Harris Feinsod
@feinsod.bsky.social
Comp Lit and English Prof. Baltimore. 💙⚓️💚🌱🖤📖. *Speaking only for myself*
Reading a copy of a book I’ve been teaching since the age of the course pack. Bring pack the course pack.
September 9, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Reading a copy of a book I’ve been teaching since the age of the course pack. Bring pack the course pack.
Jayme Collins—who podcasts about archival loss in climate disaster—discovered this envelope of dried mud from the 1966 Arno flood in the Ransom Center archives of conservator Peter Waters (the pioneer in salvaging water damaged paper). Amazing relic & great story—> global.utexas.edu/news/ransom-...
April 23, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Jayme Collins—who podcasts about archival loss in climate disaster—discovered this envelope of dried mud from the 1966 Arno flood in the Ransom Center archives of conservator Peter Waters (the pioneer in salvaging water damaged paper). Amazing relic & great story—> global.utexas.edu/news/ransom-...
Anyone who takes a passing interest in Cold War literary history will know how often this fickle, obdurate, idiotic provision was abused. Deborah Cohn mapped just one set of these abuses in The Latin American Literary Boom & U.S. Nationalism during the Cold War. My summary from AQ in 2014:
March 12, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Anyone who takes a passing interest in Cold War literary history will know how often this fickle, obdurate, idiotic provision was abused. Deborah Cohn mapped just one set of these abuses in The Latin American Literary Boom & U.S. Nationalism during the Cold War. My summary from AQ in 2014:
Greg Barnhisel gave a great talk at JHU last Thurs on Code Name Puritan: Norman Holmes Pearson at the Nexus of Poetry, Espionage, and American Power.
There were shades of a requiem for the bygone age of multifarious collaboration between academia and the state.
There were shades of a requiem for the bygone age of multifarious collaboration between academia and the state.
February 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Greg Barnhisel gave a great talk at JHU last Thurs on Code Name Puritan: Norman Holmes Pearson at the Nexus of Poetry, Espionage, and American Power.
There were shades of a requiem for the bygone age of multifarious collaboration between academia and the state.
There were shades of a requiem for the bygone age of multifarious collaboration between academia and the state.
Great to see Francisco Robles’s Coalition Literature in my mailbox. This book puts together some broken shards of a US literary history fired in the kilns of the late thirties and helps me see how to embrace a “collective” dimension of our aesthetic politics. @franciscondine.bsky.social
January 24, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Great to see Francisco Robles’s Coalition Literature in my mailbox. This book puts together some broken shards of a US literary history fired in the kilns of the late thirties and helps me see how to embrace a “collective” dimension of our aesthetic politics. @franciscondine.bsky.social
Stopping like it’s 2002
January 7, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Stopping like it’s 2002
Stopping like it’s 1933
January 7, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Stopping like it’s 1933
Quinquela Martín is another visual poet of grain elevator repetition.
January 7, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Quinquela Martín is another visual poet of grain elevator repetition.
Great mail day courtesy of Nico Campisi
January 3, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Great mail day courtesy of Nico Campisi
Volunteer tomato plant growing in a crack in the pavement 🌱
June 18, 2024 at 2:20 AM
Volunteer tomato plant growing in a crack in the pavement 🌱
Self portrait of the gardener as a garlic scape medusa 🌱
June 8, 2024 at 11:39 PM
Self portrait of the gardener as a garlic scape medusa 🌱
Could not figure out why I kept this shabby copy of Frank Lloyd Wright’s The Living City then I realized it comes from Walter Netsch’s library. Wish I knew how I got it
June 8, 2024 at 10:24 PM
Could not figure out why I kept this shabby copy of Frank Lloyd Wright’s The Living City then I realized it comes from Walter Netsch’s library. Wish I knew how I got it
Spring haulz:
Radish, rhubarb, arugula, mizuna, merlot, sorrel 🌱
Radish, rhubarb, arugula, mizuna, merlot, sorrel 🌱
May 22, 2024 at 1:12 AM
Spring haulz:
Radish, rhubarb, arugula, mizuna, merlot, sorrel 🌱
Radish, rhubarb, arugula, mizuna, merlot, sorrel 🌱
RIP Jerry Rothenberg (1931–2024), anthologizer and anthropologist and symposiast of world expression in its whole aspect. It was breathtaking to encounter his anthologies and assemblages in the out-setting process of breaking out of one's little world. Here is a way I once tried to characterize him
April 22, 2024 at 2:19 PM
RIP Jerry Rothenberg (1931–2024), anthologizer and anthropologist and symposiast of world expression in its whole aspect. It was breathtaking to encounter his anthologies and assemblages in the out-setting process of breaking out of one's little world. Here is a way I once tried to characterize him
As if in a final burst of narratological legerdemain, John Barth appears to have outlived his own obituarist by fourteen years?
