#a kent johnson poem

[saintdesnoyers]

the ballad of kj

you did it last year, you started a trend, but no one cares; no one does, no one did. everyone noticed for a couple of hours

and then forgot about it.

last year, you were a rookie too, but it didn't matter. no one voted for you, no one noticed you, despite everything you accomplished that thought was decent. everyone forgot about you. everyone still forgets that you are here.

your presence is noticable like a ghost; half alive, half dead.

you did it all for your country. olympics, world championships, you name it. and it probably all was for nothing. you scored a gold goal, you took your revenge in the summer and no one noticed it.

no one cares.

your best friends make the headlines. you are the one staying in the shadows behind. your name is barely mentioned anywhere when you do something right or spectacular.

you act like it doesn't matter and that you don't care.

you started the season down as no one really believed in you. you did everything to make it right. you smashed it, you collected everything that you could. you came back up and it's the same

as if you didn't exist.

you want to be somebody. you live for hockey. it keeps you alive. but how can something that keeps you alive can also make you feel almost dead at the same time? why are you the one that ends up fighting for your worth when you know that you're enough for this world?

you know that are enough but are you really?

or are you a ghost of yourself living through others?

[three-headed-monster]

something we don’t talk about enough in this fandom is the poetry writing class kent OPENLY ADMITTED TO TAKING IN SEMESTER 2

[kniesys]

kent johnson poet

[mlphaiku]

SWEET AND SMOKY

Garble’s peer pressure

Fluttershy helps Ember watch eggs

The flames of laughter

[vitaliskravtsov]

omgcp asks

PEOPLE

Bitty: What's your favourite YouTube channel to watch?

Jack: What's your favorite sport to play? What about to watch?

Shitty: If you could wear an outfit and be guard to have nobody judge you for it, what would you wear?

Lardo: What's your favourite thing about going home (wherever home is for you, doesn't have to be a literal house)?

Holster: What's one thing about yourself that you think makes you unapologetically you?

Ransom: Describe yourself as an ecosystem.

Johnson: What's your favorite way out-there, unsupported by anything but "it vibes" headcanon/ship?

Dex: What's something you get asked to fix all the time?

Nursey: What's your favorite line from a poem/song?

Chowder: Favorite sea creature?

Tango: What's something you're willingly clueless about?

Tater: Who's your favorite side character in OMGCP?

Thirdy: What's your favourite romance language?

Kent: What was your dream job when you were in high school?

George: Who's a role model in your life?

Murray & Hill: Who's your favorite coach/teacher you've had?

PLACES

Das Haus: If someone put you in charge of painting a frat house, what color would you go for and why?

Faber: What's somewhere that smells like home to you when you walk in?

Founder's: Do you have a favorite book?

Annie's: What's your regular drink order at cafés?

THEMES/IDEAS

Hockey: Favorite pro hockey team? If you don't like pro hockey, just sports team in general?

College: What's something you wished someone had told you five years ago?

Pie: What's your favourite baked good?

Identity: Describe yourself in three words.

Checking: What's something that intimidates you?

Love: If someone you care about is having a bad night, what's the first thing you go to to make them feel better?

Communication: Phone calls or texts?

History: What is/was your favorite era in history class to talk about?

Twitter: Favorite social media?

Friendship: What's a fictional friendship you love?

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[kemikkadin]

🎧 Jillette Johnson - I Shouldn't Go Anywhere

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Bir kitaplığın önünde duruyorum. Doğumumun başlangıcı bir çocuk kitabıydı ve ben bin yüzlü bir kahraman olarak öleceğim. Adım atmadığım kent, derinliğinden sağ çıkmadığım bir su kütlesi yok.

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[alywats]

All The Books I Read In 2020

Here she is! The full list of books I read in 2020. My goal was to read 52 books again this year, but once lockdown started I upped it to 100, and I ultimately surpassed even that goal!! I think reading is so important for my personal growth and mental health, so the last two years I have made reading a big priority in my life, and it is the best choice I could have made. This year especially, I found reading to be such a comfort and such a great tool for keeping the quarantine blues at bay. Here’s to all the books I read in 2020, and all the books I will read in 2021! 

132 books, 44,531 pages, and a refreshed passion for learning and growth: 

The Kite Runner- Khaled Hosseini (372 pgs) 4.5

A Discovery of Witches- Deborah Harkness (579 pgs) 2.75

The Call of the Wild and Selected Stories- Jack London (176 pgs) 4

I Wear The Black Hat -Chuck Klosterman (225 pgs) 3.75

Digital Fortress- Dan Brown (430 pgs) 3.75

Night Boat to Tangier- Kevin Barry (224 pgs) 2

The Chemist- Stephanie Meyer (518 pgs) 3

Find Me- Andre Aciman (272 pgs) 3.5

A Walk In The Woods- Bill Bryson (394 pgs) 4.5

Invisible Monsters- Chuck Palahniuk (304 pgs) 2.5

Underland, A Deep Time Journey- Robert MacFarlane (496 pgs) 3.25

The Dutch House -Ann Patchett (337 pgs) 5

Notes From a Small Island -Bill Bryson (324 pgs) 3.75

Home Work -Julie Andrews (560 pgs) 3.5

100 Essential Things You Didn’t Know About Maths and The Arts- John D. Barrow (320 pgs) 2.25

On the Road -Jack Kerouac (307 pgs) 3.5

Train Dreams -Denis Johnson (116 pgs) 4.25

2001: A Space Odyssey -Arthur C. Clarke (297 pgs) 4.75

Educated: A Memoir -Tara Westover (334 pgs) 5

Carrie -Stephen King (253 pgs) 3.5

Dig. -A.S. King (394 pgs) 4

salt slow -Julia Armfield (208 pgs) 3

Don’t Call Us Dead -Danez Smith (96 pgs) 5

Convenience Store Woman -Sayaka Murata (163 pgs) 3.25

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir -Bill Bryson (288 pgs) 3.75

