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Kate Beall
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Writer, baker, candlestick maker (?), / All of me out to sea | Words in Feral, HAD, and elsewhere | she/her

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mazarine.bsky.social
The effort behind the mark
markalanmattes.bsky.social Mark Alan Mattes / Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 4d
Hacky-ass lockup right here, folks!
Locked up form for print in support of lecture, A is for Abjection
February 12, 2026 at 1:14 AM
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johannawinant.bsky.social
CALL FOR PITCHES

@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.

We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.

Details below!
Close Reading Is For Everyone Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant Call for Pitches Based on our previous Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, we are at work on a new version that’s shorter, slimmer, and aimed at a more general audience. We’re looking for a new set of contributors who would write excellent, brief, model close readings of texts that high schoolers might know and care about. Think: “The Gettysburg Address,” Macbeth, and Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” but also song lyrics, idioms, or even a visual image. What is your best, most instructive, most exciting, most welcoming example of how a close reading builds a real argument out from a tiny, perhaps overlooked detail? If you’re interested in pitching us, please send us your 250-word close reading of the text you propose. Your close reading should be mappable using our vocabulary of close reading: the five steps of scene setting, noticing, local claiming, regional argumentation, and global theorizing. (Our close reading of “The Red Wheelbarrow” in the early pages of our introduction is the sort of thing we’re seeking.) If we think we can use yours, we’ll ask you to expand it to a 1,200 word essay in which you explain how your close reading works step by step. We seek close readings both of texts that are canonical and also ones that aren’t. And so we invite contributors both from the discipline of literary studies, and other disciplines across the university, and the public humanities beyond it. Send your pitches—please include your name and contact info—to daniel.sinykin@emory.edu and jwinant@reed.edu by March 15.
February 9, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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bengoldfarb.bsky.social
Best writing, academic or popular, about floodplains?
February 10, 2026 at 12:27 AM
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dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social
Okay so a thing I LOVED about that is how, whereas so many halftime shows kind of elevate the star above the other dancers/extras—often literally—that was like the exact opposite, he was *with and among* the people around him
February 9, 2026 at 1:35 AM
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www.wasquarterly.com/words/winnin...
[Header: Words & Sports] WINNING CHANGES EVERYTHING Kate Beall a cento, after the commentary of Rich Waltz and Aaron Taylor (Commander-in-Chief Trophy games, Air Force-Navy and Air Force-Army, 2022) Early sledding. The straw that stirs this drink. Tough sledding. The shortest distance between two points is a head start. That's that's that's a heavy piece. Now he's a big load of laundry. That's a heavy piece. Yes it is in more ways than one. If you live by penetration you die by penetration. Play-makers help me out with the math here make the plays there's a whole lotta eights and sixes in there, running around with their hair on fire. Winning changes everything. A good bloodline. He's the straw. A heavy piece.
February 9, 2026 at 2:35 AM
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eireannmor.bsky.social
printers, help me. does mohawk not sell/send out sample books anymore? and/or where are you ordering paper from these days? I need tabloid AND letter formats, and want to be able to feel texture and see color before I order w/o always waiting for delivery on sheet samples
February 9, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social
Dump Truck, by Mikhail Evdokimovich Tkachev, 1956
February 9, 2026 at 1:28 AM
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dmittelman.bsky.social
benitoooooo
February 9, 2026 at 1:34 AM
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katebbeall.bsky.social
“the bowl, achieving neither fame nor advantage, / was swept up by brooms and memories”

