Reposted by Bernard Wills
A fine poetry starter pack from @tracymar.bsky.social Please follow and repost if you can #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky
November 15, 2025 at 8:35 AM
A fine poetry starter pack from @tracymar.bsky.social Please follow and repost if you can #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky
Yet here we are 2 centuries and change later and the wisdom of Ecclesiastes is 100% confirmed.
November 14, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Yet here we are 2 centuries and change later and the wisdom of Ecclesiastes is 100% confirmed.
What the hell is on their heads???
November 14, 2025 at 11:14 PM
What the hell is on their heads???
Whose Malarla? Some femme fatale no doubt.
November 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Whose Malarla? Some femme fatale no doubt.
If it was good enough for the 18th Century (and it was) then it is good enough for me.
November 14, 2025 at 7:19 PM
If it was good enough for the 18th Century (and it was) then it is good enough for me.
Well not all instructors are doctors...some are ABD or less.
November 14, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Well not all instructors are doctors...some are ABD or less.
Sounds like it. Technically Canadians should get first consideration but admin. just work around that. Not sure what special value or skill set these people bring that we don't already have tbh.
November 14, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Sounds like it. Technically Canadians should get first consideration but admin. just work around that. Not sure what special value or skill set these people bring that we don't already have tbh.
Not sure why these people just get to walk into an academic job when so many qualified scholars are stuck in crappy term appointment hell.
November 14, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Not sure why these people just get to walk into an academic job when so many qualified scholars are stuck in crappy term appointment hell.
I aspire to be pretty decent. Pretty decent is so much better than total crap, say.
November 14, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I aspire to be pretty decent. Pretty decent is so much better than total crap, say.
Well there's that Hopkins sonnet on Henry Purcell.
November 14, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Well there's that Hopkins sonnet on Henry Purcell.
Well Vance needs to become an evangelical anyway. Catholics serve the MAGA regime they can't lead it because, you know, Jesus. Here is his chance. Oh yes, and as a protestant he can divorce Usha. You will never get an annulment on the basis of 'my wife is a drag on my career'.
November 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Well Vance needs to become an evangelical anyway. Catholics serve the MAGA regime they can't lead it because, you know, Jesus. Here is his chance. Oh yes, and as a protestant he can divorce Usha. You will never get an annulment on the basis of 'my wife is a drag on my career'.
Well, it's that keyboard lick inspired by Riley's Rainbow in Curved Air. He had to acknowledge that. You don't want to seem a thief like Rod Stewart.
November 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Well, it's that keyboard lick inspired by Riley's Rainbow in Curved Air. He had to acknowledge that. You don't want to seem a thief like Rod Stewart.
Yes she's a marvel with an fine ear.
November 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Yes she's a marvel with an fine ear.
I think their donors decided that.
November 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I think their donors decided that.
Reposted by Bernard Wills
The final part of Merwin's poem to poet John Berryman
Berryman
I had hardly begun to read
I asked how can you ever be sure
that what you write is really
any good at all and he said you can't
Berryman
I had hardly begun to read
I asked how can you ever be sure
that what you write is really
any good at all and he said you can't
November 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The final part of Merwin's poem to poet John Berryman
Berryman
I had hardly begun to read
I asked how can you ever be sure
that what you write is really
any good at all and he said you can't
Berryman
I had hardly begun to read
I asked how can you ever be sure
that what you write is really
any good at all and he said you can't
You forgot the Pentecostals.
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
You forgot the Pentecostals.
Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue said someone...Dr. Johnson I think?
November 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue said someone...Dr. Johnson I think?
It's like NIMBY but for subs.
November 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
It's like NIMBY but for subs.
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November 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM