Mary Heath
@htaehyram.bsky.social
Mostly posting about my dog & poetry | Associate Editor, acquiring 📚 in folklore, literary studies, & Literary Conversations at the University Press of MS | Opinions mine. | she/her | 📍JXN, MS
AFS is great because I get to talk to some of the coolest people ever & I get to use Bluesky temporarily
Come see me in the ballroom to add to your #tbr pile @upmississippi.bsky.social
Come see me in the ballroom to add to your #tbr pile @upmississippi.bsky.social
October 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
AFS is great because I get to talk to some of the coolest people ever & I get to use Bluesky temporarily
Come see me in the ballroom to add to your #tbr pile @upmississippi.bsky.social
Come see me in the ballroom to add to your #tbr pile @upmississippi.bsky.social
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THIS. IS. IT.
My last one as CLA President — so Let’s Go!!
You don’t want to miss “SOUL FOOD, SOUL WORK, SOUL LEGACIES: FOOD, FAMILY, AND FAITH AS FOUNDATION,” Kiese Laymon, or Jackson State University — April 8-11, 2026.
See you in the ‘Sip!
#CLA26Jackson #CLA26 #CLAscholars
My last one as CLA President — so Let’s Go!!
You don’t want to miss “SOUL FOOD, SOUL WORK, SOUL LEGACIES: FOOD, FAMILY, AND FAITH AS FOUNDATION,” Kiese Laymon, or Jackson State University — April 8-11, 2026.
See you in the ‘Sip!
#CLA26Jackson #CLA26 #CLAscholars
Jackson is calling, CLA Family!
Summer Registration for the 2026 CLA Convention is open until August 15th!
Register today for the 84th Annual Convention! #CLA26Jackson #CLA26
#CLAscholars
www.clascholars.org
Summer Registration for the 2026 CLA Convention is open until August 15th!
Register today for the 84th Annual Convention! #CLA26Jackson #CLA26
#CLAscholars
www.clascholars.org
July 16, 2025 at 10:59 PM
THIS. IS. IT.
My last one as CLA President — so Let’s Go!!
You don’t want to miss “SOUL FOOD, SOUL WORK, SOUL LEGACIES: FOOD, FAMILY, AND FAITH AS FOUNDATION,” Kiese Laymon, or Jackson State University — April 8-11, 2026.
See you in the ‘Sip!
#CLA26Jackson #CLA26 #CLAscholars
My last one as CLA President — so Let’s Go!!
You don’t want to miss “SOUL FOOD, SOUL WORK, SOUL LEGACIES: FOOD, FAMILY, AND FAITH AS FOUNDATION,” Kiese Laymon, or Jackson State University — April 8-11, 2026.
See you in the ‘Sip!
#CLA26Jackson #CLA26 #CLAscholars
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🪄 POTTER STINKS: GENDER AND SPECIES IN J. K. ROWLING’S HARRY POTTER SERIES by Keridiana Chez, acquired by the brilliant @htaehyram.bsky.social for @upmississippi.bsky.social, excerpted in Lit Hub today ✨💚
“Rowling’s reasons for not allowing her characters to magic their way out of poverty have less to do with concerns for magical overuse and more to do with an attachment to problematic class stereotypes.” On magic use in Harry Potter.
The Magical Mundane: Work, Technology and Consumerism in the World of Harry Potter
“But for heaven’s sake—you’re wizards! You can do magic! Surely you can sort out—well—anything!” –Half-Blood Prince * “Dobby likes freedom, miss, but he isn’t wanting too much, miss, he likes work …
buff.ly
June 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
🪄 POTTER STINKS: GENDER AND SPECIES IN J. K. ROWLING’S HARRY POTTER SERIES by Keridiana Chez, acquired by the brilliant @htaehyram.bsky.social for @upmississippi.bsky.social, excerpted in Lit Hub today ✨💚
"This book is a collision of wit and wisdom. Djeha may be a trickster, but through his antics, we learn much about the complexity and richness of the human experience." Thed Bostic #ReadUP
www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/D/Djeh...
www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/D/Djeh...
Djeha, the North African Trickster
Djeha—also known as Juha, Jeh’a, and Ch’ha, among many variations—is an iconic figure, the trickster hero of an oral folktale tradition that has existed for centuries. The famous Maghrebian prankster ...
www.upress.state.ms.us
February 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM
"This book is a collision of wit and wisdom. Djeha may be a trickster, but through his antics, we learn much about the complexity and richness of the human experience." Thed Bostic #ReadUP
www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/D/Djeh...
www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/D/Djeh...