#SuperBowl
katebbeall.bsky.social Kate Beall @katebbeall.bsky.social · Nov 21
Ana Luísa Amaral, “A verdade histórica,” translated by Margaret Jull Costa as “The Historical Truth”
A VERDADE HISTÓRICA A minha filha partiu uma tigela na cozinha. E eu que me apetecia escrever sobre o evento, tive que pôr de lado inspiração e lápis, pegar numa vassoura e varrer a cozinha. A cozinha varrida de tigela ficou diferente da cozinha de tigela intacta: local propício a escavação e estudo, curto mapa arqueológico num futuro remoto. Uma tigela de louça branca com flores, restos de cereais tratados em embalagem estanque espalhados pelo chão. Não eram grão de trigo de Pompeia, mas eram respeitosos cereais de qualquer forma. E a tigela, mesmo não sendo da dinastia Ming, mas das Caldas, daqui a cinco ou dez mil anos devia ter estatuto admirativo. Mas a hecatombe deu-se. E escorregada de pequeninas mãos, ficou esquecida de famas e proveitos, varrida de vassouras e memórias. Por mísero e cruel balde de lixo azul em plástico moderno (indestrutível) The Historical Truth My daughter broke a bowl in the kitchen. And when I fancied writing a poem about the incident I had to put aside inspiration and pen, pick up a broom and sweep the kitchen floor. The kitchen swept clean of the broken bowl looked different from the kitchen with the bowl intact: a place ready to be excavated and studied a brief archeological map of a remote future. A white china bowl decorated with flowers, the remnants of processed cereal in watertight wrapping scattered on the floor. They weren't grains of wheat from Pompeii but respectable cereals nonetheless. And the bowl, although not exactly Ming dynasty, but made in Caldas da Rainha, in five or ten thousand years should find its own admiring audience. But disaster struck. And having slipped from those small hands, the bowl, achieving neither fame nor advantage, was swept up by brooms and memories Into a miserable cruel blue bin in modern (indestructible) plastic
February 8, 2026 at 8:35 PM
katebbeall.bsky.social
“the bowl, achieving neither fame nor advantage, / was swept up by brooms and memories”

#SuperBowl
katebbeall.bsky.social Kate Beall @katebbeall.bsky.social · Nov 21
Ana Luísa Amaral, “A verdade histórica,” translated by Margaret Jull Costa as “The Historical Truth”
A VERDADE HISTÓRICA A minha filha partiu uma tigela na cozinha. E eu que me apetecia escrever sobre o evento, tive que pôr de lado inspiração e lápis, pegar numa vassoura e varrer a cozinha. A cozinha varrida de tigela ficou diferente da cozinha de tigela intacta: local propício a escavação e estudo, curto mapa arqueológico num futuro remoto. Uma tigela de louça branca com flores, restos de cereais tratados em embalagem estanque espalhados pelo chão. Não eram grão de trigo de Pompeia, mas eram respeitosos cereais de qualquer forma. E a tigela, mesmo não sendo da dinastia Ming, mas das Caldas, daqui a cinco ou dez mil anos devia ter estatuto admirativo. Mas a hecatombe deu-se. E escorregada de pequeninas mãos, ficou esquecida de famas e proveitos, varrida de vassouras e memórias. Por mísero e cruel balde de lixo azul em plástico moderno (indestrutível) The Historical Truth My daughter broke a bowl in the kitchen. And when I fancied writing a poem about the incident I had to put aside inspiration and pen, pick up a broom and sweep the kitchen floor. The kitchen swept clean of the broken bowl looked different from the kitchen with the bowl intact: a place ready to be excavated and studied a brief archeological map of a remote future. A white china bowl decorated with flowers, the remnants of processed cereal in watertight wrapping scattered on the floor. They weren't grains of wheat from Pompeii but respectable cereals nonetheless. And the bowl, although not exactly Ming dynasty, but made in Caldas da Rainha, in five or ten thousand years should find its own admiring audience. But disaster struck. And having slipped from those small hands, the bowl, achieving neither fame nor advantage, was swept up by brooms and memories Into a miserable cruel blue bin in modern (indestructible) plastic
February 8, 2026 at 8:35 PM
katebbeall.bsky.social
the only finished poem is an unfinished poem
toddedillard.bsky.social Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 10d
a simple draft check for a poem is retyping it, if you hate it then it needs work, and if you like it but don’t discover any possibilities in retyping then it also needs work
February 5, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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Merton
February 1, 2026 at 11:45 AM
katebbeall.bsky.social
Has anyone done a full Maurice Sendak “Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months” parody for our times yet?

