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I’ve seen a lot of “general strike now” tweets and just want to say, in the spirit of comradely criticism: calling for a major revolutionary action at a time when it’s organizationally impossible is also a form of liberalism

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obsessed with this academic article on liver disease that won’t stop referencing Lenin

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shaking, crying, etc.

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3 years

ive never felt more deranged in my life than when i worked for Penguin and had to spend an entire day cold-calling random bookstores to ask if they wanted a lifesize cutout of jonathan franzen

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short thread of poems by contemporary Indigenous Mexican poets writing in their Indigenous languages:

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to be clear, i would sob with joy for weeks on end if there was an actual general strike in this godforsaken country. i believe in demanding the impossible & “fighting absolutely,” as mike davis put it. but let’s not mistake righteous desire for concrete—and mundane!—organizing

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my lovely friend gifted me this portable chess set from the soviet union & i’m obsessed with it

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@dee_bee_h @laalmuniya “i just destroyed that bathroom” ❌ “the toilet and i have experienced structural transformations” ✅

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echoes of Vietnam in Palestine: just learned that after massacring Viet villagers, US soldiers explained to the military inspector that they had found a child’s drawing of a rifle, which proved that the civilians were “combatants” with “hostile intent” in a “free-fire zone”

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years ago, during contract bargaining, admin told us that grad students doing sex work to survive were “turning tricks for a dime” & morally unworthy of a living wage; now that their counterparts across the country are begging cops to maim students & faculty, i want to be clear:

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3 years

i will never “circle back” to anything, let alone an email. it’s undialectical

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RIP immanuel wallerstein i know he would’ve loved the big boat stuck in the suez canal

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2 years

just defended my dissertation and ate a really nice piece of swordfish 🫡

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2 years

sending this to the marxist literary group listserv and getting an immediate lifetime ban

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2 years

Baraka, forever and always

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@dayt0rn we in the US have a lot to learn from Latin American social movements!

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they’ve always been like this, and will continue to be like this until we stop them

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2 years

which way western man

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4 years

new exploitation disguised as academic prestige just dropped

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i wrote an essay on marx’s grundrisse and now it’s in a book ✌️

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it must be pretty cool to have an actual poetic method beyond just writing a couple stanzas and then asking myself “would an annoying person say this?”

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3 years

Mikeas Sánchez (translated from Chiapas Zoque by David Shook)

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3 years

the IDF are really tweeting through their war crimes like a youtube celeb who got caught sending horny DMs to a teenager

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struggling to make sense of the fact that our social relations are governed by those who “just want to feel safe”—an abstract desire that’s not only detached from genuine safety but in fact requires an ungodly amount of ‘disposable’ people to live in a state of ceaseless terror

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3 years

gonna try to write a poem using only the bios of the people who fav this tweet

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so, it's official: the second chapter of my dissertation, "Economies of Dissent: Ferlinghetti, Baraka, & Beat Poetry after the Cuban Revolution" has won the Marxist Literary Group's Michael Sprinker Prize! extremely honored, grateful, and stoked 🙏

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4 years

i think we’d all be in a much better position to build solidarity if we admitted to ourselves and our comrades that most of us do not have anything close to a “community”

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3 years

eduardo escobar’s poem after neruda’s death is the rarest kind of elegy: “fuck you—but you’re still my comrade”

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2 years

it’s my birthday and i just submitted a full draft of my dissertation while teaching 5 classes; now collecting gestures of affection & affirmation 🫡 💋

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this passage from Adorno’s “Commitment” has been haunting me for months:

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two roads diverged in a yellow wood…….

