colby 🎠
@babysbbreath.bsky.social
Poet; Educator; Harvard Alum
Based in Alabama, Poems in Various Places
www.colbymeeks.com
Based in Alabama, Poems in Various Places
www.colbymeeks.com
In honor of Dolly Day, and one month without the angel herself, a poem I wrote after her passing 🤍🦋
September 25, 2026 at 2:32 PM
In honor of Dolly Day, and one month without the angel herself, a poem I wrote after her passing 🤍🦋
In light of, shall we say, renewed interested in digital surveillance technology I’m very inclined to revise the first chapter of my undergraduate thesis about poetry and digital surveillance. But I’m also very lazy and busy so who knows if that’ll happen.
September 17, 2026 at 2:25 AM
In light of, shall we say, renewed interested in digital surveillance technology I’m very inclined to revise the first chapter of my undergraduate thesis about poetry and digital surveillance. But I’m also very lazy and busy so who knows if that’ll happen.
“They Sit Together on the Porch” by Wendell Berry
September 1, 2026 at 2:23 AM
“They Sit Together on the Porch” by Wendell Berry
Also, I think often of this photo of Dolly with Keith Haring, captured by Andy Warhol in 1985.
August 25, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Also, I think often of this photo of Dolly with Keith Haring, captured by Andy Warhol in 1985.
One of my favorite Dolly songs is “Alabama Sundown,” which basically no one knows.
But when I was lonely, sad, and homesick my first year up in Cambridge, that chorus “Lord, what I’d give to see an Alabama sundown.” Whew.
Dolly was a promise that home was always there, no matter what. What a loss.
But when I was lonely, sad, and homesick my first year up in Cambridge, that chorus “Lord, what I’d give to see an Alabama sundown.” Whew.
Dolly was a promise that home was always there, no matter what. What a loss.
August 25, 2026 at 10:08 PM
One of my favorite Dolly songs is “Alabama Sundown,” which basically no one knows.
But when I was lonely, sad, and homesick my first year up in Cambridge, that chorus “Lord, what I’d give to see an Alabama sundown.” Whew.
Dolly was a promise that home was always there, no matter what. What a loss.
But when I was lonely, sad, and homesick my first year up in Cambridge, that chorus “Lord, what I’d give to see an Alabama sundown.” Whew.
Dolly was a promise that home was always there, no matter what. What a loss.
About half the “new non-fiction” shelf at my local library is currently Harvard profs and it kinda felt like being in the Barker Center
August 22, 2026 at 3:11 AM
About half the “new non-fiction” shelf at my local library is currently Harvard profs and it kinda felt like being in the Barker Center
I’ve been using a TI-84 for the first time since my freshman year of college while tutoring, and it takes me so long to find anything in the menus
August 18, 2026 at 12:59 AM
I’ve been using a TI-84 for the first time since my freshman year of college while tutoring, and it takes me so long to find anything in the menus
Do we think Nancy Mace actually understands Mrs. Dalloway
August 17, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Do we think Nancy Mace actually understands Mrs. Dalloway
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I got tired of waiting for the journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social to cover this (it IS summer), but this is to say that ALL the staff members in Women & Gender Studies here were laid off last week, on the top of the cutting of 5 lecturer positions in the program last year.+
August 17, 2026 at 8:55 PM
I got tired of waiting for the journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social to cover this (it IS summer), but this is to say that ALL the staff members in Women & Gender Studies here were laid off last week, on the top of the cutting of 5 lecturer positions in the program last year.+
I never read Of Mice and Men in school, so I decided to finally read it this morning and that was psychological torture to read already knowing the ending
July 10, 2026 at 4:49 PM
I never read Of Mice and Men in school, so I decided to finally read it this morning and that was psychological torture to read already knowing the ending
In honor of Father’s day, “Pacifists Cocking Stolen Guns,” from my chapbook DADDY, I’M SORRY, I CANNOT WRITE AN ELEGY
June 21, 2026 at 9:17 PM
In honor of Father’s day, “Pacifists Cocking Stolen Guns,” from my chapbook DADDY, I’M SORRY, I CANNOT WRITE AN ELEGY
I don’t really follow Nascar, except for loosely keeping up with Kyle Busch, who was my dad’s driver.
Huge fan—countless die cast cars, hats, shirts, a Busch plate on his always perfectly waxed car.
I feel odd, today. Might have to break out one of my dad’s shirts tomorrow.
Huge fan—countless die cast cars, hats, shirts, a Busch plate on his always perfectly waxed car.
