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When asked how fascism starts, Bertrand Russell replied: "First they fascinate the fools. Then they muzzle the intelligent."

Writers! It’s a POETRY application year here at UW-Madison! Our MFA is 2 years, all students are funded at $30k+ per year w/ $4500 of summer funding + travel funds, our faculty is outstanding, we encourage cross-genre experimentation, + Madison is rad! creativewriting.wisc.edu/masters/

Two different covers for the two different places I traveled between while writing this book. I have one fewer rib than when I began. Memoir is hard but preordering is easy! (US is to the west, UK to the east, just like on earth.)

Additionally! Ppl fundamentally misread/misteach The Raven as being about an enchanted bird, when in fact ravens can speak, so it’s actually a poem where a man who knows the raven will only ever answer Nevermore asks it a series of increasingly depressing qs about his dead gf.

The end of My Brilliant Friend is going to destroy me, isn’t it?

Is anybody in comp studies writing about the devastating effects of AI and how to teach writing in this post AI world? Like, Peter Elbow all you want but they are literally not even thinking for themselves so maybe we need a different method than endless revision?

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Baby’s first migraine

not saying things are tense, but all the characters from Les Miserables are gradually gathering out side my window to sing a song

Had my first ever migraine last night, very zonked, woke up and voted

“Panzer-man, panzer-man, O You— Not God but a swastika So black no sky could squeak through. Every woman adores a Fascist, The boot in the face, the brute Brute heart of a brute like you.” Daddy | The Poetry Foundation poetryfoundation.org/poems/48999/da…

"At long last, the privileged elites have been defeated. And by who? The perfect heroes, of course. The ultimate anti-elites. The champions of the average worker. The most relatable folks on the planet: the billionaires." mcsweeneys.net/articles/final…

NEW ISSUE IS LIVE Couplet Poetry, founding editor Rebecca Lehmann w Jimin Seo : 서지민 caely Benjamin Voigt & yrs truly We've got florists, angels, skypenises, Lucifer, black holes &&& Wayne Koestenbaum sophie klahr Jack Saebyok Jung 정새벽 Amorak Huey low_ghost @_janezwart_ Heidi Seaborn &&&

So psyched about the new issue of Couplet. Come check it out!

What if instead of burning the candle at both ends, I burned it at neither?

If you’d like a review copy of The Sweating Sickness (out in Feb from U Pitt Press) let me know!