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For @cspaide.bsky.social, C.D. Wright’s considerations of region and race form significant vectors for taking up her work. Dignity, in its complexity, is the key word for Wright’s political poetics. post45.org/2025/11/form...
“Hateful words survive in sticky clumps”: Forms of Whiteness in C. D. Wright’s One With Others – Post45
And black is the funereal color of the prison system’s regime of death, which infiltrates the home as a worker’s uniform, “the executioner’s corduroy hood.” Capital punishment works well for a racist ...
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November 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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✒️ 📔 Today's the day of our C.D. Wright cluster!

Ed. @aliciawright.bsky.social

ft. 11 contributors—the list is too long to fit into a single post! But you're in luck, bc the thread below tells the tale of this exceptional homage for an exceptionally talented poet!

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Contemporaries – Post45
Post45 seeks to reinvigorate the erstwhile convention of academic critics not only describing past traditions but also actively intervening in current tastes. It provides a forum for writers to conver...
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November 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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I’m just saying that I can die knowing I was fact-checked by the New York Times about whether or not I was a communist

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/27/magazine/poem-my-life-in-the-new-millennium.html
Poem: My Life in the New Millennium
Joshua Clover begins with hating people and loving cats, quickly adding juxtapositions and surprises.
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July 31, 2023 at 3:25 AM
hi bluesky: I have a remembrance of Helen Vendler in the latest issue of the Wallace Stevens Journal:
January 29, 2025 at 5:11 AM