Carl Rosin
@carlrosin.bsky.social
Husband, father, teacher of HS English & Philosophy, reader, admirer of Socrates' dialectic & critical skepticism; New England-born, PA-resident. Philosophy Nat'l HS TotY '14 (PLATO). Posts are personal, not representing the district.
It’s been a midwestern autumn over at #CanonChat — consider reading Plainsong and joining us!
Kent Haruf wrote his first drafts "blind" on a manual typewriter; he would pull a woolen cap over his eyes and type without looking at the keys. Punctuation, capitalization, and paragraphs were saved for later drafts. #CanonChat
#CanonChat's final selection of 2025: Kent Haruf's "Plainsong." Visit canonchat.com for a bunch of resources on the novel and join us over on X on December 9. If you've never read it, you're in for a treat!
November 17, 2025 at 12:46 AM
It’s been a midwestern autumn over at #CanonChat — consider reading Plainsong and joining us!
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social (I know it’s not a word, but…): “One limit [imposed by quantum physics] restricts the knowledge of the position and the momentum (velocity) of an object, which means that the trajectory of an object cannot be determined with certainty.”
November 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social (I know it’s not a word, but…): “One limit [imposed by quantum physics] restricts the knowledge of the position and the momentum (velocity) of an object, which means that the trajectory of an object cannot be determined with certainty.”
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social It is gallingly common for the Spelling Bee to reject perfectly cromulent words.
November 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social It is gallingly common for the Spelling Bee to reject perfectly cromulent words.
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social Can something be antediluvian if there’s no such thing as diluvian?
October 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social Can something be antediluvian if there’s no such thing as diluvian?
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I don't think students should be asked to rhetorically analyze poetry in a class before they get practice experiencing poetry without imagining it as a rhetorical structure.
Like, cooking is so much better if you begin by first developing a relationship to the pleasure of food.
Like, cooking is so much better if you begin by first developing a relationship to the pleasure of food.
October 20, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I don't think students should be asked to rhetorically analyze poetry in a class before they get practice experiencing poetry without imagining it as a rhetorical structure.
Like, cooking is so much better if you begin by first developing a relationship to the pleasure of food.
Like, cooking is so much better if you begin by first developing a relationship to the pleasure of food.
I (a) am not a Swiftie (but am married to one), (b) am all for getting people to talk about Ophelia and the rest of Hamlet, and (c) want to remind critics that re-shaping devastating tragedy into feel-good victory (e.g., Inglourious, Hollywood) earns plaudits for Quentin Tarantino.
Taylor Swift reimagines the fate of Ophelia on her new album. The song is a celebration of love, but “there is also something dispiriting about Swift flattening one of literature’s most evocatively alluring heroines into just another princess waiting for her Prince Charming,” our critic writes.
In Taylor Swift’s Version, Ophelia Has a Fairy-Tale Ending
Taylor Swift reimagines the fate of the tragic “Hamlet” heroine on her new album, “The Life of a Showgirl.” But did she really need saving?
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October 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I (a) am not a Swiftie (but am married to one), (b) am all for getting people to talk about Ophelia and the rest of Hamlet, and (c) want to remind critics that re-shaping devastating tragedy into feel-good victory (e.g., Inglourious, Hollywood) earns plaudits for Quentin Tarantino.
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social I must be doing SOMETHING every time I undo that messed-up group I made in my various Microsoft apps
September 26, 2025 at 3:49 AM
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social I must be doing SOMETHING every time I undo that messed-up group I made in my various Microsoft apps
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social Ol’ Spelling Bee’s word list is (figuratively) maculate due to this omission.
September 25, 2025 at 1:42 AM
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social Ol’ Spelling Bee’s word list is (figuratively) maculate due to this omission.
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social Uncle Walt suggests that we need this word
September 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social Uncle Walt suggests that we need this word
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social Too delicious to omit!
September 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social Too delicious to omit!
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social Someone took “Never Mind the Bollocks” part of that Sex Pistols album title too seriously
September 2, 2025 at 11:39 AM
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social Someone took “Never Mind the Bollocks” part of that Sex Pistols album title too seriously
Fellow teachers: what literature-song pairings do you use (or would like to)?
2 I’ve used: Shakespeare sonnet 138 (“When my love swears that she is made of truth…”) + Offspring “Self-Esteem” … Robert Coover’s “The Babysitter” (for an independent study on postmodernism) + Nirvana’s “In Bloom” video.
2 I’ve used: Shakespeare sonnet 138 (“When my love swears that she is made of truth…”) + Offspring “Self-Esteem” … Robert Coover’s “The Babysitter” (for an independent study on postmodernism) + Nirvana’s “In Bloom” video.
August 23, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Fellow teachers: what literature-song pairings do you use (or would like to)?
