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Geoffrey Babbitt

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Poet, Essayist, Editor-in-Chief of Seneca Review & SR Books, Associate Prof. at Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Books: A Grain of Sand in Lambeth (forthcoming 2025, U of Nevada Press) and Appendices Pulled from a Study on Light (2018). Wm Blake devotee.

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Geoffrey Babbitt @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social · Feb 14

Happy 50th anniversary of this Schuyler poem, whose ending gets me every damn time!

February 13, 1975
Tomorrow is St. Valentine's:
tomorrow I'll think about that. Always nervous, even after a good sleep I'd like to climb back into. The sun shines on yesterday's new-fallen snow and yestereven it turned the world to pink and rose and steel-blue buildings. Helene is restless: leaving soon. And what then will I do with myself? Someone is watching morning TV. I'm not reduced to that yet. I wish one could press snowflakes in a book like flowers.

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Geoffrey Babbitt @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social · Jul 16

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The Long Now Conditions Permit

The Long Now Conditions Permit confronts the persistent brutalities of our world through poetry that both names and resists the injustices shaping it. From ...

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Geoffrey Babbitt @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social · Jul 16

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A Grain of Sand in Lambeth

In A Grain of Sand in Lambeth, poetry becomes a lens through which to explore the complex, visionary world of William Blake. Drawing on Blake’s own reject...

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Geoffrey Babbitt @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social · Jul 16

A Grain of Sand in Lambeth has a cover! Many thanks to Caroline Dickens and the folks at UN Press for the design. Official release is December 2nd, which I am happy to share with the wonderful Jami Macarty’s The Long Now Conditions Permit, whose cover I also love. Preorder links below in comments.

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ginsbergpoem.bsky.social @ginsbergpoem.bsky.social · Jul 16

@geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social - Ginsberg on Blake continues
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William Blake Naropa lectures continue - 20 - The Allen Ginsberg Project

Allen Ginsberg Naropa Lectures on William Blake continue from here. He begins in earnest today with exegesis on The Book of Los AG: …this is not very hard at the beginning. ” Eno aged Mother,/Who the ...

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Geoffrey Babbitt @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social · Jun 10

I couldn’t be happier to read with @kathryncowles.bsky.social and @cathylinhche.bsky.social in the Highland Park Bowl on Thursday night! 6:30–9:30

Kathryn Cowles @kathryncowles.bsky.social · Jun 10

Outdoor reading in Rochester’s beautiful Highland Park, if you’re in the area. Thursday at 6:30 with @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social @cathylinhche.bsky.social and me. Bring a blanket!!

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Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social · Apr 23

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

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Geoffrey Babbitt @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social · Mar 18

Many thanks for the kind words! @newsthatstays.bsky.social

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · Mar 16

Schumer’s New York Times interview is a disaster after a dumpster fire.

He needs to go. Now.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Mar 9

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

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Geoffrey Babbitt @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social · Mar 10

Yes, indeed, forever ago and yesterday…. Great to hear that! So you’re back in the city, eh?

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Geoffrey Babbitt @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social · Mar 9

Thank you, @doc-pollard.bsky.social! I picked up a copy of *On the Verge…* at AWP last year, thoroughly loved it, and was so happy to be reunited with “The Archer and the Queen of Disks,” which is one of the poems from my Utah days that made the strongest impression on me.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · Feb 19

Republicans will soon bring forward a “reconciliation” bill, that encapsulates the value system of greed and their obedience to oligarchy.

It is the economic essence of Trumpism. It will make the rich richer & the poor poorer.

It must be defeated. And we can defeat it.

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Geoffrey Babbitt @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social · Feb 22

Full spring ‘24 issue here: www.amsterdamreview.org/spring-2024....

Full fall ‘24 issue here: www.amsterdamreview.org/fall-2024.html

Fall 2024

Amsterdam Review Fall 2024 issue. Featuring works by Victoia Chang, Keetje Kuipers, Dian Parker, Carl-Christian Elze, Astrid Lampe, and more.

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Geoffrey Babbitt @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social · Feb 22

Thank you to @amsterdamreview.bsky.social for the shoutout… and for featuring two poem from my forthcoming book on Blake in their spring ‘24 issue!

Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · Feb 21

Two poems by @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social in Amsterdam Review

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#Poetry #PoetryCommunity #BlueskyPoetry

At Bunhill Fields Burial Grounds
in the dissenter’s graveyard, time’s
erasing headstones’ sharp outlines
and unchiseling inscriptions—grass
overgrown, moss spreading, sepulchers
held intact by ratchet tie-down straps
—weather slowly
grinding stone into “sands
stretching far away,” &
there’s Bunyan, the path

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Geoffrey Babbitt @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social · Feb 14

(The Payne Whitney was a psychiatric hospital on the Upper East Side.)

Geoffrey Babbitt @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social · Feb 14

From “The Payne Whitney Poems” section of *The Morning of the Poem*….

Geoffrey Babbitt @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social · Feb 14

Happy 50th anniversary of this Schuyler poem, whose ending gets me every damn time!

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Geoffrey Babbitt @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social · Jan 12

Will do! And I’ll happily support these titles in the meantime. Thanks!

Geoffrey Babbitt @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social · Jan 12

Ah, my release is 12/2/25—two days too late to make the cutoff here, looks like 😩

Geoffrey Babbitt @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social · Jan 12

Yes! I have a book slated for release in December with University of Nevada Press: A Grain of Sand in Lambeth, which won the Betsy Joiner Flanagan Award in Poetry.

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · Jan 11

Schoenberg's archives in Los Angeles are gone. 💔

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · Dec 26

The task of the community school is to confer more dignity on work by infusing it with thinking, and not to make the worker a compartmentalized thing that sometimes works and sometimes thinks.

- Simone Weil, The Need for Roots