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Kamran Javadizadeh

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Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I’ve just started listening to Brian Glavey’s new podcast and it’s somehow even better than I had expected it to be. @glavey.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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Some Marvelous Experience
Arts Podcast · Updated Biweekly · A podcast about friendship and art hosted by Brian Glavey. For each episode I'll talk to a pair of friends about a work of art or aesthetic experience that they share...
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Andrew Epstein @andrewepstein.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
James Schuyler writing in his diary, 58 years ago today, at Fairfield Porter’s home on Great Spruce Head Island in Maine
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From James Schuyler’s Diary (August 5, 1968)
Fairfield Porter, “Islands” (1968) Here is an excerpt from James Schuyler’s diary on August 5, 1968, written 58 years ago today, at Fairfield Porter’s home on Great Spruce H…
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Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Somebody should adapt this Merwin poem, that’s what I think
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panic! at the alamo @panoramic.blue · 15/04/2026
The Artemis loop to the moon reminded me of this you wrote and it's still very good, thank you thepointmag.com/reading-room... A new couple hundred thousand mile trip to the moon to go find writing from years ago, I suppose the loop continues lol
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Lunar Phase | The Point Magazine
This is the third column in Reading Room, a biweekly collective column on reading and life. The column will go in rounds, with the four […]
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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
"The impersonal regularity of meter suggested to Frost an allegory for the boundedness of mortality." Kamran Javadizadeh on Robert Frost.
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Kamran Javadizadeh: “Robert Frost at Midlife”
An analysis of three poems by Robert Frost, including “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” that first appeared in The Yale Review in 1923
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 14/04/2026
The instant obliteration of our congressionally mandated development assistance agency—by the world’s richest man and his cabal who “gave zero fucks” (Musk’s exact words) about the mass deaths they caused—is a historic atrocity that should stain everyone who touched it, forever.
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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
"Frost was being clever and bitchy when he called Eliot's modernist epic 'an Anthology of the Best Lines in Poetry,' but he was also onto something." Kamran Javadizadeh on Robert Frost.
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Kamran Javadizadeh: “Robert Frost at Midlife”
An analysis of three poems by Robert Frost, including “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” that first appeared in The Yale Review in 1923
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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Between 1916 and 1949, The Yale Review published twenty-eight poems by Robert Frost. In honor of National Poetry Month, revisit them here — alongside a new essay by Kamran Javadizadeh.
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Robert Frost in The Yale Review
The entire collection of poems by Robert Frost originally published in The Yale Review .
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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The Yale Review published twenty-eight poems by Robert Frost. In a new essay, Kamran Javadizadeh goes into our archive and finds a poet reckoning with mortality, rivalry, and the limits of form.
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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
"Through a closed door, in Frost's lovely image, we might hear the idiomatic rhythms of human language in the wild." Kamran Javadizadeh on Robert Frost.
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Kamran Javadizadeh: “Robert Frost at Midlife”
An analysis of three poems by Robert Frost, including “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” that first appeared in The Yale Review in 1923
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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
"This is how meter is like mortality. Our lives are bounded by birth and death and punctuated along the way by the kinds of markers that biology and custom have established as roughly universal." Kamran Javadizadeh on Robert Frost.
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Kamran Javadizadeh: “Robert Frost at Midlife”
An analysis of three poems by Robert Frost, including “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” that first appeared in The Yale Review in 1923
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Leila Belkora PhD, astrophysics @leilabelkora.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I admire Kamran Javadizadeh’s writing so much. For lovers of Frost’s astronomical imagery, there’s a great section on how the stresses in the lines of “I Will Sing You One-O” vary in a way that shows “earthly clocks hurrying to synchronize with their celestial counterpart.” 🔭
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Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I wrote about mortality, meter, and Robert Frost’s midlife crisis for @yalereview.bsky.social. yalereview.org/article/kamr...
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Kamran Javadizadeh: “Robert Frost at Midlife”
An analysis of three poems by Robert Frost, including “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” that first appeared in The Yale Review in 1923
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 28/02/2026
This is one of the videos the NYT has verified and links to in their reporting. NYT: "Video verified by [NYT] showed ... rescuers digging through the rubble with building cranes and shovels, and piles of bloodied, dusty backpacks." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/w...
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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 28/02/2026
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Claims of 40 dead after an Israeli airstrike on a elementary girl’s school in Iran www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
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Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
James Merrill. “No dread. No bitterness. The end beginning. Today’s / Dusk room aglow / For the last time / With candlelight. / Faces love lit, / Gifts underfoot. / Still to be so poised, so / Receptive. Still to recall, to praise.”
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Sue Barry-Schulz @susanbarryschulz.com · 16/12/2025
I blame the last @havehashad.com call for dropping me into an obsessive George Oppen rabbithole (but am secretly grateful). This discussion from Close Readings with @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social is an excellent starting point:
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David B. Hobbs on George Oppen ("Ballad")
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Library of America @libraryofamerica.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Last night, four acclaimed poets and scholars joined LOA LIVE for a fascinating personal discussion on revered critic and professor Helen Vendler. Watch @notquitehydepark.bsky.social, Dan Chiasson, @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social, and Christopher Spaide reflect on the influence of this towering figure.