April 3, 2024 at 3:11 AM
As if in a final burst of narratological legerdemain, John Barth appears to have outlived his own obituarist by fourteen years?
Good evening to the fourteenth largest city in Illinois
March 17, 2024 at 3:51 AM
Good evening to the fourteenth largest city in Illinois
Do NOT let the facts stand in the way!
December 12, 2023 at 4:08 PM
Do NOT let the facts stand in the way!
thx i had not known about the novel until now. and your question intrigued me...
November 28, 2023 at 3:48 AM
thx i had not known about the novel until now. and your question intrigued me...
Christopher Hitchens had a remarkable anecdote—via Renata Adler— about this slogan
November 14, 2023 at 3:23 PM
Christopher Hitchens had a remarkable anecdote—via Renata Adler— about this slogan
We want more random shelley duval paintings in the windows of the suburban community arts spaces on the walks home!!
October 7, 2023 at 12:07 AM
We want more random shelley duval paintings in the windows of the suburban community arts spaces on the walks home!!
First bush beans (late planting after a carrot/beet failure), and lots of other winners, (fennel seed, biggest kumi kumi yet, datil and shishito peppers, tomatoes all sizes, last crookneck, mintandbasil, etc). Putting my shoulder to the wheel for the meaning of October here in zone 5b 🌱
October 5, 2023 at 7:47 PM
First bush beans (late planting after a carrot/beet failure), and lots of other winners, (fennel seed, biggest kumi kumi yet, datil and shishito peppers, tomatoes all sizes, last crookneck, mintandbasil, etc). Putting my shoulder to the wheel for the meaning of October here in zone 5b 🌱
For chicago architecture types & for the poetry crowd alike, Toby Altman’s stunning DISCIPLINE PARK is here, in a beautiful edn from Wendy’s Subway!
On the demolition of Goldberg’s Prentice & the economies of loss through obsessive inquiry into Brutalist pasts wendyssubway.com/publishing/t...
On the demolition of Goldberg’s Prentice & the economies of loss through obsessive inquiry into Brutalist pasts wendyssubway.com/publishing/t...
September 21, 2023 at 8:50 PM
For chicago architecture types & for the poetry crowd alike, Toby Altman’s stunning DISCIPLINE PARK is here, in a beautiful edn from Wendy’s Subway!
On the demolition of Goldberg’s Prentice & the economies of loss through obsessive inquiry into Brutalist pasts wendyssubway.com/publishing/t...
On the demolition of Goldberg’s Prentice & the economies of loss through obsessive inquiry into Brutalist pasts wendyssubway.com/publishing/t...
Grew and roasted some magical poblanos, made some amazing sauce and some santa maria beans a little while back. Still have another harvest to come… thinking of trying my hand at chiles en nogada? 🌱
September 21, 2023 at 2:03 AM
Grew and roasted some magical poblanos, made some amazing sauce and some santa maria beans a little while back. Still have another harvest to come… thinking of trying my hand at chiles en nogada? 🌱