Kim Andrews

@kqandrews

“poetry person,” university of ottawa. displaced pennsylvanian. www.kqandrews.com.

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Kim Andrews@kqandrews· 15d

Oh I’m so sorry to hear this. We also have a Bean (full name Beans, but also goes by Beano, A Single Bean, and Hey Hey Hey Stop That); he can open at least four different kinds of door.

Large tabby cat on a gray couch snoogling against a human arm

Kim Andrews@kqandrews· 29d

Hey I’m in this! I posted this a little while ago but ICYMI, here’s a chunk of the argument such as it is!

cially exhilarating quality (25). The privilege of Szymaszek's desert thinking, on the other hand, is a rarer one, an inhabitation of nonin-dustrial temporality (using the sky to know time") that, implicitly, can correct one's "wrong-headed theories."
That is to say, right thinking-whether it gets done under the sky or underground—is at odds with the time forms of capital. In what follows, I want to suggest that such at-odds-ness is a constitutive quality of specialized hermeneutic practices most legible in the form of the academic disciplines loosely and not uncontroversially grouped under the heading of "the liberal arts." While my focus here, because of my own disciplinary expertise, will be pointed toward a narrow slice of this grouping having to do with textual and cultural interpre-tation, I want to leave open the possibility (indeed, strong probability) that formal features of other disciplines, including the basic sciences, would also serve to point toward a mode of human flourishing that is rooted in alternative temporalities. This is not to say that disciplinar-ity is inherently politically radical, nor that the structures of thinking toward which this essay points are the only ways to properly reorient our sense of temporality toward a future beyond capital. But I do want to register the degree to which the fetishization of " interdiscipli-narity," which is pervasive to the point where it is both an administrative talking point and an antiadministrative rallying cry, obscures the potential affordances of a more vertically, rather than horizontally, oriented practice of acquiring knowledge: depth, that is, over breadth.

Kim Andrews@kqandrews· 29d

We have the same cat! Ours wound up staying quite small tho.

A gray and white cat sits behind a couch. She looks like she’s asleep sitting up.

Kim Andrews@kqandrews· Jun 28

Greetings from the Rocky Mountains! The future is now. 🫤

A mountain ridge line, above which the sky is hugely smeared with wildfire smoke

Kim Andrews@kqandrews· Jun 19

“Ball? Ball.”

A gray cat staring at a soccer ball on a tv

Kim Andrews@kqandrews· Jun 6

What am I doing with my one wild and precious life. Makin stupid little baguettes is what

A hand holding a demi baguette against a brick background

Kim Andrews@kqandrews· May 26

Having salmon for lunch. Beans very politely hanging out next to me, no reason at all, just sitting here, chilling

Brown tabby on a white stool that clearly used to be red

Kim Andrews@kqandrews· May 25

*Extremely* revealing comparison here re: grade inflation, and exhibit number 592 that students need to be made aware of the conditions under which they are being educated

Yes — if done right. Easy A's reduce the incentive for students to learn, resulting in less knowledgeable and less skilled graduates. "For our new cap to work, we will have to show that it is part of a broader effort to improve education and learning - that we are not simply punishing our students with lower grades but raising the bar with more challenging and exciting classes," Jason Furman and David Laibson, two Harvard professors, write for The Times.
No. A cap on A's does nothing to address the real problem driving grade inflation: that universities rely on underpaid, overworked adjunct instructors and graduate students for a huge amount of grading. "Schools would much rather wring their hands over vague cultural 'softness' than admit the obvious: that their revenue-maximizing logic is actively undermining educational quality," Alex Bronzini-Vender, a Harvard student, writes for Washington Monthly.

Kim Andrews@kqandrews· May 21

And also, look at this beauty. Look at what we’re missing.

An illustration of a greenish bird with an incredibly long, curved beak

Kim Andrews@kqandrews· May 21

Good morning. Would you like perhaps a small collection of poems that tries to capture the long vanishing of a small greenish bird? YOU CAN GET ONE HERE: flumepress.com/authors/anim...

ANIMALS I NEVER SAW
Kimberly Quiogue Andrews

Kim Andrews@kqandrews· Apr 29

Look at these dorks. Just chilling, eating some pine needles, lookin’ like the Parks Canada logo

Two beavers looking quite a lot like chunks of wood, or maybe rocks, on the shore of a flood-level Ottawa River

Kim Andrews@kqandrews· Apr 26

Officially leveled up the bread baking hobby today. Where am I going to put this thing

Kim Andrews@kqandrews· Apr 5

Good morning, here is the best Easter poem ever written.

Good time Jesus, by James Tate

Jesus got up one day a little later than usual. He had been dreaming so deep there was nothing left in his head. What was it? A nightmare, dead bodies walking all around him, eyes rolled back, skin falling off. But he wasn't afraid of that. It was a beautiful day. How 'bout some coffee? Don't mind if I do. Take a little ride on my donkey, I love that donkey.
Hell, I love everybody.

Kim Andrews@kqandrews· Apr 3

Guys noooo

Back of a truck that says “Hershey squirt express” 😫

Kim Andrews@kqandrews· Apr 2

Kim Andrews@kqandrews· Mar 31

Everyone say HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY to Toast, who is very one years old, which means she celebrated by knocking a bunch of shit over at 3am 🎉

A gray and white cat lays splayed on her back on a red pattered rug. At the top of the image is a catnip banana. For scale.

Kim Andrews@kqandrews· Mar 24

Ah yeah I’ve got one of these. Picture of niece standing in a puddle with caption “braving the flood!” BECOMES:

Child braves floods; lifeguard made poncho from trash bag.

Kim Andrews@kqandrews· Feb 9

For the past couple of years I’ve been working on a weird little collection of poems about the Kaua’i ‘akioloa, a Hawaiian honeycreeper that was the last member of its whole genus. I’m over the moon to say that said collection has found a home at Flume Press: flumepress.com/contest/