David Wright
@sweatervestboy.bsky.social
Poet & Professor of English; Work in 32 Poems, 9th Letter, Image, Essay Daily, Museum of Americana, Spoon River Poetry Review, HAD
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it’s funny how AI has made this even “more” true
"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." ~Thomas Mann
April 18, 2025 at 12:57 PM
it’s funny how AI has made this even “more” true
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I hope one lesson we can take away from this debacle is that curing cancer has just as much to do with politics as it does with biotech.
Hey scientists. I need you to speak up EVERY time someone makes a "why research is valuable" webpage and demand inclusion of humanities and social science.
April 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I hope one lesson we can take away from this debacle is that curing cancer has just as much to do with politics as it does with biotech.
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Much more to say about this, but can't even at the moment.
Much more to say about this, but can't even at the moment.
Pasts Imperfect (4.17.25)
Saving, Celebrating, and Defending the work and the workers behind the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the NEH Office of Digital Humanities (ODH)
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April 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Much more to say about this, but can't even at the moment.
Much more to say about this, but can't even at the moment.
Ashes, Ashes, We all fall…
March 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Ashes, Ashes, We all fall…
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It's true everywhere that no good deed goes unpunished, but in academia it's doubly true, and the punishment for your good deed will always be MORE BUREAUCRACY.
January 27, 2025 at 10:08 PM
It's true everywhere that no good deed goes unpunished, but in academia it's doubly true, and the punishment for your good deed will always be MORE BUREAUCRACY.
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Stocks fell sharply today as 5% of investors suddenly realized that it shouldn't cost a trillion dollars to make a machine that writes terrible poems.
January 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Stocks fell sharply today as 5% of investors suddenly realized that it shouldn't cost a trillion dollars to make a machine that writes terrible poems.
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Word of day is ‘unasinous’ (17th century): united in stupidity.
A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.
A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.
January 22, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Word of day is ‘unasinous’ (17th century): united in stupidity.
A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.
A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.
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If you want to read a new book coming out but don't want to buy it, a great thing you can do is ask your local library to order it. The more requests they get, the more likely they are to acquire it and then lots of people will get to read it who othewise wouldn't.
January 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you want to read a new book coming out but don't want to buy it, a great thing you can do is ask your local library to order it. The more requests they get, the more likely they are to acquire it and then lots of people will get to read it who othewise wouldn't.
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Casie Dodd on why indie bookstores and small presses make up the backbone of the literary ecosystem.
On Small Business Saturday, Consider the Small Press
The literary ecosystem can feel vast and overwhelming within an industry in major flux, constantly threatened by corporate greed and inefficiency. These realities continually challenge the sustaina…
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November 26, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Casie Dodd on why indie bookstores and small presses make up the backbone of the literary ecosystem.
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I love this poem by @toddedillard.bsky.social
this i think is the poem I’m most known for, and probably will be for the rest of my life
November 23, 2024 at 2:17 PM
I love this poem by @toddedillard.bsky.social
William Stafford (1961, from www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
November 19, 2024 at 2:19 AM
William Stafford (1961, from www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...