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Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social · 4d

Stanchion's first novel arrives in early February. @fbereaud.bsky.social has hit it out of the park with this beauty.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9d

For at least the past 15 years, my colleagues in academia have grappled with angry letters to university officials for doing their jobs. They have weathered campaigns for their firing. They have contended with an internet army obsessed with doxxing them, their parents, their kids. I've been contacted by the F.B.I. more than once in my career. Not because I hold any important state secrets or know a biker gang but because one of my colleagues has lived with so much sustained harassment from right-wing
"activists" that it has become a matter of federal concern. Watch lists (one of which was constructed by Kirk's organization) do not distinguish between public intellectuals at wealthy enclaves and hoi polloi who teach popular classes at cash-strapped schools. In either case, an army of trained provocateurs stands ready to destroy their lives to prove their bona fides as conservative activists. That threat has been chilling speech on campuses for years.
Now it's coming for all of you.

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Kelly E. Sullivan @real-immirage.bsky.social · Aug 19

Just what I needed as I begin the (once exciting, now grim) process of designing new syllabi. Thank you Krista Muratore, @annakornbluh.bsky.social and @ehayot.bsky.social

Christian Haines @cphiliphaines.bsky.social · Aug 19

AI is theft. AI is environmental destruction. AI is anti-labor. AI concentrates power in tech capital. AI atrophies intellectual capacities. Here's something useful for struggling against its effects in education, courtesy of Anna Kornbluh, Eric Hayot, and Krista Muratore.
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AGAINST AI -

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Kelly E. Sullivan @real-immirage.bsky.social · Aug 19

Thanks so much, Tom! And huge congratulations to you on making the @riverriverbooks.bsky.social shortlist!

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Kelly E. Sullivan @real-immirage.bsky.social · Aug 19

I'm so grateful to @ghostcitypress.bsky.social for publishing my microchap Tithe of Trees in their fab Summer Series! Huge thanks to guest editors @tomsnarsky.bsky.social and Gabrielle Grace Hogan for choosing it.

Ghost City Press @ghostcitypress.bsky.social · Aug 19

TITHE OF TREES by Kelly E. Sullivan (@real-immirage.bsky.social‬) is out today as part of the 2025 Summer Series! Download your free copy here: ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...

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Kelly E. Sullivan @real-immirage.bsky.social · Aug 17

Was lucky enough to get a copy in Dublin earlier in the summer. Loved it!

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Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann @poetryireland.bsky.social · Jun 26

🤖INSIGHTS – our sullen art: the poet after AI

Book this upcoming Online Masterclass with Christodoulos Makris (@cmakris.bsky.social)

🗓️ Thursday 16 October 2025, 6.30pm - 8.30pm
🎟️ Book: www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/ins...

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Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann @poetryireland.bsky.social · Jul 11

Thanks @irishtimes.com

www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Vona Groarke is new Ireland Professor of Poetry

Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and preview of tomorrow’s pages

www.irishtimes.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Jul 8

Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs.

A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which is about to get cut.

If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.

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Kelly E. Sullivan @real-immirage.bsky.social · Jun 27

I'm really enjoying these experimental and moving poems. Check out @songsofkat.bsky.social Kat Lehmann's free microchap from @ghostcitypress.bsky.social !

Kat Lehmann @songsofkat.bsky.social · Jun 24

Happy launch day for my micro-chapbook 'to wade through the wind as a night,' the first collection of sudo-ku, a multi-haiku form I developed in 2020. The collection named itself and is published today by @ghostcitypress.bsky.social! Read it for free ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...
#haiku #poetry

to wade through the wind as a night — Ghost City Press

to wade through the wind as a night by Kat Lehmann Published June 24, 2025 PDF Micro-Chapbook 14 Pages

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Kelly E. Sullivan @real-immirage.bsky.social · Jun 21

Thank you! Same to you!

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · Jun 9

North, by Seamus Heaney, published 50 years ago, June 1975.

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Kelly E. Sullivan @real-immirage.bsky.social · May 29

Excited to be included with this stellar lineup! My microchap TITHE OF TREES out this summer with @ghostcitypress.bsky.social

Ghost City Press @ghostcitypress.bsky.social · May 29

It’s that time, once again. Here’s the lineup for our 10th annual Summer Series!

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · Apr 15

Seán Hewitt meditates on writing fiction inspired by folk music and its constant, changing repository of stories.

