Julie Babcock
@juliebabcock.bsky.social
poet (Autoplay & Rules for Rearrangement) writer, human. co-editor of the lit & craft mag Public School Poetry.
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Ann Arbor apocalypse sky
November 23, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Ann Arbor apocalypse sky
Reposted by Julie Babcock
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
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Here’s @sarahjeong.bsky.social somehow going even harder than the T-shirt at the AI-copyright conference: “[AI companies] have ushered in a wholesale destruction of human knowledge and culture that is as significant as the burning of the Library of Alexandria.”
November 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Here’s @sarahjeong.bsky.social somehow going even harder than the T-shirt at the AI-copyright conference: “[AI companies] have ushered in a wholesale destruction of human knowledge and culture that is as significant as the burning of the Library of Alexandria.”
Found art piece in the room I taught this morning that provoked some amazing discussion.
November 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Found art piece in the room I taught this morning that provoked some amazing discussion.
These tomatoes were hard & green when I picked them before the first frost last month. I was going to fry some today, & discovered a tomato ripening miracle.
November 16, 2025 at 10:44 PM
These tomatoes were hard & green when I picked them before the first frost last month. I was going to fry some today, & discovered a tomato ripening miracle.
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Cornell agreed to pay $30m, hand over admissions data with demographic breakdowns, produce annual "campus climate" surveys to check on antisemitism and changes "since October of 2023," and—here's the dumbest part they agreed to—that the govt can open new investigations whenever it wants.
Appeasers.
Appeasers.
Cornell has reached an agreement with the federal government to restore our funding:
statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025110...
statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025110...
An agreement to restore Cornell’s federal research funding | University Statements | Cornell University
statements.cornell.edu
November 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Cornell agreed to pay $30m, hand over admissions data with demographic breakdowns, produce annual "campus climate" surveys to check on antisemitism and changes "since October of 2023," and—here's the dumbest part they agreed to—that the govt can open new investigations whenever it wants.
Appeasers.
Appeasers.
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"Why do you say
I’m dying when I am reading, holding the hand
of an author I know like a lover though they died
years before I was born?"
-- @catemarvin.bsky.social, "The Death of the Humanities"
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
I’m dying when I am reading, holding the hand
of an author I know like a lover though they died
years before I was born?"
-- @catemarvin.bsky.social, "The Death of the Humanities"
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
The Death of the Humanities
Why do you say I’m dying when I am reading, holding the hand of an author I know like a lover though they died years before I was born?
www.poetryfoundation.org
November 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
"Why do you say
I’m dying when I am reading, holding the hand
of an author I know like a lover though they died
years before I was born?"
-- @catemarvin.bsky.social, "The Death of the Humanities"
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
I’m dying when I am reading, holding the hand
of an author I know like a lover though they died
years before I was born?"
-- @catemarvin.bsky.social, "The Death of the Humanities"
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
College students have a lot to say when you ask them about their favorite trees & this makes me incredibly happy.
November 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
College students have a lot to say when you ask them about their favorite trees & this makes me incredibly happy.
My overuse of exclamation points and emotional labor has brought me to a 30-day no exclamation point experiment. Set it up IMRAD-style with a daily log. Anyone want to join the experiment or have esoteric exclamation facts?
October 30, 2025 at 6:19 PM
My overuse of exclamation points and emotional labor has brought me to a 30-day no exclamation point experiment. Set it up IMRAD-style with a daily log. Anyone want to join the experiment or have esoteric exclamation facts?
Reposted by Julie Babcock
If only this was satire. Sadly, we mean it.
Why Trump would be perfect for an honorary U-M doctoral degree
Awarding Trump an honorary doctoral degree would be an opportunity to recognize the long way the University has walked in less than two years. U-M juniors may still remember times when the campus code...
www.michigandaily.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
If only this was satire. Sadly, we mean it.
Found old Toys 'R'Us batteries in this spider. Was sad when they went bankrupt in 2018. And creeped out now to discover the store's kinda been resurrected through a company called Tru Kids.
October 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Found old Toys 'R'Us batteries in this spider. Was sad when they went bankrupt in 2018. And creeped out now to discover the store's kinda been resurrected through a company called Tru Kids.
