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I think it's okay to say "crap" when you see it and without any obligation to provide an alternative, but, it's surely the case that the Nobel committee could have awarded the prize -- among English language poets -- to someone like Catharine Savage Brosman, Dana Gioia, Timothy Steele, Ted Kooser, Paul Muldoon, A.E. Stallings, B.H. Fairchild, Charles Martin, Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Mary Jo Salter, Robert Pinsky (feeling generous) . . . or a balony sandwich. Sandwich for the win.

Sami Gold@souljagoyteller · 12h

Any right-winger getting mad about Anne Carson’s Nobel should be forced to name 5 living poets they would’ve given the Nobel to instead

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Mark Bauerlein

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Gioia: "American poetry now belongs to a subculture. No longer part of the mainstream of artistic and intellectual life, it has become the specialized occupation of a relatively small and isolated group."

Armand D'Angour@ArmandDAngour · Oct 9

You don’t have to be a philistine to call this total dreck.

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I am NOT "underrated."

Clarence Caddell@truegodsattend · 13h

This guy is an underrated comic genius.

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Christopher J. Scalia

@cjscalia

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RIP. What a legend.

Jarrett Payton@paytonsun · 20h

It’s with a heavy heart that I’m sharing the Ditka family has announced the passing of Mike Ditka this morning.
Da Coach. Hall of Famer. The heartbeat of the ’85 Bears and a Super Bowl champion. Chicago won’t be the same.
Prayers to Diana and the family.
RIP, Coach. 🐻⬇️

Here’s a statement from the family:

It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved husband, father, grandfather, and friend, Mike Ditka. While the world knew Mike as a Hall of Fame football player, legendary coach, and leader of the Chicago Bears’ Super Bowl XX championship team, we knew him as the heart of our family. Mike will be missed beyond measure and remembered forever.
With love and gratitude, The Ditka Family

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Here is a seminar I did for the @tabletmag this week, a discussion that ranges from Thomas Aquinas and John Donne to my own recent poems.

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What's most rewarding about the Nobel Prize in literature is that it serves as an annual reminder that people really do believe poetry should involve music, measure, rhetoric, insight, and wisdom, even if almost the whole of the academic world has long since committed itself to celebrating stupefying fragmentary nonsense as a work of genius.

Armand D'Angour@ArmandDAngour · Oct 9

You don’t have to be a philistine to call this total dreck.

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Oct 9

I thought this post was going to be about Indiana, or I wouldn't have read it.

Miles Smith IV@IVMiles · Oct 8

Rolling in to Vienna and reminded that, if you go strictly off of cuisine, the capital of what was once one of Europe’s great empires is basically the culinary equivalent of Indiana.*

*This is not a criticism of Austria or Indiana. Real ones know.

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Oct 9

I think the disbelief is general like snow over Ireland.

Gail Finke@gailfinke · Oct 9

This is a Nobel Laureate????

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Thomas Mirus

@CatholicPods

Oct 8

When Michael Pakaluk uses Claude to attack a text, whether it be a papal encyclical or our pledge against AI writing, it is not only unserious, but there is a sense that he knows it is an act of contempt to feed a text into AI for critique in this way. Which bolsters our position.

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Shemaiah Gonzalez

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Oct 8

I must pinch myself that I am part of this collection from @IgnatiusPress ! It comes out the 23rd but is available for preorder now.
We are, at every moment, shaped with care by a Creator. Artists, however—who know intimately the blood, sweat, and tears of the creative process—can help us sense how marvelous it is to be created. @Fitzthewriter @iamfujimura @JMWSPT @agostino_harry @MG_Mangan0 amzn.to/4zsAPdL #affiliate

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Thomas Mirus

@CatholicPods

Oct 8

We would love to get some more big online apologetics names to sign, because AI is a special temptation in that field.

Thomas Mirus@CatholicPods · Oct 7

Catholic Culture has just launched the Pledge Against AI Catholic Content and Text (PAACCT)! This statement was signed by a number of Catholic institutions, thinkers, writers, and media producers, standing together to uphold the essential human activities of thought and communication against the ongoing attempt to replace them with AI.

Read the document and see the list of signatories below.

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James Matthew Wilson

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Oct 8

At @ND_EthicsCenter last weekend, several of us discussed whether a cause ought to be opened for Flannery O'Connor. I was an unqualified "yes" on that question. This old essay explains why.

thepublicdiscourse.com/2020/09/71085/

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Oct 8

I found this really interesting: What's it like to be the one Jewish student in the only Catholic MFA program in creative writing in the world, at @stthomashouston?

benjamin919.substack.com/p/should-you-s…

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Thomas Mirus

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Oct 7

Pledge Against AI Catholic Content and Text (PAACCT)
catholicculture.org/commentary/ple…

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Thomas Mirus

@CatholicPods

Oct 7

Here is the starting list of signatories on the Pledge Against AI Catholic Content and Text.

Institutions:

Catholic Culture
Catholic World Report @cworldreport
Wiseblood Books @WisebloodBooks
Humanum Review
MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of St. Thomas
The Colosseum
Dappled Things @DappledThings1

Individuals:

Phil Lawler @PhilLawler
Matthew Levering
John C. Cavadini
James Matthew Wilson @JMWSPT
Edward Feser @FeserEdward
D.C. Schindler
Erick Ybarra @ErickYbarra3
Katy Carl @MrsKatyCarl
Larry Chapp @LarryChappGS22
R.J. Snell
J. Budziszewski
Emily Stimpson Chapman
Amy Welborn @amywelborn2
Trevor Cribben Merrill @cribbenMerrill

We will continue adding signatures to the page as more people request to sign it!

Thomas Mirus@CatholicPods · Oct 7

Pledge Against AI Catholic Content and Text (PAACCT)
catholicculture.org/commentary/ple…

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Oct 7

West Michigan Friends, join us tomorrow evening for a reception and presentation by Dr. Ray Guarendi.

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John Byron Kuhner

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Oct 6

Oldie but still relevant

Josh Hochschild@JoshHochschild · Jul 19, 2019

Fellow book-lovers and readers, have you noticed respectable presses issuing "hardcovers" with:

* bindings glued not sewn
* low-resolution digital printing
* grey (not black) print
* subpar paper
?

Charging full hardcover price for cheap print-on-demand product is dishonest.

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