Caleb Curtiss
@cdcurtiss.bsky.social
Parent, teacher, poet, writer, etc., etc.
books: Age of Forgiveness (Sundress), A Taxonomy of the Space Between Us (Black Lawrence).
I live in a special economic zone called Delaware.
books: Age of Forgiveness (Sundress), A Taxonomy of the Space Between Us (Black Lawrence).
I live in a special economic zone called Delaware.
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Caleb Curtiss
@cdcurtiss.bsky.social
· Nov 8
Hello friends, family members, and all my petty lil haters. How do you do? Happy to connect w u here.
“Perhaps,
in the exaggerated grace
of his weight
settling,
the wings
raised, held in
strike-or-embrace
position,
I recognized
something more
than swan, I can't say.”
in the exaggerated grace
of his weight
settling,
the wings
raised, held in
strike-or-embrace
position,
I recognized
something more
than swan, I can't say.”
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 11:32 PM
“Perhaps,
in the exaggerated grace
of his weight
settling,
the wings
raised, held in
strike-or-embrace
position,
I recognized
something more
than swan, I can't say.”
in the exaggerated grace
of his weight
settling,
the wings
raised, held in
strike-or-embrace
position,
I recognized
something more
than swan, I can't say.”
“A Loud Death” a poem after Fatima Hassouna, by my dear @vcfa colleague, Richard Jackson.
poets.org/poem/loud-de...
poets.org/poem/loud-de...
A Loud Death
Like the sound waves in space that tear / the remnants of supernovas, and twist the paths
poets.org
December 6, 2025 at 11:14 PM
“A Loud Death” a poem after Fatima Hassouna, by my dear @vcfa colleague, Richard Jackson.
poets.org/poem/loud-de...
poets.org/poem/loud-de...
Nick Sirianni looks like his own Ghost Christmas Yet to Come.
November 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Nick Sirianni looks like his own Ghost Christmas Yet to Come.
Regret to inform that I have parented so hard that I kind of love the Frozen soundtracks.
November 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Regret to inform that I have parented so hard that I kind of love the Frozen soundtracks.
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"Giving thanks for what we are allowed to think about it, grateful for it even as it wanes. For knowing it is there... All of it a blessing. The being there. Being alive then. Like a giant bell ringing long after you can’t hear it." —Jack Gilbert, "Burma"
November 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
"Giving thanks for what we are allowed to think about it, grateful for it even as it wanes. For knowing it is there... All of it a blessing. The being there. Being alive then. Like a giant bell ringing long after you can’t hear it." —Jack Gilbert, "Burma"
If you’ve ever been close with someone who regularly dispenses with big promises only to suffer sudden bouts of selective amnesia, none of this is really that surprising.
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter reut.rs/4abeTdx
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
The Department of Government Efficiency claimed to have slashed tens of billions of dollars in expenditures, but it was impossible for outside financial experts to verify that because the unit did not provide detailed public accounting of its work.
reut.rs
November 23, 2025 at 11:17 PM
If you’ve ever been close with someone who regularly dispenses with big promises only to suffer sudden bouts of selective amnesia, none of this is really that surprising.
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Reposted by Caleb Curtiss
This past year of mine has been profoundly difficult by almost any metric one measures a life by. It has also been the best year of my life. Very thankful to those who have helped hold me down as I transitioned out of my old, untenable situation into this new, nearly tenable one.
October 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
This past year of mine has been profoundly difficult by almost any metric one measures a life by. It has also been the best year of my life. Very thankful to those who have helped hold me down as I transitioned out of my old, untenable situation into this new, nearly tenable one.
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Hey, fiction writers! Want to be my colleague?
LMK if you have any questions about this TT job listing at Jax State in Alabama.
careers.jsu.edu/en-us/job/49...
LMK if you have any questions about this TT job listing at Jax State in Alabama.
careers.jsu.edu/en-us/job/49...
- Department of Human Resources
careers.jsu.edu
October 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Hey, fiction writers! Want to be my colleague?
