Christian Teresi

Full time arts/education/cultural advocate, sometimes poet.

[Christian Teresi @ChristianTeresi]

Grateful to @atlengthmag for their support of this project. Check out the whole translation out from @UofMPress this August that includes contributions from Anne Carson, Rachel Hadas, @deniselow9, William Levitan, & Stanley Lombardo, among many others.

[At Length @atlengthmag]

From a new translation of the longest surviving poem of Ancient Greece: Eternity pleads with Zeus to create wine to ease human suffering, and Zeus courts the human Semele, leading to Dionysus’ conception. Trans. by @ChristianTeresi.

https://t.co/9eD6PTw18r

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

The New York Yankees can still win the World Series if Mike Pence has the courage to do the right thing

[Red Hen Press @RedHenPress]

HAPPY PUB DAY🥳! Wishing a happy publication day to WHAT MONSTERS YOU MAKE OF THEM by Christian Teresi! Teresi’s poems traverse many landscapes through language, showing the intimate connections that are held between them. Get your own copy here! https://t.co/ePFYdhcLLi

[DIAGRAM @EL_DIAGRAM]

"the way sunlight interrogates / Lake water all summer always accusing what September confesses"

From 1 of 3 poems by @ChristianTeresi for issue 24.2: https://t.co/ELFi9CG90L

[Christian Teresi @ChristianTeresi]

@BTTierney85 One main consequences of the huge expansion of MFA progs in roughly the 1st decade of this century. The other is a good thing—American lit became far more diverse. But that Higher Ed increasingly has lucrative/powerful positions that do no teaching/research is unsustainable.

[Christian Teresi @ChristianTeresi]

@pswordwoman Generally never the famous poets, but ones who really, really want to be famous. I once saw a publisher swear they were never going to ask a poet read again after they left little time for the other poets to read. The poet was one of the publisher’s own authors.

[Radley Balko @radleybalko]

Fearmongering works:

OK violent crime rate: 458 per 100K
NY violent crime rate: 364 per 100K

OK murder rate: 7.25
NY murder rate: 4.11

% of Oklahomans who say crime is most urgent issue: 5
% of New Yorkers: 28

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Now would be a great time for everyone on Twitter to subscribe to a newspaper.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Analysing one of the greatest speeches in history: Pericles' funeral oration in 430 BC.

The rhetorical devices he used to inspire and persuade are just as effective now as they were then.

Here are 17 of the best:

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

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[The New York Times @nytimes]

"He is sinking into a darkness he cannot even comprehend."

Read an excerpt from "The Passenger," Cormac McCarthy’s first novel in 16 years. https://t.co/BBTXay1zAi

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Two million views of my open Yale lecture class on the history of Ukraine. The first lecture is here.
https://t.co/JCRowP3drX

[Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe]

Iranian women are braver than Russian men.

[Christian Teresi @ChristianTeresi]

@adamclaypoet https://t.co/u4p9aNbxHV

[Christian Teresi @ChristianTeresi]

@BurlHorniachek @jpoch @PeterVertacnik @EduardoCCorral did an interesting series of posts on the Best American Poetry blog about Canadian poets several years ago: https://t.co/GBqQ29yfH7

[Christian Teresi @ChristianTeresi]

@PeterVertacnik Anne Carson. Perhaps a better question is who is the second greatest?

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

I wish every single person in the West would listen to Putin's speech. Obviously, that won't happen so let me summarise as a professional translator for 10+ years. He states, as he has done from the outset, what his intentions and complaints are in the plainest terms possible.🧵

[Ted Gioia @tedgioia]

This is a good time to recall that Gabriel García Márquez got rejected by The New Yorker in 1981—and the next year he won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

[Rio Romeo @romeovomit]

to keep up w/ audible, spotify is now selling audiobooks. do NOT buy from either of these brands. there's an app called Libby which is 100% FREE that has thousands of old & brand new audiobooks and all you need is your library card number!

[Laura Bassett @LEBassett]

Puerto Rico: **has no power or potable water**

Every cable news network: "Was that?....yes, I believe a spider just crawled across the queen's coffin"