Patrick Kindig
@pdkindig
Asst Prof of English. Lit crit: Fascination: Trance, Enchantment, and American Modernity (2022). Poetry: Agape (Forthcoming 2026) / fascinations (2025). All views expressed here are mine, not my employer's. pdkindig.wordpress.com.
Just a little reminder that this (sexy, gay) book comes out in October/is available for preorder 🥺👉👈. bookshop.org/p/books/agap...
The unadulterated joy of getting Korean food for the first time since...grad school? Probably?
My husband has pointed out that Sam's Club's new logo looks an awful lot like the logo for another app, &, uh...
Are you looking for a bookish way to celebrate Pride? Consider buying my v gay poetry collection Agape, now available for preorder via most book vendors! You won't get it until October (LGBTQ+ History Month!), but you can feel PROUD of yourself for supporting queer poetry for the rest of June. 1/2
Last time we went camping, I (apparently already) had lyme disease. This time, it's supposed to rain the whole weekend. At least everyone is very cute!!
PSA: this is my favorite poetry collection I've read in a long time. Hilarious, politically urgent, carefully written--highly recommend!!
Reading Contending Forces for the first time--a real mix of "yas" and "ick":
Thrilled to have a little post-apocalyptic poem in the latest issue of Bear Review! bearreview.com/br/v12-2-pat...
Had a baby fall asleep on me; my husband & I were called "favorite gay uncles" by an intimidating tween = a successful Easter.
The result's of today's card-pulling experiment in my honors seminar, where we tested everyone for ESP. (We're reading Hill House rn.) The verdict: one of my students might actually be psychic?? And I most definitely am not.
Increasingly, I think LOTE (2020) is the best novel of the 21st century.
I, an idiot, am at an academic conference while my husband is snugging a smooth collie & watching the greatest episode of Portlandia ever made:
Lmao at the only AWP picture in which I appear: a blurry, grad-school-style selfie taken at the IU Alumni Happy Hour's afterparty.
LOL. Apparently Indiana has become so unlivable that it is literally trying to pay people who have fled to come back.
Truly over the moon to have an article--"Cruising as Contact (at a Distance)"--in the latest issue of PMLA (!!!), which offers a gentle corrective to the queer-theoretical tendency to celebrate gay cruising as a radically utopian, egalitarian, prosocial practice. 1/6 tinyurl.com/5ej85pcj
Documenting my husband's first trip to Sam's Club (he was a Costco kid):
Preparing for the in-class trial of one William Budd (played, ofc, by our current reigning Sexiest Man Alive):