E.E. Reed
@poetryforsupper.bsky.social
we shall not live by bread alone.
public works are for the public.
public works are for the public.
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Poetry breaks the syllogism.
— Walter Brueggemann
— Walter Brueggemann
lord have mercy, now that i myself have come to middle age in such a time, it is perhaps even more painful to read of Faramir and his rare quality.
November 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
lord have mercy, now that i myself have come to middle age in such a time, it is perhaps even more painful to read of Faramir and his rare quality.
my dad sitting in his good chair dozing with a western softly playing on the tv, my mom sitting at the table reading the paper, and me sitting on the couch reading Lord of the Rings again, and i know this all by heart. it’s as if time has turned around, and we were back at the beginning.
November 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
my dad sitting in his good chair dozing with a western softly playing on the tv, my mom sitting at the table reading the paper, and me sitting on the couch reading Lord of the Rings again, and i know this all by heart. it’s as if time has turned around, and we were back at the beginning.
best. thanksgiving. dinner. conversation. ever.
as we ate, my parents asked me what i’d been thinking about, and, since it was just the three of us, i told them:
how much would Alfred North Whitehead and Hans-Georg Gadamer agree with each other on the nature of the beautiful?
how much would Alfred North Whitehead and Hans-Georg Gadamer agree with each other on the nature of the beautiful?
November 27, 2025 at 1:20 AM
best. thanksgiving. dinner. conversation. ever.
many wonderful souls have brought us thanksgiving staples while my dad convalesces here at home so we didn’t have to cook. a tremendous blessing.
November 27, 2025 at 1:09 AM
many wonderful souls have brought us thanksgiving staples while my dad convalesces here at home so we didn’t have to cook. a tremendous blessing.
every draftsman a platonist. every carpenter an aristotelian.
November 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
every draftsman a platonist. every carpenter an aristotelian.
me, to my dear children, 9, 11, and 14, every single day as we sit down to supper:
Pray sit in a chair like a rational being, and do not spring about the room.
—Patrick O’Brian, Post Captain
—Patrick O’Brian, Post Captain
November 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
me, to my dear children, 9, 11, and 14, every single day as we sit down to supper:
citing tillich, gadamer, and borges on language in a comment on an article at the verge dot com. as you do.
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
citing tillich, gadamer, and borges on language in a comment on an article at the verge dot com. as you do.
amen, amen, in a time of perverse and wicked nationalisms, let the reader understand:
if God by God’s own self does not compel our obedience by force, and our very own experience of our own freedom of conscience shows God does not, then neither can any group compel our obedience on God’s behalf.
if God by God’s own self does not compel our obedience by force, and our very own experience of our own freedom of conscience shows God does not, then neither can any group compel our obedience on God’s behalf.
it's a long way off but inside it
there are quite different things going on:
there are quite different things going on:
November 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
amen, amen, in a time of perverse and wicked nationalisms, let the reader understand:
if God by God’s own self does not compel our obedience by force, and our very own experience of our own freedom of conscience shows God does not, then neither can any group compel our obedience on God’s behalf.
if God by God’s own self does not compel our obedience by force, and our very own experience of our own freedom of conscience shows God does not, then neither can any group compel our obedience on God’s behalf.
it's a long way off but inside it
there are quite different things going on:
there are quite different things going on:
November 23, 2025 at 9:31 PM
it's a long way off but inside it
there are quite different things going on:
there are quite different things going on:
my dad is home from the hospital and we are listening to Greg Bell call the high school football ball team on WWIC.
November 21, 2025 at 3:30 AM
my dad is home from the hospital and we are listening to Greg Bell call the high school football ball team on WWIC.
Our kids get to watch plenty of TV and play plenty of video games.
But I’ve been a hard and unrepentant no on unsupervised YouTube for their entire lives.
But I’ve been a hard and unrepentant no on unsupervised YouTube for their entire lives.
YouTube getting rid of the dedicated YouTube Kids app and allowing pure slop to overrun its filters in the main app is an excellent reason for every parent to drop it entirely, as @allisonjo1.bsky.social points out www.theverge.com/tech/824556/...
I’m officially done with YouTube Kids
The slop is on.
www.theverge.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Our kids get to watch plenty of TV and play plenty of video games.
But I’ve been a hard and unrepentant no on unsupervised YouTube for their entire lives.
But I’ve been a hard and unrepentant no on unsupervised YouTube for their entire lives.
Reposted by E.E. Reed
We're open for pitches of any length! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/se...
November 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
We're open for pitches of any length! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/se...
we used to publish books in this country.
books.
books.
this volume in my hand was published in New York in 1926 by The Macmillan Company. it has sewn signatures, and they lay flat. the typography is modest but elegantly spaced, and it is such a beautiful reading experience i can hardly stand it.
