John Kuhn
@johnmkuhn.bsky.social
English prof. 17th century stuff. Prairie son. Working on a cultural and material history of the birchbark canoe in the early modern Americas.
today I must wrangle said committee of poets and novelists and as a preemptive dominance display I have donned my Homosexual Power Turtleneck
November 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
today I must wrangle said committee of poets and novelists and as a preemptive dominance display I have donned my Homosexual Power Turtleneck
HD, from "The Flowering of the Rod": a beautiful little meditation on humans always longing for what they don't have (also the source of her eventual tombstone engraving, I believe: "oh give me burning blue")
November 17, 2025 at 5:26 AM
HD, from "The Flowering of the Rod": a beautiful little meditation on humans always longing for what they don't have (also the source of her eventual tombstone engraving, I believe: "oh give me burning blue")
my friend's cat had never seen a dog before and is crouched, fascinated, behind this door, with her tail all bottle brushed up
November 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
my friend's cat had never seen a dog before and is crouched, fascinated, behind this door, with her tail all bottle brushed up
A Dog Took My Face and Gave Me a Better Face to Change the World: the Celeste Cunningham Story
November 15, 2025 at 12:48 PM
A Dog Took My Face and Gave Me a Better Face to Change the World: the Celeste Cunningham Story
"Mezzanine?!!??!!?"
November 15, 2025 at 12:43 PM
"Mezzanine?!!??!!?"
Another one, from someone who is helping run a homeless assistance program (including pallbearing for homeless people who have no obvious next of kin) in Boston (Boston College High School)
November 15, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Another one, from someone who is helping run a homeless assistance program (including pallbearing for homeless people who have no obvious next of kin) in Boston (Boston College High School)
an article from the good folks who established and work at Our Lady of the Road (great name), which provides for homeless people in South Bend, Indiana
November 15, 2025 at 1:42 AM
an article from the good folks who established and work at Our Lady of the Road (great name), which provides for homeless people in South Bend, Indiana
OK, prologue out of the way, here's some CW articles. Front page this month has an excerpt from Dorothy's Day's writings about prisons, and a beautiful woodcut that depicts Christ in a breadline
November 15, 2025 at 1:42 AM
OK, prologue out of the way, here's some CW articles. Front page this month has an excerpt from Dorothy's Day's writings about prisons, and a beautiful woodcut that depicts Christ in a breadline
did not have Harvard English professor Elisa New emailing Jeffrey Epstein about Lolita on my 2025 bingo card
November 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
did not have Harvard English professor Elisa New emailing Jeffrey Epstein about Lolita on my 2025 bingo card
campus is looking good tho! Welcome winter!
November 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
campus is looking good tho! Welcome winter!
Back on an excellent doomscrolling prevention hobby: knitting slightly lumpy scarves
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Back on an excellent doomscrolling prevention hobby: knitting slightly lumpy scarves
roasting this bad boy today
November 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
roasting this bad boy today
Claire Saffitz fennel lemon blueberry cake. Basically it’s an olive oil cake but you infuse the olive oil with chopped up fennel seeds first. It is very good.
November 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Claire Saffitz fennel lemon blueberry cake. Basically it’s an olive oil cake but you infuse the olive oil with chopped up fennel seeds first. It is very good.
horrible update (not for the faint of heart): it turns out she had only eaten part of the rabbit and stashed the rest under the porch, which I discovered when she tried to sneak the rest of it back into the house for a second gnawing session
November 9, 2025 at 2:03 AM
horrible update (not for the faint of heart): it turns out she had only eaten part of the rabbit and stashed the rest under the porch, which I discovered when she tried to sneak the rest of it back into the house for a second gnawing session
I'm supposed to be flying to ASTR this weekend, which is meeting in Denver (home of the nation's third busiest airport, almost certainly going to be impacted). Not great.
November 5, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I'm supposed to be flying to ASTR this weekend, which is meeting in Denver (home of the nation's third busiest airport, almost certainly going to be impacted). Not great.
I alas cannot apply for this conference because I will have already blown all my travel money on RSA, but this looks so good. Talking about John Donne at the Biosphere 2 site!!!! In the Arizona desert!
November 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I alas cannot apply for this conference because I will have already blown all my travel money on RSA, but this looks so good. Talking about John Donne at the Biosphere 2 site!!!! In the Arizona desert!
unsure about this messaging from a local church
November 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
unsure about this messaging from a local church
One of my favorite local menu items. The Senator’s Special, which is inexplicably a cold meatloaf sandwich. Which senator?!?
November 4, 2025 at 12:33 AM
One of my favorite local menu items. The Senator’s Special, which is inexplicably a cold meatloaf sandwich. Which senator?!?
Claire Saffitz roasted lemon tart
November 2, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Claire Saffitz roasted lemon tart
she does not care for the bandana
November 1, 2025 at 8:56 PM
she does not care for the bandana
Local thrift store inexplicably selling these enormous carved wood conquistador wall hangings
November 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Local thrift store inexplicably selling these enormous carved wood conquistador wall hangings
just taught the beginning of Antony and Cleopatra. Such a masterpiece of imagistic patterning and one of my favorite little linguistic stunts in the Shakespeare corpus. The triple pillar of the world.....
October 31, 2025 at 9:43 PM
just taught the beginning of Antony and Cleopatra. Such a masterpiece of imagistic patterning and one of my favorite little linguistic stunts in the Shakespeare corpus. The triple pillar of the world.....
yes it's very fun to joke about Shelley's Ozymandias, but imagine how hurtful it must have been to be Horace Smith, one of poetry's greatest losers, who challenged Shelley to a friendly sonnet contest on the topic of Ramses II. Shelley wrote Ozymandias and well, here's Horace's lumpy clay pot
October 31, 2025 at 4:31 AM
yes it's very fun to joke about Shelley's Ozymandias, but imagine how hurtful it must have been to be Horace Smith, one of poetry's greatest losers, who challenged Shelley to a friendly sonnet contest on the topic of Ramses II. Shelley wrote Ozymandias and well, here's Horace's lumpy clay pot
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” “Doctor Who,” or “Transformers.”
[I freaking LOVED Lucy Lawless in this role as the serially suicidal, visionary, knowledge-seeking-at-all-costs Number Three]
[I freaking LOVED Lucy Lawless in this role as the serially suicidal, visionary, knowledge-seeking-at-all-costs Number Three]
October 31, 2025 at 2:25 AM
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” “Doctor Who,” or “Transformers.”
[I freaking LOVED Lucy Lawless in this role as the serially suicidal, visionary, knowledge-seeking-at-all-costs Number Three]
[I freaking LOVED Lucy Lawless in this role as the serially suicidal, visionary, knowledge-seeking-at-all-costs Number Three]