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3 years

all the poems here are excerpted from this excellent anthology edited by Víctor Terán & David Shook

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3 years

i refuse to buy into the nostalgia for a pre-neoliberal university that never really existed, but it’s hard to celebrate a figure like Berlant without also mourning the incalculable number of similarly brilliant thinkers who’ve been gutted, crushed, and disposed of by academia

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@kycarrerolopez i’m always saying this

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they should invent a type of job that you don’t have to do

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2 years

@Boringstein it’s only a matter of time before someone makes a wretched app called “instastrike”

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3 years

“There is a difference between wanting to repair the world such that one’s current desires can flourish, and remaining open to the possibility that making a different world might mean that one’s current desires might have no place.” Patricia Stuelke

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3 years

just read the phrase “brand-sponsored poetry.” time to pack it in, folks

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2 years

reposting with alt text

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i love boycotting. i'll boycott basically anything. i love walking into a store and seeing some particularly evil commodity and denying its power over me. makes me feel like a medieval mystic performing a preventative exorcism

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queering my CV by referring to myself as “professor emeritx” of the university I adjuncted at last year

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3 years

here’s a crazy idea: abolish harvard and turn it into free public housing for all the homeless people that its faculty and admin step over every day on their way to campus :)

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3 years

“Not a nut or bolt will be allowed to reach Chile under Allende…We shall do all in our power to condemn Chile and Chileans to utmost deprivation and poverty.” — Edward Korry, US Ambassador to Chile, from a message to president Eduardo Frei dated September 1970

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3 years

one of the most stifling ideas in poetryland is that poems must aspire to heal a broken world by imaginatively resolving social contradictions. what if we refused this capture & embraced those contradictions, not as an obstacle to poetry, but its very conditions of possibility?

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so many poets & academics failing the most basic, comparatively risk-free principles of solidarity with Palestine. i learned years ago not to put much political stock in US literary solidarity, but i didn’t think i’d watch ‘us’ passively accept—or actively incite—a second Nakba

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3 years

just read the phrase “american socialist patriotism” so i’m logging off forever—some concepts cannot be reclaimed & anyone with a decent understanding of US history should know that “patriotism” in a settler-colony is always, always reactionary

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4 months

just wanna say that while i am certainly a marxist, i will never ever regurgitate some dumb bullshit about the anarchists who risk their fuckin lives against the US police state and its squadristi lackeys. love you all forev; you show us the way ❤️🙏🖤

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2 years

i’ve written like 15 pages of my final dissertation chapter in the past three days, and i think most of it is actually decent. can i get a hell yeah

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3 years

imagine a grad student getting kicked out of their program for tweeting about how no one cares about academics. we’d all be gone in a week

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3 years

spinoza was essentially a poet (letter to hugo boxel, 1674)

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3 years

it’s honestly so sick that barbara foley calls “show don’t tell” a psyop in her intro to marxist lit crit. absolute baller move

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2 years

wish i could experience even 1/4 of the bliss that “Mr. Knobs” feels when he chews on his own candied flesh

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3 years

Mikeas Sánchez, from The Soul Returns to the Shout of Silence (translated from Chiapas Zoque by David Shook)

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history is a nightmare from which i am trying to awake

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possibly the most dreadful aspect of adjuncting is having to explain to students who ask you for mentorship that you may never get a chance to work with them again 🤧

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every time i see literature people arguing about movies i think of my high school english teacher who called Lord of the Rings ‘the most homosexual film ever made’: a dozen men destroy a giant flaming vagina by casting a cursed wedding band into a volcano, bringing it to orgasm

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3 years

all my favorite poets publish like two poems a year because they have other stuff to do

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5 months

truly grateful to publish @IbrahimNasrllah ’s poem “Palestinian” in Arabic & English, translated by the incredible @FakhreddineHuda . Nasrallah’s poem is brutal, beautiful, and endless. read it — and renew your commitment to a liberated Palestine 🇵🇸

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We’re honored to publish poet and novelist Ibrahim Nasrallah’s “Palestinian,” translated from Arabic by Huda Fakhreddine ( @FakhreddineHuda ). “I died and lived. I lit myself on fire. I put myself out with my own ashes, / and nothing came of it.”