Reposted by Julie Babcock
Ellen Bryant Voigt 💙
October 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Ellen Bryant Voigt 💙
The great Sean Thomas Dougherty (also a Public School Poetry contributor in Issue #1!) word-singing the unmeasurable grams we're forced to measure
The Weight of Money
by Sean Thomas Dougherty
"Is worth mentioning is one gram. But a Benjamin is a liter of blood. I often remind my kids that a Happy Meal costs a quarter of an hour. Your bicycle was a week’s wage."
www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/the-weight...
by Sean Thomas Dougherty
"Is worth mentioning is one gram. But a Benjamin is a liter of blood. I often remind my kids that a Happy Meal costs a quarter of an hour. Your bicycle was a week’s wage."
www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/the-weight...
The Weight of Money by Sean Thomas Dougherty
the weight of money is more than can be measured
www.onlypoemsdaily.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The great Sean Thomas Dougherty (also a Public School Poetry contributor in Issue #1!) word-singing the unmeasurable grams we're forced to measure
Reposted by Julie Babcock
PSP contributors Molly Spencer, Keith Taylor, Jen Sperry Steinorth & Jeff Kass at our annual pizza party reading. Subs for Issue #6 are open!
October 17, 2025 at 8:25 PM
PSP contributors Molly Spencer, Keith Taylor, Jen Sperry Steinorth & Jeff Kass at our annual pizza party reading. Subs for Issue #6 are open!
Reposted by Julie Babcock
So excited to check out Laura Passin's new book! (featuring one of our favorite 'A Wrinkle in Time'-themed poems... www.publicschoolpoetry.com/laura-passin)
October 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
So excited to check out Laura Passin's new book! (featuring one of our favorite 'A Wrinkle in Time'-themed poems... www.publicschoolpoetry.com/laura-passin)
Giannina Braschi performs the Madame Sosostris section of "The Waste Land." That cough! That hat! One of the best things I've seen all year. youtu.be/E17t_b7zIFg?...
Giannina Braschi reads T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"
YouTube video by Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation
youtu.be
October 3, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Giannina Braschi performs the Madame Sosostris section of "The Waste Land." That cough! That hat! One of the best things I've seen all year. youtu.be/E17t_b7zIFg?...
Tonight's meal all provided by my little garden (well, except the rice & panko on the squash)
September 30, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Tonight's meal all provided by my little garden (well, except the rice & panko on the squash)
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I love Jenn Martelli’s fierce and lovely poetry so much, and she was such a generous person. Miss you already, Jenn.
September 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I love Jenn Martelli’s fierce and lovely poetry so much, and she was such a generous person. Miss you already, Jenn.
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even network television shows in the 1970s grasped this simple truth
September 25, 2023 at 2:44 AM
even network television shows in the 1970s grasped this simple truth
Reposted by Julie Babcock
🚨NEW: For the first time in history, the single largest group of people arrested in the interior and sent to ICE detention is people with NO criminal record.
As of yesterday's data release, 40%(!) of those arrested in the interior and detained by ICE had no prior conviction or pending charges.
As of yesterday's data release, 40%(!) of those arrested in the interior and detained by ICE had no prior conviction or pending charges.
September 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
🚨NEW: For the first time in history, the single largest group of people arrested in the interior and sent to ICE detention is people with NO criminal record.
As of yesterday's data release, 40%(!) of those arrested in the interior and detained by ICE had no prior conviction or pending charges.
As of yesterday's data release, 40%(!) of those arrested in the interior and detained by ICE had no prior conviction or pending charges.
After a several-way tie from the 50 national book award longlist selections, my Capstone students revoted. Excited to read Angela Flournoy's The Wilderness with them!
September 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
After a several-way tie from the 50 national book award longlist selections, my Capstone students revoted. Excited to read Angela Flournoy's The Wilderness with them!
Great night ahead as I look through Criterion's nunsploitation list. So many nuns and so many devils to choose from.
September 23, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Great night ahead as I look through Criterion's nunsploitation list. So many nuns and so many devils to choose from.