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Who is Seth Abramson? (Original Post)
trof
Mar 2017
OP
No. He has compiled publicly available reports into a narrative that makes sense. n/t
pnwmom
Mar 2017
#8
Someone who let his bias and his response to genuine criticism damage any credibility
synergie
Mar 2017
#5
Assistant Professor. Went to Harvard Law and worked for Public Defender in New Hampshire. Author.
JTFrog
Mar 2017
#7
He's a colleague and fellow practioner of the HA HA Goodman type of biased nonsense.
synergie
Mar 2017
#14
sweetloukillbot
(11,005 posts)1. A creative writing professor and sometime freelance journalist
I personally don't find his journalism reliable. His poetry sounds interesting though.
trof
(54,256 posts)2. Thanks. so...
He has inside info on a meeting at the Mayflower Hotel how?
sweetloukillbot
(11,005 posts)3. Exactly...
trof
(54,256 posts)4. doesntknow shit?
thanks
Egnever
(21,506 posts)6. I believe he has a guest list
and many social media posts with the Russian actors shown in the room.
Not saying He is legit but I believe that is what he is basing his tweets on.
pnwmom
(108,976 posts)8. No. He has compiled publicly available reports into a narrative that makes sense. n/t
synergie
(1,901 posts)5. Someone who let his bias and his response to genuine criticism damage any credibility
he might have had during this election season.
trof
(54,256 posts)10. I was offput.
JTFrog
(14,274 posts)7. Assistant Professor. Went to Harvard Law and worked for Public Defender in New Hampshire. Author.
Seth Abramson
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/seth-abramson
Attorney; Assistant Professor at University of New Hampshire; Poet; Editor, Best American Experimental Writing; Editor, Metamodern Studies.
Seth Abramson teaches at the University of New Hampshire. He is also an attorney, editor, and author. A graduate of Dartmouth College, Harvard Law School, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the doctoral program in English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Abramson is the author of seven books, including An Insider's Guide to Graduate Creative Writing Degrees (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2018); Golden Age (BlazeVOX, 2017); DATA (BlazeVOX, 2016); Metamericana (BlazeVOX, 2015); Thievery (University of Akron Press, 2013), winner of the 2012 Akron Poetry Prize; and Northerners (Western Michigan University Press, 2011), winner of the 2010 Green Rose Prize from New Issues Poetry & Prose. His poetry and prose have appeared in The Washington Post, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, The Philadelphia Review of Books, Fence, Best New Poets (University of Virginia Press), and elsewhere. An essayist and film/TV reviewer for Indiewire, Seth is also Series Editor for Best American Experimental Writing, whose third edition will be published by Wesleyan University Press in January of 2017. Abramson's editorials and research have been covered by such media outlets as The Washington Post, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, New York Magazine, Playboy, The Guardian, The Economist, Newsweek, Politico, Salon, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Los Angeles Times, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The New York Post, The New Hampshire Union Leader, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Publishers Weekly, Poets & Writers, Pitchfork, The Kenyon Review, Boston Review, PBS, NPR, ABC News, Country Music Television, and others. From 2001 to 2007, Seth was an attorney for the New Hampshire Public Defender.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/seth-abramson
Attorney; Assistant Professor at University of New Hampshire; Poet; Editor, Best American Experimental Writing; Editor, Metamodern Studies.
Seth Abramson teaches at the University of New Hampshire. He is also an attorney, editor, and author. A graduate of Dartmouth College, Harvard Law School, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the doctoral program in English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Abramson is the author of seven books, including An Insider's Guide to Graduate Creative Writing Degrees (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2018); Golden Age (BlazeVOX, 2017); DATA (BlazeVOX, 2016); Metamericana (BlazeVOX, 2015); Thievery (University of Akron Press, 2013), winner of the 2012 Akron Poetry Prize; and Northerners (Western Michigan University Press, 2011), winner of the 2010 Green Rose Prize from New Issues Poetry & Prose. His poetry and prose have appeared in The Washington Post, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, The Philadelphia Review of Books, Fence, Best New Poets (University of Virginia Press), and elsewhere. An essayist and film/TV reviewer for Indiewire, Seth is also Series Editor for Best American Experimental Writing, whose third edition will be published by Wesleyan University Press in January of 2017. Abramson's editorials and research have been covered by such media outlets as The Washington Post, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, New York Magazine, Playboy, The Guardian, The Economist, Newsweek, Politico, Salon, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Los Angeles Times, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The New York Post, The New Hampshire Union Leader, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Publishers Weekly, Poets & Writers, Pitchfork, The Kenyon Review, Boston Review, PBS, NPR, ABC News, Country Music Television, and others. From 2001 to 2007, Seth was an attorney for the New Hampshire Public Defender.
trof
(54,256 posts)9. Whoa. Drinking out of a firehose.
Paragraphs are your friends.
Seem like he does everything and nothing.
JTFrog
(14,274 posts)11. I didn't write it, just copied and pasted it.
But thanks for the snark.
trof
(54,256 posts)15. I understand. Not snarking you.
I've run into the same thing.
I try to paste into notepad or something I can work with.
No harm, no foul.
synergie
(1,901 posts)13. If you give his previous pieces and his tweets a perusal, you'll see how he's
damaged himself.
There are credible sources who are both gathering and putting together the information he is. He's just a bad source.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)12. I don't really know who he is, but he's all the rage on DU right now.
synergie
(1,901 posts)14. He's a colleague and fellow practioner of the HA HA Goodman type of biased nonsense.