Matt Kirkpatrick
@mattkirkpatrick.bsky.social
Creative Writing Professor, Eastern Michigan University; President EMU-AAUP; Writer: The Silent Chord (Texas Review Press), Seagrave Museum (Acre), Light Without Heat (FC2)
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Congratulations to our Book Award finalists!!
October 8, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Congratulations to our Book Award finalists!!
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Flashback Friday! THE AMBROSE J. AND VIVIAN T. SEAGRAVE MUSEUM OF 20th CENTURY AMERICAN ART, “a #novel of ideas whose appeal goes far beyond its target audience—be it literary readers skeptical of yet another postmodern yarn...(1/2)
June 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Flashback Friday! THE AMBROSE J. AND VIVIAN T. SEAGRAVE MUSEUM OF 20th CENTURY AMERICAN ART, “a #novel of ideas whose appeal goes far beyond its target audience—be it literary readers skeptical of yet another postmodern yarn...(1/2)
Moby Dick themed Taylor Swift tribute band “Starbuck’s Lovers”
April 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Moby Dick themed Taylor Swift tribute band “Starbuck’s Lovers”
Detroit/SE Michigan friends:
March 27, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Detroit/SE Michigan friends:
Love this—a collection of descriptions of (imaginary) discarded texts. My fav is the Markson biography. “Borgesian panache” indeed
March 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Love this—a collection of descriptions of (imaginary) discarded texts. My fav is the Markson biography. “Borgesian panache” indeed
Matthaei Tuesday
March 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Matthaei Tuesday
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Yo Philly come on out to the launch party for @barrelhouse.bsky.social print issue 25 next week, 3/19/25 at Tattooed Mom!
Next week!
Reminder that we are launching Issue 25 at Tattooed Mom in Philly in less than 2 weeks. Readings! Literary Community! Stickers! Pierogis!
March 12, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Yo Philly come on out to the launch party for @barrelhouse.bsky.social print issue 25 next week, 3/19/25 at Tattooed Mom!
Matthaei Tuesday
March 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Matthaei Tuesday
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If you’re a professor in a classroom today & you don’t mention this, I believe you’re doing your students a profound disservice. This is targeted 1st at international students, but it’s deliberately broad enough to lay groundwork for a scene Trump & Hegseth have fantasized: troops on campus.
March 4, 2025 at 12:56 PM
If you’re a professor in a classroom today & you don’t mention this, I believe you’re doing your students a profound disservice. This is targeted 1st at international students, but it’s deliberately broad enough to lay groundwork for a scene Trump & Hegseth have fantasized: troops on campus.
Revisiting this old friend—I first read around 2003 maybe?—to teach tonight to my MA students—still great!
March 3, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Revisiting this old friend—I first read around 2003 maybe?—to teach tonight to my MA students—still great!
Awesome—fascinating how much we still don’t know, depressing what’s happening to science right now. Still, highly recommend.
March 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Awesome—fascinating how much we still don’t know, depressing what’s happening to science right now. Still, highly recommend.
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“The US of AI,” public draft of a talk given yesterday at Princeton.
drive.google.com/file/d/1O2qk...
drive.google.com/file/d/1O2qk...
February 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
“The US of AI,” public draft of a talk given yesterday at Princeton.
drive.google.com/file/d/1O2qk...
drive.google.com/file/d/1O2qk...
Every Tuesday this semester, I come to write at Matthaei
February 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Every Tuesday this semester, I come to write at Matthaei
"Diane, 11:30 am, February twenty-fourth. Entering town of Twin Peaks. Five miles south of the Canadian border, twelve miles west of the state line. Never seen so many trees in my life."
February 25, 2025 at 2:16 AM
"Diane, 11:30 am, February twenty-fourth. Entering town of Twin Peaks. Five miles south of the Canadian border, twelve miles west of the state line. Never seen so many trees in my life."
Excellent (and needed) career-spanning critical analysis of the great Walter de Maria’s work
February 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Excellent (and needed) career-spanning critical analysis of the great Walter de Maria’s work
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“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw”
Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start
Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start
Tom Homan says he sent an email to the Deputy AG asking if AOC is crossing the line by providing webinars to undocumented immigrants: I’m not an attorney… maybe AOC is going to be in trouble now
February 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw”
Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start
Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start
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Kennedy, who has no medical or science degree, has voiced skepticism about major vaccines for years. He has also endorsed fringe conspiracy theories, and backed those views again in his confirmation hearings last month. 🙃⤵️
A Conspiracy Theorist Is Officially Running Our Health Department
RFK Jr. was confirmed today.
www.teenvogue.com
February 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Kennedy, who has no medical or science degree, has voiced skepticism about major vaccines for years. He has also endorsed fringe conspiracy theories, and backed those views again in his confirmation hearings last month. 🙃⤵️
Not going to AWP this year (Excited for Baltimore next year!) but just got word that my workshop with @timhorvath.bsky.social got accepted at the Centre for Sensory Studies "Uncommon Senses V" conference in May. See you in Montreal??
February 13, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Not going to AWP this year (Excited for Baltimore next year!) but just got word that my workshop with @timhorvath.bsky.social got accepted at the Centre for Sensory Studies "Uncommon Senses V" conference in May. See you in Montreal??
Reread this for class; still great
February 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Reread this for class; still great
I dunno, here’s the Glob
February 11, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I dunno, here’s the Glob
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This is how you do it. Thank you, @tupelopress.bsky.social!!!
February 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This is how you do it. Thank you, @tupelopress.bsky.social!!!
Is the seemingly serious uptick in public speakerphone use—phone calls, zoom meetings—because of Trump? I can’t go anywhere without noise cancellation.
February 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Is the seemingly serious uptick in public speakerphone use—phone calls, zoom meetings—because of Trump? I can’t go anywhere without noise cancellation.
