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Joel Calahan
@joelcalahan.com
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Apprentice philologist. Poetry translation and history teaching. Chair-leg hero. Emeritus: Signal to Noise, Chicago Review reader-in-chief of Caliber, an occasional newsletter of translation and reading [ask at calibernewsletter at gmail dot com]
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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · Dec 17
Very proud to announce the publication of my chapbook The Bees, out now from Verge Books. It’s a translation of Book IV of Vergil’s Georgics, full of practical tips for beekeepers, and lovely lyric depictions of hive life.

Purchase, repost, spread the word!

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 31m
Today in the Free Press: we talk to a group of rebellious 4-year-olds who swear they “will hold their breath until they die” if they have to eat vegetables.
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Today in the Free Press: we talk to a group of rebellious 4-year-olds who swear they “will hold their breath until they die” if they have to eat vegetables.
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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 8h
I vouch for the sectioning of Arizona—nice to get the highlands region in its own section, since that ranch land area feels way different than the four corners!
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William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 1d
This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.
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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 19h
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Roger Cormier @yayroger.bsky.social · 20h
A gentleman with a "Dump Here 61" shirt caught the Raleigh home run (on a bounce.)
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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 20h
Twilight sunset with blue-gray over orange, with a silhouette of basketball hoops and palm trees
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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 21h
The chicken suit, the subway sandwich—absurd farce is one tactic that seems to work at small scale
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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 23h
Irksome
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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 1d
a woman is standing in a living room with her arms outstretched and laughing .
Alt: a woman is standing in a living room with her arms outstretched and laughing .
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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 1d
another day working at cbs. everyone keeps asking me if they can fuck the news. buddy, they wont even let me fuck it.
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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 1d
Cops: Making Everything Worse for Everyone Since…Forever
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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 1d
I’ll tell you what, I’m no expert but I can’t imagine that calling eight cop cars is good for helping someone’s mental health condition
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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 1d
lol yes, absolutely
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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 1d
Switched-on morning
A turntable with a record playing; Wendy Carlos’s Switched-On Brandenburgs LP jacket is leaning against a lamp alongside
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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 1d
“while poltergeists take form” is very Calahan lmao
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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 1d
Here’s my youngest son’s Halloween craft
A kid’s drawing of a Frankenstein monster in green, on a purple background; then a poem that reads: When Is Halloween? When spooky ghosts say BOO, And eerie glow from pumpkins comes alive. When the scary ghoul starts howling, And the cackling witch starts brewing in the haunted house! Zombies moan, While poltergeists take form in the haunted house. Then it's Halloween -Silas
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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 1d
BrownSky is the improvement this website needs
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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 1d
My happy photo today is that I got to go on a mushroom ramble last week and it was restorative and satisfying
A log with chicken of the woods mushrooms blooming in a giant cluster
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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 1d
Also, it’s really hard to imagine a more content-free viral saying, none of the kids I’ve asked even know who Lamelo Ball is or what the phrase has to do with him
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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 1d
Unsuccessful so far in convincing the 3rd grader that he will be on the cutting edge of cool by giving up saying “6 7” now, BEFORE everyone in his class gets sick of it.
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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 1d
Just one question—wanna mess with Texas??
Holding a special election ballot for California’s upcoming election
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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 1d
I was thinking of how much the media loves to seize upon one of these quirky methods as if it really makes the difference
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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 1d
makes sense
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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 1d
This is so naively presented it’s like she has no clue who is in the White House or what the concept of a “pretext” is.
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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 1d
thereby humiliating the rest of us small-handed buffoons, no thanks