Who Moved My Cheese? -Spencer Johnson (96 pgs) 3.5

The Truth About Keeping Secrets -Savannah Brown (336 pgs) 4

All-American Poem -Matthew Dickman (85 pgs) 3.5

2010: Odyssey Two -Arthur C. Clarke (320 pgs) 4

Behind Her Eyes -Sarah Pinborough (307 pgs) 3

The Stand -Stephen King (1440 pgs) 4

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous- Ocean Vuong (246 pgs) 4.5

Homie: Poems -Danez Smith (96 pgs) 4

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet -Becky Chambers (516 pgs) 3.5

The Silent Patient -Alex Michealide (325 pgs) 3.75

Talking As Fast As I Can -Lauren Graham (205 pgs) 3.5

Gregor the Overlander -Suzanne Collins (326 pgs) 1.5

The Transmigration of Bodies -Yuri Herrera (112 pgs) 2.5

The Deep -Rivers Solomon (166 pgs) 4

The Last Man -Mary Shelley (478 pgs) 3

Oryx and Crake -Margaret Atwood (389 pgs) 4.25

One Summer: America, 1927 -Bill Bryson (456 pgs) 3.5

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe -Benjamin Alire Sáenz (359 pgs) 3

The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest -Anatoli Boukreev (297 pgs) 3.75

2061: Odyssey Three -Arthur C. Clarke (302 pgs) 3

Where I Belong -Alan Doyle (315 pgs) 4

Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World -Matt Parker (314 pgs) 4

Normal People -Sally Rooney (304 pgs) 4

Dinosaur Tales -Ray Bradbury (144 pgs) 3

Someday, Someday, Maybe -Lauren Graham (340 pgs) 3.25

The Power -Naomi Alderman (341 pgs) 4.25

Deception Point -Dan Brown (558 pgs) 2.5

3001: The Final Odyssey -Arthur C. Clarke (272 pgs) 3.75

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes -Suzanne Collins (540 pgs) 3.5

The Vegetarian-Han Kang (188 pgs) 3

The Map of Salt and Stars -Zeyn Joukhadar (368 pgs) 4.5

One Man’s Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey -Sam Keith (224 pgs) 4

11/22/63 -Stephen King (849 pgs) 4.5

The Ballad of Black Tom -Victor LaValle (149 pgs) 3.5

Girl With A Pearl Earring -Tracy Chevalier (233 pgs) 4

The Year of the Flood -Margaret Atwood (431 pgs) 3.5

In A Sunburned Country -Bill Bryson (335 pgs) 3

Disappearing Earth -Julia Phillips (312 pgs) 2.5

The Hidden Life of Trees -Peter Wohlleben (288 pgs) 3.5

The People in the Trees -Hanya Yanagihara (368 pgs) 4

Shadow of Night -Deborah Harkness (584 pgs) 3

High Fidelity -Nick Hornby (340 pgs) 3.5

If It Bleeds -Stephen King (528 pgs) 3.5

Sharp Objects -Gillian Flynn (254 pgs) 4

A Newfoundlander in Canada -Alan Doyle (244 pgs) 4

The Water Dancer -Ta-Nehisi Coates (406 pgs) 4

The Fellowship of the Ring -J.R.R. Tolkien (398 pgs) 5

The Bluest Eye -Toni Morrison (216 pgs) 4

Into the Wild -Jon Krakauer (207 pgs) 4

Fahrenheit 451 -Ray Bradbury (194 pgs) 4

Burial Rites -Hannah Kent (336 pgs) 4.5

The Poet X -Elizabeth Acevedo (368 pgs) 5

The End of October -Lawrence Wright (400 pgs) 1.5

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine -Gail Honeyman (336 pgs) 3.5

Survivor -Chuck Palahniuk (304 pgs) 3.5

Every Song Ever -Ben Ratliff (272 pgs) 2

A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor -Hank Green (452 pgs) 4

The Time Traveler's Wife -Audrey Niffenegger (540 pgs) 3.5

The Body: A Guide for Occupants -Bill Bryson (450 pgs) 3

Mr. Mercedes -Stephen King (437 pgs) 3.5

Girl, Woman, Other -Bernardine Evaristo (453 pgs) 4.5

Midnight Sun -Stephenie Meyer (662 pgs) 2

The Maltese Falcon -Dashiell Hammett (213 pgs) 3

The Hunting Party -Lucy Foley (406 pgs) 4

The Hating Game -Sally Thorne (387 pgs) 2.5

My Year of Rest and Relaxation -Ottessa Moshfegh (304 pgs) 4

Real Life -Brandon Taylor (329 pgs) 4

My Sister the Serial Killer -Oyinkan Braithwaite (226 pgs) 4

The Answer Is...: Reflections on My Life -Alex Trebek (304 pgs) 3

Eileen -Ottessa Moshfegh (272 pgs) 3

Answering Back -Carol Ann Duffy (144 pgs) 4

Then She Was Gone -Lisa Jewell (359 pgs) 3.5

Death In Her Hands -Ottessa Moshfegh (259 pgs) 3.5

This Is How You Lose The Time War -Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone (209 pgs) 4

