Rachel Trousdale

I mean obviously there are at least eight other things I should also be freaking out over, but I'd say three simultaneous full-fledged freakouts is really pretty good.

I'm really proud of how my finely tuned multitasking skills allow me to freak out over Iran and the revocation of trans Kansans' drivers licenses and ICE's kidnappings and murders all simultaneously.

We're not a country. We're a drunk guy in a bar randomly punching people for looking at us funny, and then weeping "I really love you, bro" into Putin's neck.

I mean, in an era of competing apocalypses, I'm gonna enjoy the one that's pretty.

If anyone asks, please let them know that we do currently have enough snow, thanks.

Tonight!
I have a slight cold and may be in the process of developing laryngitis, so this is your opportunity to hear my work being read in a voice that sounds like a bullfrog going through puberty.

Whereas in American English — at least as I heard you say it this morning — it is apparently pronounced with *total glee*. As in: "Oooh! Graupel!"

It's like an auditory distillation of the setting of Angela Carter's "The Werewolf."

"I'm not a Nazi, I'm actually too dumb to be a Nazi, huh, why am I repeatedly hitting myself on the head with this spatula, what is that light in the sky that shows up every morning, is bigotry really wrong anyway, what will happen if I eat my shoelaces? Anyway vote for me!"

Ooooh that looks awesome!

I've told this story on ContrabandCamp but it's worth sharing for BHM because it's one of the greatest stories ever.

A thread.

Art helps.

This is what they've done.

Do you think they'll get any applications that aren't 100% generated by their own AI?

O tempora, o mores!

For the record, the problem with David Brooks is not that I disagree with him. I don't agree with anyone, so that doesn't make him special. No: the problem with David Brooks is that he is an idiot.

Like, what is suffering for if not to fuel our ART

Training isn't enough. Reform isn't enough. Firing figureheads isn't enough. Abolish ICE. Tell your reps.

I am so sorry this happened, and that must hurt, but surely it can be spun for poetry potential? Do like a pomo remix of Shelley re: glaciers and add some topical political content et voilà, art? I can blurb it as "a harrowing examination of the combined hostility of nature and fascism" or something

The blackshirts have updated their uniform in an unexpected direction.

I was at a small protest last Tuesday and a guy came up to me and the woman I was standing next to and asked, sounding like he actually wanted to know, "you guys get paid for this?"

I wonder what he makes of what's happening in Minneapolis.

Here is a new poem. Already revised, alas. But for what it’s worth: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Many thanks to Jeff Shotts and Kevin Young.

Me in September: That article? I'll write it during January break.
Me in October: That review? I'll write it in January.
Me in November: Spring syllabi? That's what January's for.
Me in December: Whew, I'm burnt out. But I can catch my breath during break.
Me in January: Ooops.

Rachel Trousdale & Charles W. Brice: Two Elegies for Renée Nicole Good I think of long dead Germans caught in the Bardo. Are they wagging their fingers at us? Now you know what it felt like, they say

Two poems — one by me, one by Charles W. Brice — about the murder of Renee Nicole Good, up today at Vox Populi.

(NB, my spouse is nothing like a fly, but is rather a marvelous, reasonable, and inexplicably tolerant human being)

Yes! Exactly! My whole skin moves, like a horse shaking off a fly. Such a beloved fly, but still.

Once again, I have said to my spouse, "leave me alone, I can't pay attention to you right now, I'm writing you a love poem." Being married to a poet must be so romantic.

Yeah, once I've got the first 6,347 slides assembled, I can just update as we go.

Does hyperventilating with rage boost cardiovascular fitness? I'm not sure it does.

Six weeks from now there'll be so many new crises I have to start over.

I'm spending the morning putting together a PowerPoint on the current state of federal threats to higher education, so I guess I can skip cardio today.