Christopher Spaide

poems poets poetry | prof @ usm | off this site--find me elsewhere

[Christopher Spaide @cspaide]

Helen Hennessy Vendler (1933–2024)
no reader, no critic, no teacher has meant more to me. her inexhaustible work is our common bounty; getting to know her was my inconceivably good luck

https://t.co/p1ZGbaTEaN

[Brooke Harries @brookekrista]

alice notley

[Sarah Brouillette @brouillettese]

the last two paragraphs of Roadrunner by Joshua Clover

[2022 Sight and Sound Lists @2022SightSound]

Joshua Clover (critic)

[michael röbbins @alienvsrobbins]

Nothing is over, that is the only certainty.
The other certainty is that everything ends, even this.

—Joshua Clover

Goodbye, friend. You made me want to do better

[MIR (Everyone for Everyone) @MarxNetwork]

We are devastated to say that our comrade, teacher and friend Joshua Clover passed away last night. We will miss him forever.

[Literary Hub @lithub]

.@cspaide recommends new poetry collections by Esther Kondo Heller, Jack Saebyok Jung, Antonio Gamoneda and more.
https://t.co/heZ9s789fL

[حسام شبات @HossamShabat]

This is Hossam’s team, and we are sharing his final message :

“If you’re reading this, it means I have been killed—most likely targeted—by the Israeli occupation forces. When this all began, I was only 21 years old—a college student with dreams like anyone else. For past 18 months, I have dedicated every moment of my life to my people. I documented the horrors in northern Gaza minute by minute, determined to show the world the truth they tried to bury. I slept on pavements, in schools, in tents—anywhere I could. Each day was a battle for survival. I endured hunger for months, yet I never left my people’s side.

By God, I fulfilled my duty as a journalist. I risked everything to report the truth, and now, I am finally at rest—something I haven’t known in the past 18 months . I did all this because I believe in the Palestinian cause. I believe this land is ours, and it has been the highest honor of my life to die defending it and serving its people.

I ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza. Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free.”

— For the last time, Hossam Shabat, from northern Gaza.

[Christopher Spaide @cspaide]

@AnnikaAneko @RAS_Soc @stanfordpress 💜💜💜💜

[Christopher Spaide @cspaide]

@boneless_koi 💜💜

[steven duong @boneless_koi]

"...a painstaking formalism, a commitment to steadfastness and sobriety, as in his sonnets, which boast tattoo-precise lines and the willful sturdiness of gravestones..."

Thank you @cspaide! These words on At the End of the World There Is a Pond are so generous + insightful!!!

[Literary Hub @lithub]

.@cspaide recommends new poetry collections by Ali Cobby Eckermann, Steven Duong, Oluwaseun Olayiwola and more.
https://t.co/heoBN5o6No

[Christopher Spaide @cspaide]

@Nyflorizel thanks for reading!

[Christopher Spaide @cspaide]

before I bounce from this website for the near (or far) future, two last things to share about Helen Vendler. I wrote one of a few remembrances of her in the latest issue of the Wallace Stevens Journal:

[Christopher Spaide @cspaide]

I got to talk about Helen Vendler—as a teacher, colleague, friend—on the @PoetryFound podcast Poetry Off the Shelf; many thanks to Helena de Groot for this marvelous episode on HV and Marjorie Perloff: https://t.co/9clT7RnOtP

[ladies and gentlemen, the weekend 😌 @CraigWeekend]

ladies and gentlemen, the sign-off 🫡

[Writers Against the War on Gaza @wawog_now]

This October, @MLAnews leadership blocked a BDS vote, which, they argued, “would potentially lead to a drop-off in revenue in states with anti-BDS laws.” In response, seven MLA members have issued a statement demanding a BDS vote.

[Christopher Spaide @cspaide]

@sarah_wu_ @TheEconomist woo hoo Sarah!!