Nick Admussen
@nadmussen.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Chinese literature at Cornell, poet, translator. My current project is "On Stricture: Chinese Poetry and American Culture." More (incl links to open-access research) at nickadmussen.com.
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Truly, we all win if regular people think less like economists and more like the prison journalist who writes poems about butterflies.
November 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Truly, we all win if regular people think less like economists and more like the prison journalist who writes poems about butterflies.
Waitress hair as reason to live: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43088/...
Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg
The last good kiss you had was years ago. Hatred of the various grays the mountain sends, hatred of the mill, The Silver Bill repeal, the best liked girls who leave each year for Butte. One good resta...
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October 31, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Waitress hair as reason to live: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43088/...
I touched on it in this essay (www.nickadmussen.com/uploads/8/6/...) where I argued that it helps us see contemporary Chinese poetry as structured in part around events and actions rather than texts--and the failure of people at a modernist distance (Moretti) to understand the difference.
October 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I touched on it in this essay (www.nickadmussen.com/uploads/8/6/...) where I argued that it helps us see contemporary Chinese poetry as structured in part around events and actions rather than texts--and the failure of people at a modernist distance (Moretti) to understand the difference.
Or: give in. "Golden" is great for responding to Reviewer #2.
October 8, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Or: give in. "Golden" is great for responding to Reviewer #2.
Agreed, b/c also our rich foods are much more haunted now. I want to read what happens after someone eats a Buttery Smashed Jack at like 11:45 PM.
October 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Agreed, b/c also our rich foods are much more haunted now. I want to read what happens after someone eats a Buttery Smashed Jack at like 11:45 PM.
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Last week our AAUP chapter wrote to our president in response to their repression of speech on campus. The student suspensions from the past two years set the stage for straight up censorship of today
GUEST ROOM | AAUP Letter to Kotlikoff on "Fighting Antisemitism"
The executive committee of the American Association of University Professors Cornell Chapter writes to President Kotlikoff in response to his office's recent statement, "Fighting Antisemitism and Prot...
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September 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Last week our AAUP chapter wrote to our president in response to their repression of speech on campus. The student suspensions from the past two years set the stage for straight up censorship of today