The Goldfinch -Donna Tartt (771 pgs) 4.5

Shutter Island -Dennis Lehane (369 pgs) 3.5

The Devil All The Time -Donald Ray Pollock (261 pgs) 4

I'm Thinking of Ending Things -Iain Reid (241 pgs) 2

Bunny -Mona Awad (307 pgs) 3

The Snowman -Jo Nesbø (516 pgs) 2.5

Something Wicked This Way Comes -Ray Bradbury (293 pgs) 3

Pretty Little Liars -Sara Shepard (286 pgs) 1

Psycho -Robert Bloch (208 pgs) 3.5

Along Came a Spider -James Patterson (449 pgs) 3

American Psycho -Brett Easton Ellis (399 pgs) 4

Night Sky With Exit Wounds -Ocean Vuong (89 pgs) 4

Arctic Dreams -Barry Lopez (496 pgs) 4

Four Colors Suffice -Robin Wilson (280 pgs) 4.5

My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry -Fredrik Backman (372 pgs) 3

Such A Fun Age -Kiley Reid (320 pgs) 4

In The Dream House -Carmen Maria Machado (251 pgs) 4.5

Beach Read -Emily Henry (361 pgs) 3.5

The Queen's Gambit -Walter Tevis (243 pgs) 3.5

The Book of Life -Deborah Harkness (561 pgs) 2.5

Atomic Habits -James Clear (319 pgs) 2.5

Heart Berries -Terese Marie Mailhot (143 pgs) 3

The Kiss Quotient -Helen Hoang (323 pgs) 3

Around The World In 80 Days -Jules Verne (252 pgs) 3

Dolores Claiborne -Stephen King (384 pgs) 4.5

Flatland -Edwin Abbott (96 pgs) 3.5

The Impossible Girl -Lydia Kang (364 pgs) 2.5

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through The looking Glass -Lewis Carroll (239 pgs) 3.5

Kiss The Girls -James Patterson (481 pgs) 2

The Bride Test -Helen Hoang (296 pgs) 2.5

In A Holidaze -Christina Lauren (307 pgs) 3.5

‘Twas The Knife Before Christmas -Jacqueline Frost (309 pgs) 2.5

The Great Alone -Kristin Hannah (435 pgs) 4

[graywyvern]

( via / me )

Run Rabbit, Run.

"In the dark, time feels different than when it is light." --@QuoteNietzsche

Because of Poetry, I Have a Really Big House.

"the man who trolled the world"

there once was a poet Kent Johnson whose lyrical mode was half arson     he frolicked about     in a time of staid doubt now he's gone with the jaunt & the khamsin

"...Yasusada proposes a radical contemporary aesthetic response to one of the worst human atrocities..."

"[Kent] Johnson’s poems are like unchained pit bulls tossed into a school yard – somebody is going to get bit. But you almost have to admire all that taut muscle & those unstoppable jaws." —Ron Silliman (Silliman’s Blog, 2/15/2006)

"One day I would not be surprised to see him eventually regarded as America's problematic answer to the heteronymic maestro Fernando Pessoa."

[dustedmagazine]

Steve Lacy Quintet – Stamps (Corbett vs. Dempsey/Hat Hut)

The superlative “classic” is scrupulously assigned to a select number of historic quintets in jazz. Miles Davis’ pivotal bands with John Coltrane and Wayne Shorter as well as Coltrane’s game-changing groups with Eric Dolphy and Pharoah Sanders represent four of the most readily referenced examples in the modern iterations of the idiom. A credible case can be cobbled for the Steve Lacy group gracing Stamps as well. The expatriate composer/soprano saxophonist had already tillered the ensemble for a handful of years when the two concert recordings that comprise the double-album were released as his 1979 debut on the Swiss Hat Hut label.

The band was an exceptional aggregate of talent and scope from its genesis. Lacy drew abuse that inexplicably still endures today for including his spouse Irene Aebi, a cellist and self-styled vocalist whose sing-song delivery frequently forewent strict pitch adherence for brio and exuberance.  Saxophonist Steve Potts was an easier sell, distinctive and soulful with both alto and soprano and voicing a rich vernacular that could both complement and contrast the sometimes more measured and meticulous vocabulary of his employer. Bassist Kent Carter brought a deep classical background and an elegant artistry with bow while Oliver Johnson conjured equal parts color and energy on drums.

Corbett vs. Dempsey does the package lavish justice, duplicating the gatefold design and original calligraphic font along with interior reproductions of action photos from the concerts. The first disc documents a late-summer of 1977 hit at the Willisau Jazz Festival with a bonus track added while the second preserves a Parisian club date from six months later. The set lists are stacked with lengthy renditions of Lacy tunes of the time, starting with the extended theatrical tone poem “Existence”, which opens with the grand existentialist gesture of invocatory gong and Aebi’s spoken-sung lyrics amidst spiraling horns and arco bass drone.

