Elizabeth Barnett
@elizabarnett.bsky.social
Commuting through Texas on I-10, pretending I'm a trucker, teaching English, making little notes on index cards, writing Egads! about queer picture books in the seventies and eighties. Book of poems,The Law at Night, coming in '27 from U of Nebraska Press.
A degree in AI is like if in the nineties we had majored in Franklin Planner.
October 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
A degree in AI is like if in the nineties we had majored in Franklin Planner.
What work did objects like this do for their owners? Why have them? This one seems like an ode to the Lost Cause, but what about the horse's eyes?
October 12, 2025 at 10:37 AM
What work did objects like this do for their owners? Why have them? This one seems like an ode to the Lost Cause, but what about the horse's eyes?
First time deadheading roses, some pink ones that came with the house and remind me of my grandmother, who wore rose perfume. The roses blooming feel like her checking in. Hoping to hear from her even more now, with the path cleared. (This is a "before" pic)
October 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM
First time deadheading roses, some pink ones that came with the house and remind me of my grandmother, who wore rose perfume. The roses blooming feel like her checking in. Hoping to hear from her even more now, with the path cleared. (This is a "before" pic)
As there is Better Than Ezra, so there is a worse Ezra. And it is always Pound.
October 4, 2025 at 11:44 AM
As there is Better Than Ezra, so there is a worse Ezra. And it is always Pound.
This is a thread where I will put haunting images from estate sale listings.
September 26, 2025 at 10:14 AM
This is a thread where I will put haunting images from estate sale listings.
Feeling judged by my inaccurate work calendar
September 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Feeling judged by my inaccurate work calendar
John Atherton's "Rocks and Weeds" (1951) at the Met. Came across this while making my little slideshow for class. So beautiful.
September 2, 2025 at 11:14 AM
John Atherton's "Rocks and Weeds" (1951) at the Met. Came across this while making my little slideshow for class. So beautiful.
The return of Luis Garcia!!!
September 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The return of Luis Garcia!!!
Brother and sister academics, all we have to lose are our clothes, apparently.
August 31, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Brother and sister academics, all we have to lose are our clothes, apparently.
Please subscribe to my ed tech, a grocery bag of student notebooks.
August 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Please subscribe to my ed tech, a grocery bag of student notebooks.
If the ceiling fan in your classroom is making weird noises and everyone is staring at it and it reminds you of the best show of all time, asking “Y’all like Twin Peaks?” is a very stupid move because they will think you’ve asked them, out of the blue, if they enjoy a boob restaurant.
August 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM
If the ceiling fan in your classroom is making weird noises and everyone is staring at it and it reminds you of the best show of all time, asking “Y’all like Twin Peaks?” is a very stupid move because they will think you’ve asked them, out of the blue, if they enjoy a boob restaurant.
Causing me to dig out Keats's "This living hand," which I read in tenth grade and have carted around since. Medium helping the poem with its work a little too much...
August 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Causing me to dig out Keats's "This living hand," which I read in tenth grade and have carted around since. Medium helping the poem with its work a little too much...
Taking inspiration from Lynda Barry's "The Hand: A Semester of Writing and Drawing by Hand Until we Arrive at the Unthinkable and Put It into a Book" from Syllabus.
August 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Taking inspiration from Lynda Barry's "The Hand: A Semester of Writing and Drawing by Hand Until we Arrive at the Unthinkable and Put It into a Book" from Syllabus.
When I rewatch Vanderpump Rules
May 29, 2025 at 11:02 AM
When I rewatch Vanderpump Rules
Came back to myself next to a display of these pies.
May 16, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Came back to myself next to a display of these pies.
Nice to think of a real person drawing all these knives for Cooking With Helen McCully Beside You (1970)
February 11, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Nice to think of a real person drawing all these knives for Cooking With Helen McCully Beside You (1970)
New image drop from the collective unconscious
January 17, 2025 at 9:32 PM
New image drop from the collective unconscious