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Micah Bateman
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Asst Prof in LIS. DH, CHI, libraries/archives, digital heritage, poetry. Finishing Lyric Publics: The Uses of Poetry in American Social-Media Campaigns. Opinions do not reflect employer. bit.ly/MicahBateman
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When medicine goes postcritique 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/o...
It’s true. In 2023, I published an article in the journal Social Science and Medicine about what I call the “health disparities research industrial complex” — the entrenched system of researchers, institutions, publications and funders that produces an endless churn of studies on health disparities without meaningfully reducing inequities. Health disparities research is an expensive parrot squawking the same things heard for years, telling us where disparities exist and why, but not much else. The new head of the N.I.H., Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, seems to agree.
June 13, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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One of my earliest poems, age 8. Holds up
"Little Boys Like Me" There are no little boys like me. Sorry.
May 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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I Want to Read at the White House by Joshua Clover I want to read poems at the white house and then like any house reading we will all clean up together. We will clean up the mess we have made together. All that rubble and all those ashes. These are my conditions.
May 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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May 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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favorite easter poems
Goodtime Jesus James Tate Jesus got up one day a little later than usual. He had been dreaming so deep there was nothing left in his head. What was it? A nightmare, dead bodies walking all around him, eyes rolled back, skin falling off. But he wasn’t afraid of that. It was a beautiful day. How ’bout some coffee? Don’t mind if I do. Take a little ride on my donkey, I love that donkey. Hell, I love everybody. Easter Wings By George Herbert Lord, who createdst man in wealth and store, Though foolishly he lost the same, Decaying more and more, Till he became Most poore: With thee O let me rise As larks, harmoniously, And sing this day thy victories: Then shall the fall further the flight in me. My tender age in sorrow did beginne And still with sicknesses and shame. Thou didst so punish sinne, That I became Most thinne. With thee Let me combine, And feel thy victorie: For, if I imp my wing on thine, Affliction shall advance the flight in me.
April 20, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Frank Bidart
HAMMER The stone arm raising a stone hammer dreams it can descend upon itself. When the quest is indecipherable, -- ... what is left is a career. What once was apprehended in passion survives as opinion. To be both author of this statue, and the statue itself.
April 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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fixed it
original Onion headline: Nation Can’t Believe It On Harvard’s Side modified: “Nation” crossed out and replaced with “academic twitter”
April 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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A film that takes place where you’re from (pretty much the only film about East Texas)
a still from Bernie with Shirley MacLaine and Jack Black
April 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Is it better for one side or both to seize the means of cultural production rather than destroy them? Better to just move from teaching Whitman and Angelou to teaching Holmes and Emerson for a while, or just dispatch the whole thing? In the admin's vs. Bauerlein's vision, I'd prefer the latter.
April 13, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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my Bean selfie
February 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Gulf of lighght
February 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Gulf of Imagining Otherwise, brought to you by ASA, MLA, and Duke University Press
February 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Gulf of I Tried Each Thing, Only Some Were Immortal and Free
February 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Walt Whitman Valentine
hey camerado, I'd build a city of manly love with you
February 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Kenneth Koch Valentine
Last evening we went dancing and I broke your leg. Forgive me. I was clumsy, and I wanted you here in the wards, where I am the doctor!
February 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Valentine from Robert Hass
Forty Something - Robert Hass She says to him, musing, "If you ever leave me, and marry a younger woman and have another baby, I'll put a knife in your heart." They are in bed, so she climbs onto his chest, and looks directly down into his eyes. "You understand? Your heart."
February 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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just one of the most stunning poems in my reading repertoire that I return to endlessly
Casabianca Elizabeth Bishop Love's the boy stood on the burning deck trying to recite "The boy stood on the burning deck." Love's the son stood stammering elocution while the poor ship in flames went down. Love's the obstinate boy, the ship, even the swimming sailors, who would like a schoolroom platform, too, or an excuse to stay on deck. And love's the burning boy.
February 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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The acrostic I wrote for her retirement
Celebrated cerebrum of the great creature, Office a paper nightmare of loose leafs & Nary a thing one would care to read (“official documents”— No thanks) yet organized by a prodigious and caring brain I envied and often shrank from, a feat nearly thwarted by Email replies that invariably read, “come see me”— Best wishes re: Retirement, Connie! Oh how I envy something different about you now. The view from within an enacted pension plan: How everything must gleam! Especially as the work you’ve done is un- Remitting, and continues on a thousand desks to ink Syllable on syllable, ream by ream.
February 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Hamlin: [on why the government should cut funding to PBS] Product licensing for this merchandise brings in over $20 million a year, none of which goes to PBS, all of which goes to the show's producer, the Children's Television Workshop. Now this is a company whose chief executive earns high six-figures in salary and benefits per year. Yet Sesame Street is subsidized by taxpayer dollars. Toby Ziegler: It's a perfectly reasonable complaint. Sondra: And? Toby Ziegler: I don't care. Hamlin: Toby... Toby Ziegler: We're gonna see to all those things. In the meantime, at a time when the public is rightly concerned about the impact of sex and violence on TV, this administration is gonna protect the MUPPETS! We're gonna protect Wall Street Week, we're gonna protect Live from Lincoln Center, and by God, we are going to protect Julia Child.
January 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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This is what I post from
Vannevar Bush’s memex
January 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Self-Portrait As Nightstand
Two vanilla frosted donuts on a Valentine’s plate by a glass of milk, a pair of glasses, and a copy of Intermezzo
January 27, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Burns Night fit check
me in a kilt
January 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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I am very optimistic about this upcoming unit in my Community Archives class.
A list of readings: Venus in Two Acts At the Vietnam Center and Archive Archival Optimism I Can't Wait for You To Die Archival Optimism and Archival Pessimism The Impact of Community Archives
January 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Bluesky elders explaining to ex TikTokers that their videos must have human-edited captions
painting of Martin Luther indicating his theses
January 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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martyr packs
January 7, 2025 at 11:37 PM