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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 2h

The next step in human evolution should be the ability to digest the plastic between slices of prosciutto.

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 3h

Whenever my kids say, "Let's play I Spy!" I always reply incredulously, "Ice Pie!?" They hate it. Will I stop? No.

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Andrew Wittkop @awestfell.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Very pleased to be featured in The Millions fall book preview!

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I particularly enjoy the one for Copilot in Excel, in which someone asks it for negotiating tips *during the actual negotiation with the client.* As though no one thought it might be worth planning for that meeting.

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A.V. Marraccini @saintsoftness.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Now up! For the Berlin Review on Anne Carson’s classicisms in the wake of her Nobel win (plus an Etruscan talking object and some lightning). blnreview.substack.com/p/after-carson

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After Carson

A.V. Marraccini on Writing in the Wake of

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Youngest has started referring to his birth as his "escape."

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Critical Inquiry @criticalinquiry.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Now open access!

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Upgrade to Eucharist Premium for an ad-free experience.

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Anne has the chance to do the funniest thing: in lieu of a lecture, get everyone outside to listen to the wind.

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I didn't want to detract from the Carson appreciation yesterday, but if you are a lover of poetry, specifically the poetry of Prynne, you are in very good company with me and @ryanruby.bsky.social, who has written about his very last works here: www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/10...

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Prynne’s Last Poem by Ryan Ruby

October 7, 2026 – “His poems were always ultracontemporary, unless they were of the future.”

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anne Carson spoonerised is (nearly) Cannes Arson. Yes, I am available for commissions.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 08/10/2026

Anne Carson has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature ‘for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.’ You can read 52 of her essays and poems in the LRB archive. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Anne Carson · Poem: ‘Oh What A Night (Alkibiades)’

A symposium was usually a gentleman’s drinking party. This is an unusual one. It has been going on for hours with no...

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In 2012, I stood on a stage with Anne Carson as a volunteer grad student to help her perform BRACKO, an adaptation of Sappho, where my job was to say the word "bracket" every time there was a bracket, which was more than two hundred times

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I was emailing a friend last night to say that my heart told me it was Anne Carson's year, so I'm very happy to learn that the heart has won out.

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I actually don't have time to write a Laureate lecture, thanks.

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

About this time of year I Google "radiator balancing tutorial," look at the steps, and then conclude I can't be doing all that.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🚨 ALERT 🚨: All of Stuart Hall's notebooks have been digitized and are freely available to browse and read??? stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...

Stuart Hall notebook: NOTES ON THE REPRODUCTION OF IDEOLOGIES AND THE MEDIA (Orange notebook, "Summit Students Pad")

Stuart Hall notebook page with headline: "Problems for a Marxist Theory of the Media" and a series of bulletpoints. Lined notebook paper with black handwriting.

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Dalkey reissue of Bottom's Dream

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just had to have The Talk with my daughter (explaining what metafiction is).

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don't think I'd thrive on The Traitors because I would laugh at all the campy bits.

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Extreme battery saver pauses all non-essential functions," great, where do I sign up?

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

RIP Esther Rantzen, who was implicated in one of the most extraordinary TV clips that has ever been filmed.

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Sir Nicholas Winton - BBC Programme "That's Life" aired in 1988

YouTube video by aggy007

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

While walking my son to school I saw a sunflower growing despite a snapped support cane, and I can't tell whether that's inspiring or hubristic.

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have the basic unconscious package and I can't afford the necessary upgrade for interesting, erotic, or hopeful dreams.

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm often indifferent to football. But accounting irregularities? Disguised income? Yes please.

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Me when I see The Mole on Thunderbirds

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fascinated by the detail that the (alleged) would-be terrorists were topless.

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just overheard my son, at the park, point to his friend's younger sister and say, "So she is a human?"

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The English department at Reed College—my department—is hiring a TT prof in post-45 US fiction and/or narrative. This position includes teaching in the interdisciplinary humanities program (mostly the freshman core course) as well as possibly contributing to upper level interdisciplinary programs.

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Tenure-Track Assistant Professorship in Post-1945 Fiction and/or Narrative of the United States - Office of the Dean of the Faculty - Reed C...

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My wife: My training course was really good. It's about women– Me, helpfully: I've heard about them.

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have had to pause work for an emergency cheese break.

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If I had a time machine, I would use it to show composers what adverts their music has soundtracked.

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"If you receive this email outside of normal working hours, it means I am working chaotically and will probably have forgotten about it three seconds after sending."

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

They've now "learned" this, which is inoffensive and presumably educational, but we'll never know because they keep singing *the same four words* 100 times a day. youtu.be/LzAE2Gg9i2I?...

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"United Kingdom Song" with signing | Primary School Geography | Al Start

YouTube video by Go Kid Music - AL Start

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Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock @cypheractive.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

American Gothic Studies is open for submissions! AGS is the first scholarly journal dedicated to the American Gothic and publishes rigorously vetted scholarship on the topic, broadly construed. Information about the journal is available at www.psupress.org/journals/jnl...

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American Gothic Studies

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

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Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd... << A reminder that I'm hosting this workshop on punctuation and poetry tomorrow morning, and a bit of a last-minute bonus, there's 20% off tickets for the live session when you use the code VERANDAH26. Come through.

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Buy tickets – Come to a full start: punctuating your *Poems* with Rishi Dastidar! 22/9/26 – Zoom

Come to a full start: punctuating your *Poems* with Rishi Dastidar! 22/9/26 – Zoom, Tue 22 Sep 2026 - Back by popular demand, marvellously creative copywriter and poet, Rishi Dastidar guides you throu...

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My épée-glottis/swordswallower gag was not a dinner table hit.

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Tapping the sign with an increasingly agitated fingernail.

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Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Academic Sigh Russell Edson

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