Things I'm about:
teaching (@ArrupeChicago)๐ฉโ๐ซ,
poetry (@poetryfound)๐,
& WCW (@W_C_Williams)๐จโโ๏ธ.
I ๐ my children, my students, God - and prob you. ๐
@theYoungLuc Personally a big fan of Wendell Berry's book on him; for primary sources: Interviews With WCW ("Speaking Straight Ahead") & I Wanted to Write a Poem.
In "A Letter to William Carlos Williams"
Kenneth Rexroth compared
Williams to the Greek poet Anyte,
". . . who says
Just enough, softly, for all
The thousands of years to remember."
CFP alert! Levertov/Williams, Williams/Levertov Conference in Madrid, Spain, October 2023. Deadline for proposals is June 30th. More info:
https://t.co/BEtZKE436t
Hereโs a weird new lil poem of mine in the latest @BatCityReview ๐ฆ
(& ty to @k_ivertown for the pic, since Iโm still waiting on my copies ๐ค!!)
I see academics frustrated that their students are โquiet quittingโ and Iโm going to remind you all that at the end of the day, actually caring for students and being honest and building rapport and acknowledging how hard life is for everyone is going to be the ONLY way forward.