The other pieces are largely structured in more familiar Lacy fashion with tightly wound and knotted motivic patterns expanding into freer solo and ensemble statements, by turns prickly and buoyant. The stubborn influence of Thelonious Monk on Lacy is all over these originals in the slippery shuffle rhythms and trapdoor twists. Carter and Iebi scrape several layers of rosin from their strings with concentrated sawing on the acerbic “Ire” prefacing the violence and reconciliation of dueling sopranos by Potts and Lacy. “The Dumps” and the previously unreleased “Follies” shift from jaunty prancing earworms into churning abstraction and back in transitions that are at times jarring and disorienting, but always wholly intentional.

From the Parisian hit, the comparatively terse title tune embodies perhaps the best example of Lacy’s ability to contrast punishing, compacting repetition with soaring, optimistic elegance as he and Potts aim for the cloudless heavens above a roiling groundswell of drums and strings.”Duckles” features a blast of mic distortion and Lacy’s debut on Japanese bird whistle, each that feel wholly in spirit with the sharp angles and fractious, rambunctious flavor of the piece. Potts’ alto absolutely owns “Wickets” in a solo that’s near perfection in terms of emotive effulgence and emphatic impact. The composer gladly cedes the win and goes for a different direction in his subsequently limpid and systematic soprano statement.

Lacy would treat the quintet as adjustable template in ensuing years, adding and subtracting players and eventually steering the band into more conventionally structured straits. Potts remained a reliable foil with Jean Jacques Avenel and John Betsch assuming the bass and drums chairs in place of Carter and Johnson. Iebi remained a semi-regular too, attracting ill-considered opprobrium and shrugging it off in equal measure. Those later examples were often excellent, but there’s something unequivocally exceptional in hearing the original outfit holding eloquent and ecstatic court in its incandescent prime.

Derek Taylor

[some-triangles]

yr favorite poetry/poet(s)/poem(s), broadly or specifically

This is actually a good opportunity to ask for new poetry recs.   Most of the poetry that I was into when I was younger doesn’t do it for me anymore - I used to get big shiny waves off of Berryman’s Dream Songs but something changed somewhere.  Used to be big into Cummings, something’s off there now too.  Eliot’s too clever for me.   I think I’m moving away from the masculine in poetry but I’m not ready for Mary Oliver yet.

I think when I was younger I responded to poets like Cummings who felt Big Love and could spiral into the mad joys of it, because I could certainly do that too.  Baudelaire’s another one.  This was my favorite poem for a while:

“My dear little mad beloved was serving my dinner, and I was looking out of the open dining room window contemplating those moving architectural marvels that God constructs out of mist, edifices of the impalpable. And as I looked I was saying to myself: “All those phantasmagoria are almost as beautiful as my beloved’s beautiful eyes, as the green eyes of my mad monstrous little beloved.”

“All of a sudden I felt a terrible blow of a fist on my back and heard a husky and charming voice, an hysterical voice, a hoarse brandy voice, the voice of my dear little beloved, saying: “Aren’t you ever going to eat your soup, you damned bastard of a cloud-monger?”

Which I think explains my romantic life in college.

Somewhat embarrassingly a poet who I liked then and still like now is Araki Yasusada, who is both a) problematic and b) fictional.  Here’s a poem of his:

Walking in the vegetable patchlate at night, I was startled to findthe severed head of mymad daughter lying on the ground.Her eyes were upturned, gazing at me, ecstatic-like…(From a distance it had appearedto be a stone, haloed with light,as if cast there by Big-Bang.)What on earth are you doing, I said,you look ridiculous.Some boys buried me here,she said sullenly.Her dark hair, comet-like, trailed behind…Squatting, I pulled the turnip up by the root.

Yasusada was a hibakusha, a survivor of Hiroshima, who was invented (probably by the decidedly non-Japanese Kent Johnson) as a kind of prank on the literary world.  He gave his own poems weight by claiming that they were the product of this immensely authentic other and got them highly praised and widely published before the hoax was revealed.  The whole thing could be dismissed as the product of a reactionary making a bad point if the poems themselves weren’t still just as good after you knew the punchline.

[three-headed-monster]

Pls expand on poetry class

just kent, hunched over several pieces of ripped out notebook paper, because tomorrow is valentine's day and he wanted to write owen a nice poem but absolutely NOTHING is coming to his mind

he's been trying to figure out the end of this stanza but he can't find anything that rhymes with heart, and it SUCKS he'll have nothing to give owen on valentine's day to show him how much kent cares about him

and maybe it's so late kent falls asleep at his desk until a gentle pair of hands guides him to bed and tucks themselves into bed with him and pets his hair.

kent wakes up with his face pressed to owen's chest and the perfect way to end the stanza.

