Been hanging on this news for a minute and psyched that I can finally dust off the bullhorn: mega-honored to be a 2019 NEA fellow in poetry alongside so many friends and champs, will say a word or two more about this in days to come
@sarahjgrimm@jenniferlcroft I definitely have a bunch of train station ones, most likely because trains are still romantic to us as iconography, but I don't think I have any airport ones, most likely because we all hate flying, very good question though
Some takeaways from rewatching A League of Their Own: Madonna is from Peekskill, NY. Jimmy Dugan is an irredeemable piece of shit. Téa Leoni is in this movie and has zero lines. The Racine Belles did NOT blow a 3-1 lead in the finals. But the 2016 Golden State Warriors sure did.
Galaxy brain: what if we all stopped going to the traveling corporate writing conference in perpetuity and agreed to spend all the money on indie publishers every year instead of just the one year there's global hysteria
Pitchfork editor: okay I need a list of the best punk albums of 2019
Pitchfork writer: *rubs hands together* hell yeah I am gonna put so much instantly forgettable mediocre niche shit on this list
Y'all ever think about how Buzzy Cohen went into Final Jeopardy in game 2 of his insanely dominant run with $9400 and Jerry had $16400 and Jerry beefed it on a clue about Dracula and is probably 100% haunted by this fact for the rest of time? Just me? Cool.
@SeanFennessey Loved your literary shoutouts. If you want a wild one, the book Andrea Berloff mentions in passing on your pod is Black Sun by Geoffrey Wolff. Up there among all-time craziest reads.
The fact that Bill de Blasio's campaign song is Rudy Can't Fail should make him ineligible to hold public office and make decisions as benign as which cereal he intends to eat on a given morning
This Sunday! Readings by @JoshuaHenkin, @gayrodcon, @heyteebs, @heididiehl1, @dschoonebeek @wolf_hour @JosephCardinal6 @graysonjmorley & Mónica de la Torre!
@PBW_Poet So sorry to hear about this. There's always a lot of doubles and new titles on my shelves if you need a lil' care package of bookish goodies. Send yr addy if you like!
@cathyparkhong Apologies if this has been asked already, and I ask this question in earnest as someone who edits a poetry series and thinks about this question not infrequently: do you not feel you're somewhat able to engage / combat this fear as poetry editor of TNR?
@RobertoGMontes@dolanmorgan A cursory google search would indicate that he's since cleaned up his act, but I remember D used to have a hilarious website that just looked like a computer exploded, it was almost righteously unnavigable