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Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Congratulations to our Book Award finalists!!

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Matt Kirkpatrick @mattkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Look upon me! I'll show you the life of the mind!

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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Flashback Friday! THE AMBROSE J. AND VIVIAN T. SEAGRAVE MUSEUM OF 20th CENTURY AMERICAN ART, “a #novel of ideas whose appeal goes far beyond its target audience—be it literary readers skeptical of yet another postmodern yarn...(1/2)

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Matt Kirkpatrick @mattkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Haha love this. It was definitely confusing why the pigs wanted gold.

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Matt Kirkpatrick @mattkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

I thought it was fun and my kid dug it. Def bummed there weren’t axolotls. Did not pick up on the Paradise Lost parallels, though agree it is mostly empty.

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Matt Kirkpatrick @mattkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Moby Dick themed Taylor Swift tribute band “Starbuck’s Lovers”

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Matt Kirkpatrick @mattkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Yeah, not even close to funny. "Tree Factories"

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Matt Kirkpatrick @mattkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

"TREE FACTORIES" = Trump "ordering" half of our national parks open for logging. Hilarious!

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Matt Kirkpatrick @mattkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Love the #inkstains posts--I'm so glad Markson is still on people's minds. (Discarded reminded me that I've got a couple of his Strand books, though nothing annotated)

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Matt Kirkpatrick @mattkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Love this—a collection of descriptions of (imaginary) discarded texts. My fav is the Markson biography. “Borgesian panache” indeed

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Dave Housley @housleydave.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Yo Philly come on out to the launch party for @barrelhouse.bsky.social print issue 25 next week, 3/19/25 at Tattooed Mom!

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Matt Kirkpatrick @mattkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I probably don't read enough 2025 MFA stories to say, but I notice that "big press" novels are SO full of exposition. I don't love a lot of interiority--I'd rather just see characters doing things and talking, but it is weird to think of a first person narrator narrating objectively.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

If you’re a professor in a classroom today & you don’t mention this, I believe you’re doing your students a profound disservice. This is targeted 1st at international students, but it’s deliberately broad enough to lay groundwork for a scene Trump & Hegseth have fantasized: troops on campus.

A truth from Trump that reads “All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS! Thank you for your attention to this matter”

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Matt Kirkpatrick @mattkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Revisiting this old friend—I first read around 2003 maybe?—to teach tonight to my MA students—still great!

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Matt Kirkpatrick @mattkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Awesome—fascinating how much we still don’t know, depressing what’s happening to science right now. Still, highly recommend.

Audio book cover of The Light Eaters by Zoe Schlanger

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

“The US of AI,” public draft of a talk given yesterday at Princeton. drive.google.com/file/d/1O2qk...

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Matt Kirkpatrick @mattkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Every Tuesday this semester, I come to write at Matthaei

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Matt Kirkpatrick @mattkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

"Diane, 11:30 am, February twenty-fourth. Entering town of Twin Peaks. Five miles south of the Canadian border, twelve miles west of the state line. Never seen so many trees in my life."

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Matt Kirkpatrick @mattkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I was there! Remember really loving Plow and (of course) Chisel was so good. Feel like they should have exploded after Set You Free

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Matt Kirkpatrick @mattkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

The results are presented differently, but ChatGPT searches the web in responding to queries. It's not just using the data used to train it. Anyway, I think we agree about all of this.

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Matt Kirkpatrick @mattkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I haven't seen a huge push in higher ed, but that's just at my institution, so my sample size is small. I think rhet/comp folks are def curious, but also seem skeptical? Also, AI works great for stuff like teaching math--my six year old's crushing it because of adaptive apps.

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Matt Kirkpatrick @mattkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Yeah, but Google uses AI to generate search results--the reason ChatGPT got it wrong in your example is because somewhere there's a problem with the data, which would also trouble google. It's just slightly easier to discriminate when you have a list of search results. Also, switch to DuckDuckGo

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Matt Kirkpatrick @mattkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I think they do realize it? I think what most people don't get is the stuff they're using it for--cheating, writing emails, marketing copy, etc) -- is a kind of novel side effect of a technology that's really good at something else (analyzing huge data sets, etc )

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Matt Kirkpatrick @mattkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

You could just say that Pym contains racist depictions of Black people and fetishizes whiteness.

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Matt Kirkpatrick @mattkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Excellent (and needed) career-spanning critical analysis of the great Walter de Maria’s work

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw” Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start

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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 13/02/2025

Kennedy, who has no medical or science degree, has voiced skepticism about major vaccines for years. He has also endorsed fringe conspiracy theories, and backed those views again in his confirmation hearings last month. 🙃⤵️

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A Conspiracy Theorist Is Officially Running Our Health Department

RFK Jr. was confirmed today.

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Matt Kirkpatrick @mattkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The future is so bright, I can't believe I get to live in it.

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Matt Kirkpatrick @mattkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Not going to AWP this year (Excited for Baltimore next year!) but just got word that my workshop with @timhorvath.bsky.social got accepted at the Centre for Sensory Studies "Uncommon Senses V" conference in May. See you in Montreal??

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S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

This is how you do it. Thank you, @tupelopress.bsky.social!!!

The NEA has released their updated literature grant guidelines. They are appalling.
Tupelo Press will not be altering our 25-year mission to promote contemporary poetry and literary prose by emerging and established writers of diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds, including, especially, women and writers of color, as well as the LGBTQ+, immigrant, and Native American communities. We aim to develop wider audiences for, and deeper understanding of, innovative, multi-cultural writing by essential participants in this conversation. At the same time, we undertake to enhance the reading experience itself by publishing and distributing gorgeously designed and produced books.
If adherence to our principles means that we will be ineligible for NEA grants going forward, so be it.
Compliance with the new regulations would be immoral.

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Matt Kirkpatrick @mattkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Village People at the Kennedy center! A Golden Age!

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Matt Kirkpatrick @mattkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Is the seemingly serious uptick in public speakerphone use—phone calls, zoom meetings—because of Trump? I can’t go anywhere without noise cancellation.

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