Geoffrey Babbitt
@geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social
Poet, Essayist, Editor-in-Chief of Seneca Review & SR Books, Associate Prof. at Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Books: A Grain of Sand in Lambeth (forthcoming 2025, U of Nevada Press) and Appendices Pulled from a Study on Light (2018). Wm Blake devotee.
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Happy 50th anniversary of this Schuyler poem, whose ending gets me every damn time!
A Grain of Sand in Lambeth has a cover! Many thanks to Caroline Dickens and the folks at UN Press for the design. Official release is December 2nd, which I am happy to share with the wonderful Jami Macarty’s The Long Now Conditions Permit, whose cover I also love. Preorder links below in comments.
July 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
A Grain of Sand in Lambeth has a cover! Many thanks to Caroline Dickens and the folks at UN Press for the design. Official release is December 2nd, which I am happy to share with the wonderful Jami Macarty’s The Long Now Conditions Permit, whose cover I also love. Preorder links below in comments.
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I couldn’t be happier to read with @kathryncowles.bsky.social and @cathylinhche.bsky.social in the Highland Park Bowl on Thursday night! 6:30–9:30
Outdoor reading in Rochester’s beautiful Highland Park, if you’re in the area. Thursday at 6:30 with @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social @cathylinhche.bsky.social and me. Bring a blanket!!
June 10, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I couldn’t be happier to read with @kathryncowles.bsky.social and @cathylinhche.bsky.social in the Highland Park Bowl on Thursday night! 6:30–9:30
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Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.
April 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.
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Schumer’s New York Times interview is a disaster after a dumpster fire.
He needs to go. Now.
He needs to go. Now.
March 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Schumer’s New York Times interview is a disaster after a dumpster fire.
He needs to go. Now.
He needs to go. Now.
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re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
March 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
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Republicans will soon bring forward a “reconciliation” bill, that encapsulates the value system of greed and their obedience to oligarchy.
It is the economic essence of Trumpism. It will make the rich richer & the poor poorer.
It must be defeated. And we can defeat it.
It is the economic essence of Trumpism. It will make the rich richer & the poor poorer.
It must be defeated. And we can defeat it.
February 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Republicans will soon bring forward a “reconciliation” bill, that encapsulates the value system of greed and their obedience to oligarchy.
It is the economic essence of Trumpism. It will make the rich richer & the poor poorer.
It must be defeated. And we can defeat it.
It is the economic essence of Trumpism. It will make the rich richer & the poor poorer.
It must be defeated. And we can defeat it.
Thank you to @amsterdamreview.bsky.social for the shoutout… and for featuring two poem from my forthcoming book on Blake in their spring ‘24 issue!
Two poems by @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social in Amsterdam Review
www.amsterdamreview.org/two-by-geoffrey-babbitt.html
#Poetry #PoetryCommunity #BlueskyPoetry
www.amsterdamreview.org/two-by-geoffrey-babbitt.html
#Poetry #PoetryCommunity #BlueskyPoetry
February 22, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Thank you to @amsterdamreview.bsky.social for the shoutout… and for featuring two poem from my forthcoming book on Blake in their spring ‘24 issue!
Happy 50th anniversary of this Schuyler poem, whose ending gets me every damn time!
February 14, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Happy 50th anniversary of this Schuyler poem, whose ending gets me every damn time!
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Bringing my poems over to to Bsky. Here's what I consider my magnum opus (for now).
November 28, 2024 at 2:30 AM
Bringing my poems over to to Bsky. Here's what I consider my magnum opus (for now).
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Finally, Beckett and Derrida is out and free to download for a month!
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Let me know what you think!
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Let me know what you think!
Beckett and Derrida
Cambridge Core - English Literature 1900-1945 - Beckett and Derrida
www.cambridge.org
November 28, 2024 at 2:13 PM
Finally, Beckett and Derrida is out and free to download for a month!
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Let me know what you think!
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Let me know what you think!
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Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed.
(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).
(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).
November 24, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed.
(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).
(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).
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This tiny tiny play in a tiny tiny perfect chapbook from Kazim Ali takes place entirely with Neel’s back facing the audience as he sits at a bar. @kazimali.bsky.social swoon swoon swoon.