"i love you with all my heart,

let's be together until we're old farts"

[ofgraveconcern]

18th September 1709, birth of English scholar, lexicographer, and one time Ghost investigator Samuel Johnson. Although best known as the author of ‘A Dictionary of the English Language’, published in 1755, Johnson was also the most prominent member of the committee which investigated the 1762 London sensation of the Cock Lane Ghost, in which strange knocking sounds and ghostly apparitions were reported. William Kent the lodger in the building claimed that they were the ghost of his dead wife, named ‘Scratching Fanny’ from the supernatural scratching sounds that were allegedly heard from the room. Regular séances were held and Cock Lane was often made impassable by the throngs of interested bystanders. The house was visited by Samuel Johnson and also Horace Walpole, author of the ‘Castle of Otranto’, the first Gothic novel which was published in 1764. A pamphlet named ‘The Mystery Revealed’ which explained the details of the case was also published the same year, its authorship likely attributed to Johnson’s friend playwright and poet Oliver Goldsmith, best known for his 1770 poem ‘The Deserted Village’. 20th September 1803, birth of English novelist, story writer and playwright Catherine Ann Crowe, writer of The Nightside of Nature, published in 1846. Inspired by German writers, the book gives the reader chilling anecdotes of ghostly events, hauntings and other paranormal phenomena. The book became her most popular work, attempting to find a scientific, or, ‘psychic’ explanation of supernatural sightings and occurrences, during the height of the spiritualism movement. In February 1854, Catherine Ann Crowe was discovered naked in Edinburgh one night, (continued in the comments). #ghosthunting #ghostart #ghostartwork #ghostsightings #ghosthistory #darkhistory #ghostbooks #gothichistory #gothictales #gothicvictorian #victoriangothic #victoriangothicstyle #regencygothic #18thcentury #18thcenturyhistory #darkromantic #darkromanticism #historicalillustration #gothicillustration #historymemes #macabremonday #macabremondays #samueljohnson #castleofotranto #horacewalpole #candleart #candleartist #poltergeist #halloween #halloweendecor https://www.instagram.com/p/CUDKuZyFlfQ/?utm_medium=tumblr

[mohsenelbelasy000-blog]

Kent Johnson /WCW WRITES EZRA POUND THE DAY AFTER HIROSHIMA

Kent Johnson /WCW WRITES EZRA POUND THE DAY AFTER HIROSHIMA

WCW WRITES EZRA POUND THE DAY AFTER HIROSHIMA Kent Johnson [Note: An approximate version of this poem was published on January 1, 2010, at Mayday Magazine. Looking for something else, I stumbled upon it about a week ago. I had completely forgotten about the piece. I went about revising the poem and thought it would be timely to publish it here, at Sulphur [Surrealist Jungle], on January 1,…

[legojacques]

Legojacques’ Tumblr Fics Masterlist

Hey, you! Yes, you!

Are you interested in reading fics where Kenny P accidentally adopts a dragon? Or, fics that feature his dark-haired teammate with the ambiguous basketball nickname? Or, how about multiple fics from his cat’s point of view? Or, even just some good, ol’ positive fics featuring our favourite Las Vegas captain because you’re sick of the hate in the tags. It’s all here!

Parse not your jam? No problem!

I’ve got some classic Zimbits for you. AU fics where Jack is a little shit who pretends he can’t speak English? I’ve got that! How about the softest of fics where Jack and Bitty take the baby out for a drive? You betcha! A fic where Bitty is the face of Samwell and suddenly Jack is interested? Yup!

I’ve got so many fics and headcanons for you, featuring rare pairs such as: Whiskey/Dex, Jack /Ransom, and yes, even the very brief post that helped launch Bitty/Johnson.

So come on down to my newly organized master list of my writing! Waiting for you are bite-sized ficlets and posts that are all organized by pairing and labeled for all your fic-finding needs!

* = Personal favourite and recommended reading

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Bitty/Jack (Zimbits)

*-Jack and Bitty makeup after a fight

-Jack likes to take Bitty to museums

-Jack interferes when Bitty is trying to film his cooking show

*-It’s Always Been You (Ao3) - AU, Jack and Bitty accidentally swap phones.

*-Jack and Bitty both own bakeries and Jack can’t stop sneaking over to Bitty’s (AU)

-Jack as a parent (Bullet points, ZimmerKids)

*-Bitty eats his icecream and Jack can’t look away

*-Bitty’s bakery has a break in and Jack is the cop on the case (AU)

*-Bitty models for Samwell promotional material (AU where Bitty is not on the hockey team)

-Domestic, quiet mornings with Jack and Bitty

-Bitty is the bachelor on a dating show (AU)

-Bitty accidentally gets sent back in time (Back to Future AU)

-Bitty feeds Jack (slight nsfw suggestions, bullet points)

*-Jack gets back into bed on Christmas morning (ZimmerKids)

-Bitty make an innuendo about Santa and the group chat explodes

-Jack is building a deck and Bitty calls Alicia

-Jack misses Bitty

*-The baby won’t stop crying until they put her in the car and drive around (ZimmerKids)

*-Jack is a writer and Bitty is his housekeeper. Jack pretends he doesn’t speak English. (Love Actually AU)

-Jack wants Bitty to model for his photography class (AU)

-Jack is turned into a cat and Bitty takes care of a stray that he found (AU)

*-Bitty is an Apple store employee and Jack broke his phone (AU)

*-Jack loses his kid in a game of hide and seek (ZimmerKids)

*-Jack catches his kids making a mess in the kitchen (ZimmerKids)

*-Bitty works in a grocery store is annoyed that Jack won’t put anything back in the right place (grocery store AU)

