Christopher Spaide
@cspaide
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poems poets poetry | prof @ usm | off this site--find me elsewhere
Hattiesburg, MS
Joined January 2009
Helen Hennessy Vendler (1933–2024).no reader, no critic, no teacher has meant more to me. her inexhaustible work is our common bounty; getting to know her was my inconceivably good luck.
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“Helen understood that all poets needed what she did so they could take the next step,” said Jorie Graham, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.
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RT @alienvsrobbins: Nothing is over, that is the only certainty. The other certainty is that everything ends, even this. —Joshua Clove….
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RT @MarxNetwork: We are devastated to say that our comrade, teacher and friend Joshua Clover passed away last night. We will miss him forev….
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RT @jorie_graham: “For the mind and the imagination, bookstores aren't enough, college courses aren't enough, the Internet isn't enough. Th….
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RT @lithub: .@cspaide recommends new poetry collections by Esther Kondo Heller, Jack Saebyok Jung, Antonio Gamoneda and more. https://t.co/….
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Pity National Poetry Month. It could have been any of the twelve months, but for three decades running it’s been April—month of practical jokers, rain showers, and last-minute tax filing. It’s also…
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RT @HossamShabat: This is Hossam’s team, and we are sharing his final message :. “If you’re reading this, it means I have been killed—most….
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RT @boneless_koi: ". a painstaking formalism, a commitment to steadfastness and sobriety, as in his sonnets, which boast tattoo-precise l….
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RT @lithub: .@cspaide recommends new poetry collections by Ali Cobby Eckermann, Steven Duong, Oluwaseun Olayiwola and more. .
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It’s a new year, which means it’s yet another occasion to be the same old unbudgeable person as last year while grumbling to oneself, new year, new me. (I can’t read that phrase without thinking of…
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I got to talk about Helen Vendler—as a teacher, colleague, friend—on the @PoetryFound podcast Poetry Off the Shelf; many thanks to Helena de Groot for this marvelous episode on HV and Marjorie Perloff:
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Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
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before I bounce from this website for the near (or far) future, two last things to share about Helen Vendler. I wrote one of a few remembrances of her in the latest issue of the Wallace Stevens Journal:
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RT @wawog_now: This October, @MLAnews leadership blocked a BDS vote, which, they argued, “would potentially lead to a drop-off in revenue i….
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RT @erikmbaker: My faculty colleagues and I have been banned from Widener Library for two weeks to punish us for reading quietly while disp….
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RT @matthiasellis: Not anywhere near his most famous passages but I think about this but from Jameson all the time. Now we are alone in the….
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[cat stevens voice] ooh baby, baby it's a wild life.[chris spaide voice] congrats cara 🕷️🌵🐈⬛.
ATLAS OBSCURA: WILD LIFE comes out today! i've been working on this book for years and years. i'm so excited for it to scamper into the world and introduce people to decoy spiders, pink fairy armadillos, crested saguaro cactuses, and a lot more.
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RT @wawog_now: In 1982, the poet June Jordan wrote an open letter denouncing the Zionism of her peers—especially Adrienne Rich. Rescued fro….
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