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New 2025 plan: I'm going to stop paying attention to the news and watch old movies and read books and travel to a few places and publish a bunch of books and make some cocktails in between and when it's over, you all can update me on what I missed.
January 17, 2025 at 1:55 AM
New 2025 plan: I'm going to stop paying attention to the news and watch old movies and read books and travel to a few places and publish a bunch of books and make some cocktails in between and when it's over, you all can update me on what I missed.
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Soothing myself by digging through DAVID LYNCH: INTERVIEWS. So many little gems in this book.
January 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Soothing myself by digging through DAVID LYNCH: INTERVIEWS. So many little gems in this book.
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We’re so excited to be at #MLA2025! Be sure to use code MLA2025 at checkout on our website to receive a 30% discount on any of our Literature and related titles. www.upress.state.ms.us/Collections/...
January 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
We’re so excited to be at #MLA2025! Be sure to use code MLA2025 at checkout on our website to receive a 30% discount on any of our Literature and related titles. www.upress.state.ms.us/Collections/...
All set up and ready to rep @upmississippi.bsky.social tomorrow at #MLA25
January 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
All set up and ready to rep @upmississippi.bsky.social tomorrow at #MLA25
I will be at #MLA25 in NOLA, so come swing by the @upmississippi.bsky.social booth 115B in the exhibit hall this Friday and Saturday for $10 books, some fun freebies, and scintillating publishing chats!📚✨
January 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will be at #MLA25 in NOLA, so come swing by the @upmississippi.bsky.social booth 115B in the exhibit hall this Friday and Saturday for $10 books, some fun freebies, and scintillating publishing chats!📚✨
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Came back to the office to a notification that copies 📚 of Carrie Helms Tippen's UNPALATABLE 👅 STORIES OF PAIN 😖 AND PLEASURE ☺️ IN SOUTHERN COOKBOOKS have hit the @upmississippi.bsky.social warehouse 🚚📦
So excited for this deeply personal, super smart book to make its way in the world! 🎉
So excited for this deeply personal, super smart book to make its way in the world! 🎉
January 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Came back to the office to a notification that copies 📚 of Carrie Helms Tippen's UNPALATABLE 👅 STORIES OF PAIN 😖 AND PLEASURE ☺️ IN SOUTHERN COOKBOOKS have hit the @upmississippi.bsky.social warehouse 🚚📦
So excited for this deeply personal, super smart book to make its way in the world! 🎉
So excited for this deeply personal, super smart book to make its way in the world! 🎉
Starting the new year off with a literal bang
January 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Starting the new year off with a literal bang
Loved seeing this piece in @thespectator1828.bsky.social from Robin Ashenden! If you have a writer you'd love to see added to @upmississippi.bsky.social's Literary Conversations series, DM me--I would be so happy to receive your proposal!
www.spectator.co.uk/article/life...
www.spectator.co.uk/article/life...
Life lessons, from Orwell to Didion
A series of books that teaches us not only how to write but also how to live and how to think properly about life.
www.spectator.co.uk
January 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Loved seeing this piece in @thespectator1828.bsky.social from Robin Ashenden! If you have a writer you'd love to see added to @upmississippi.bsky.social's Literary Conversations series, DM me--I would be so happy to receive your proposal!
www.spectator.co.uk/article/life...
www.spectator.co.uk/article/life...
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Need a thought-provoking listen for the new year? PROVERB MASTERS: SHAPING THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT by Raymond Summerville is an examination of the lasting impact of proverbial language on the long civil rights movement: libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
January 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Need a thought-provoking listen for the new year? PROVERB MASTERS: SHAPING THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT by Raymond Summerville is an examination of the lasting impact of proverbial language on the long civil rights movement: libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
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Happy Festivus everyone. Always amazed this crazy episode birthed a real celebration that seems to be enjoyed by so many around the world. So may your feats be strong and your grievances few. Enjoy.
December 23, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Happy Festivus everyone. Always amazed this crazy episode birthed a real celebration that seems to be enjoyed by so many around the world. So may your feats be strong and your grievances few. Enjoy.