I feel odd, today. Might have to break out one of my dad’s shirts tomorrow.
May 21, 2026 at 11:49 PM
I don’t really follow Nascar, except for loosely keeping up with Kyle Busch, who was my dad’s driver.
Huge fan—countless die cast cars, hats, shirts, a Busch plate on his always perfectly waxed car.
I feel odd, today. Might have to break out one of my dad’s shirts tomorrow.
Huge fan—countless die cast cars, hats, shirts, a Busch plate on his always perfectly waxed car.
I feel odd, today. Might have to break out one of my dad’s shirts tomorrow.
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Provocative thread. And yet. The many who use it often feel they must, they're afraid to fail, they think other people are using it, they feel compelled to perform at high levels all the time, and adults are crushing their hopes. If *all* AI vanished they'd mostly be thrilled.
college students are actively discouraged from using AI and insist on doing it anyway, because it's a shortcut to getting their work done. I am not at all convinced that if you were to eliminate it tomorrow they'd all be thrilled, even if they boo the idea of it in public
May 11, 2026 at 3:51 AM
Provocative thread. And yet. The many who use it often feel they must, they're afraid to fail, they think other people are using it, they feel compelled to perform at high levels all the time, and adults are crushing their hopes. If *all* AI vanished they'd mostly be thrilled.
It’s been a tough day to be someone who loves Alabama so dearly so we’re clinging to the In This House sign I made before the 2024 election
May 9, 2026 at 4:25 AM
It’s been a tough day to be someone who loves Alabama so dearly so we’re clinging to the In This House sign I made before the 2024 election
When I took classes in the Hist-Lit department in college I always got praised by the professors for my close reading skills and I would quickly find out that was because Hist-Lit concentrators did not know how to close read
May 7, 2026 at 4:24 AM
When I took classes in the Hist-Lit department in college I always got praised by the professors for my close reading skills and I would quickly find out that was because Hist-Lit concentrators did not know how to close read
There are a couple magazines I swear I submitted to when I did a big batch in March that I can find zero record of submitting to?
May 3, 2026 at 9:01 PM
There are a couple magazines I swear I submitted to when I did a big batch in March that I can find zero record of submitting to?
Do we think there’s a respectable way to read Infinite Jest in public
May 1, 2026 at 1:44 AM
Do we think there’s a respectable way to read Infinite Jest in public
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me: (casually) what is it with the influx of evil lately
April 19, 2026 at 11:54 PM
me: (casually) what is it with the influx of evil lately
Doing some research for a potential project I’m working on, does anyone have recommendations for good poems about (American) football? Also open to favorite sports poems(/poets?) in general but really looking for good football poems.
April 15, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Doing some research for a potential project I’m working on, does anyone have recommendations for good poems about (American) football? Also open to favorite sports poems(/poets?) in general but really looking for good football poems.
People will see a societal problem and then flip a coin to decide whether they think fixing it should be offloaded to public schools or libraries
April 14, 2026 at 8:37 PM
People will see a societal problem and then flip a coin to decide whether they think fixing it should be offloaded to public schools or libraries
Two tiny poems of mine about gin: “Sanitizing a 3OH!3 Album” and “SIXTY-FOUR SYLLABLES ON DRINKING ALONE”
April 14, 2026 at 2:56 AM
Two tiny poems of mine about gin: “Sanitizing a 3OH!3 Album” and “SIXTY-FOUR SYLLABLES ON DRINKING ALONE”
People talking about William Gass as of late reminds me of my junior tutorial in college when we had color week (Bluets, On Being Blue, and Remarks on Colour) and now I sometimes misremember something written by Wittgenstein as being Nelson or Nelson as Gass, etc.
April 12, 2026 at 3:51 AM
People talking about William Gass as of late reminds me of my junior tutorial in college when we had color week (Bluets, On Being Blue, and Remarks on Colour) and now I sometimes misremember something written by Wittgenstein as being Nelson or Nelson as Gass, etc.
Libraries putting poetry in nonfiction is so funny because like. Well. Kinda sorta.
April 10, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Libraries putting poetry in nonfiction is so funny because like. Well. Kinda sorta.
They need to invent YA novels you loved at 15 that hold up to the scrutiny of being 23 with an English degree
April 3, 2026 at 2:27 AM
They need to invent YA novels you loved at 15 that hold up to the scrutiny of being 23 with an English degree
Four poets on April.
Happy National Poetry Month 🤍
Happy National Poetry Month 🤍
April 1, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Four poets on April.
Happy National Poetry Month 🤍
Happy National Poetry Month 🤍