Emily Banks
@emilyabanks.bsky.social
Poet; author of Mother Water (Lynx House Press, 2020). Scholar of American gothic literature & Shirley Jackson. Assistant Professor at Franklin College.
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The absolute joy I feel when I start reading a student's paper and encounter the normal grammatical errors.
December 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The absolute joy I feel when I start reading a student's paper and encounter the normal grammatical errors.
Also, all you profs who were grading strictly on grammar and style, I hope you're happy! I'm at a point where I basically cry tears of joy when I see a paragraph full of comma splices, misplaced modifers, and Edgar "Allen" Poe.
November 23, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Also, all you profs who were grading strictly on grammar and style, I hope you're happy! I'm at a point where I basically cry tears of joy when I see a paragraph full of comma splices, misplaced modifers, and Edgar "Allen" Poe.
I am sorry that I ever complained about grading before AI. Please can we just have that back I'll be so much more grateful
November 23, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I am sorry that I ever complained about grading before AI. Please can we just have that back I'll be so much more grateful
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🤡New Shirely Jackson Studies CFP!!!🎃 Submit your abstract for Vol. 4, Issue 1, "Jackson and Animality" by December 15th!
shirleyjacksonstudies.org?page_id=35
shirleyjacksonstudies.org?page_id=35
Call for Submissions - Shirley Jackson Studies
Call for Proposals for Vol. 4, Issue 1--Jackson & Animality [deadline Dec. 15, 2025] Jonas, Merricat’s feline companion in We Have Always Lived in the Castle, is possibly the most recognizable animal ...
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October 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
🤡New Shirely Jackson Studies CFP!!!🎃 Submit your abstract for Vol. 4, Issue 1, "Jackson and Animality" by December 15th!
shirleyjacksonstudies.org?page_id=35
shirleyjacksonstudies.org?page_id=35
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Reasons to Teach High School English when the World is on Fire
Black girls in advanced academics who write literary analyses about “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Queer kids who call the English Department The Fruit Factory. Allowables and Legacies by Nikki Giovanni.
Black girls in advanced academics who write literary analyses about “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Queer kids who call the English Department The Fruit Factory. Allowables and Legacies by Nikki Giovanni.
October 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Reasons to Teach High School English when the World is on Fire
Black girls in advanced academics who write literary analyses about “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Queer kids who call the English Department The Fruit Factory. Allowables and Legacies by Nikki Giovanni.
Black girls in advanced academics who write literary analyses about “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Queer kids who call the English Department The Fruit Factory. Allowables and Legacies by Nikki Giovanni.
Anti-Zionism is antisemitism, game 2 of the Yankees v. Red Sox Wild Card series on Yom Kippur is antisemitism, all deadlines this week are antisemitism.
September 30, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Anti-Zionism is antisemitism, game 2 of the Yankees v. Red Sox Wild Card series on Yom Kippur is antisemitism, all deadlines this week are antisemitism.
That first sin after tashlich feels like an impulse purchase when you've just paid your credit card bill, I'll face that next cycle
September 25, 2025 at 5:21 AM
That first sin after tashlich feels like an impulse purchase when you've just paid your credit card bill, I'll face that next cycle
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We live in a country where the president can order a comedian to be yanked off TV. What I describe is not a democracy.
September 18, 2025 at 10:57 AM
We live in a country where the president can order a comedian to be yanked off TV. What I describe is not a democracy.
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Interested in joining an SSAG roundtable on Shirley Jackson's The Witchcraft of Salem Village this March? Email [email protected] with a few sentences on what you'd like to talk about by next Monday, 9/22! ~5 minute presentations followed by discussion.
americangothicsociety.com/symposium/
americangothicsociety.com/symposium/
American Nightmares II: Return to Salem – Society for the Study of the American Gothic
americangothicsociety.com
September 15, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Interested in joining an SSAG roundtable on Shirley Jackson's The Witchcraft of Salem Village this March? Email [email protected] with a few sentences on what you'd like to talk about by next Monday, 9/22! ~5 minute presentations followed by discussion.
americangothicsociety.com/symposium/
americangothicsociety.com/symposium/
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its 2026. the only legal jobs are ICE agent, AI server farm maintenance, and beef tallow renderer
September 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
its 2026. the only legal jobs are ICE agent, AI server farm maintenance, and beef tallow renderer
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nature” (1836)
September 4, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nature” (1836)
Hurting a poet is soo funny like throwing free sacks of flour at a baker
August 31, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Hurting a poet is soo funny like throwing free sacks of flour at a baker
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I love my job it is my dream job I would have done unspeakable things for it but changing a schedule from MTRF-->MWF is absolute hell
August 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I love my job it is my dream job I would have done unspeakable things for it but changing a schedule from MTRF-->MWF is absolute hell
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*Academics in early August
August 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
*Academics in early August
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On the latest @craftworkpod.bsky.social episode, @miriamricher.bsky.social & I had a great conversation with @emilyabanks.bsky.social about creative process, craft, and her amazing poetry collection, Mother Water.
tinyurl.com/572zhet3
tinyurl.com/572zhet3
August 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
On the latest @craftworkpod.bsky.social episode, @miriamricher.bsky.social & I had a great conversation with @emilyabanks.bsky.social about creative process, craft, and her amazing poetry collection, Mother Water.
tinyurl.com/572zhet3
tinyurl.com/572zhet3
I loved chatting with Miriam and Mike on @craftworkpod.bsky.social!
Listen to our latest episode!
We chat with Emily Banks about posthumous publications, linguistic allergies, the atomic nuts and bolts of imagery, and so much more.
@emilyabanks.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/572zhet3
We chat with Emily Banks about posthumous publications, linguistic allergies, the atomic nuts and bolts of imagery, and so much more.
@emilyabanks.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/572zhet3
August 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I loved chatting with Miriam and Mike on @craftworkpod.bsky.social!
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Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.
July 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.
ngl he kind of went off with "Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret"
July 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
ngl he kind of went off with "Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret"
I'm still seeking another panelist for Shirley Jackson: Memory and Forgetting at PAMLA in November! Submit below or let me know if you're interested.
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July 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I'm still seeking another panelist for Shirley Jackson: Memory and Forgetting at PAMLA in November! Submit below or let me know if you're interested.
pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19720
pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19720
I'm just so confused on what other context you'd hear Shylock used in.
Trump makes an antisemitic comment and then pretends he didn’t know what he was saying.
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Trump says he had ‘never heard’ Shylock as an anti-semitic term after using it at rally | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump said early Friday that he wasn’t aware that some people view the word “Shylock” as antisemitic after using the term during a rally to decry amoral money lenders.
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July 5, 2025 at 3:19 AM
I'm just so confused on what other context you'd hear Shylock used in.
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"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."
—The Declaration of Independence
—The Declaration of Independence
July 5, 2025 at 2:01 AM
"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."
—The Declaration of Independence
—The Declaration of Independence
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better lyrics than katy perry
To a firework, your body is sentient gelatin. Nothing more. Nothing less. Remember that and use fireworks safely this July 4th.
June 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
better lyrics than katy perry