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Joel Calahan

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Apprentice philologist. Poetry translation and history teaching. Chair-leg hero. Emeritus: Signal to Noise, Chicago Review reader-in-chief of Caliber, an occasional newsletter of translation and reading [ask at calibernewsletter at gmail dot com]

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · Dec 17

Very proud to announce the publication of my chapbook The Bees, out now from Verge Books. It’s a translation of Book IV of Vergil’s Georgics, full of practical tips for beekeepers, and lovely lyric depictions of hive life.

Purchase, repost, spread the word!

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Verge Books

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 10h

ME [taking a sip, then holding my jaw after a painful crunch]: Amelia, what’s in this??
AMELIA BEDELIA: Just what you ordered: whiskey on the rocks

good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 17h

friend showing up at the bar with his new girlfriend, AMELIA BEDELIA

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 11h

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 11h

Brutal ending. Just brutal.

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 12h

her cosmetic surgeon

Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 12h

I just wanted The Fog and enjoyed it! Last year I watched the original Japanese version of The Grudge and loved that. Pretty scary.

Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 13h

did you ever find out who the devil is dancing with?

Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 14h

You look like if Beat poet Allen Ginsberg became a bike messenger

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 16h

"The reasonable listener of 'Not Like Us' would conclude that Lamar is rapping hyperbolic vituperations."

“Not Like Us” is replete with profanity, trash-talking, threats of violence, and figurative and hyperbolic language, all of which are indicia of opinion. A reasonable listener would not equate a song that contains lyrics such as, “Ain’t no law, boy, you ball boy, fetch Gatorade or somethin’, since 2009 I had this b**** jumpin’,” with accurate factual reporting. Accordingly, the reasonable listener of “Not Like Us” would conclude that Lamar is rapping hyperbolic vituperations.

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 18h

“Foreskin and Seven Years Ago…”

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 21h

The dude on the left? The creator of that theme park

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A K (Bone Coloring, Silian Rail Font) @aklingus.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine if the Blue Jays were still wearing these abominations instead of their classic look. You think they’re getting past the Yankees? No chance in hell

Roy Halladay wearing the 2000s Blue Jays uniform, which look like reheated dogshit

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 1d

Oh man this looks tasty

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 1d

🎶girlfriend of antifa / i know, i know it’s serious🎶

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 1d

Today in the Free Press: we talk to a group of rebellious 4-year-olds who swear they “will hold their breath until they die” if they have to eat vegetables.

Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 1d

Today in the Free Press: we talk to a group of rebellious 4-year-olds who swear they “will hold their breath until they die” if they have to eat vegetables.

Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 1d

I vouch for the sectioning of Arizona—nice to get the highlands region in its own section, since that ranch land area feels way different than the four corners!

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 2d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.