The Innerworkings of a Poet

“But I don’t want comfort. I want poetry. I want danger. I want freedom. I want goodness. I want sin.” — Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

[rndmzka]

[mournfulroses]

Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Aurelia Plath written c. December 1955, featured in Selected Letters

[dumbfuckryn]

i want to live above a bookstore café and have a little balcony garden you can see from the street that is all

[bostonpoetryslam]

Andrés Cerpa, “The Vault,” published in The Offing

[mixelation]

things ppl often get wrong in academia AUs (specifically ones in modern university settings with focus on graduate students & professors):

no one is spending enough time complaining about writing

hierarchy is wrong. your grad student TA is not a professor or faculty and might not even be considered an employee. that 32 year old man is not a full professor no matter how talented he is or how old you think 30+ is, and he should be talking more about "the tenure clock"

grad students only ever taking or TAing classes & never doing research or working on their thesis/dissertation. there are masters programs with no thesis component so i'm sure there are ones that have no research requirement, but you can't get a PhD only taking classes

everyone has too much money. but also if it's set in the US there's an obsession with accumulating student debt for positions that generally you would not have to take out loans for

relationship with academic advisor never sufficiently unhinged

not enough discussion of stats where it's obvious everyone only barely understands what's happening

[mixelation]

"what is a sufficiently unhinged student-advisor relationship?"

link to the article

[yipyipallyall]

[ID: Nature Briefing, 14 December 2018.

Daily briefing: Chemist sent mercenaries to save her PhD student from ISIS.

Thesis advisor sends in the cavalry, 'buried' genetic networks linked to mental illness and the best science photos of 2018.

By Flora Graham.]

[treasurethelibraries]

XIX century Library at Marienburg Castle, Germany

[writing-prompt-s]

“I thought the goddess of love would look…different.” The wrinkled old woman waved a dismissive hand, leaned closer, and smiled. “You are thinking of my daughter, the goddess of passion and romance. Dearie, I am the goddess of LOVE.”

[metamorphesque]

— Sylvia Plath, "The Bell Jar"

[drtrinitysantos]

sdxfcgvzdxfcgvhzdxfcgvhbjnkmlcgvhbjnk science

[tiredqueertranarchist]

Peer reviewed tags from @honestlyvan

[derangedrhythms]

The deep sea is a haunted house: a place in which things that ought not to exist move about in the darkness.

Julia Armfield, from 'Our Wives Under the Sea'

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

Sanna Wani, “Who is the Sun, Asking for Sleep?”, My Grief, the Sun // Brenna Twohy, A Coworker Asks Me If I Am Sad, Still

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

Fortesa Latifi, from The Truth About Grief.

[macrolit]

[outsassing-nero]

the only day off this week and i woke up at 5am feeling a bit sick, meaning i had to take it slow - read some journal articles and done some writing for one of the concept i’m planning to introduce in my phd, taught five classes afterwards as well!

[fyblackwomenart]

Growing Wild by Lucy Campbell  

[ingelnook]

[earthanthem]

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