I think of the book every time I hear this chant and it warms me double.
JANUARY In January it's so nice while slipping on the sliding ice to sip hot chicken soup with rice. Sipping once sipping twice sipping chicken soup with rice. Illustration of a small figure ice skating on a frozen pond while tipping steaming soup from a bowl into their open mouth.
January 31, 2026 at 4:22 AM
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havehashad.com
open now to 45 of you who've never submitted to HAD before!
NEWBIES ONLY Submit if you've never managed to hit one of our open windows. If I catch you repeating, I'll be very cross, I will reject you and leave a permanent note on your file. Loose guidelines: any genre, prose length < 1200 words, poetry up to 5 poems or 3 pages. Yours, @crowjonah.com
January 30, 2026 at 7:06 PM
katebbeall.bsky.social
Paulo Leminski
BEM NO FUNDO no fundo, no fundo, bem lá no fundo, a gente gostaria de ver nossos problemas resolvidos por decreto a partir desta data, aquela mágoa sem remédio é considerada nula e sobre ela silêncio perpétuo extinto por lei todo o remorso, maldito seja quem olhar pra trás, lá pra trás não há nada, e nada mais mas problemas não se resolvem, problemas têm família grande, e aos domingos saem todos passear o problema, sua senhora e outros pequenos probleminhas
January 27, 2026 at 3:29 AM
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dmittelman.bsky.social
"Mas se sabe que cada pássaro fala, diz uma coisa, no canto que é seu, e ninguém não entende."
January 23, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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readinstead.bsky.social
So I discovered the play Fat Ham this month and am immediately turning it into a new unit for my AP kids. Does anyone

1. Teach this?
2. Know of good essays about adapting Shakespeare?
3. Have good resources about queering the canon? Or about black joy?
January 22, 2026 at 11:47 PM
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gaiajane.bsky.social
#poetry #talkingshit
katebbeall.bsky.social Kate Beall @katebbeall.bsky.social · 28d
case in point
January 18, 2026 at 9:37 PM
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case in point
372 I know lives, I could miss Without a Misery — Others — whose instant's wanting — Would be Eternity — The last — a scanty Number — "Twould scarcely fill a Two — The first — a Gnat's Horizon Could easily outgrow —
January 18, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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gaiajane.bsky.social
Always good to add an em dash when you’re talking shit; Emily Dickinson knew that.
January 18, 2026 at 6:56 AM
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sjane.bsky.social
Impossible to tell which way leads to
perplexity...

A Walden erasure for @tomsnarsky.bsky.social's #smallpoemsunday, originally published in @fuguejournal.bsky.social
erasure poem with collage
January 18, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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eireannmor.bsky.social
universally good advice
ellipticalnight.bsky.social aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 29d
always stay for the moment when everything turns soft
brush and grass covered hills folding down into a wide valley that doesn't even look like it contains several cities in the glow of late sunlight as other hills and mountains appear very green grassy low mountains with many rocks and boulders in the glow just before sunset brush and grass covered hills folding down into a wide valley that doesn't even look like it contains several cities in the glow of late sunlight as other hills and mountains appear in the foreground and beyond rocky grass-covered hills and houses in the foreground framing much taller mountains shadowy pinks of a setting sun
January 17, 2026 at 5:07 PM
katebbeall.bsky.social
They also have custom packing tape with their sloth logo on it, so if you order some books, you can end up with a mailbox full of cheerfully reading sloths!
joshthelibromancer.bsky.social Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 29d
Are you all following @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social the kickass bookstore in Minneapolis? They did great work in 2020, they're doing great work now, & they're just generally awesome.
Moon Palace Books
Your neighborhood independent bookstore located in south Minneapolis. Selling new and used books since 2012.
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January 17, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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aaronburch.bsky.social
gonna do a "that was awesome" short story club hangout for this story ("Old Joy" by Jon Raymond)

three weeks from today. thursday, feb. 5 8pm

basically, a bunch of us read the story, hop on zoom, chat about it and hang out

will send out an email tomorrow. if interested, lemme know.
aaronburch.bsky.social Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · Nov 16
“What is sorrow but old, worn-out joy?”

—Jon Raymond, “Old Joy”
January 16, 2026 at 1:14 AM
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In my dreams, the crow army has already overthrown ICE.
January 13, 2026 at 11:07 PM