on job materials when I could be sitting in the sun reading Susan Stewart and thinking about birdsong and poetry
October 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Working on job materials when I could be sitting in the sun reading Susan Stewart and thinking about birdsong and poetry
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life is better in a union!
celebrate and organize today
"68% of U.S. adults approve of labor unions. This is the fifth consecutive year that approval of organized labor has been in the 67% to 71% range, a level last reached in the late 1950s and early 1960s."
news.gallup.com/poll/694472/...
celebrate and organize today
"68% of U.S. adults approve of labor unions. This is the fifth consecutive year that approval of organized labor has been in the 67% to 71% range, a level last reached in the late 1950s and early 1960s."
news.gallup.com/poll/694472/...
Labor Union Approval Relatively Steady at 68% in U.S.
Public approval of labor unions remains historically strong at 68%, marking the fifth consecutive year with nearly 70% support.
news.gallup.com
September 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
life is better in a union!
celebrate and organize today
"68% of U.S. adults approve of labor unions. This is the fifth consecutive year that approval of organized labor has been in the 67% to 71% range, a level last reached in the late 1950s and early 1960s."
news.gallup.com/poll/694472/...
celebrate and organize today
"68% of U.S. adults approve of labor unions. This is the fifth consecutive year that approval of organized labor has been in the 67% to 71% range, a level last reached in the late 1950s and early 1960s."
news.gallup.com/poll/694472/...
This is too easy engagement bait.
However, I bet very few of you close the term by telling students, “If you take a class that’s weirder than this has been, please come tell me.”
However, I bet very few of you close the term by telling students, “If you take a class that’s weirder than this has been, please come tell me.”
Concerned that we are losing the necessary ratio. 15% of teachers/faculty should be irretrievably strange eccentrics. Every learning experience should have some element where in later life you can reflect with former classmates about how bizarre at least one (1) class per year was.
August 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This is too easy engagement bait.
However, I bet very few of you close the term by telling students, “If you take a class that’s weirder than this has been, please come tell me.”
However, I bet very few of you close the term by telling students, “If you take a class that’s weirder than this has been, please come tell me.”
Seattle: You are an ignorant worm for requesting a bag, even one made of recycled paper. Where are your 10 zillion organic cotton totes?
Texas: We only have the big plastic bags.
Texas: We only have the big plastic bags.
August 30, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Seattle: You are an ignorant worm for requesting a bag, even one made of recycled paper. Where are your 10 zillion organic cotton totes?
Texas: We only have the big plastic bags.
Texas: We only have the big plastic bags.
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I came to a place where there was lots of chips.
August 21, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I came to a place where there was lots of chips.
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We've been posting CfPs on our website again! Check it out for links to exciting 2026 conferences on Tennyson and Hopkins.
victorianpoetrycau.wixsite.com/poetrycaucus...
victorianpoetrycau.wixsite.com/poetrycaucus...
CFPs
Call for Papers - NAVSA Victorian Poetry Caucus (VPC). Find our list of current CFPs for Victorian poetry-related events.
victorianpoetrycau.wixsite.com
August 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
We've been posting CfPs on our website again! Check it out for links to exciting 2026 conferences on Tennyson and Hopkins.
victorianpoetrycau.wixsite.com/poetrycaucus...
victorianpoetrycau.wixsite.com/poetrycaucus...
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🚨 JOB ALERT-The Curran Index is hiring! Editors @emilyjlm.bsky.social + Lars Atkin seek a Research Assistant to conduct archival research on /Fun/ housed at the Huntington Library. Stipend available, with applications accepted through Aug. 20! More details on our website: rs4vp.org/curran-index...
The Curran Index is Hiring! – RSVP
The Curran Index is hiring a qualified U.S.-based research assistant to conduct archival research at the Huntington Library in California.
rs4vp.org
August 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
🚨 JOB ALERT-The Curran Index is hiring! Editors @emilyjlm.bsky.social + Lars Atkin seek a Research Assistant to conduct archival research on /Fun/ housed at the Huntington Library. Stipend available, with applications accepted through Aug. 20! More details on our website: rs4vp.org/curran-index...
I’ll never forget all the times I saw the Quilt throughout my childhood, and volunteered to send out panels so others could too. An exposure to collective grief, love, and action that all should experience.
If you don't know about Duane, you can read the story of this quilt panel here: www.thedallasway.org/stories/writ...
Duane Puryear and the Quilt Panel — The Dallas Way
Duane Puryear
www.thedallasway.org
July 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I’ll never forget all the times I saw the Quilt throughout my childhood, and volunteered to send out panels so others could too. An exposure to collective grief, love, and action that all should experience.
There’s a certain press imprint out there getting academics to write forewords to books while having some of the worst book design I’ve seen lately, including absolutely no room for notes in the margins
July 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
There’s a certain press imprint out there getting academics to write forewords to books while having some of the worst book design I’ve seen lately, including absolutely no room for notes in the margins
As usual, a fabulous time was had much learned at #RSVP2025. Next year can soak it all up (the “knowledge”) with brown bread and butter everyday.
July 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
As usual, a fabulous time was had much learned at #RSVP2025. Next year can soak it all up (the “knowledge”) with brown bread and butter everyday.
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@francescac.bsky.social found (imagined?) over 90 reprints of Christina Rossetti's "Song" (starting with "When I am dead, my dearest") in American newspapers.
She zoomed in her presentation on the Colon Starlet printed in Panama, "The oldest paper in Colon printed in two languages."
#RSVP2025
She zoomed in her presentation on the Colon Starlet printed in Panama, "The oldest paper in Colon printed in two languages."
#RSVP2025
The Colon starlet.
Triweekly Vol. 1, no. 1 (Nov. 3, 1898)- "A Newspaper of interest of readers and advertisers." Supplements accompany some issues. Also issued on microfilm from the Library of Congress Photoduplication ...
www.loc.gov
July 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
@francescac.bsky.social found (imagined?) over 90 reprints of Christina Rossetti's "Song" (starting with "When I am dead, my dearest") in American newspapers.
She zoomed in her presentation on the Colon Starlet printed in Panama, "The oldest paper in Colon printed in two languages."
#RSVP2025
She zoomed in her presentation on the Colon Starlet printed in Panama, "The oldest paper in Colon printed in two languages."
#RSVP2025
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In her work @francescac.bsky.social focuses on the very short period of time between opening a (Victorian) newspaper and spotting a poem.
Periodicals are good at *training* (keyword) readers at identifying both lyric and poetry.
#RSVP2025
Periodicals are good at *training* (keyword) readers at identifying both lyric and poetry.
#RSVP2025
July 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
In her work @francescac.bsky.social focuses on the very short period of time between opening a (Victorian) newspaper and spotting a poem.
Periodicals are good at *training* (keyword) readers at identifying both lyric and poetry.
#RSVP2025
Periodicals are good at *training* (keyword) readers at identifying both lyric and poetry.
#RSVP2025
Marie is one of the most generous listeners that you can have at a conference—and she creates an incredible record of @rs4vp.org talks!
Excited to hear my co-panelist from #RSVP24, @francescac.bsky.social!
She just defended her dissertation on how subjective and embodied experiences of time interact with poetics, with a focus on how form interacts with neuroscientific and philosophical models of perception.
#RSVP2025 #BookHistory
She just defended her dissertation on how subjective and embodied experiences of time interact with poetics, with a focus on how form interacts with neuroscientific and philosophical models of perception.
#RSVP2025 #BookHistory
July 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Marie is one of the most generous listeners that you can have at a conference—and she creates an incredible record of @rs4vp.org talks!