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Jessica Smith

@thedaybooks.bsky.social

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Mom + poet in AL Instructor of English + Gender Studies MFA, MA, MAE, MLS PhD’ing in Comms/Library Science Posts don’t reflect my institutions

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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 1d

I’ll be reading at the poetry tent at Kentuck again this year 😊 if you live within a couple of hours of Tuscaloosa I highly recommend coming to Kentuck. It is HUGE and amazing. Imo it’s worth it just to see the Gee’s Bend tent.

A poster for a reading. PURE PRODUCTS PRESENTS
LITERARY READING
OCT KENTUCK ARTS FESTIVAL
11
11:30 AM
FEATURED READERS:
TARAH BURROUGHS
BRETT SHAW
ALAYNA POWELL
JESSICA SMITH
OLUWAFUNMILAYO AKINPELU
JO SNOW
MAGGIE NIPPS
FIND US IN THE KATHRYN TUCKER WINDHAM STORYTELLER TENT

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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 26m

Listening to Heather Cox Richardson being extremely relatable: "Maybe I should write about this. Maybe I *have* written on it?"

Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 2h

I think I didn’t drink until I was in college b/c my dad made me try his scotch and I HATE scotch (still)

I didn’t know alcohol could taste good.

bart simpson says they taste like burning in a cartoon scene

Alt: In the Simpsons, Ralph rolls on the ground and says “they taste like burning”

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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 2h

Son: you can REALLY just tell me not to drink it that sounds disgusting
Me: here just try a sip
Son: NO

😆😇😏

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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 2h

What! No it’s great! It’s insane! It vibes very well with current conditions.

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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 2h

Son [15]: <looks in bag> it’s beer. I guess I’ll have one.
Me: I don’t think you’ll like that kind [IPA]
Son: you can just tell me not to drink it
Me: it’s really hoppy I just don’t think you’d like that flavor
Son: I’m not old enough to drink
Me: it’s bitter, it’s like the Brussels sprouts of beer

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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 4h

“I think you’re crazy!” “Who wants to know?” “I mean it!” “Who cares?”

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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 5h

Started reading Catch-22, which I never read during the period of one’s life that one reads classics written by men, and it’s insane 😆

I enjoyed the George Clooney miniseries and it made me want to actually read it.

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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 5h

Can we have a Daughters of Antifa like we have D.A.R.? (I’m both— I had relatives in the Revolution and WWII so I guess I’m Daughters of Anti-authoritarians)

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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 5h

By the end of class I was like “ok guys I need you to chill b/c I am overstimulated” and they did ☺️ GenZ sensitivity ftw

Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 7h

It’s sitting in your car time.

I love my Games class but I let them get pretty chaotic and it’s overstimulating. Beautiful but overstimulating.

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Maria Ressa @mariaressa.bsky.social · 11h

Hungarian ‘Master of the apocalypse’ Krasznahorkai wins 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature www.rappler.com/life-and-sty... via @rappler.com.web.brid.gy

Hungarian 'Master of the apocalypse' Krasznahorkai wins 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature

(1st UPDATE) 'Laszlo Krasznahorkai is a great epic writer in the Central European tradition that extends through Kafka to Thomas Bernhard, and is characterized by absurdism and grotesque excess,' the ...

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Jolie Braun @joliebraun.bsky.social · 7h

Somehow wasn't aware of the amount of college radio material on the Internet Archive until reading this post: blog.archive.org/2025/10/03/h.... Excited to see the related zines, but the flyers & playlists are so fun to look through, too.

Happy College Radio Day! Explore Student Radio’s Past and Present in the DLARC College Radio Collection | Internet Archive Blogs

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · Sep 10

Mary Ruefle

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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 7h

Cool, I’m a great poem 😆

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 7h

The Reverend Mother of Antifa

a woman is standing in a field of grass with mountains in the background .

ALT: a woman is standing in a field of grass with mountains in the background .

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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 7h

Game studies conference CFP in case you didn’t see it elsewhere

gamestudies.ca/conference-c...

Conference // Conférence

Version française ci-dessous The 2026 CGSA/ACÉJ annual conference will be a hybrid event co-hosted by the Technoculture, Art and Games Lab (TAG) at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec&nbs…

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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 7h

Argh I actually did a good job teaching today in Games after a couple of days where I felt like I wasn’t — it helps that we’re starting The Hunger Games which almost all of them have read or seen

Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 7h

Argh my class went so well today 😊 thanks for reminding me that I actually know what I’m doing

a cartoon elephant is flying through the air with mickey mouse riding on its back

Alt: Dumbo can fly because he has a feather

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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 9h

I wonder how they got into cage and what it’s doing to their brain

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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 9h

It’s a beautiful day!

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Britt Scharringhausen @brashtech.bsky.social · 9h

Fall Break is next week. I told my students to touch grass, and the Electricity and Magnetism students said we should touch electric fields, and it was lovely.

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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 9h

I got into him in high school via my musician boyfriend who was in college and it
1) changed my writing forever
2) led to me meeting Rod Smith and discovering the world of experimental poetry at a young age even tho I was stuck in AL w/o any real guidance

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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 9h

One of my freshmen brought up John Cage unprompted 🥹 I talk about him in my 300-level classes but I don’t expect freshmen to know about him.

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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 9h

Although I'm cranky on Bluesky today b/c the gov sucks, I'm actually having a lovely day with my lovely, sweet, hard-working, smart, polite students. It feels like fall, and campus is beautiful.

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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 9h

www.donotcall.gov

Government Shutdown Notice / Aviso de cierre del gobierno