Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026the only reason I've ever heard of the discourse song is bc I follow the delightful Irish Number Ones, but I've never actually heard the song. I started following Irish Number Ones for their Mr Brightside watch (424 weeks in total on the Irish charts, but never number 1) which I find fascinating 031
Reposted by Pattie McCarthy Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 03/09/2026RIP Rachel Blau DuPlessis, poet & critic extraordinaire. from one of her poems, & from an essay of hers on George Oppen— 46220
Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026In this interview, Rachel Blau DuPlessis says: "I was lucky enough to have George Oppen’s intransigent eye on my very early work." I was lucky enough to have Rachel's intransigent eye on my very early work. Rest in peace— dear fierce brilliant generous Rachel 1163
Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I'm genuinely at a loss trying to imagine for whom this description is a positive thing 040
Reposted by Pattie McCarthy Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 23/08/2026it's worth reading the linked policy memo. here's the last paragraph: 2296
Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Don’t even need to smoke in one of these. Just stand there & absorb 130
Reposted by Pattie McCarthy Jules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Red card couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy [saracasm]. Enzo Fernández is notorious for his racism & transphobia. 27731
Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 18/07/2026When I was 14 years old I read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man on a flight from Philly to Dublin. Probably the most significant reading experience of my life, Irish & otherwise & all 171
Reposted by Pattie McCarthy John Latta @lattaj.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Lisa Robertson, out of Riverwork, part of a lovely paean to dust (“I am a dust artist . . . displacing cosmic matter temporarily from its solid support to make a negative image of time.”) A way of talking about quotation, circulation, infinite reuse, and how language is ever-borrowed, ever-impure. 0183
Reposted by Pattie McCarthy Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 15/07/2026the english child who just scored that goal has a real Dulce et Decorum Est face 88710
Reposted by Pattie McCarthy Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 11/07/2026It's like a Breughel painting, depicting the folly of man in a range of little scenes. 84116
Reposted by Pattie McCarthy John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 07/07/2026VAR sifting through archaeological evidence from the reign of Ramses II to overturn that goal 139770
Reposted by Pattie McCarthy Bell @pocono.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Take me home to the place I belong Philadelphia 1153
Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 20/06/2026philadelphia mentioned / philadelphia considered 151
Reposted by Pattie McCarthy lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19/06/2026they should let the players pick between a hydration break and a smoke break if that's more the team's vibe 452192230
Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026American television has seriously over-estimated my feelings for the England team & Beckham 050
Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026it was a bad penalty. the stutter-stop run-up is bad (& unfair imo). there was no justification for retaking that pen 020
Reposted by Pattie McCarthy Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 16/06/2026What could possibly go wrong in placing disability education in the hands of someone who has dedicated his life to spreading lies about autism? 35827
Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026My spouse just informed me that he’s instituted a 30-minute daily maximum on my complaints about Lalas 130
Reposted by Pattie McCarthy Mike Ingram @mikeingram.bsky.social · 10/06/2026New online issue of @barrelhouse.bsky.social guest-edited by MFA students at Temple University. The Aftermath!barrelhousemag.comOnline Issue: The Aftermath — BarrelhouseWe asked writers to imagine what comes next. What’s the story after the story? Or the sequel no one asked for? How do we keep going, or revive ourselves, in the new normal? 155
Reposted by Pattie McCarthy ben @guidetobirds.bsky.social · 10/06/2026every world cup since the beginning has been the Crimes world cup but idk man this one's just really embarrassing to me 042
Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 04/06/2026I would not wish / Any companion in the world but you 280
Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 02/06/2026"The archive has dead matter also. These absences in what I am able to know from the written record are fissures I try to step into." 020
Reposted by Pattie McCarthy Jules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Totally sensible policy for other universities, colleges, community colleges, & law schools to follow. More of this, please! 12511
Reposted by Pattie McCarthy Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 25/04/2026New bio just dropped for Ben Lerner, lolll 3151
Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Call me silly, but I’m not using something that makes everyone’s writing worse in a course meant to teach people to write (or write better) 1111
Reposted by Pattie McCarthy Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Some contemporary news coverage of the Choctaw Nation's Gift from 1847. The last piece mentions another donation from the slaves on a plantation somewhere south of the Mason Dixon line. 514457
Reposted by Pattie McCarthy mark leidner @markleidner.bsky.social · 24/02/2026iambic tetrameter ass stick 291859352
Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 02/03/2026not the important thing happening here, but just an unhinged use of "the yips" 020
Reposted by Pattie McCarthy Tom @bighappyhead.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Mutely upon the doorpost prints a kiss, Then passes out for ever. 011
Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 23/02/2026when I taught in study abroad, we lived across Athole Gardens from this building. best neighborhood ever. my kids still talk about it all the time 060
Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 19/02/2026the ultimate rhythm has lopped the extremities of crest and claw from the nucleus of flight —Mina Loy, "Brancusi’s Golden Bird" 120
Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 19/02/2026my lawyer (don't ask) told me that the worst thing your lawyer can say to you is "this is an interesting case." but I think my lawyer was wrong— 041
Reposted by Pattie McCarthy Brian Gormley D7 @bgormley.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Lazy beds on the fields above Clew Bay in Mayo this morning. Tenant farmers used these ridges to grow potatoes in the 1800s & after the famine decimated the population many were abandoned. “Lazy” is a misnomer - it required immense physical labour to create the beds on the rocky marginal soil. 1248
Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 11/02/2026FIFTEEN! Happy happiest FIFTEENTH birthday to Fionnuala, the whole Foodah, saint Fionnbharr Flood! We love you & are so very proud of you!!! 💙💚🌊🦞⚽️⚽️🌊💫☀️🎉🎂🥳 030
Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 10/02/2026banger, not in english www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Sje...youtube.comSinead O'Connor - Oro Se do Bheatha BhaileYouTube video by Lokiloclay 021
Reposted by Pattie McCarthy Conrad Benner @streetsdept.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Philadelphians are bringing the history back to the President’s House. 🦅 723285
Reposted by Pattie McCarthy Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Susan Howe, Boston Harbour, in Fire Exit 4 ed. William Corbett, Boston, 1974. (Uncollected? Not in Frame Structures; Early Poems 1974-1979.) 1 of 2, last pages to follow / #poetry #SusanHowe 194
