Amish Trivedi
@amishtrivedi.bsky.social
Poet-errant. Professor at the U of Delaware.
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Larry Summers turned out to be a creep. I for one am shocked. SHOCKED!
November 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Larry Summers turned out to be a creep. I for one am shocked. SHOCKED!
For my Twin Peaks friends, it sounds like Mar a Lago is basically the perfume counter at Horne's Department Store.
November 12, 2025 at 10:18 PM
For my Twin Peaks friends, it sounds like Mar a Lago is basically the perfume counter at Horne's Department Store.
I read Electoral-Vote.com every morning (and have most mornings since they started in 2004) and this is a great:
The Democrats have a huge burden the Republicans don't have: They care about people suffering; Republicans don't care who suffers, even when it is their own base.
The Democrats have a huge burden the Republicans don't have: They care about people suffering; Republicans don't care who suffers, even when it is their own base.
November 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I read Electoral-Vote.com every morning (and have most mornings since they started in 2004) and this is a great:
The Democrats have a huge burden the Republicans don't have: They care about people suffering; Republicans don't care who suffers, even when it is their own base.
The Democrats have a huge burden the Republicans don't have: They care about people suffering; Republicans don't care who suffers, even when it is their own base.
A students flight is messed up returning from a grad school interview. I said that missing class for a grad school interview is a completely fine reason to miss. It's like The Ring: if you're passing the misery of academic life along, you're fine.
November 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
A students flight is messed up returning from a grad school interview. I said that missing class for a grad school interview is a completely fine reason to miss. It's like The Ring: if you're passing the misery of academic life along, you're fine.
Thanks to the kind folks at Bateau Press for making this unusual chapbook a finalist for your prize!
November 9, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Thanks to the kind folks at Bateau Press for making this unusual chapbook a finalist for your prize!
I'm not sure I can watch a Ken Burns doc without Shelby Foote lowkey selling some Lost Cause malarkey.
November 7, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I'm not sure I can watch a Ken Burns doc without Shelby Foote lowkey selling some Lost Cause malarkey.
Those libs are sooooo owned!
November 6, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Those libs are sooooo owned!
When you ask a well known, establishment poet to blurb your book and then you spend your life wondering if they ever actually read it.
November 6, 2025 at 1:36 AM
When you ask a well known, establishment poet to blurb your book and then you spend your life wondering if they ever actually read it.
Today in politics, the neolibs that make up the Democratic Party are more terrified than the conservatives. More bulletins as events warrant.
November 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Today in politics, the neolibs that make up the Democratic Party are more terrified than the conservatives. More bulletins as events warrant.
All this should tell you about 2026 is that it has always been the economy, stupid. The culture war candidates lost tonight and the people talking about the economy won.
November 5, 2025 at 3:33 AM
All this should tell you about 2026 is that it has always been the economy, stupid. The culture war candidates lost tonight and the people talking about the economy won.
Donald Trump having an ass-level window with a toilet immediately next to it is perhaps the very best metaphor for our moment.
November 5, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Donald Trump having an ass-level window with a toilet immediately next to it is perhaps the very best metaphor for our moment.
I wonder if Satan greeted Dick Cheney as a liberator.🤔
November 4, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I wonder if Satan greeted Dick Cheney as a liberator.🤔
What a fun idea, @tomsnarsky.bsky.social !
Here's a poem of my own from American Poetry Review from a few years back (and there's a new one coming at some point)!
#smallpoemsunday
Here's a poem of my own from American Poetry Review from a few years back (and there's a new one coming at some point)!
#smallpoemsunday
November 2, 2025 at 3:29 PM
What a fun idea, @tomsnarsky.bsky.social !
Here's a poem of my own from American Poetry Review from a few years back (and there's a new one coming at some point)!
#smallpoemsunday
Here's a poem of my own from American Poetry Review from a few years back (and there's a new one coming at some point)!