*-Grocery store AU bonus innuendos (Bullet points)

*-Bitty is a cookbook writer and Jack buys his book (AU)

-Jack has a panic attack and hides in the same closet as Bitty

-Jack has a minor anxiety break down and calls Bitty

*-Jack stops for fast food with his twin kids

*-Jack shows his affection by bringing Bitty small gifts

*-Bitty gets snowed in and trapped in a small town

-Bitty is forced to visit a museum and Jack is a historical reenactor

*-Jack is an undercover spy at a party

-Jack has a photography exhibit but then the police show up

-Bitty’s thoughts on chicken tenders

*-Bitty, Jack, and their twin toddlers celebrate Easter

Bitty/Jack/Kent OT3 (Pimbits, PB&J)

-Kent can’t stand Bitty’s fannypack

-Kent and Bitty get bored of Jack’s documentaries

*-Jack and Bitty come to see Kent (Kit POV)

-The boys go fishing (Bullet point)

Bitty/Kent (Bittyparse)

-Anything Can Happen (AO3) - Kent invites Eric to spend the weekend with him in Las Vegas.

*-Bitty feels bad that Kent is drinking all alone at the bar (AU)

-Bitty and Kent go shopping for things in their apartment

-Bitty returns Kent’s cat (AU)

Kent/Jeff Troy a.k.a Swoops (Parswoops, Troyson)

-Kent gets in an argument with Swoops

-Kent and Swoops watch rom coms

*-Kent stresses over what to get for Swoops’ birthday

*-Kent and Jack compete against each other (background Zimbits)

*-Jeff is a photographer for the Aces (AU)

-Kent makes sure the baby is okay in the middle of the night

*-The Aces play matchmaker

*-Kit is Kent’s (reluctant) guardian angel and brings him a boyfriend (Kit POV)

-Kent shows Swoops pictures of Kit in a bar

*-Everyone draws the wrong conclusion from a picture Kent posts online

-Swoops shows up unexpectedly on Christmas morning

-Kent and Swoops are at the olympics where they meet a famous figure skater 

Nursey/Dex (Nurseydex)

-Nursey finds out he has to interview the guy he slept with last night (AU)

-Nursey wakes up in the hospital

-Dex gets a bloody nose and Nursey takes care of him

-Nursey gets a bit jealous and possessive

*-Nursey keeps writing love poems for someone and Dex gets jealous

-Nursey has a public sex kink (slight nsfw suggestions, bullet points)

Kent/Tater (Patater)

-Tater keeps saying “I ship it” incorrectly (Tater/Kent)

-Tater and Kent visit Kent’s mother and look through his childhood photos (Tater/Kent)

-Tater and Kent have rival restaurants (Short summary, Bob’s Burger’s AU, Kent/Tater)

-Kent has a hairless cat and Tater has a pug; they bond over ugly pets

-Kent and Tater keep their relationship a secret

-Kent is learning Russian when Tater gets traded to the Aces

Other Pairs

-Tango sees Bitty for the first time (one-sided crush, Bitty/Tango)

*-Shitty is the best art critic (Shitty/Lardo)

-Holster thinks Jack is trying to steal his best friend (Jack/Ransom)

*-Whisky keeps breaking things to get Dex to fix them (Whiskey/Dex)

-Whiskey and Dex can’t agree when their anniversary is (Whiskey/Dex)

-Kent runs into his childhood best friend (Kent/OMC)

-Bittyholtz musings (Bullet points)

-Kent misses Jack (one-sided, Kent/Jack)

-Dex kisses Holster at a party (Dex/Holster)

*-Kent writes a letter to Jack (Kent/Jack)

-Johnson realizes he’s not meant to end up with Bitty (Johnson/Bitty)

-In which Bitty ends up with Shitty (AU, short summary, Shitty/Bitty)

-They both hate hockey team (Editor in Chief/Fry Guy)

-Bob has a twin brother and through a mix-up, Alicia thinks he’s his twin (Bob/Alicia)

-Jack’s birthday brings back memories for Kent (Kent/Jack)

-Ransom and Holster propose to each other (Ransom/Holster)

-Bob buys Alicia hot chocolate

-Holster comforts Ransom after he’s hurt (Ransom/Holster)

Non-Pairing

-If Bitty were on a Great British Bake Off-esque kind of show (Bullet points)

-Jack as a children’s author (Bullet Points)

-Holster and Ransom play Calvinball

-Jack and Ransom smuggle Canadian snacks (Headcanon)

-Senor Bun’s POV (Bullet points)

-SMH’s childhood toys (Bullet points)

-Lego Bitty meets Lego Jack (Bullet points)

-Hockey mom Lardo (Bullet points)

-Headcanon of Holster as an actor

-Headcanon of Holster as an actor pt 2 (Bullet point)

-Headcanons for Swoops (Bullet point)

-Roll Up the Rim is back; Jack and Ransom are excited

-Jack shows Tater how to Roll Up the Rim

-Jack shoots a heartwarming Amazon Prime commercial

-Bitty and Tater are private detectives (AU, bullet points)

-Tater and jam (headcanon)

*-Little Jack falls asleep on Bob

*-Holster and Ransom’s new Friday night routine

-Ransom discovers Holster can be a coral reef sometimes

Kent Parson Centric, Non Pairing

-Mama Parson thoughts (Bullet Points)

