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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 2h

me: hey. i missed you! him, picking me up off my feet and squeezing me in two: i missed you too! but we have to go to joah’s and kill a bunch of guys in elden ring so you’ll have to miss me more! me: him: me: him, sighing: yes. you’re still taller than me.

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 2h

the 12 yr old has been gone for four days with a friend on fall break, and as i pulled onto our dead end street, i was surprised to see he was already home and he made me jump out of my jeep so he could bear hug me before he and his brother made the walk to their buddy’s birthday sleepover party.

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 8h

Phenomenology Friday “The implication is that all things, persons and objects are co-defining structures, dynamically changing through time and relation to their environment and the plurality which they themselves are at every moment.” Jessica Frazier. Gadamer on Being.

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 20h

she gave us some of the high lonesome sound of bluegrass. she gave the old time sound of appalachia. but then she put csny’s ohio in the middle of her own dooley’s farm. and then she closed her encore with jefferson airplane’s white rabbit!

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 21h

what compliment! thank you!

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 23h

it’s one thing to hear it on the record. but watching little sister’s eyebrows raise right up off her forehead as Molly makes her runs up and down her fretboard is my new favorite thing.

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

the doorman told us the popcorn tonight is the best in alabama. reader. he wasn’t lying.

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

and something new that warms my heart. little sister, age 10, in her bell bottom jeans and cowgirl boots, out here with us looking the stuff.

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

out here at the princess theater in decatur with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels for a little guitar from molly tuttle.

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

it makes me real happy that Beyoncé put Rhiannon Giddens on her country record.

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

but as every loving parent knows, there is a process of call and response that can help the child see beyond their immediate horizon. there is way to invite the child to step deeper into the wonder and complexity of the true world. but that process only works if it remains open and free to play.

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

as every child who has defied a parent deeply understands, in the end, no matter how much they want to, the parent cannot make you do anything.

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

me, once again placing my hand on Truth and Method: naïve scientism is, in fact, extremely bad and dangerous, and everyone who cares about education needs to understand there is no way to programmatically engineer a path that can guarantee student learning. it really is hermeneutics all the down.

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

me: what if you asked for a welder for christmas? 10 yr old: i would love it.

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

10 yr old, watching jimmy diresta’s show on the red streaming site. me: sister. do you want to learn how to weld? 10 yr old, looking at me with her confident eyes: yes.

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

ugh! i am late to this. this is not good!

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

lol yes. though i still have a soft spot for how he helped me let go of my childhood fundamentalism.

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

yes. it is the logic of religious fundamentalism: an authoritative canon that is beyond question. and, just like in fundamentalist churches, only a certain interpretation is permitted, and any deviation is policed as heretical. it has trappings of liberal arts, but not the true vision of liberty.

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

our first is 15 today. blink of an eye.

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

alas for all these prufrocks with their heads full of high sentence. easy tools. deferential. glad to be of use. useful fools, indeed.

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

this is delightful. but i'm gonna say it's a missed opportunity not to have old man del mccoury and lil nas x taking turns leaning into the mic to sing can't nobody tell me nothin.

youtu.be

Alison Brown & Steve Martin - Old Town Road (feat. Del McCoury & Dan Tyminski)

YouTube video by Alison Brown

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

it still warms my heart that steve martin picked up the banjo as a bit and then went on to become a pretty good player.

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

though our little parish has now been some months without a priest, one of our members is an excellent lay preacher. his meditation on today’s gospel was inspired. heartfelt, welcoming, funny, and gentle but genuine challenge. keeps ya living.

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Καὶ ἀποκριθεὶς ὁ Ἰησοῦς πάλιν εἶπεν ἐν παραβολαῖς αὐτοῖς λέγων

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

can’t wait to listen back to the indefatigable Mark Griffiths make the call.

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Rathbone with a scrappy goal to give Wrexham the tie. the international break was fun. but i’m glad to see my lads back.

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

some enterprising soul opened a cigar bar in our little town and we finally dropped in for a beverage and he has bob ross on one of the giant tvs and i gotta say i believe in that.

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

the knack of handselling. it is a beauty to behold.

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

this still makes me laugh every time i think about it.

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

it warms the cockles of my existential phenomenologist heart that this man sees so clearly what is at stake in this moment.

Tweet from Pope Leo XIV:

Intelligence must draw on memory. The mind must not simply compile data — as an algorithm now does more quickly than we can - but recall lived experiences, which contain depths of meaning that only the human soul can recognize, and connect more deeply with the goodness of these experiences. Everything that is good begins "with the Spirit" and thus possesses a breath, a dynamism and a sense of communion that, once experienced, are engraved upon the heart.

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

barton fink in his hotel room gazing at the painting of the woman on the beach dot gif

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Pynchon looks out his apartment window as the day fades from the sky. As he turns, he spies the old phone on the sidetable. “Ah, Cormac,” he chuckles to himself, remembering the old calls. “I think you would’ve been pleased for Anne. She doesn’t like to clutter up the page with commas either.”

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

old things are better than new things!

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My best of Anne Carson— Best to start with: “The Glass Essay” Best overall: The Economy of the Unlost Yours?

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

i’m crying and they aren’t even gone yet.

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Carson is an excellent poet in her own right. But I am especially grateful for her translations of Sappho. Every semester she helps me persuade students they might like poems after all.

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

What wonderful news to wake to: the delightfully strange Anne Carson has won the Nobel Prize!

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

me: that’s a comma splice. 12 yr old: you’re a comma splice.

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

12 yr old begrudgingly allowing me to copy edit his presentation slides.

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Happy Birthday! And thank you for sharing your hard-fought learning with us!

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