Ernest Rufleth

Director of the School of Literature & Language
Mabel and Doug Maguire Endowed Professor in English
Louisiana Tech University

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"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

(I think this is the correct quotation)

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A Poem Is A Street Hustler , by @OutlawsPoetic https://t.co/7F2ORFX6cI

Food for thought...

[Gov. John Bel Edwards @LouisianaGov]

It’s simple. Our teachers need $3,000 raises. Our roads, bridges and ports need upgrades. And our higher education institutions need to be funded. Thanks to our strong economy, we have the money. Let’s get it done. #lagov #lalege

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Patrick Rothfuss has announced a new Bast-based novella, The Narrow Road Between Desires, coming November 14, 2023!

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“You want a retention strategy? Have gen ed not be the lemon in your curriculum,” said Kate Drezek McConnell, vice president for curricular and pedagogical innovation at the American Association of Colleges and Universities.

THIS from the article on gen ed by @bethmcmurtrie

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Ars longa, vita brevis

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

I visited a class of second graders to teach them about poetry, and this is a poem one student wrote.

What is Life?

My name is Marisa.
Today I feel like a wealthy lioness prancing in the fields.
Sometimes I am a fox.
Sometimes I am a wolf.
But always I am loyal.
I ask the world, "What is life?"
And the answer is
a wealthy lioness prancing in the fields.

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

"When anxious, uneasy, and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused."
~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Rocky Coast 🎨 F.J. Waugh

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@WhitakerAlmanac Oh man...hope you're alright!

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Awesome post by one of my students!
Thanks, Clair!
https://t.co/iVndPbl6Uy

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Check out Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: A Prose Rendering by Sky Turtle Press on @Kickstarter https://t.co/ZzzxfirWxU

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Congratulations, Bruce! @seneca_furens

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Louisiana Anthology celebrates ten years and launches new humanities nonprofit https://t.co/yV9Uo2FTvD via @Minden Press-Herald

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The Mailman is delivering again.

Be at the TAC on Saturday at 3 pm vs UAB and have a chance to win a FREE car 🚙

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@FrenchTeam @KMbappe MBAPPEEEEE 🇫🇷

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Oh, no no no, it was too cold always
(Still the dead one lay moaning)
I was much too far out all my life
And not waving but drowning.

3/3

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Not Waving but Drowning
by Stevie Smith

Nobody heard him, the dead man,
But still he lay moaning:
I was much further out than you thought
And not waving but drowning.

1/3

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Poor chap, he always loved larking
And now he’s dead
It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way,
They said.

2/3

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NPR: Opinion: Machine-made poetry is here.
https://t.co/ywhbhXSB3E

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"Football is Life"
~Dani Rojas