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Canaan Morse 莫楷
@canaanmorse.bsky.social
Postdoc @UVA 明清文学
‘21 National Book Award Finalist
scholar poet translator farm boy
Poetry oral traditions DnD China
SCOTUS allowing Trump to starve Americans for political reasons.
November 8, 2025 at 2:40 AM
November 6, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Volume 4, Fascicle 7: Constraint Satisfaction

丁集卷四,《羁绊满足》

Zhang Dai would own this if he could
November 4, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Tell me that you, too, remember.
October 30, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Scholar of oral traditions here!

Audiobooks are:
1. Great!
2. Not in any way like oral traditions, which were participatory, emergent (constantly changing with context), and traditionally referential (they made meaning differently)!
October 27, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Did I ask for a cappuccino or a bucket of liquid?
October 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
When you turn on Netflix to find your senpai discoursing on ancient Chinese history!
October 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I am no longer a Platner fan, but the incredulity in Jonathan Chait’s tone here is….
October 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness
October 22, 2025 at 12:59 AM
The Ellison family is already waiting in the lobby
October 21, 2025 at 10:46 PM
“Weird-ass dark-money newspaper loses its least hackish reporter in a sudden move that mixes disgust and ennui”
October 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
The AP getting it right once again
October 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Yo this city is OUT HERE
October 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Winston-Salem - little city shows up big
October 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Hey so I made some pathetically minor but useful fixes to my mom’s aging house today
October 15, 2025 at 3:57 AM
It’s in the handle. Stay out of my state’s politics, about which you know nothing.

I voted for Janet twice, loved her as governor. But this is a play by the National Dems to keep actual working-class voices outside the tent.

Platner 2026.
October 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
October 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Guys I found @bokane.org ‘s coloring book
October 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Oh Maine, my home, why are you so so beautiful
October 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
This is the article in its present form. Where does it report that they were late for the flight?
October 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
All Americans bear the burden for this.
October 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM
猪头望明月
低头吃茴香
October 7, 2025 at 12:13 AM
If you see this, post a bridge.
September 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Guys I found my spirit animal
September 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Shut up I need it or something
September 23, 2025 at 10:51 PM