Not really here anymore. Find me on Bluesky. Departments Editor, @newterritorymag. Old-Fashioned Modernism: Rural Masculinity & Midwestern Lit (@lsupress, 2019)

Joined January 2017
Congratulations to Pete Dulin and Rosemary Hope, whose #LiteraryLandscapes essays were our 2024 nominees for Best of the Net! Thanks to Humanities Kansas and High Plains Public Radio for helping bring "Literary Landscapes in Kansas" to life!
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More and more people—in tech companies, consultancies, regulators, universities, among others—are saying this and proving it to be true: AI does very bad work and creates more labor for humans. crikey.com.au/2024/09/03/ai-…
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The 8 levels of Midwestern Anger 8. “Woah woah woah” 7. “Hold your horses” 6. “Jeez Louise” 5. “No sh*t Sherlock” 4. “For Pete’s sake” 3. “Well, now wait a minute” 2. “For crying out loud” 1. “Listen here pal”
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Have an idea for a short personal essay grounded in a specific place? Pitch section editor @andy_oler at [email protected]!
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I'm thrilled and humbled my piece on an old trail in Franklin County (the California Road) is included in this amazing collection of essays! #KansasHistory #LiteraryLandscapes
Check out our newest #LiteraryLandscapes project: 10 essays on #Kansas literature! In the next couple weeks, audio versions will start rolling out on @hppr. Thanks to all the contributors for their stories and #HumanitiesKansas for supporting this project! newterritorymag.com/literary…
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Thrilled to see the latest issue of @newterritorymag in print! I can’t wait to read all these midwest stories. I’m so thankful that my essay on the Toledo Christmas Weed found a home here. 🌱
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New Wind & Root today from our columnist @kellathornton and Features Editor @CharlotteHam504 : reckonreview.com/wind-and-ro…
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Another poem from this month's issue of POETRY.
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"An antidote to craven attitudes." Come with us on our 8th year of publication: newterritorymag.com/donate/2…
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In the first issue of Rust Belt Studies, we invite you to co-create & co-define the field. Help us to tell our stories and imagine solutions from within this region. Submit articles by 6/1/24 for the inaugural issue. More information: Rustbeltstudies.org #rustbeltlab
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Inaugural ‘Florida Man Games’ seeking contestants trib.al/mxaxUeu
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"But Harrison did not conflate sympathy with sentimentalism. He never waxed nostalgically about the inherent values of his neighbors. Poor residents of rural Michigan -- like their wealthy counterparts -- could steal, lust, and lie too." I absolutely loved reading this essay in @newterritorymag, written by @CamdenBurd and edited by @andy_oler.
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Look at this beautiful reprint of @SWellsr's #LiteraryLandscapes essay on Lorine Niedecker's river cabin—thanks to the Solitary Plover and the Friends of Niedecker! lorineniedecker.org/wordpres…
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This is a statement from two of the people who wrote Florida's new education standards on slavery. In it they give several names of people to exemplify slaves who learned skills they applied later in life. Let's go through the supposed truth of this list one by one.
Want the truth on Florida’s African American History Standards? See statement below from experts who crafted them. “Any attempt to reduce slaves to just victims of oppression fails to recognize their strength, courage and resiliency during a difficult time in American history.”
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This list is supposedly of enslaved people who "developed ... trades from which they benefitted" but nearly all of these people were either never enslaved, or never held the jobs described on the list. Some examples: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Cobb en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_How… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_For… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_W… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Was… Here is a summary of the errors on the list: twitter.com/etotheipie/sta…
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BREAKING: Federal judge rules Florida bans on gender-affirming care for minors is likely unconstitutional, issues injunction halting enforcement of the bans against the plaintiffs who challenged the regulatory and statutory bans. More to come at Law Dork: lawdork.com/
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🚨 Reupping now that registration is OPEN: Come take my Newberry summer course on Chicago literature before 1890! It's open to the public and there'll be lots of "show and tell" from @NewberryLibrary archives and my own collection. Tell your friends! newberry.org/calendar/litera…
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