R. Joseph Rodríguez
@escribescribe.bsky.social
Editor | Educator | Hiker | Poet | Reader | Researcher | Scribe | Smiler | Storyteller | Thinker | Austin, Tejas
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Nine years ago, I wrote a short piece on Indigenous names for the domesticated turkey in Mexico and Central America, which is where the bird is from.
Mexican X-Plainer: Mesoamerican Turkeys
Around Thanksgiving, we should always reflect on indigenous culture, food, and language, respecting and honoring Native Americans and…
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November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Nine years ago, I wrote a short piece on Indigenous names for the domesticated turkey in Mexico and Central America, which is where the bird is from.
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On this fraught yet important day, our family—in Cemithualtin Ximmilcah, we of the Green Mountain Fields—offer up this chant of thanks, not to pilgrims or their culture or their god, but to the three aspects of life that sustain us:
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November 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
On this fraught yet important day, our family—in Cemithualtin Ximmilcah, we of the Green Mountain Fields—offer up this chant of thanks, not to pilgrims or their culture or their god, but to the three aspects of life that sustain us:
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I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
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The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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Writers (and illustrators!): Take regular breaks away from the keyboard. HERE'S WHY. #WriterSky
November 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Writers (and illustrators!): Take regular breaks away from the keyboard. HERE'S WHY. #WriterSky
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Melissa Ann Pinney's photographs capture everyday moments of adolescence inside Chicago Public Schools over the course of a seven-year artist residency. n.pr/3JGsjU3
A photographer captures life inside Chicago Public Schools
Melissa Ann Pinney's photographs capture everyday moments of adolescence inside Chicago Public Schools over the course of a seven-year artist residency.
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November 2, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Melissa Ann Pinney's photographs capture everyday moments of adolescence inside Chicago Public Schools over the course of a seven-year artist residency. n.pr/3JGsjU3
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Historians at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello have announced the identification of 6 additional individuals who were enslaved at the plantation. www.29news.com/2025/10/21/m...
It marks the first time new names have been added to the estate’s memorial dedicated to honoring the enslaved community.
It marks the first time new names have been added to the estate’s memorial dedicated to honoring the enslaved community.
Monticello identifies six more people enslaved by Thomas Jefferson
The six people include four adults—Moses, Nanny, Mary Ann Hern, and Robert—and two children whose names remain unknown.
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October 26, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Historians at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello have announced the identification of 6 additional individuals who were enslaved at the plantation. www.29news.com/2025/10/21/m...
It marks the first time new names have been added to the estate’s memorial dedicated to honoring the enslaved community.
It marks the first time new names have been added to the estate’s memorial dedicated to honoring the enslaved community.
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My prose poem “THE ADVERTISEMENTS” from “BAD MEXICAN, BAD AMERICAN” @acrebooks.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
My prose poem “THE ADVERTISEMENTS” from “BAD MEXICAN, BAD AMERICAN” @acrebooks.bsky.social
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Short Poem of the day. 📝
Mrs. Darwin
7 April 1852.
Went to the Zoo.
I said to Him-
Something about the Chimpanzee over there
reminds me of you.
Carol Ann Duffy
Mrs. Darwin
7 April 1852.
Went to the Zoo.
I said to Him-
Something about the Chimpanzee over there
reminds me of you.
Carol Ann Duffy
October 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Short Poem of the day. 📝
Mrs. Darwin
7 April 1852.
Went to the Zoo.
I said to Him-
Something about the Chimpanzee over there
reminds me of you.
Carol Ann Duffy
Mrs. Darwin
7 April 1852.
Went to the Zoo.
I said to Him-
Something about the Chimpanzee over there
reminds me of you.
Carol Ann Duffy
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Replacing term papers with in-class writing assignments may be nearly as devastating to writing as AI cheating. It will accelerate the culture of the hot take. I don’t know what to do. So far, I think the only hope is for those who don’t *want* to cheat.
October 20, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Replacing term papers with in-class writing assignments may be nearly as devastating to writing as AI cheating. It will accelerate the culture of the hot take. I don’t know what to do. So far, I think the only hope is for those who don’t *want* to cheat.
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This, FWIW, is my current teaching policy on AI, always subject to revision. It is, I recognize, easier applied to creative writing, which draws students who *want* to take the course rather than have to.
October 20, 2025 at 12:11 PM
This, FWIW, is my current teaching policy on AI, always subject to revision. It is, I recognize, easier applied to creative writing, which draws students who *want* to take the course rather than have to.
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NPR has lost a singular, distinctive radio journalist: Susan Stamberg, who died Thursday. She was the first woman to host a national news broadcast and set the tone, pace, and scope of the network. n.pr/3IR4JUn
Opinion: Susan Stamberg gave NPR its voice
NPR has lost a singular, distinctive radio journalist: Susan Stamberg, who died Thursday. She was the first woman to host a national news broadcast and set the tone, pace, and scope of the network.
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October 20, 2025 at 12:17 PM
NPR has lost a singular, distinctive radio journalist: Susan Stamberg, who died Thursday. She was the first woman to host a national news broadcast and set the tone, pace, and scope of the network. n.pr/3IR4JUn
In Fredericksburg, TX, a celebration of books amid attempts to ban some of them from city schools www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Community celebrates reading amid a Central Texas school district’s removal of 10 books from library
Sitting in the middle of a quilt on the ground Saturday morning, R. Joseph Rodríguez...
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October 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
In Fredericksburg, TX, a celebration of books amid attempts to ban some of them from city schools www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
New monument commemorates tragic anti-immigrant chapter in Wyoming history
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New monument commemorates tragic anti-immigrant chapter in Wyoming history
At a time when President Trump is going after foreign laborers in the U.S, and saying unflattering accounts of U.S. history should be removed, Rock Springs, Wyoming has put up a new monument to ethnic...
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October 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
New monument commemorates tragic anti-immigrant chapter in Wyoming history
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