#smallpoemsunday
On one hand I feel like artists who have no challenges to having their work published/produced make less exciting art at some point as they age.
On the other, I wish I were further along than competing with 25 year olds in the poetry contest system while in my mid 40s.
On the other, I wish I were further along than competing with 25 year olds in the poetry contest system while in my mid 40s.
October 31, 2025 at 1:30 PM
On one hand I feel like artists who have no challenges to having their work published/produced make less exciting art at some point as they age.
On the other, I wish I were further along than competing with 25 year olds in the poetry contest system while in my mid 40s.
On the other, I wish I were further along than competing with 25 year olds in the poetry contest system while in my mid 40s.
Imagine if I said to you "All of my organs are failing, my senses have all stopped, I'm bleeding out of my eyes...
"But my bank account is baller!"
This is the logic of neoliberalism, the health of the society measured through wealth.
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
"But my bank account is baller!"
This is the logic of neoliberalism, the health of the society measured through wealth.
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
Wall St scales fresh highs on tech earnings, US-China trade optimism
Wall Street's main indexes posted record closing highs for the second day in a row on Monday as investors were hopeful about the prospects for a U.S.-China trade deal and looked forward to a week packed with high-profile technology earnings and a widely expected U.S. interest rate cut.
www.reuters.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Imagine if I said to you "All of my organs are failing, my senses have all stopped, I'm bleeding out of my eyes...
"But my bank account is baller!"
This is the logic of neoliberalism, the health of the society measured through wealth.
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
"But my bank account is baller!"
This is the logic of neoliberalism, the health of the society measured through wealth.
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
Did I do this right at all, @henkaipantomime.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Did I do this right at all, @henkaipantomime.bsky.social
"Are you worried about publishing such a political poem?" a friend asks.
"No, because I don't assume anyone read it."
(the galley version since people said my photo of the print copy was hard to read)
"No, because I don't assume anyone read it."
(the galley version since people said my photo of the print copy was hard to read)
October 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"Are you worried about publishing such a political poem?" a friend asks.
"No, because I don't assume anyone read it."
(the galley version since people said my photo of the print copy was hard to read)
"No, because I don't assume anyone read it."
(the galley version since people said my photo of the print copy was hard to read)
Hello. I have new poems in the wonderful (and always beautiful) Volt. They are from a manuscript called Southern Accents.
October 24, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Hello. I have new poems in the wonderful (and always beautiful) Volt. They are from a manuscript called Southern Accents.
Brought to you by the Tortured Metaphors Department
October 21, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Brought to you by the Tortured Metaphors Department
My brain being what it is, this randomly popped into my brain. RIP Noah Gordon but @jimbehrle.bsky.social rocks on
And bless the internet:
youtu.be/hfwkgQoViMI?...
And bless the internet:
youtu.be/hfwkgQoViMI?...
Are YOU a Conceptual Poet? Noah Eli Gordon
YouTube video by tbuckett100
youtu.be
October 21, 2025 at 11:17 PM
My brain being what it is, this randomly popped into my brain. RIP Noah Gordon but @jimbehrle.bsky.social rocks on
And bless the internet:
youtu.be/hfwkgQoViMI?...
And bless the internet:
youtu.be/hfwkgQoViMI?...
Idea: poetry book contests shouldn't offer a set prize amount. They should reimburse you for the amount you spent sending the thing out (within reason, of course).
October 21, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Idea: poetry book contests shouldn't offer a set prize amount. They should reimburse you for the amount you spent sending the thing out (within reason, of course).
If we lived in a good society, Amazon would shut down and we would all be free forever (not really).
God bless this Amazon crash! No one’s LMS works. We can’t grade! YAYYYY! 🥹
October 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
If we lived in a good society, Amazon would shut down and we would all be free forever (not really).
Today, 2/3 of my classes read from physical books. Take that, Amazon...where the students probably bought said books.
October 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Today, 2/3 of my classes read from physical books. Take that, Amazon...where the students probably bought said books.