Kristin Grogan

@kristingrogan

writer, professor, gardener, Philadelphia evangelist, spokeswoman for the lesbian agenda. Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work

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Kristin Grogan@kristingrogan· 1d

I close my eyes and see this light. Leave Big Bend alone!!!

light on the chisos basin in big bend national park

Kristin Grogan@kristingrogan· 2d

everybody is talking about woke 1 and suspiciously no mention of the fact that it’s possible today to buy corn-flavored popcorn

A bag of roasted sweet corn flavored popcorn

Kristin Grogan@kristingrogan· 2d

Literally you

Kristin Grogan@kristingrogan· 3d

phew

"To help residents prepare for the onslaught of tourists, the friendly folks at Airbnb have partnered with the Obama Foundation to “host a free virtual workshop focused on helping local residents welcome new visitors, earn supplemental income, and champion their neighborhoods…building off of Airbnb’s historic donations to community organizations focused on boosting economic empowerment.” According to Airbnb’s statistics, South Side residents earned more than $15.1 million from hosting visitors through Airbnb in 2025—“income,” the company tells us, “that approximately 60 percent of hosts say helped them stay in their homes and manage the city’s rising cost of living.” Economic empowerment, indeed."

Kristin Grogan@kristingrogan· 11d

it’s been weeks and I’m still thinking about the embroidered vegetable vest from the Schiaparelli show at the V&A. Those carrot buttons! The marvelous cauliflower!

1941 embroidered vest, carrots and turnips and cauliflowers embroidered all over; 3D vegetable buttons

Kristin Grogan@kristingrogan· 15d

I am leaving the internet for good

Instagram influencer post of white woman holding mug; text reads: I used to hate my house. Here are 5 AI prompts that turned it into my favorite place to be

Kristin Grogan@kristingrogan· 16d

Terrified a friend recently by confessing that my unread emails were “probably about 9,000” but logging on just now ai see that the actual number is so much more deranged

Inbox numbers: 40131 items (20594 unreas)

Kristin Grogan@kristingrogan· 28d

Related, and seen in Oxford: Hopkins’ draft of The Windhover

Gerard Manley Hopkins’ manuscript of The Windhover

Kristin Grogan@kristingrogan· 28d

What if we kissed at the Philadelphia-themed bar on Kensington Church Street

Kristin Grogan@kristingrogan· Jul 11

a bold message; simple, clear, convincing

a truck parked on a London street decorated with VOTE BINFACE graffiti

Kristin Grogan@kristingrogan· Jul 8

took the ferry out to the Isle of May to see their 52,000 pairs of nesting puffins (not pictured: pufflings in their burrows, just starting to walk). Admired: their handsome beaks, their mouths full of sand eels, their graceless flight. I belong to the puffins now

Kristin Grogan@kristingrogan· Jul 7

Ryan Ruby, speaking about Frank O’Hara’s “Biotherm”, hands out a tube of Biotherm barrier cream. Best moisturized conference I’ve ever attended

Tube of biotherm moisturizer held in front of conference speaker

Kristin Grogan@kristingrogan· Jun 30

lifted this morning at Physical Culture, Putney; 98 years old and going strong; built under a railway arch; impeccable vibes; the rumbling of the District line overhead responsible for benching a PR

interior of physical culture, a powerlifting gym in putney

Kristin Grogan@kristingrogan· Jun 30

Faculty will be ”given a score between zero and three by the university” - unbelievable stupidity and cruelty, solidarity with comrades at Exeter

Kristin Grogan@kristingrogan· Jun 29

barbarism begins in the home counties

Marks and spender chocolate strawberry pistachio sandwich

Kristin Grogan@kristingrogan· Jun 25

imagine this with your beautiful beautiful curls

it’s Keith Flint, of Prodigy fame, singing and sporting a green-dye duo-hawk, reimagined as red curls

Kristin Grogan@kristingrogan· Jun 25

Kristin Grogan@kristingrogan· Jun 25

sometimes the kiln is very nice to you and your enormous, fearsome child remains in one piece

A large vase in a bright pattern, with sunflowers

Kristin Grogan@kristingrogan· Jun 25

I am once again thinking about Sylvia Plath picking her nose: "How many desks and chairs have I secretly befouled since childhood? God, what a sexual satisfaction!"

As for minute joys: as I was saying: do you realize the illicit sensuous delight I get from picking my nose? I always have, ever since I was a child—there are so many subtle varitaions of sensation. A delicate, pointed-nailed fifth finger can catch dry scabs and flakes of mucous in the nostril and draw them out to be looked at, crumbled between fingers, and flicked to the floor in minute crusts. Or a heavier, determinedforefinger can reach up and smear down-and-out the soft, resilient, elastic greenish-yellow smallish blobs of mucous, roll them round and jelly-like between thumb and forefinger, and spread them on the under surface of a desk or chair where they will harden into organic crusts. How many desks and chairs have I thus secretly befouled since childhood? Or sometimes there will be blood mingled with the mucous: in dry brown scabs, or bright sudden wet red on the finger that scraped too rudely the nasal membranes. God, what a sexual satisfaction! It is absorbing to look with new sudden eyes on the old warn habits: to see a sudden luxurious and pestilential “snot-green sea,” and shiver with the shock of recognition. (January 25, 1953, Journals 165)

Kristin Grogan@kristingrogan· Jun 24

camp!

Kristin Grogan@kristingrogan· Jun 14

vanessa bell, sister of virginia woolf, arrives in her buttery yellow summer best

Kristin Grogan@kristingrogan· Jun 13

how it went: made a pot for the tiny tree a student gave to me

Kristin Grogan@kristingrogan· May 31

how it’s going: my fearsome spiky monster is now a perfect beauty

Kristin Grogan@kristingrogan· May 30

most everything that is bad today (much to choose from) can be temporarily forgotten by picking some little flowers and arranging them in little vases