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Anselm Berrigan @wystandoll.bsky.social · 1d

fractured my arm so i guess its finally time to read thomas pynchon

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Anselm Berrigan @wystandoll.bsky.social · 7d

I pity the poor vats of grease that hesgeth pours into his hair

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Anselm Berrigan @wystandoll.bsky.social · 7d

at home I switch glasses every drink, but on the road I like the same glass all the time

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 13d

"When critic Harold Bloom was invited by Lehman to select 'the best of the best' American poems for the series’ 10th anniversary edition, Bloom refused to select any poems from the volume guest-edited by Adrienne Rich."

Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 13d

It's the end of The Best American Poetry.

I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse.

defector.com/good-riddanc...

Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’ | Defector

When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology project...

defector.com

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Anselm Berrigan @wystandoll.bsky.social · 14d

gah

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Anselm Berrigan @wystandoll.bsky.social · 14d

my thanks to the cook county records department

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Anselm Berrigan @wystandoll.bsky.social · 14d

tmi: ma died without a will, so I went to france to get that worked out & france said call chicago and get yr birth certificate i said i have a copy right here & france said we need a new one so i call chicago and C says 5 weeks by mail but in person one day so I did that today

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Anselm Berrigan @wystandoll.bsky.social · 17d

trump saying that democrats are the party of satan is only accurate in that both satan and the democrats are boring

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Anselm Berrigan @wystandoll.bsky.social · 17d

this was just a fantasy by the way

Anselm Berrigan @wystandoll.bsky.social · 18d

Al Michaels is the John Dryden of sports announcing

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Anselm Berrigan @wystandoll.bsky.social · 20d

just got a buy back at an airport

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 20d

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

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Anselm Berrigan @wystandoll.bsky.social · 22d

It was good to wake up and not immediately feel panic for once

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Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 25d

‘Tim’ — the Replacements’ first album on a major label and last with their original lineup — was released 40 years ago today 💿

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Anselm Berrigan @wystandoll.bsky.social · 25d

well, thanks for that

Anselm Berrigan @wystandoll.bsky.social · 25d

I'm giving a talk this weekend in Toronto. If they let me in.

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Anselm Berrigan @wystandoll.bsky.social · 25d

no amount of words can make me care about this dude

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Keith Law @keithlaw.bsky.social · 26d

it's not a First Amendment violation if you comply in advance

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Anselm Berrigan @wystandoll.bsky.social · 26d

trivia night hurts me

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Anselm Berrigan @wystandoll.bsky.social · 26d

I was on a bus in Hungary once and could barely process what I was seeing on the road signs

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Anselm Berrigan @wystandoll.bsky.social · 28d

it's gonna be even crazier when spock gets shot

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Anselm Berrigan @wystandoll.bsky.social · Sep 12

this country really wants there to be a strict definition of political violence - nah, sorry, all the violence in the US is political- maybe politics is the matter of how we coexist - and violence is a deeply ingrained human choice - so this is who we are- can it be changed?

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Anselm Berrigan @wystandoll.bsky.social · Sep 12

maybe he got shot by a stranger

Anselm Berrigan @wystandoll.bsky.social · Sep 12

I watched a video of it at one point - so strange-he didn’t seem to know what he was getting himself into & that seemed to make it all slow, dangerous, questionable, & boring - but I hear you - and US and German artists seemed to have a lot to say to each other in the 70s at least

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