Literature prof at Sarah Lawrence College. PhD from Columbia. Actor, paleographer, tradbow archer. Works on neighbourship in early modern English drama. She/her
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ALT Five by five bingo card. From left to right and top to bottom: drinking under the moon, bodies of water, standing at the top of a historical building I proclaim, food symbolism, emotional guqin performance, responding to or disagreeing with another poem, dramatic snowfall, sent from the borderlands, crying woman in the boudoir, missing one's ancestral hometown, awaking from a dream, feeling sad on a boat, male poets expressing deep affections for one another, fallen flower petals, lonely concubine in the palace, advice on how to be a hermit, farewell my friend, messages sent by wild geese, willow trees, carefree clouds, satirical comments about the emperor, ten references in the same poem, angsty birds, traveller on the road
ALT Butt-end of January, leaf-ash and unclaimed snow, Cold blue of blue jay cutting down to the feeder box, The morning lit with regret, No trace of our coming, no trace of our going back.
ALT Image of Xanthoria elegans, also known as Rusavskia elegans, commonly known as Sunburst Lichen, growing on a rock. It's bright orange!
ALT Image from the ISS: Looking out of the 'Cupola,' an observation window of the ISS built by the European Space Agency. The dome weighs over 1800kg and is equipped with shutters in case of contact with micrometeorites and debris. PHOTOGRAPH BY PAOLO NESPOLI AND ROLAND MILLER
ALT Skeleton like person coming out of his crypt. The words are in Old English "hwonne thu dead eart ac thu hyrst mann nathwylcne secgan "Sceacespere spraec Eald Englisc." For all you plebs out there the translations is "when you are dead but you hear a random man say "Shakespeare speaks Old English."
