Nathaniel Perry

Nathaniel Perry

@longrules.bsky.social

Author of two books of poems, Nine Acres (Copper Canyon, 2011) and Long Rules (Backwaters, 2021), and a book of essays, Joy (or Something Darker but Like It): Poetry and Parenting (University of Michigan, 2024). Also a runner, musician and cocktail maker.

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This is on par with the dumbest things my students have written over the years. At least they were willing to learn!

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social

Yet, Ben Sasse and the @wsj.com seem to think that it is appropriate to double down on sacrificing American boys to the death sentence that is this sport. www.wsj.com/opinion/free...

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Dr. Iván Chaar López: “If you want a productive university…that supports the state, its citizens, its neighbors, I’m not sure that you want the workers in this institution to be nervous, to be looking over their shoulders… Academic freedom is not under duress—it’s being dismantled.”

insidehighered.comProf Denied Tenure: Academic Freedom at UT Being DismantledBorder-surveillance researcher Iván Chaar López received a near-unanimous recommendation from faculty and outstanding external support letters. Still, he was denied tenure without explanation.

It's hilarious to me that the announcers talk about Congo as being these massive underdogs yet every time someone for DRC touches the ball they're like "he's had a great season with such and such Premier league team".....like maybe they are evenly matched?

When satire and reality look at one another over a razor's edge.....

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net

"Many of you have asked why an institution with a $46 billion endowment is freezing salaries, rescinding job offers, refusing to adjust tenure tracks, and laying off staff instead of using an endowment the size of Iceland's GDP to keep our community afloat."

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"Many of you have asked why an institution with a $46 billion endowment is freezing salaries, rescinding job offers, refusing to adjust tenure tracks, and laying off staff instead of using an endowment the size of Iceland's GDP to keep our community afloat."

buff.lyA University President Responds to Those Who Have Suggested the School Should Dip Into the Endowment“We hear you. You are valid. You. Matter. Secondly, and no less importantly, let me make something clear: The. Endowment. Is. Not. For. You.” May 11 2021 5/8...

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"The LMS isn’t necessary. It never has been." - Audrey Watters. Speaking from my experience, it became clear over my 20 years of use that the LMS was an active detriment to my pedagogical goals and my students' learning. Disempowering for all. 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/ed-tech-depe...

2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.comThat Damned LMS DependencyFor the second time in less than a year, a major disruption to the learning management system Canvas has prompted cries (and headlines) that “we can’t do school!” In the fall of 2025, an Amazon Web S...

Here's a poem I wrote about the things we do.

The Common@commonmag.bsky.social

"I know you think that evil always fades / like grass." In this quietly intense poem, "37 (Song, with People on the Street)," Nathaniel Perry (@longrules.bsky.social‬) interrogates the self-righteous act of relinquishing responsibility. buff.ly/0ryxkls

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"I know you think that evil always fades / like grass." In this quietly intense poem, "37 (Song, with People on the Street)," Nathaniel Perry (@longrules.bsky.social‬) interrogates the self-righteous act of relinquishing responsibility. buff.ly/0ryxkls

buff.ly37 (Song, with People on the Street)NATHANIEL PERRY <br> I know you think that evil always fades / like grass, that even when it spreads itself / like a bay tree, or cobwebs on a shelf, / time will turn it back, as sun with shade, / or…

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It is remarkable and astonishing that the entire apparatus of the Republican party -- the entire organization and every single person who is part of it -- has been converted into a cover-up operation to protect a single pedophile rapist. Is that why these Republicans went into politics? Really?