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Helen Vendler’s Sixth Sense
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Library of America @libraryofamerica.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
On Tuesday, 12/2, join acclaimed poets and scholars Stephanie Burt, Dan Chiasson, Christopher Spaide, and @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social for a lively evening of reflections on the genius and influence of revered critic Helen Vendler, whose last essays were just published by LOA. RSVP for free!
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Helen Vendler’s Sixth Sense
Poets and scholars Stephanie Burt, Dan Chiasson, Christopher Spaide, and Kamran Javadazideh reflect on a giant of poetry criticism
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Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
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Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
She does not like it
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Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I’m so sad to hear that the poet Ellen Bryant Voigt has died. I knew her only slightly. When her friend Louise Glück died, two years ago, she and I spoke on my podcast about fate, and loss, and poetry. I think about that conversation all the time. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
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Ellen Bryant Voigt on Louise Glück (
Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 11/10/2023 · 1h 5m
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Kristin Grogan @kristingrogan.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Monday! Rutgers! Cake! Come along!
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Kristin Grogan @kristingrogan.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
next Monday is the home turf launch for my book, Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work. With responses from the wonderful @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social and brilliant Rutgers grad students Lena Crown and Colton Hicks. Come along if you're local? RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Seminar / book party: Kristin Grogan's Stitch, Unstitch
Come celebrate the publication of Kristin Grogan's Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work with a seminar discussing the Introduction and Chapter 5: Lorine Niedecker and the Work of R...
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Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Inger Christensen, from alphabet (trans. Susanna Nied)
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Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Good job, MIT.
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Strong truth here from @himself.bsky.social. Civil society has to get its act together and coordinate for the greater good, even if that's not its usual mode. Universities most especially.
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Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
A reminder that we’re hiring a poet at Villanova this year—tenure-track job, wonderful department, close proximity to Philly. Poets, please think about applying! jobs.villanova.edu/postings/33001
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Assistant Professor of Poetry (Creative Writing)
The Department of English at Villanova University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor with a specialization in poetry. The appointment will begin in Fal...
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Alan Drew @alanauthordrew.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Hey poets and teachers out there! Villanova is hiring for a tenure-track assistant prof position. Great school and a wonderful English Department. Check it out below. jobs.villanova.edu/postings/33001
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Assistant Professor of Poetry (Creative Writing)
The Department of English at Villanova University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor with a specialization in poetry. The appointment will begin in Fal...
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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
It's the end of The Best American Poetry. I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse. defector.com/good-riddanc...
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Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’ | Defector
When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology project...
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Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
We’re hiring a poet at Villanova this year! Tenure-track job, wonderful colleagues, eager students—and Philadelphia, too! Happy to try to answer any questions about the job. Poets! Apply! jobs.villanova.edu/postings/33001
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Assistant Professor of Poetry (Creative Writing)
The Department of English at Villanova University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor with a specialization in poetry. The appointment will begin in Fal...
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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
I'm over the moon that my book, Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets, will be published by the University of Chicago Press in the not too distant future.
Book contract language for Brian Glavey's Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 16/09/2025
BREAKING: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, a team of independent experts commissioned by the U.N.’s Human Rights Council concludes.
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Human rights experts join rising chorus that accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza
A team of experts commissioned by the U.N.'s Human Rights Council has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.
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Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
It’s been 10 years since my sister was diagnosed, 4 years since she died. During those 6 years of illness, all we could hope for was that each treatment would buy us enough time to benefit from the treatments that hadn’t yet been discovered. I can’t fathom the cruelty & stupidity of this government.
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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
In the coming decades, you or someone you love will be diagnosed with cancer, and you will wonder if Trump and DOGE are why treatments haven't improved
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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Read this book!
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Connor Douglas Rice @connordrice.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I too was blown away by how timely Descent of Alette is right now. The tyrant is capitalism and the billionaire class! This series has been so rewarding and comforting, especially this episode, which I'm saving. 🙏🏻
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thetenderbetween @thetenderbetween.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
In case you’re in the mood…
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Fantastic listen. 30 minutes into the episode the recording plays of TSEliot himself reading the Lovesong as an old man and then @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social and his wonderful guest have so much fun doing the close reading. Super informed but still fresh and fun
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Megan Quigley on T. S. Eliot (
Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 21/07/2025 · 2h 7m
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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
We're so delighted to have @kristingrogan.bsky.social 's brilliance for Re/Verse!!! (co-editors @glavey.bsky.social, @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social, and I have a couple more amazing books in the pipeline too)
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Kristin Grogan @kristingrogan.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
super delighted to have signed a contract with Amherst College Press for a little book on Sylvia Plath’s Ariel, a book I cannot stop reading and thinking about and troubling over
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
"Even gifted scholars lose their way / through faulty etymology." Incredible poem and conversation.
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Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
“What is more precise than precision? Illusion.” Today, a long-overdue episode on Marianne Moore, with the great Siobhan Phillips. We talked about Moore’s wonderful poem “Armor’s Undermining Modesty.” open.spotify.com/episode/2FPe...
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Siobhan Phillips on Marianne Moore ("Armor's Undermining Modesty")
Close Readings · Episode
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Khadijah M Silver (they/them), JD/MPH @khadijah.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Do I dare to eat a peach? I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear my trousers rolled
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The International T. S. Eliot Society @intleliotsociety.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Super sharp, super fun - the amazing Megan Quigley is well worth a listen wherever you can catch her! Here she is with Dr Kamran Javadizadeh on our pal Prufrock - do check out the Close Readings podcast
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