Gillian White
@gillywhite8.bsky.social
soft g. poetry, poetics, public power. _Lyric Shame_https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674734395
o my, they are caving
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 AM
o my, they are caving
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Today is the official publication day for POETRY IN GENERAL: How a Literary From Became Public.
✨ Now available wherever books are sold ✨
Use CUP20 for a discount from the press
cup.columbia.edu/book/poetry-...
✨ Now available wherever books are sold ✨
Use CUP20 for a discount from the press
cup.columbia.edu/book/poetry-...
November 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Today is the official publication day for POETRY IN GENERAL: How a Literary From Became Public.
✨ Now available wherever books are sold ✨
Use CUP20 for a discount from the press
cup.columbia.edu/book/poetry-...
✨ Now available wherever books are sold ✨
Use CUP20 for a discount from the press
cup.columbia.edu/book/poetry-...
i’ve fallen into a hans christian andersen situation
October 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
i’ve fallen into a hans christian andersen situation
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sign and share and join AAUP actionnetwork.org/petitions/tr...
Trump Higher Ed Compact 2025
We stand for education—for science, for students and for freedom—and against this backward, anti-American policy. We call on university leaders, faculty, staff and students to unite in rejecting the T...
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October 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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My 90 yo dad went to an “authors & activism” event recently (already pretty cool), then sent me the program so I could see what he saw and liked <3. He’s one of few people I know who’s gotten more woke and left-leaning with age. #oldwoke #aginggracefully #authorsandactivism @authorsguild.org
October 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
My 90 yo dad went to an “authors & activism” event recently (already pretty cool), then sent me the program so I could see what he saw and liked <3. He’s one of few people I know who’s gotten more woke and left-leaning with age. #oldwoke #aginggracefully #authorsandactivism @authorsguild.org
climate change riot
October 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
climate change riot
what total snowflakes they are
Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference
www.nytimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
what total snowflakes they are
Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
i struggle to teach sylvia plath because i have some weird fantasy about defending her from her readers
September 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM
i struggle to teach sylvia plath because i have some weird fantasy about defending her from her readers
yeesh - phoenix doesn’t seem that cool
September 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
yeesh - phoenix doesn’t seem that cool
Took me a min to read Maggie Millner’s gr8 piece in @yalereview.bsky.social, but I’d noted the defensive IG comments when it appeared, which show the lightning speed w which lyric shame circulates. So chuffed she used my work so subtly!! yalereview.org/article/mill... “Is Mary Oliver Embarrassing?”
Maggie Millner: “Is Mary Oliver Embarrassing?”
A reckoning with Mary Oliver’s reputation as an unserious poet explores how her best work has been misunderstood.
yalereview.org
September 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Took me a min to read Maggie Millner’s gr8 piece in @yalereview.bsky.social, but I’d noted the defensive IG comments when it appeared, which show the lightning speed w which lyric shame circulates. So chuffed she used my work so subtly!! yalereview.org/article/mill... “Is Mary Oliver Embarrassing?”
seriously, please- someone help me understand why in a world literally running out of water, universities are so pumped about their AI investments. All I see is so so info and mundane task mastery, outsourcing of human labor, and deepfakes.
May 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
seriously, please- someone help me understand why in a world literally running out of water, universities are so pumped about their AI investments. All I see is so so info and mundane task mastery, outsourcing of human labor, and deepfakes.
there’s something happening here; what it is ain’t exactly clear …. but i might be kind of annoyed by it
April 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
there’s something happening here; what it is ain’t exactly clear …. but i might be kind of annoyed by it
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Congratulations to SUNY Faculty Senate for passing their mutual defense resolution! It's linked below. That makes 14 university/college senates nationwide:
Rutgers
Nebraska
Indiana
Michigan State
Michigan
Ohio State
Washington
Maryland
Minnesota
UMass
Hunter
City College
Hostos
SUNY
Rutgers
Nebraska
Indiana
Michigan State
Michigan
Ohio State
Washington
Maryland
Minnesota
UMass
Hunter
City College
Hostos
SUNY
Along with Rutgers' resolution, UMass Amherst's provided many of the ideas and language for the SUNY University Faculty Senate resolution that was approved yesterday! (And may be posted as soon as tonight, along with the 8 others we passed yesterday.)
www.sunyufs.us/voting-and-a...
www.sunyufs.us/voting-and-a...
April 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Congratulations to SUNY Faculty Senate for passing their mutual defense resolution! It's linked below. That makes 14 university/college senates nationwide:
Rutgers
Nebraska
Indiana
Michigan State
Michigan
Ohio State
Washington
Maryland
Minnesota
UMass
Hunter
City College
Hostos
SUNY
Rutgers
Nebraska
Indiana
Michigan State
Michigan
Ohio State
Washington
Maryland
Minnesota
UMass
Hunter
City College
Hostos
SUNY
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Umm, I don’t see this mentioned in any national news outlets… but the historic Clayborn Temple in Memphis, the site of MLK’s “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech, burned down this morning. My sadness is immeasurable. www.fox13memphis.com/news/watch-h...
WATCH: Historic Clayborn Temple Church goes up in flames after 130 years
WATCH: Historic Clayborn Temple Church goes up in flames after 130 years
www.fox13memphis.com
April 28, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Umm, I don’t see this mentioned in any national news outlets… but the historic Clayborn Temple in Memphis, the site of MLK’s “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech, burned down this morning. My sadness is immeasurable. www.fox13memphis.com/news/watch-h...
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No worse time
John Ashbery
John Ashbery
April 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
No worse time
John Ashbery
John Ashbery
this is a shoutout to the brandy snifter subplot in *Rear Window*
April 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
this is a shoutout to the brandy snifter subplot in *Rear Window*
Dear @sanders.senate.gov and @aoc.bsky.social and @democrats.org We should be talking back to tariff discourse, which many red and blue workers are getting behind, by talking about outsourcing and automation that only serves billionaires’ bottom lines www.demandsage.com/outsourcing-....
April 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Dear @sanders.senate.gov and @aoc.bsky.social and @democrats.org We should be talking back to tariff discourse, which many red and blue workers are getting behind, by talking about outsourcing and automation that only serves billionaires’ bottom lines www.demandsage.com/outsourcing-....
why do service jobs taken over by robots never get raised in all this talk about jobs in the us? 🙄
April 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
why do service jobs taken over by robots never get raised in all this talk about jobs in the us? 🙄
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My colleague Ben Robinson is the first IU faculty member to be investigated under SEA 202, the law that mandates faculty can be fired for the appearance of “political bias,” which ofc in this context means left wing opinions the administration does not like. 1/4
April 21, 2025 at 3:33 AM
My colleague Ben Robinson is the first IU faculty member to be investigated under SEA 202, the law that mandates faculty can be fired for the appearance of “political bias,” which ofc in this context means left wing opinions the administration does not like. 1/4
i find this to perfectly illustrate the vibe of now: expertise and particularity count for nothing, profit and use are everything— seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil, etc, getting and spending we lay waste our powers, yadda yadda yadda - whatEVER
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April 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
i find this to perfectly illustrate the vibe of now: expertise and particularity count for nothing, profit and use are everything— seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil, etc, getting and spending we lay waste our powers, yadda yadda yadda - whatEVER
El Paso Herald-Post, 8/27/34
April 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
El Paso Herald-Post, 8/27/34