Johanna Winant
@johannawinant.bsky.social
Posts are my own. Poetry is everyone's. She/her.
Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century (Princeton UP, 2025), Lyric Logic (Columbia UP, 2026), essays, reviews, and other writing in various places
Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century (Princeton UP, 2025), Lyric Logic (Columbia UP, 2026), essays, reviews, and other writing in various places
my kids have seen it about five times but I have not seen it at all and only recently realized that it's animated? @lydiakiesling.bsky.social was describing to me what I thought were incredible special effects
December 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
my kids have seen it about five times but I have not seen it at all and only recently realized that it's animated? @lydiakiesling.bsky.social was describing to me what I thought were incredible special effects
you simply can't -- it's not your fault
can you have them write assignments directed at other people, though, for example the president of the university or op-eds for their hometown newspapers, and grade them complete/incomplete?
can you have them write assignments directed at other people, though, for example the president of the university or op-eds for their hometown newspapers, and grade them complete/incomplete?
December 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
you simply can't -- it's not your fault
can you have them write assignments directed at other people, though, for example the president of the university or op-eds for their hometown newspapers, and grade them complete/incomplete?
can you have them write assignments directed at other people, though, for example the president of the university or op-eds for their hometown newspapers, and grade them complete/incomplete?
this makes me so happy
December 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
this makes me so happy
thank you so much (and it is)
December 2, 2025 at 7:48 PM
thank you so much (and it is)
no regrets, coyote
December 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
no regrets, coyote
thank you so much, it means a lot coming from you!
December 2, 2025 at 6:38 PM
thank you so much, it means a lot coming from you!
thank you so much, Arielle -- I imagine you know all this too well
December 2, 2025 at 6:38 PM
thank you so much, Arielle -- I imagine you know all this too well
overall politely! but honestly! and I took an opportunity very briefly to teach her to read my essay at Boston Review a little more closely
December 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
overall politely! but honestly! and I took an opportunity very briefly to teach her to read my essay at Boston Review a little more closely
yes, a thesis says what the essay's topic is, a claim says what the argument will show
December 2, 2025 at 6:19 PM
yes, a thesis says what the essay's topic is, a claim says what the argument will show
also telling them they can only make the claim about one thing and then maybe they'll get to read something else in light of that first argument, but it might be a very different aspect of the text (eg. make a local claim about an adjective and the regional arg connects it to stanzaic form)
December 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
also telling them they can only make the claim about one thing and then maybe they'll get to read something else in light of that first argument, but it might be a very different aspect of the text (eg. make a local claim about an adjective and the regional arg connects it to stanzaic form)