Posts are my own. Poetry is everyone's. She/her.
Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century (Princeton UP, 2025), Lyric Logic (Columbia UP, 2026), essays, reviews, and other writing in various places
Johanna Winant
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Now available! Bringing together modern poetry’s aesthetic experimentation and modern philosophy’s attention to the problem of induction, LYRIC LOGIC argues that poems use logical form as literary form. buff.ly/IHVsHeD #Poetry #Modernism #Philosophy @johannawinant.bsky.social
In 1986, Leonard Cohen visited the Granada home of poet Federico García Lorca. Cohen asked for a moment alone. When his host returned, he found Cohen upside down.
It is a sign of how deeply I was underwater at the end of two weeks without childcare with an infant and a toddler that I didn't even see this cluster came out until now. THIS CLUSTER IS SO IMPORTANT! There is an emerging dialogue between high school and college English, long overdue
You can of course get my and @johannawinant.bsky.social's CLOSE READING FOR THE 21ST CENTURY at this great 50% discount. But also I personally have been loving PUP's FREE GIFTS: CAPITALISM AND THE POLITICS OF NATURE by @alybatt.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
this was so fun to read in installments a few years ago—can't wait to hold the whole thing!
Thrilled to share a new @atpost45.bsky.social cluster on "The Specter of High School English" that I co-edited with Robert LeBlanc.
It's an effort to foster richer dialogue between secondary and university English—and it was a joy to work with such brilliant contributors.
post45.org/sections/con...
honestly it’s upsetting how old this beautiful pot is
it’s a very particular pleasure to climb the stairs out of a subway station and instantly know where you are and which direction north is — I can almost hear a *click*
english lit and culture studies people
from the last 10 years, favorite standalone articles, or book intros/chapters, that open new ways of reading / new areas of study / new paradigms and thus usefully show new grads range in the field?
