Tim DeJong

[Tim DeJong @tadejong]

This type of poem is called “crappy”

[Anna Krivolapova @AnaKrivolapova]

No shade but what is this type of poem called where it's just someone saying something wistful with line breaks

[Tim DeJong @tadejong]

@domluszczyszyn That compliment doesn’t mean much. Whether Berube stays on is a good litmus test. If they let him go, there’s at least a little reason for optimism. If he stays on, we don’t need to bother watching next season

[Tim DeJong @tadejong]

@pourfairelevide Whereas—think of the ending of James Woods’ review of White Teeth, or that great scene in Adaptation where Brian Cox yells at Nic Cage’s character. So much raw, real life is happening outside all this navel-gazing! Why not put that in your novel?

[Tim DeJong @tadejong]

@pourfairelevide Sure, that’s a fair take. But there’s a larger issue there about the purpose of art, since again, that very dissatisfaction can so easily be fashioned into a kind of arch self-knowing. You get to feel good about feeling bad

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The USA is the richest country on the planet it could have everything, the best healthcare, the best schools, the longest life expectancy, the best wages, the best pensions.

Instead it has 1000 billionaires with $10tn.

[Tim DeJong @tadejong]

@maura_jortner Thanks!

[Tim DeJong @tadejong]

Happy to be a contributor alongside so many great scholars to the just-published Oxford Compendium of Hope. It's currently available to read as an open access download at OUP's website: https://t.co/NAHls8ChhH

[Tim DeJong @tadejong]

My piece was a fun challenge: it required tackling the impossibly broad topic "Hope in Literature." The chapter begins on p. 879 (it's a long book)! I've excerpted the first four pages here.

[MLB @MLB]

Another INSANE view of George Springer's go-ahead homer 😱

[Tim DeJong @tadejong]

Two new poems up at Poetry is Currency--including my first ever prose poem: https://t.co/EMb0sGE1hj

[Tim DeJong @tadejong]

@maura_jortner Let’s talk! There are other contenders!

[Tim DeJong @tadejong]

When it comes to short fiction the chalk answers are the correct ones ... the best American short story is "Bartleby, the Scrivener," the best British short story is "The Dead"

[Tim DeJong @tadejong]

This will be required reading in my next intro to poetry seminar

[Richard Siken @richardsiken]

The afterword from the new edition of Crush

[Tim DeJong @tadejong]

I like this pic I snapped of Edie and Gabe paddleboarding Lake Michigan

[Tim DeJong @tadejong]

@zimmermania It was a good one!

[Tim DeJong @tadejong]

I have a poem about, well, theodicy, among other things, in the latest issue of The Penn Review. Thanks to the editors for publishing it, and hat tip too to @zimmermania whose (iirc) 2022 Good Friday message helped inspire it. Read here: https://t.co/l5uwWidYTh

[Tim DeJong @tadejong]

OK the playoff made up for it somewhat

[Tim DeJong @tadejong]

I’m sure Nantz had a great line ready to go if Rory sank that putt … tragic really that we’ll never know what it was

[Tim DeJong @tadejong]

@AmericanGwyn Missing J.M. Coetzee