-Kent cries over cats he wants to adopt (Short headcanon)

-Kent and Bitty as Lilo and Stitch

-Kent and the rookie player

-Kent is shocked to find Swoops’ real name from Johnson

-Kent shoots a heartwarming Amazon Prime commercial

-Johnson shows up with a new cat for Kent

-Kent stumbles home drunk and upset

-Kent babysits for his teammate and plays kittens

Kit Purrson Centric

-Kent smuggles his cat and gets caught (Short headcanon)

-Kent and the Purrito

-Kate Pawson, Kent’s other cat (Bullet points)

-Kit and her bow tie collection (Bullet points)

*-How to (Kind Of) Train Your Dragon Pt 1 - Kent accidentally acquires a dragon

*-How to (Kind Of) Train Your Dragon Pt 2 - Kent is a dragon dad now

*-Kit goes missing (Sixth Sense AU, Warning: off screen animal death)

*-Kit is a witch’s familiar (Kit POV)

-Kent saves a kitten at a kid’s birthday party

*-Kit wants to come along on Kent’s trips

*-Kent is sad and Kit wants to cheer him up (Kit POV)

*-Kent’s childhood cat, Snowball (cat POV, off-screen animal death)

-Kit climbs the Christmas tree

Kit and Junior the Puppy Series

*-Kit and Junior: the new puppy

-Kit and Junior: the monster in the house

-Kit and Junior: Junior asks too many questions

-Kit and Junior: Swoops comes to visit

-Kit and Junior: Junior is afraid of fireworks

-Kit and Junior: Junior breaks something

-Kit and Junior: Kent and Swoops finally admit they like each other (Parswoops)

-Kit and Junior: Kent gets sick (Parswoops)

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A 2017 Bennington Alumni Reading List!

As 2017 wraps up, we’re looking towards a new year full of great books! Here’s a year-in-review of some of the new releases of 2017 by or about Bennington alumni.

- Lydia ’19

From Rockaway (re-release) and Swell by Jill Eisenstadt ’85

"With tremendous tenderness, Eisenstadt captures the traumatized Rockaway of the early 2000s in swirling Technicolor....A whimsical portrait of a still-raw community." --Kirkus Reviews

Honeysuckle Drift by Virginia Johnson, MFA ’12

“The scent of honeysuckle that pervades Honeysuckle Drift is sweet in the in the way things are just before they rot. The story that unfolds for the young, well-meaning protagonist, Ellen, will be both a tragedy and a chance to overcome it. In this fine debut novel Virginia Johnson beautifully evokes the place, the era, and the terrible ties between parents and children, ties that, while invisible, can strangle as well as bind.”—Jim Krusoe, author of The Sleep Garden

Botticelli's Muse by Dorah Blume (Deborah Bluestein ’65)

“Blume’s interpretation of master painter Sandro Botticelli is at once a florid love story and a chilling political drama. Sensuous and provocative as well as mysterious, the novel follows Sandro’s troubled relationship with Florence’s ruling Medici family.” --Publisher’s Weekly

Shock Wave by Florian Louisoder ’82

“Shock Wave took me immediately with it's premise because I love time travel related stories...It's a great journey for the imagination to see how one event can alter the future in so many "shocking "ways. Louisoder has an uncanny knack for fleshing out his characters and making them live and breathe on the page. I really look forward to the next in the series.” --Amazon Customer Review

The Other Island: Ben’s Story by Barbara Kent Lawrence ’65

“The Other Island is as much a reflection and refraction of her first novel as it is a sequel. Islands of Time traced the love affair between Becky Granger, a summer visitor to Mount Desert Island, and Ben Bunker, a year-round resident of Little Cranberry Island — from Becky's point of view. In The Other Island, Lawrence gives voice to Ben's side of the romance: "She's told you her story," he states at the novel's start. "Now I'll tell you mine. They are wound up in me like the way I was in her from the moment I met her."” --The Penobscot Bay Pilot

Sally’s Genius by Brooks Clark, a biography about pioneering educator Sally Smith ’50

“In 1967 Sally Smith needed a school for her son Gary, who suffered from dyslexia, among other learning disabilities. Finding none, she founded one, the Lab School of Washington. In the process, she developed the Academic Club Methodology, by which children with learning disabilities can be engaged and inspired in school, where they had previously suffered only frustration and defeat. While directing the Lab School, Smith taught her system and ran the master's program in special education at American University for 32 years, inspiring a new generation of teachers to pioneer innovations in education.  Smith also wrote books, starting with "No Easy Answers" in the late 70s and in various editions thereafter, that serve as the definitive works in the special education field. Smith was driven, creative, unique, and unforgettable.”--Lulu.com

How Do I Explain This to my Kids? by Ava Siegler ’59

“Child psychologist Dr. Ava Siegler brings together stories by authors and writers...about the conversations they are having with their children in the current political climate...as well as how to raise them to be engaged citizens.” --Bill Moyers & Company

Positive Art Therapy Theory and Practice: Integrating Positive Psychology with Art Therapy co-authored by Gioia Chilton ’89

