Patrick Kindig

@pdkindig.bsky.social

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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.

A shotglass full of paperclips
Me cheesing with a stack of copies of my poetry collection Agape (Saturnalia 2026)
Ween looking at me skeptically
An excerpt from Hangsaman (which references an associate professor of English who has only ever published "a series of poems in an arty journal)
A local news headline that reads WILDFIRES IMPACT ON HOT AIR JUBILEE
A bowl containing several apples and one cupcake
The cover for my forthcoming poetry collection Agape
Me looking adoringly at spicy seafood soup
The logo for Sam's Club
The former EL Taco Bell, for rent
The cover of Natalie Shapero's poetry collection Stay Dead
The cover of my poetry collection Agape, which features a painting of a martyred St. Sebastian
Me with Ween and Stieglitz the border collie at our campsite
My husband drying Ween off with a children's towel in a tent
The cover of Chris Watkins's THE DRAG GOSPEL OF QUEER JESUS
The text of my poem "Dystopian Fiction" in the latest issue of Bear Review (pt. 1)
The proof for the title page of my poetry collection Agape, featuring an image of St. Sebastian's face
A baby sleeping on me
A pile of spaghetti on a wooden cutting board
A table summarizing the results of today's experiment: one student got four out of ten correct; one got one out of ten; I got zero out of ten; everyone else got two out of ten (the statistical expectation).
A selfie of my husband, Ween, and me at the dog park
Ween reading a big stone book in the cemetery
An excerpt from LOTE
A shot from the Portlandia episode "Getting Away": several women stand in a river & link arms to form a dam
A sign that reads "BACK RUB MARY: INSIDE LOBBY TO RIGHT"
An airport cocktail and a back issue of 32 Poems
An email from IU about Indiana Relocation Incentives
The cover of the latest issue of PMLA
My husband ogling the goods at Sam's Club
A printout of Jonathan Bailey's face attached to a bobblehead
Ween in his snow fort
Ween in his snow fort
Ween snuggling Mr. Beans
Ween sitting nicely next to a terrifying snowman we built
Ween playing in snow
A screenshot of the beginning of my review of Jess Shollenberger's Ordinary Queerness in American Modernism
Ween in winter gear with a stick in snow
Actual snow in Annapolis!
Ween on his back, stretching, with a stuffed snowman named Mr. Beans wedged against his neck
The cover of the Winter 2026 issue of The Southern Review
A shot in episode 1 of Pluribus that features a box of doughnuts from Sandy Pony Donuts
A poem by Patricia Lockwood titled "Atmospheric River"
A screenshot of the phrase "bed rotting"
A blurry photo of Ween wearing glasses while sitting on the couch
All the dogs wearing bow ties
Ween lying on a rug in a dark hallway
A bonfire in the foreground, &, in the background, Ween
An excerpt from Bergson's essay 'Laughter' on the individuality of artistic vision and praxis
The BEAUTIFUL cover of my book Fascination: Trance, Enchantment, and American Modernity
A cooling rack of two kinds of cookies: chocolate chocolate chip and orange/cranberry/walnut/white chocolate chip
A photo of a disaffected little boy (my husband) pasted to a paper Christmas tree
Too many cream puffs
Ween standing on a red brick walkway & wearing a blue Navy shirt
Me with my brother's dog curled up in my lap, my dog curled up next to me, and my sister's dog curled up next to him
My husband and I posing at the 2025 Lansing Turkey Trot 5k
Ween being extremely jazzed about some Christmas light crabs