Johanna Winant
@johannawinant
Posts are my own. Poetry is everyone's. She/her. Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century (Princeton UP, 2025), Lyric Logic (Columbia UP, 2026), essays, reviews, and other writing in various places
Lol you beat me to gloating but the color is way off in the photo you posted design credit @glavey.bsky.social
Writing this book was also an experience of reasoning without guarantees. I'm grateful to Sneha Chowdhury for reading it with such care and intelligence.
If you’re lost in Robert’s Bookshop on the Oregon Coast, you might turn a corner and find yourself standing on the edge of a plane’s cockpit
Yeah I think the Odyssey* is great— it’s so old and yet it still really really works *my parents‘ totally perfect minivan from 1995 that I learned to drive on and also drove all around town today
look at how in the Parthenon marbles the marble represents marble
yes I’m in London and just saw the flood tablet at the British Museum and felt dizzy
my hotel in London seems to have put this in my room while I was out for dinner
I don't recommend having a leak in your sink that trickles a small amount of water into the ceiling below, but it is very cool that some amount of it collected inside this lightbulb
a king ordered that an alphabet should be invented here and it was
the students in my year-long freshman humanities course heard me complain about our room‘s squeaky chalk enough that they gave me a present of what looks like truly excellent chalk from South Korea at the end of the semester 💗
years ago, @zunguzungu.bsky.social tweeted about an Italian (?) neighbor (??) who once said that you can grow enough to feed a person in a coffin’s worth of ground. anyway, here’s the huge salad I just made from my tiny garden.
tfw your family knows you miss the bear claw at one particular bakery near your old house in Pittsburgh
a student came to talk about Robert Lowell and also brought me flowers
yes I brought moose tracks ice cream, yes I had tattoos made for this too, and yes I memorized the whole poem myself anyway because I love it so much, and also I’ll love it the most when we recite it together