"Wilkinson & Chilton are synonymous with positive art therapy – I am excited about this book and its potential to revolutionize art therapy theory and practice! It’s a wonderful and much needed contribution to the literature, promoting strengths-based and relational approaches to art therapy practice grounded in positive psychology.”-- Donna Betts, PhD, ATR-BC, president, American Art Therapy Association, associate professor, Art Therapy Program, George Washington University

Heart Smart for Women by Jennifer Mieres ’82

“A terrific, potentially life-saving book that’s a must read for all black and Latina women.” --Jane Chesnutt, Editor-in-Chief, Woman’s Day

Thinking with the Dancing Brain by Rima Faber ’65

“a must read book for educators, artists, and scientists. This gem is revolutionary in its structure. Current brain research and valuable educational theories are interspersed in every chapter with simple movement explorations that make the research understandable and the theories memorable. The book proves once and for all that the body and brain work as one unit and that thought cannot take place without movement.” --Anne Green Gilbert, founding Director of Creative Dance Center

Blue Money by Janet Capron ’69

“Capron writes with the fearless, experiential drive of a Beat poet… This intense, electrifying memoir explores a life of prostitution in 1970s New York City.” --Shelf Awareness

Going to Wings by Sandra Worsham ’06

“Sandra Worsham’s humor, clear-eyed honesty stitch this amazing quilt of meaning and experience together in a wonderful way.” --Kirkus Reviews

I’m the One Who Got Away by Andrea Jarrell, MFA ’01

"Though the settings of Jarrell’s stories range from Camden, Maine, to Italy and Los Angeles, the author’s small-town Americana tone is reminiscent of Joyce Carol Oates. The work’s lasting message is that love, like Jarrell’s prose, is both painful and beautiful. A stunning series of recollections with a feminist slant." ―Kirkus Reviews STARRED REVIEW

Maya Healers by Fran Antmann ’69

“Fran Antmann’s work in Maya Healers, years in the making, is imbued with the depth and texture only great photography can achieve; where the images transcend being mere documents but reach great art. Many of the images, especially of the people in their daily lives, are transcendent and absolutely gorgeous, revealing an empathy and visual perception that is timeless.” --Ed Kashi, international prize-winning photojournalist

Sign of the Apocalypse: Ruminations and Wit from an American Roadside Prophet by John Getchell ’86

“Friends, neighbors, and passersby from all over the country can’t fail to miss “The Sign’s" constantly changing humor and insight. On occasion, The Sign of the Apocalypse (SOTA) traffics in the earnest, but at its heart is rooted in a deep-seated desire to express the sarcastic and snort-worthy. This, and a love of haiku, pizza, Latin, double entendre, and the worst puns ever crafted.” --Amazon

We and She, You and Then, You Again by Leah Tieger ’03

“Leah Tieger examines the human condition with a stark elegance and passion of language that allows us to inhabit the ragged husks of bodies—of seeds—and gives us hope even in our emptiness. Like a gentle farmer, she removes our desiccated husks and listens as we long for more than blankets, for shelter from the sun. She writes the necessary poems of minutia, of lovers forcing approximate passions, of unraveling sweaters hanging in silent closets. She watches the waiting parts in us and reveals them, allowing the small spaces of our lives to shine through, into insightful—and honest—existence.”-- Josh Gaines

Bloodline by Radha Marcum ’96 

“Congratulations to Radha Marcum. Her debut poetry collection, Bloodline...delves into the difficult family history of the work of Marcum's grandfather on the Manhattan Project, building the first atomic bombs in Los Alamos, New Mexico, during World War II—and how that both brave and heavy legacy has affected the women in her family, both then and now.”  --WinningWriters.com, Subscriber News July 2017

The Myrtlewood Cookbook: Pacific Northwest Home Cooking by Andrew Barton ’09

"This cookbook is unabashedly PNW to its core, from the cutting boards carved from native Myrtlewood trees to the mushrooms that pop up in soup, risotto, and pizza. Unlike most cookbooks, Barton’s recipes read more like an actual book; each dish spans multiple pages with paragraphs in the place of ordered steps. Barton’s conversational tone is certainly homey, as is the food itself." -- Seattle Met 

[cambridgeteenroom]

June 28th marks the 50th anniversary of Stonewall

Beginning in the early hours of June 28, 1969 (some sources date this to June 27-28), police raided the Stonewall Inn in New York City, purportedly because the bar did not have a liquor license.  The response to the ensuing police brutality became symbolic in the fight for LGBTQ+ rights.  The following year, the first Pride marches took place in cities across the country.  

In 2016, President Barack Obama dedicated the park at Stonewall as the United States’ first LGBTQ+ monument.  A memorial commemorating trans activist and legendary Stonewall participant Marsha P. Johnson will be unveiled by 2021. 

The Cambridge LGBTQ+ Commission paid tribute to Stonewall and Marsha P. Johnson at the city’s annual Pride Brunch on June 8, 2019.  Here is a poem by Marsha P. Johnson, read by commissioner Silas Winer, for that event.

Soul

You can count your karma  if Nirvana is your goal you can shake and you can rattle you can rock and roll

You can be a Clark Kent or a Lois or an Alice down a hole, you can be a vampire on a mountain with a heart of stone black coal

You can be a leather angel on a sleek black Harley bike or a redhead screaming fag or a dazzling dyke

You can lock yourself in a closet in a fine mink stole but it really doesn’t matter if you ain’t got soul