LMK if you have any questions about this TT job listing at Jax State in Alabama.
careers.jsu.edu/en-us/job/49...
LMK if you have any questions about this TT job listing at Jax State in Alabama.
careers.jsu.edu/en-us/job/49...
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In honor of Mariners/Tigers’ epic Game 5, I thought I’d drop this one again. Seemed prescient. ❤️✨⚾️ If you see it in the morning give it a like.
October 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
In honor of Mariners/Tigers’ epic Game 5, I thought I’d drop this one again. Seemed prescient. ❤️✨⚾️ If you see it in the morning give it a like.
It’s wild to me that MLB gives their plate umpire a body worn camera now.
October 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
It’s wild to me that MLB gives their plate umpire a body worn camera now.
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I teach Peggy McIntosh's "White Privilege and Male Privilege…" every semester in my rhetorical analysis unit, and it always feels a little datedly 1988-y & simultaneously incredibly current/contemporary, and rereading it this semester, it feels like it is hitting even harder than any prev semester.
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October 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I teach Peggy McIntosh's "White Privilege and Male Privilege…" every semester in my rhetorical analysis unit, and it always feels a little datedly 1988-y & simultaneously incredibly current/contemporary, and rereading it this semester, it feels like it is hitting even harder than any prev semester.
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Over at @phillymag.com we have an excerpt from @tmcallister.bsky.social's great new book, out this week:
Tom McAllister’s 'It All Felt Impossible' Explores Growing Up in Philadelphia in 42 Essays
McAllister’s heartfelt and darkly funny new book navigates the ups and downs of being raised in Philly, and the adult who came out the other side.
www.phillymag.com
May 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Over at @phillymag.com we have an excerpt from @tmcallister.bsky.social's great new book, out this week:
La-da-da-da-da wait til I regulate my nervous system
May 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
La-da-da-da-da wait til I regulate my nervous system
As a midwesterner, I’m having a hard time not hating both these teams. I also kind of like them both.
May 4, 2025 at 10:54 PM
As a midwesterner, I’m having a hard time not hating both these teams. I also kind of like them both.
Have never seen someone look more press’d than Spoel in this moment.
April 29, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Have never seen someone look more press’d than Spoel in this moment.
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Reading through my last book, which I'll be reading from Thursday evening, and realizing I actually kinda like it finally?
(FuturePanic, if you're playing along at home. www.coimpress.com/books/future...)
(FuturePanic, if you're playing along at home. www.coimpress.com/books/future...)
www.coimpress.com
April 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Reading through my last book, which I'll be reading from Thursday evening, and realizing I actually kinda like it finally?
(FuturePanic, if you're playing along at home. www.coimpress.com/books/future...)
(FuturePanic, if you're playing along at home. www.coimpress.com/books/future...)
I can’t wait to learn all about short squeezes today!
April 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I can’t wait to learn all about short squeezes today!
The artist who gave me a lil tat last week told me the final straw of her defunct marriage was when her then-husband demanded that instead of going to bed, she watch a five minute dragon ball z action sequence. Then, I swear to god, she played Jewel’s “Foolish Games” and finished me up real nice.
April 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The artist who gave me a lil tat last week told me the final straw of her defunct marriage was when her then-husband demanded that instead of going to bed, she watch a five minute dragon ball z action sequence. Then, I swear to god, she played Jewel’s “Foolish Games” and finished me up real nice.
FYI: I am up in my hotel room watching RoboCop 3 bms while you are at the conference hotel bar, striking out again.
March 30, 2025 at 6:50 AM
FYI: I am up in my hotel room watching RoboCop 3 bms while you are at the conference hotel bar, striking out again.
nothing better than bathing in a strange tub
March 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
nothing better than bathing in a strange tub
Walking around the south philly ikea in a Cubs hat, prepared to die.
March 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Walking around the south philly ikea in a Cubs hat, prepared to die.
A market buoyed by shorts of Nvidia and accelerating consumer credit margins… If we can keep it.
March 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM
A market buoyed by shorts of Nvidia and accelerating consumer credit margins… If we can keep it.