Aaron Baker

Coming soon! *American Experiment* by @AaronRBaker as part of the #21stCenturyPoets Pre-order your copy today! bit.ly/4jBqO73 - #Poetry #Poems #UniversityPress #SmallPress #trp #WaltWhitman #Dantean #folktales

@Kulambq Crane later slashed this painting with a knife during a depressive episode.

This portrait of Hart Crane was painted by David Siqueiros, whom Crane considered his favourite contemporary Mexican painter. The painting was made in 1931 and Crane considered it 'astounding.' It's pretty haunting.

@AmericanGwyn A key part of what Wordsworth actually said gets left out: "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.” This sounds more like an argument for the detachment from raw unprocessed emotion that craft affords.

Once of the negative consequences of English Romantic poetry is that Wordsworthian ideas about creativity infected writers and readers for centuries: the fantasy of WW’s “spontaneous overflow of emotion” eclipsed the reality of hard-won, laborious craftsmanship.

@AmericanGwyn Check out his short story "Black Ass at the Cross Roads."

There’s a solid book by Terry Mott about Hemingway’s WWII adventures. There’s also an interesting book by Nicholas Reynolds about his adventures as a Soviet spy.

@AmericanGwyn That passage would be so much better how I first read it, "lol" instead of "lo."

I’m not saying it’s about to go down, but: “And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood.”

@MrWojoRising The Bridge (Hart Crane)

@mualphaxi @X Maybe...but "reinvigorating" American culture at some point has to mean creating and embracing NEW things altogether and not just rebooting/repurposing already established, copyrighted stuff. More Mickey Mouse and Sherlock Holmes wouldn't exactly feel like a cultural renaissance.

I'm testing out the new @X Articles feature with something I wrote last year but never published. My short proposal to reinvigorate American culture by limiting copyright terms to 50 years. What do you think? twitter.com/mualphaxi/stat…

@ben_o_malley Also new pedals. :(

@onlypoemsmag Moby Dick

Okay, #BookRecommendations time please 🙏🏽🥹 NOVELS that read like POEMS — go! Our pick: Toni Morrison’s Beloved ❤️

@wesyang "Interrogate"... as if an idea is your prisoner. Which it may be.

Bodies

@elonmusk @pmarca This is mostly a story about which drugs you can be on and still talk to Elon Musk.

@pmarca I’ve talked to many more people who were helped by psychedelics & ketamine than SSRIs & amphetamines

How would this change our society and culture?

@MsMelChen A similar but easier-to-defend approach would be tuition based on the cost to educate someone (i.e., the facilities/resources to educate an English major tend to cost less than those to educate a physician or engineer).

The student loan debate has brought up this idea that tuition should be based on future salary. Perhaps I'm naive but I still valorize the pursuit of knowledge that ostensibly has no practical value. Humanity's future depends on long-term thinking unguarded by market pressures.

Been off Twitter for 6 years now. What did I miss?

W.H. Auden was born on this day in 1907. From "The Shield of Achilles" bit.ly/1myHcFX

@PilonMitchell When can we expect to see the ride on Strava?

"Poem went viral and we had to put 'er down."

Leans in, refills your wine glass, says "Tell me more about your AWP panel."

Nearly brought tears of joy to accept my 1st ever envelope of podium cash. Finally a price put on my suffering: $55.

"Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good." -Samuel J