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Every semester, at least a few colleagues express anxiety about student participation. I always suggest reframing the issue to honor multiple forms of engagement: how can we invite students to engage in ways that are accessible to them? Here are some examples from my courses.

“Is this a town square or a cell?” -Claire Schwartz from Civil Service

In trying to get people to see your humanity, you reveal just that: your humanity. Your fundamentally problematic nature. All the unique and terrible ways in which people can, and do, fail. Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

So excited to join Shake Rag Alley as the new Director of Education—I’m moving to Mineral Point!

I work mostly in poetry because it claims to be neither fiction nor non-fiction, because it acknowledges the gap between what really was or is, and what is said about it. —Sawako Nakayasu

he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist,

A grad student asked me this week, "How do you do the kind of work you want to do without reproducing the unjust power hierarchies of academia?" I can't, and none of us can, and we should stop pretending like we can be pure radicals inside the academy. 🧵

me showing a friend a new single-page poem draft it took me 4 months to complete

Yes

Perennial fav

Well isn’t this exciting! Big love to you MAYDAY

Have you ever stared at a word and it starts to look like nonsense? You know it’s spelled correctly...but...is it? Well, there’s a name for that.

Sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined.

Big thanks to Figure 1 who nominated my poem “Things I Would Tell a Daughter: A Poetics” ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Am in my last week of the academic job—nearly 2 decades in #academia & only 2 months working at an arts non-profit & I still come home amazed by the non-toxic workplace. Will dearly miss my students tho.

Chuffed to join BONK! Performance Series Saturday -- join us at FB Live for some fun bonkseries.org

Rereading my birth chart and I’m described as a “dilettante of love” — feel a poem coming on