November 19, 2025 at 1:23 AM
we used to publish books in this country.
books.
books.
this volume in my hand was published in New York in 1926 by The Macmillan Company. it has sewn signatures, and they lay flat. the typography is modest but elegantly spaced, and it is such a beautiful reading experience i can hardly stand it.
November 19, 2025 at 1:22 AM
this volume in my hand was published in New York in 1926 by The Macmillan Company. it has sewn signatures, and they lay flat. the typography is modest but elegantly spaced, and it is such a beautiful reading experience i can hardly stand it.
well, friends. a shocking Phenomenology Friday.
my dad was in a bad car accident, he has six broken ribs, but, thank heaven, he is stable and alert.
however. he is here to testify we are not merely minds.
my dad was in a bad car accident, he has six broken ribs, but, thank heaven, he is stable and alert.
however. he is here to testify we are not merely minds.
November 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
well, friends. a shocking Phenomenology Friday.
my dad was in a bad car accident, he has six broken ribs, but, thank heaven, he is stable and alert.
however. he is here to testify we are not merely minds.
my dad was in a bad car accident, he has six broken ribs, but, thank heaven, he is stable and alert.
however. he is here to testify we are not merely minds.
“Whereas the hermeneutics of suspicion looks backward, thereby reducing claims to meaning to the economy or energies that function behind them, the hermeneutics of confidence is oriented in a forward direction, toward the world that presents us with meaning to be interpreted.”
November 13, 2025 at 4:32 PM
“Whereas the hermeneutics of suspicion looks backward, thereby reducing claims to meaning to the economy or energies that function behind them, the hermeneutics of confidence is oriented in a forward direction, toward the world that presents us with meaning to be interpreted.”
shoutout to everyone who grew up knowing the gales of November come early.
50 years later, the legacy of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald looms as large as ever
The exact cause of the Edmund Fitzgerald’s sinking is still a mystery, but the lasting legacy is this: There were more than 6,000 shipwrecks on the Great Lakes in the century prior to the wreck of th...
www.mprnews.org
November 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
shoutout to everyone who grew up knowing the gales of November come early.
good morning. happy warranted to be a pendleton wool weather to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
good morning. happy warranted to be a pendleton wool weather to all who celebrate.
out here in downtown Chattanooga with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels for Mama’s Broke.
November 9, 2025 at 11:54 PM
out here in downtown Chattanooga with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels for Mama’s Broke.
yes. quite a day.
November 8, 2025 at 11:14 PM
yes. quite a day.
More mail. And a shoutout to translator George Szirtes, a delightful poet in his own right.
November 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
More mail. And a shoutout to translator George Szirtes, a delightful poet in his own right.
me and the 14 yr old are sitting silently side by side, and we are both reading our fantasy novels.
this dad has arrived.
this dad has arrived.
November 7, 2025 at 1:52 AM
me and the 14 yr old are sitting silently side by side, and we are both reading our fantasy novels.
this dad has arrived.
this dad has arrived.
@theverge.com @davidpierce.xyz @reckless.bsky.social my nominations to certify AGI:
Annie Dillard, author.
Dolly Parton, musician.
M. Shawn Copeland, theologian.
Judith Butler, philosopher.
Cathy O'Neil, mathematician.
Meghan O'Gieblyn, essayist.
Joanna Stern, journalist.
Simone Biles, athlete.
Annie Dillard, author.
Dolly Parton, musician.
M. Shawn Copeland, theologian.
Judith Butler, philosopher.
Cathy O'Neil, mathematician.
Meghan O'Gieblyn, essayist.
Joanna Stern, journalist.
Simone Biles, athlete.
November 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
@theverge.com @davidpierce.xyz @reckless.bsky.social my nominations to certify AGI:
Annie Dillard, author.
Dolly Parton, musician.
M. Shawn Copeland, theologian.
Judith Butler, philosopher.
Cathy O'Neil, mathematician.
Meghan O'Gieblyn, essayist.
Joanna Stern, journalist.
Simone Biles, athlete.
Annie Dillard, author.
Dolly Parton, musician.
M. Shawn Copeland, theologian.
Judith Butler, philosopher.
Cathy O'Neil, mathematician.
Meghan O'Gieblyn, essayist.
Joanna Stern, journalist.
Simone Biles, athlete.
Good morning to every person of good will committed to a government of the people, by the people, for the people.
If honor and wisdom and joy be not for me, let them be for others. Let such a city exist, though my own place be in hell. Let them show us how then we should live.
If honor and wisdom and joy be not for me, let them be for others. Let such a city exist, though my own place be in hell. Let them show us how then we should live.
November 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Good morning to every person of good will committed to a government of the people, by the people, for the people.
If honor and wisdom and joy be not for me, let them be for others. Let such a city exist, though my own place be in hell. Let them show us how then we should live.
If honor and wisdom and joy be not for me, let them be for others. Let such a city exist, though my own place be in hell. Let them show us how then we should live.