P.S. the first line is “Idaho weather doesn’t give a shit about you.”
P.S. the first line is “Idaho weather doesn’t give a shit about you.”
November 24, 2024 at 3:41 PM
This tiny tiny play in a tiny tiny perfect chapbook from Kazim Ali takes place entirely with Neel’s back facing the audience as he sits at a bar. @kazimali.bsky.social swoon swoon swoon.
P.S. the first line is “Idaho weather doesn’t give a shit about you.”
P.S. the first line is “Idaho weather doesn’t give a shit about you.”
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If you are a copyeditor, I hope something excessively kind or wonderful happens to you today ✨
November 24, 2024 at 3:27 PM
If you are a copyeditor, I hope something excessively kind or wonderful happens to you today ✨
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hello the sky that is blue! i am a writer! who has written these two poetry collections with super long titles, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities + Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency. book covers are superb imo.
November 23, 2024 at 8:03 PM
hello the sky that is blue! i am a writer! who has written these two poetry collections with super long titles, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities + Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency. book covers are superb imo.
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Word of the Day, should you need it, is ‘latibulate’, a 17th-century verb meaning to find a corner somewhere and hide in it.
November 15, 2024 at 8:16 AM
Word of the Day, should you need it, is ‘latibulate’, a 17th-century verb meaning to find a corner somewhere and hide in it.
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Welcome to new followers. Please come on over here from the Death SXtar.
November 15, 2024 at 12:22 PM
Welcome to new followers. Please come on over here from the Death SXtar.
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A lot of people have shared this poem over the past week. It’s a sentiment I think about a lot, especially now.
I hope everyone is doing what they need to take care of themselves. One step at a time. One day at a time.
I hope everyone is doing what they need to take care of themselves. One step at a time. One day at a time.
Perfectly expressed, @clintsmithiii.bsky.social.
November 13, 2024 at 10:34 PM
A lot of people have shared this poem over the past week. It’s a sentiment I think about a lot, especially now.
I hope everyone is doing what they need to take care of themselves. One step at a time. One day at a time.
I hope everyone is doing what they need to take care of themselves. One step at a time. One day at a time.
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I just read the first two pages of Elizabeth Willis’s sure-to-be-brilliant new book, and it’s already pushed me flat over.
Start anywhere
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THE END
(Note: THE END is the name of the first section)
Start anywhere
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THE END
(Note: THE END is the name of the first section)
November 13, 2024 at 9:16 PM
I just read the first two pages of Elizabeth Willis’s sure-to-be-brilliant new book, and it’s already pushed me flat over.
Start anywhere
/
THE END
(Note: THE END is the name of the first section)
Start anywhere
/
THE END
(Note: THE END is the name of the first section)
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i’ll say i am darkly amused by the increase in web searches for “what are tariffs”
November 9, 2024 at 2:56 PM
i’ll say i am darkly amused by the increase in web searches for “what are tariffs”
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A rare image depicting how saints were made in the middle ages.
The image on the right is a close up of what you see in the sack in the image on the left. For centuries people have mistaken the person in the image on the left for a goldbeater with a mallet. He's actually making saints. True story.
The image on the right is a close up of what you see in the sack in the image on the left. For centuries people have mistaken the person in the image on the left for a goldbeater with a mallet. He's actually making saints. True story.
November 11, 2023 at 4:55 PM
A rare image depicting how saints were made in the middle ages.
The image on the right is a close up of what you see in the sack in the image on the left. For centuries people have mistaken the person in the image on the left for a goldbeater with a mallet. He's actually making saints. True story.
The image on the right is a close up of what you see in the sack in the image on the left. For centuries people have mistaken the person in the image on the left for a goldbeater with a mallet. He's actually making saints. True story.
Hell yeah! Diane Seuss is here!
So I'm booking on X (twitter) and migrating here. I haven't explored it yet, but it has to be better than the alternative.
November 8, 2024 at 10:16 PM
Hell yeah! Diane Seuss is here!
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So I'm booking on X (twitter) and migrating here. I haven't explored it yet, but it has to be better than the alternative.
November 8, 2024 at 6:22 PM
So I'm booking on X (twitter) and migrating here. I haven't explored it yet, but it has to be better than the alternative.