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Gillian White

@gillywhite8.bsky.social

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soft g. poetry, poetics, public power. _Lyric Shame_https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674734395

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Gillian White @gillywhite8.bsky.social · 6h

My 90 yo dad went to an “authors & activism” event recently (already pretty cool), then sent me the program so I could see what he saw and liked <3. He’s one of few people I know who’s gotten more woke and left-leaning with age. #oldwoke #aginggracefully #authorsandactivism @authorsguild.org

Gillian White @gillywhite8.bsky.social · 10h

climate change riot

Gillian White @gillywhite8.bsky.social · 1d

so beautiful. My pen pal sent me a good cover of A Mother’s Love by The Vernon Spring, fyi

Gillian White @gillywhite8.bsky.social · 2d

once upon a time

Gillian White @gillywhite8.bsky.social · 6d

what total snowflakes they are

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

www.nytimes.com

Gillian White @gillywhite8.bsky.social · 14d

i struggle to teach sylvia plath because i have some weird fantasy about defending her from her readers

Gillian White @gillywhite8.bsky.social · 16d

ooh is this at least in part S.R.Silver’s project?

Gillian White @gillywhite8.bsky.social · 17d

i like this point

Gillian White @gillywhite8.bsky.social · 17d

the stadium full of people in AZ is rather stunning, however.

Gillian White @gillywhite8.bsky.social · 17d

yeesh - phoenix doesn’t seem that cool

Gillian White @gillywhite8.bsky.social · 21d

i hear you

Gillian White @gillywhite8.bsky.social · 21d

Took me a min to read Maggie Millner’s gr8 piece in @yalereview.bsky.social, but I’d noted the defensive IG comments when it appeared, which show the lightning speed w which lyric shame circulates. So chuffed she used my work so subtly!! yalereview.org/article/mill... “Is Mary Oliver Embarrassing?”

Maggie Millner: “Is Mary Oliver Embarrassing?”

A reckoning with Mary Oliver’s reputation as an unserious poet explores how her best work has been misunderstood.

yalereview.org

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Gillian White @gillywhite8.bsky.social · Aug 15

good man

Gillian White @gillywhite8.bsky.social · Jul 17

🤣✨

Gillian White @gillywhite8.bsky.social · Jul 16

you / (finally!) perfected yourself. All

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Gillian White @gillywhite8.bsky.social · Jun 9

and we need to take them up on that, is my view, because they r disappearing people

Gillian White @gillywhite8.bsky.social · Jun 9

“My wig is still askew!” is my favorite new Thing.

Gillian White @gillywhite8.bsky.social · Jun 5

the whole album even

Gillian White @gillywhite8.bsky.social · May 26

happening everywhere and yes, it’s super sweet

Gillian White @gillywhite8.bsky.social · May 25

speaking as a townie… lovely house but that asking price is staggering, or/ and i haven’t looked at the town topics for a while.

Gillian White @gillywhite8.bsky.social · May 8

🤔

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Gillian White @gillywhite8.bsky.social · May 6

seriously, please- someone help me understand why in a world literally running out of water, universities are so pumped about their AI investments. All I see is so so info and mundane task mastery, outsourcing of human labor, and deepfakes.

Gillian White @gillywhite8.bsky.social · Apr 29

there’s something happening here; what it is ain’t exactly clear …. but i might be kind of annoyed by it

Gillian White @gillywhite8.bsky.social · Apr 29

A Poetics, Charles Bernstein?

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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · Apr 28

Congratulations to SUNY Faculty Senate for passing their mutual defense resolution! It's linked below. That makes 14 university/college senates nationwide:

Rutgers
Nebraska
Indiana
Michigan State
Michigan
Ohio State
Washington
Maryland
Minnesota
UMass
Hunter
City College
Hostos
SUNY

Citizen of Somewhere Else @citizense.bsky.social · Apr 28

Along with Rutgers' resolution, UMass Amherst's provided many of the ideas and language for the SUNY University Faculty Senate resolution that was approved yesterday! (And may be posted as soon as tonight, along with the 8 others we passed yesterday.)

www.sunyufs.us/voting-and-a...

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