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3 years

almost nothing has helped me understand communism more than jazz. studying jazz harmony, groove, & improvisation has clarified problems inherent to the production of collective/individual subjects; the ensemble-form expresses the same political & aesthetic desires as the commune

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love catching up with my mom

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Enriqueta Lunez (translated from Tsotsil by Clare Sullivan)

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just saw a livestream of a pro-Palestine demonstration in Boston and someone was holding a huge sign that read “ABOLISH RELIGION.” not gonna name the org, but there should be no place for that kind of secularist chauvinism in our politics—especially during Eid

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Mosab Abu Toha, from Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear (2022)

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just learned that Hegel got his landlord pregnant and im not sure i’ll ever recover from this curséd knowledge

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never in the course of human history has a man so desperately needed a wedgie

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Columbia has deactivated Shai Davidai’s ID, he is blocked from campus

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using woodscraps, recycled plastic, and clay, my insanely talented partner built me a tiny version of the room in Chetham’s library where Marx and Engels studied together 🤯🥰

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3 years

Briceida Cuevas Cob (translated from Yucatec Maya by Jonathan Harrington)

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for every fav this gets i’ll write one sentence of my overdue dissertation chapter 💋

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Víctor Terán (translated from Isthmus Zapotec by David Shook)

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3 years

one of my least favorite activities is listening to liberal poets explain what poetry is supposed to be, or how to read it, or how it means. they always sound like missionaries for the spanish empire

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2 years

i kinda just want a stable job and some nice students to teach 👍

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4 years

david bananas foster wallace stevens

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1 year

wore a silly outfit and got my phd legitimized by the proper authorities 🫡 wildly grateful to everyone who put up with my dorky ass over the past 7 years 🥰

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3 years

i think if you posted pretty much any stranger’s sex poem online and said “this is the worst thing ever,” many people would probably agree! because we are conditioned from birth to mock expressions of vulnerability and pleasure

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honestly, i’ve never been closer to fully abandoning academia than i am right now. we’ve watched so many universities—including my phd alma mater—gleefully endorse genocide, unleash police violence on students, & retaliate against (the meager handful of) dissenting professors

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when your student who never talks in class turns in an excellent, thoroughly researched paper on marxism and the gig economy >>>>>>

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it’s always wild when i see catholics get mad about cancel culture. we literally invented excommunication

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2 years

watched a documentary on fungi last night and now i’m totally convinced that they’re the most powerful organisms on earth. they’re everywhere forever and will never die; we’re all just living in mushroom world, on mushroom time

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@dee_bee_h @mitchtherieau “this. more of this, please.”-ass poem

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[trying to start discourse] beds are a type of soft table

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it’s new author pic season and roxie demanded a collaboration

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3 years

maybe this is obvious but covid has been especially bad for radical politics because it provided a moral justification for literally doing nothing

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4 years

why would you spend 10 years writing a novel no one’s gonna read when you could just spend a couple hours writing a poem no one’s gonna read

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4 years

critique postcritique

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all online leftist poets fall into 1 or more of these categories: -politically horny -wordprocessor avantgarde -terrorist sympathizer -craves fame, ashamed of it -adds linebreaks to prose polemics -all poems about same demo from 2017 -really wants you to think they aren’t white

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just got 2 poems accepted, one of which i first wrote 8 years ago when i was a closeted teenager✌️

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found another treasure from my time as a high school english teacher: “comrade pickle,” drawn by a student after our class on mccarthyism & gifted to me clandestinely to avoid the admin’s un-american activities committee 🫡

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2 years

wrote a little poem about the strawberry i ate last night:

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@KirkMattWhite @SFCityFan oh i certainly agree with you there, and have no faith in the democrats to do anything of value. the fight that ensues will have to be led by the rank & file!

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@AScaredWhale only the one i sleep with

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poem for rush limbaugh (1951-2021)

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4 years

english phd who researches poetics mood

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3 years

going back in time to give Marx a weed gummy and convince him to publish the grundrisse as a prose poem

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2 years

nearly wept for joy when i walked into my new classrooms and realized how many students from last semester decided to take my spring courses—a joy that’s so often robbed from adjuncts who are forced to teach at different universities every semester; a joy we all deserve 💕

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‘Cruel America, / when you mutilate our land and bodies, / it is your own soul you destroy, / not ours.’ denise levertov

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pome draft

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