Eric M. Murphy
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Eric M. Murphy
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Birds, Math, Literature, & Airpower. BoD Member @Strategy_Bridge, #Strategy, #Development, #NationalSecurity, #MilitaryAffairs. Repost is not endorsement. Nothing interesting to say.
“What Birds Were There”
Brother Antoninus (William Everson)

www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/willia...
December 3, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I think I’ll change the titles on this little shelf each month.

Here are a few IR favorites from my shelves at work.
December 1, 2025 at 2:50 PM
“The Giraffes”
Roy Fuller

allpoetry.com/The-Giraffes
November 30, 2025 at 11:46 PM
“Elegy for a Cricket”
J.V. Cunningham

www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/j-v-cu...
November 25, 2025 at 2:09 AM
“On Inhabiting an Orange”
Josephine Miles

allpoetry.com/On-Inhabitin...
November 24, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Another rollicking Friday night.
November 22, 2025 at 1:00 AM
When I was little, we had “The Golden Treasury of Poetry” in the house. It was intended for children, I suppose, but in a way now alien—it treated us as literate, thinking people, capable of reading great poetry.

When I was 10, this was my favorite poem. It’s still easily in my Top 20.
November 20, 2025 at 11:28 PM
“The Fish”
Elizabeth Bishop

poets.org/poem/fish-2
November 20, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Remiss have I been, as ever, I’m making sure the people for whom I care know that I do. I think maybe I’m just a bad person.

@queenofthinair.bsky.social & @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social

“Splash, over.”

#GreatPostcardWar2025 #GPW25
November 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM
“A Newly Discovered ‘Homeric’ Hymn”
—Charles Olson

books.google.com/books?id=jXq...
November 20, 2025 at 2:55 AM
The last 8 weeks have been sporty—my reading all over the map, crammed into non-existent moments when I could focus, & almost entirely not of my choosing. (Advising 10 masters theses is a neat trick.) But I finally finished this. Like most edited volumes, it’s uneven, but it’s also excellent.
November 19, 2025 at 10:23 PM
“Christ Walking on the Water”
W.R. Rodgers

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._R._R...
November 16, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Fun was had.
November 15, 2025 at 10:27 PM
“What I Expected”
Stephen Spender

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/92217/...
November 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
“I Have Seen Black Hands”
Richard Wright

www.poetrynook.com/poem/i-have-...
November 15, 2025 at 3:17 AM
“Variations on Heraclitus”
Louis MacNeice

sententiaeantiquae.com/2021/01/13/v...
November 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
November 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
“My Papa’s Waltz”
Theodore Roethke

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43330/...
November 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I think I’ll change the titles on this little shelf each month.

I get to take students to Gettysburg this month, so here’s a little moment of American Civil War stuff I have handy.
November 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
“Foresight”
Lincoln Kirstein

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln...
November 4, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Sunday night is for football and “Carcassonne of the South Seas.”
November 2, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I love @99pi.org’s podcast and @romanmars.bsky.social, and I’m glad they’re telling this story, but it reminds me of Stephen Bloom’s “Postville.”

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/9...
October 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I wonder if Stephen Miller’s view of new architecture at the White House is that it look like this:
October 24, 2025 at 8:39 PM
“Fish in the Unruffled Lakes”
W.H. Auden

allpoetry.com/Fish-in-the-...
October 23, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I haven’t done the math to know if this is definitionally hyperinflation…but it isn’t good.

Charts show Argentine peso to US dollar exchange rate.

Fiscal and monetary policy so janky it outruns the 2025 US dollar this way is an epic self-own.
October 22, 2025 at 3:21 AM