Jason Farr

@jsfarr.bsky.social

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Associate prof of ENGL, Marquette U • c18 lit • disability studies • cat dad • gay married to @nyitray • frequenter of mosh pits and libraries

Large orange tabby cat and skinny tuxedo looking skyward. In the foreground is Travis Chi Wing Lau’s poetry collection, WHAT’S LEFT IS TENDER

Blue book that is titled selected plays by Frank O’Hara, published by Full Court Press.

Protestor holding a sign that says FUCK RON JOHNSON

Footage of a city street in downtown Milwaukee of thousands of people holding signs in protest of Trump

White bespectacled bearded man wearing a green jacket with “I voted” sticker. He stands in front of a “vote here” sign.

White bearded middle-aged man wearing a blue sweatshirt and neon green caution gear to alert drivers in the fog. In the background, sheets of ice on Lake Michigan.

My turntable setup. On the left is the record player and on the right is the Silver Jews “Starlite Walker” album cover. Also visible is my manhattan in a martini glass.

My Apple Watch screen shows my total time as 54:06, total distance as 6.27 miles, pace as 8’37” per mile.

Two cats curled up together: a tuxedo is little spoon, and a giant orange tabby is the big spoon with his chin resting on the tuxedo’s back. They rest on a blue heating pad.

Two middle-aged bearded white men with their arms around each other. They stand on the sidewalk in front of a bar called La Carafe in downtown Houston

My two cats, Béla and Liam, snuggling together on a blue heating pad. Bela is an orange tabby who is crashed out here. Liam is a tuxedo cat staring at the camera.

The record player is open and an album is spinning. It is Belle & Sebastian’s “If You’re Feeling Sinister.” The album cover is propped up. It is red and has a picture of a pensive woman’s face on it.

This is my office bookshelf but what I’m really hoping to pour out is the top row where 48 volumes of Horace Walpole’s letters are stacked side by side in blue and white covers from Yale UP.

Here I am in the high desert, above Palm Springs. I’m wearing a white hat and white t-shirt. I’ve got glasses and a beard. White and middle-aged.

This is a picture of my point of view. Visible in the foreground is a blue, yellow, and orange cup that has beer in it. I’m holding it. In the background, picnic tables, grass, gray sky, and a white mobile trailer with beer taps on it.