2 I’ve used: Shakespeare sonnet 138 (“When my love swears that she is made of truth…”) + Offspring “Self-Esteem” … Robert Coover’s “The Babysitter” (for an independent study on postmodernism) + Nirvana’s “In Bloom” video.
2 I’ve used: Shakespeare sonnet 138 (“When my love swears that she is made of truth…”) + Offspring “Self-Esteem” … Robert Coover’s “The Babysitter” (for an independent study on postmodernism) + Nirvana’s “In Bloom” video.
I hope that Lehrer songs play everywhere—finally—for the next several weeks, in his honor. RIP.
My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.
July 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I hope that Lehrer songs play everywhere—finally—for the next several weeks, in his honor. RIP.
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social Whatever bubbles bubbles up
July 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social Whatever bubbles bubbles up
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social The sudden nonexistence of FLABBILY is doing wonders for my body image!
July 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social The sudden nonexistence of FLABBILY is doing wonders for my body image!
#PoemADayJuly My first observation about “Litany for the Animals…” is that any 14-line poem makes me think “How is this a sonnet, or why isn’t it?” It doesn’t rhyme or have consistent rhythm, but it seems to have a turn (volta) right at its midsection, after line 7, on the shift to “You.” 1/3
#PoemADayJuly is alive and kicking this month, especially for ELA folks!
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July 2025 Poetry Slow-Read with Marcus, Chanea and Brett
Throughout the month of July we will be looking at a single poem each day on Bluesky, a “slow read” of sorts through a variety of poems that spark us in some way. Anyone is welcome to join in at any p...
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July 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
#PoemADayJuly My first observation about “Litany for the Animals…” is that any 14-line poem makes me think “How is this a sonnet, or why isn’t it?” It doesn’t rhyme or have consistent rhythm, but it seems to have a turn (volta) right at its midsection, after line 7, on the shift to “You.” 1/3
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social What if I were to do something in a slender and long-limbed way?
July 5, 2025 at 7:07 PM
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social What if I were to do something in a slender and long-limbed way?
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social Something fishy anout this omission
July 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social Something fishy anout this omission
“Nor is the history of fanatics half so striking in respect to the measureless self-deception of the fanatic himself, as his measureless power of deceiving and bedevilling so many others.”
- from Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville, ch.71.
Many classics might have been written yesterday….
- from Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville, ch.71.
Many classics might have been written yesterday….
July 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
“Nor is the history of fanatics half so striking in respect to the measureless self-deception of the fanatic himself, as his measureless power of deceiving and bedevilling so many others.”
- from Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville, ch.71.
Many classics might have been written yesterday….
- from Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville, ch.71.
Many classics might have been written yesterday….
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social “Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, / Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. / (But yea it hurts that Spelling Bee omits / From its vocabulary my dear name).” Tempest 3.2, plus some … extrapolation.
June 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social “Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, / Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. / (But yea it hurts that Spelling Bee omits / From its vocabulary my dear name).” Tempest 3.2, plus some … extrapolation.
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social We *deserve* to be congratulated for finding this word!
June 7, 2025 at 11:29 AM
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social We *deserve* to be congratulated for finding this word!
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This poetry wall ensures that Ss have the chance to fall in love with a poem every time they enter the claasroom:
📸 via T @carlrosin.bsky.social
#EduSky
📸 via T @carlrosin.bsky.social
#EduSky
June 6, 2025 at 11:32 PM
This poetry wall ensures that Ss have the chance to fall in love with a poem every time they enter the claasroom:
📸 via T @carlrosin.bsky.social
#EduSky
📸 via T @carlrosin.bsky.social
#EduSky
We may have a variety of shortages, from rare-earth minerals to critical thinking, but apparently America will never run out of cruelty.
Shedeur Sanders was the victim of a prank call Friday during his wait to be drafted by an NFL team.
The caller pretended to be Saints general manager Mickey Loomis.
More on Sanders' reaction: bit.ly/4cMixtC?sour...
The caller pretended to be Saints general manager Mickey Loomis.
More on Sanders' reaction: bit.ly/4cMixtC?sour...
April 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
We may have a variety of shortages, from rare-earth minerals to critical thinking, but apparently America will never run out of cruelty.
NFL legend Bill Belichick and his young girlfriend Jordon Hudson show that support for banned books symbolically spans many generations by recreating the opening scene of Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir Fun Home, which was recently removed from my school’s library. www.inquirer.com/education/ra...
March 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
NFL legend Bill Belichick and his young girlfriend Jordon Hudson show that support for banned books symbolically spans many generations by recreating the opening scene of Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir Fun Home, which was recently removed from my school’s library. www.inquirer.com/education/ra...
Is NYT #SpellingBee complicit in the Trump Administration’s assault on Canada?!
February 17, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Is NYT #SpellingBee complicit in the Trump Administration’s assault on Canada?!