writer, teacher, literary historian, “artisanal philologist.” he / him. 🍞 / 🌹s
Brookline, MA
Joined January 2015
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midcareer achievement unlocked, guys! in a scathing report, Reviewer 2 accuses me of misunderstanding the work of Eric Weiskott
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.@BostonCollege will host acclaimed poet Victoria Chang on Oct. 28.
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Thanks to Eric Weiskott and The Cincinnati Review for the interview about Tree of Knowledge. cincinnatireview.com/intervi… @CincinnReview @fsgbooks
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"My true north has nothing to do with audience, but is about my own vision for my art, myself, and my joyful process of making."
Today on the site, contributor @ericweiskott speaks with poet and contributor Victoria Chang, whose new book, TREE OF KNOWLEDGE, is out this week.
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Thanks to Eric Weiskott and The Cincinnati Review for the interview about Tree of Knowledge. cincinnatireview.com/intervi… @CincinnReview @fsgbooks
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Fri, March 27: "'A poem ends / when the sound of it is finished': Reading John Gower with Elizabeth Willis," a Lecture by Eric Weiskott. Guilford Parlor. 3:15 p.m.
How Willis, a contemporary poet, makes an effective conversation partner for Gower, ‘frenemy’ of Geoffrey Chaucer
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.@BostonCollege will host an event Nov. 18 celebrating the new book 'Nabokov on the Heights: New Studies from Boston College' featuring essays by BC English Dept. faculty as well as undergrads and graduate students. bc.edu/content/bc-web/sites/…
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hardly a shock, but this remains the case—and it should not. One of the stranger more remarkable books of the past couple of years and crickets except for @ericweiskott who wrote an excellent review in LARB
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Coming soon! Piers Plowman: A New Annotated Edition of the A-text by William Langland, edited by @ericweiskott 📖
Learn more and preorder your copy ➡️ tinyurl.com/munxshrs
#williamlangland #piersplowman #alliterativeverse #dreamvision #textualcriticism
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This video of Zohran Mamdani confronting Tom Homan in March was the first time I ever heard about him and I was sold on the spot. This is the energy I expect from my mayor and every single elected Democrat (Video: @mahoneyw)
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Aside from bogus accusations of antisemitism and Islamic terrorism or bizarre racist rants, the pro-Trump right has struggled to formulate a response to Zohran Mamdani's electoral win in New York.
My latest: postsfromunderground.ghost.i…
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One of my all-time favorite type of videos is pre-fame bands playing their extremely famous songs to a tiny room of people, because they're not yet known.
A thread of some examples:
Bastille playing Pompeii in what looks like someone's living room:
I'm very excited to announce the forthcoming publication of my @UExeterPress edition of Piers Plowman A, the earliest version of Langland's poem, reedited from the manuscripts and with on-page glosses and notes
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New book alert: 'Nabokov on the Heights,' edited by @MaximDShrayer, features essays of scholarship and criticism connected to Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov written by @BostonCollege students, alumni & faculty. academicstudiespress.com/979…
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In @BCBookmarks 📚 The experimental hybrid work "Cycle of Dreams" by English Professor @EricWeiskott pairs translation and original poetry in refashioning and modernizing William Langland’s 14th-century dream vision, "Piers Plowman." on.bc.edu/PiersPlowman_BCB
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