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Prof. Emeritus of English UMD & Past President, Keats-Shelley Assoc.; Co-Gen Ed. Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Romanticism, Textual Scholarship, DH, Media. "Rise like lions after slumber."

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I got into this business because of The Washington Post. I was inspired by its Watergate coverage. It’s saddening & maddening to see what’s happening there. Bezos is ruining one of the great—though far from perfect—journalistic institutions. This wasn’t inevitable. It’s the choice of an oligarch.

05.02.2026 15:16 👍 634 🔁 110 💬 30 📌 6

Democracy dies in darkness

05.02.2026 16:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Published today!

04.11.2025 15:52 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Thanks! Here is a flyer with 30% off of this volume and all the others.

24.10.2025 16:42 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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Just arrived:

24.10.2025 16:10 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Who knew?

22.10.2025 19:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Extremely interesting work, Alan! Helpful as I'm trying to think through the potential uses of agentic AI for textual editing.

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Sign I saw at DC protest:

18.10.2025 20:23 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

This volume contains several poems edited by Stuart Curran, including The Cenci. It represents his final completed work, the acme of his stunning career.

17.10.2025 15:40 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds.

He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings.

He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights.

This is political intimidation.

17.06.2025 16:59 👍 36791 🔁 11669 💬 1095 📌 474

Perfect! #ThanksBrett

13.06.2025 18:32 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And they always were!

13.06.2025 18:31 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I'll end this with this meme I made of @brettbobley.bsky.social at the 2015 Crowd Consortium forum that IMLS funded. That event built off one of the many amazing groundbreaking NEH Start Up grants that we all can #thanksbrett for :)

13.06.2025 18:25 👍 29 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 2
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Thanks @brettbobley.bsky.social! You and ODH provided the infrastructure for DH infrastructures, developed the instruments for instrumenting international collaborations, and envisioned the means for us to envision the future.Here's to your next chapter! I'll always value your last! #ThanksBrett

13.06.2025 18:19 👍 22 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

I, for one, wouldn't want to miss this!

22.05.2025 15:34 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Poe/tics of Reception
Poe Studies on 20 Years of Eliza Richards' Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle 
The Hopkins Press Podcast 
Illustrated with the Hopkins Press Podcast logo, the cover art from Poe Studies, and photographs of Eliza Richards, Elissa Zellinger, and Kelly Ross

The Poe/tics of Reception Poe Studies on 20 Years of Eliza Richards' Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle The Hopkins Press Podcast Illustrated with the Hopkins Press Podcast logo, the cover art from Poe Studies, and photographs of Eliza Richards, Elissa Zellinger, and Kelly Ross

To accompany our lively discussion, we've assembled a reading list of works from past issues of @PoeStudies & other Hopkins Press journals, including work by Eliza Richards, Elissa Zellinger, Ben Bascom, Christa Holm Vogelius & more!

All free thru 30 May: tinyurl.com/rvu9kkzs

15.05.2025 18:24 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Eye-opening

09.05.2025 14:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Amen!

08.05.2025 15:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Very interesting project, with 861 entries to date. So far no entries for Shelley, but Coleridge is well represented.

08.05.2025 15:42 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

A helpful graphic to grasp things as they are and may be.

08.05.2025 15:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Still standing in solidarity with our #IMLS colleagues. 🤞 #NEH

06.05.2025 18:25 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

Come on, colleagues--let's support the MLA in their lawsuit over DOGE's illegal, illegitimate dismantling of the NEA and NEH--and help them out with the legal costs.

05.05.2025 18:23 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Great to have this terrific journal available open access. Thank you @projectmuse.bsky.social !

05.05.2025 19:59 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Excellent piece!

22.04.2025 15:43 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

“Our work is a model of federal funding done responsibly and cost-effectively, by returning tax dollars to the people of West Virginia in support of programs they themselves support, create, and execute in their home communities.” - WVa Humanities council on what NEH grant termination is destroying

22.04.2025 14:41 👍 22 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0

Interest to see Indivisible paraphrasing Percy Shelley's Mask of Anarchy for their upcoming May Day Rally:
STOP THE BILLIONAIRE TAKEOVER. WE ARE THE MANY. THEY ARE THE FEW. THIS IS MAY DAY.

21.04.2025 21:03 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A lovely letter in every way. That font could be called "Elementary"

21.04.2025 16:43 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Yes!

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