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Gisele Pelicot is an incredible woman and a hero for her nerve in bringing all those rapists to justice and for knowing the shame does not lie worth her — bravely declining anonymity was incredible.
December 19, 2024 at 5:24 PM
Gisele Pelicot is an incredible woman and a hero for her nerve in bringing all those rapists to justice and for knowing the shame does not lie worth her — bravely declining anonymity was incredible.
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Listen to a balanced assessment of gun culture and its folklore in America in the audiobook for GUNLORE: FIREARMS, FOLKWAYS, AND COMMUNITIES, edited by Robert Glenn Howard and Eric A. Eliason! #ReadUP #Audiobooks tinyurl.com/yejjbwm8
December 19, 2024 at 4:45 PM
Listen to a balanced assessment of gun culture and its folklore in America in the audiobook for GUNLORE: FIREARMS, FOLKWAYS, AND COMMUNITIES, edited by Robert Glenn Howard and Eric A. Eliason! #ReadUP #Audiobooks tinyurl.com/yejjbwm8
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A great piece from Jessica B. Harris in 2021 about her trips to Mississippi. I deeply admire her and her work.
gardenandgun.com/articles/rid...
gardenandgun.com/articles/rid...
Riding Shotgun into the Heart of Mississippi
Jessica B. Harris on her journeys through the Magnolia State
gardenandgun.com
December 11, 2024 at 12:07 PM
A great piece from Jessica B. Harris in 2021 about her trips to Mississippi. I deeply admire her and her work.
gardenandgun.com/articles/rid...
gardenandgun.com/articles/rid...
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We are deeply saddened to hear the news of Nikki Giovanni's passing. Giovanni was an activist, educator, and one of the most well-known American poets.
“We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.”
–Nikki Giovanni
“We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.”
–Nikki Giovanni
Breaking News: Nikki Giovanni, the poet who wrote, irresistibly and sensuously, about race, politics, gender, sex and love, has died at 81.
Nikki Giovanni, Poet Who Wrote of Black Joy, Dies at 81
Ms. Giovanni tackled race, gender, sex, politics and love. She was a celebrity poet and public intellectual who appeared on television and toured the country.
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2024 at 3:41 PM
We are deeply saddened to hear the news of Nikki Giovanni's passing. Giovanni was an activist, educator, and one of the most well-known American poets.
“We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.”
–Nikki Giovanni
“We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.”
–Nikki Giovanni
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Just a reminder that there’s an app available for your TV called PBS RETRO where you can watch all sorts of wonderful old pbs shows like Mr. Rogers and Reading Rainbow, you know, in case you might need that sort of energy right now
November 26, 2024 at 1:22 PM
Just a reminder that there’s an app available for your TV called PBS RETRO where you can watch all sorts of wonderful old pbs shows like Mr. Rogers and Reading Rainbow, you know, in case you might need that sort of energy right now
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Read an exclusive excerpt from THE MAKING OF SYLVIA PLATH on Lithub!
lithub.com/how-a-young-...
lithub.com/how-a-young-...
How a Young Sylvia Plath Found Her Literary Voice Through Diary Keeping
For two weeks in July 1944, Sylvia Plath attended Camp Helen Storrow at Buzzard’s Bay, Massachusetts, averaging a letter a day to her mother, reporting on her swimming and hiking and her enjoyment …
lithub.com
November 21, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Read an exclusive excerpt from THE MAKING OF SYLVIA PLATH on Lithub!
lithub.com/how-a-young-...
lithub.com/how-a-young-...
I am spending all of my paycheck on d&d materials help pls
November 20, 2024 at 7:37 PM
I am spending all of my paycheck on d&d materials help pls
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it's like happy hour, but for our book. TODAY is the last day of the @upressmississippi holiday sale--snag yourself a preorder for $12.50 (!!!), and DM me details to get your free sticker pack. 📖
www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/A/An-A...
www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/A/An-A...
November 20, 2024 at 3:20 PM
it's like happy hour, but for our book. TODAY is the last day of the @upressmississippi holiday sale--snag yourself a preorder for $12.50 (!!!), and DM me details to get your free sticker pack. 📖
www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/A/An-A...
www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/A/An-A...
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shabbat shalom I’m going to sleep for a dozen hours!
November 15, 2024 at 9:15 PM
shabbat shalom I’m going to sleep for a dozen hours!