The Timeless, Timely Folk Novel: On Writing Fiction Influenced by Folk Songs

I first started listening to folk music in my late teens. Before that, I was only really familiar with Irish rebel songs, sung by my family on whiskey-fueled evenings at home. But English folksongs…

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Kelly E. Sullivan @real-immirage.bsky.social · Apr 13

Excited to talk with Lucy Caldwell about her novel "These Days", set during the Belfast Blitz! Please join us on Thursday for the conversation.

Glucksman Ireland House NYU @gihnyu.bsky.social · Apr 11

Join us on Thursday, April 17th for the US launch of Lucy Caldwell's These Days.

Two sisters, four nights, one city.

Register at bit.ly/TheseDaysGIH

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Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social · Apr 13

For a limited time, save 20% off all in-stock Stanchion Books & Magazine Issues with code SPRINGSALE.

StanchionZine.com/shop

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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · Apr 11

🚨FT Permanent Job 🚨
My department is hiring a lecturer (B/B) in 18th-c. Irish history, with the desire for someone whose research and teaching pertains to the Irish 'long eighteenth century (1690-1830)...and broader international, political and intellectual context of the period.' 🗃️

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Kelly E. Sullivan @real-immirage.bsky.social · Apr 11

Looking forward to talking with Seán Hewitt tomorrow afternoon about his gorgeous debut novel, "Open, Heaven." If you are in the NYC area, please join!

Glucksman Ireland House NYU @gihnyu.bsky.social · Apr 3

We are thrilled to host the launch of Seán Hewitt's debut novel, "Open, Heaven" on April 12!

Seán will be in conversation with Kelly Sullivan, Clinical Associate Professor in Irish Studies at GIH.

This event is sold out, but be sure to join the waitlist: bit.ly/HewittGIH

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Glucksman Ireland House NYU @gihnyu.bsky.social · Mar 31

Our M.A. in Irish and Irish-American Studies offers students a broad, interdisciplinary curriculum that emphasizes new approaches to the field.

Interested in learning more? Join us for a hybrid M.A. Open House on April 10.

Register: bit.ly/GIHOpenHouse...

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Glucksman Ireland House NYU @gihnyu.bsky.social · Dec 16

We are so excited to announce our Spring 2025 events calendar! We hope you'll join us for another semester of book launches, lectures, and more.

We look forward to seeing you in 2025!

Learn more and register: bit.ly/GIHSpring25

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Kelly E. Sullivan @real-immirage.bsky.social · Mar 24

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why are other universities silent in condemning Trump’s attacks on Columbia? | Zephyr Teachout

If university leaders allow themselves to be bullied, how do we expect any other institutions to stand up?

www.theguardian.com

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Little Deer Comics @littledeercomics.bsky.social · Mar 18

As you probably heard, Amazon is coming for Ireland. It’ll come for our small shops, it’ll come for our department stores, and it’ll come for our media, our journalism, and our democracy.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Mar 19

Students disappeared by ICE for dissent.

International scientists deported for private emails.

Judges threatened with impeachment.

Media outlets branded “illegal” for criticising the President.

Journalists banned by the White House for fact-checking.

The 1930s are screaming their warning at us.

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Deneen Senasi @dsenasi.bsky.social · Mar 16

"The value of the an essay" is in the writing of it, the cognitive challenges and problem-solving, the formal, semantic crafting of thought into language, the engendering of thought through the writer's engagement with language, none of which is found in an undefined "ability to use AI well."

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Mar 16

Purohit is on the “education team” at OpenAI. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...

There are probably lots of students, K-12 and higher ed, who used ChatGPT to do their homework last night without learning anything,” John B. King Jr., chancellor of the State University of New York system and the former education secretary, said at an education technology conference in October. “That’s scary.”

King shared a conference stage with Purohit, who offered a provocative response. Perhaps critical thinking and communication skills should be measured by the ability to use AI well, she said. “What is the value of an essay?” she asked, rhetorically, drawing from a recent discussion with a Wharton School of Business professor.

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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · Feb 4

The CSU's literally *shutting majors & firing faculty* at the same time as it *pays multi-millions to Silicon Valley companies* for this climate-disaster plagiarism machine. It's unconscionable. The money (state money!) is being siphoned from students/faculty, for the CSU to be tech bro paradise.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Feb 4

“The rollout will cover 23 campuses of the largest public university system in the United States, enabling students to access personalized tutoring and study guides through the chatbot, while the faculty will be able to use it for administrative tasks.”

OpenAI targets higher education in the U.S. with ChatGPT rollout at California State University

Microsoft -backed OpenAI said on Tuesday it will roll out an education-specific version of its chatbot to about 500,000 students and faculty at California State University as it looks to expand its user base in the academic sector and counter competition from rivals like Alphabet .

www.reuters.com

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