Welcome to "It's All Academic," a website initially supporting the book pictured to the right. Since then, it has moved past observations about higher education. In 2025, I find inspiration in three general areas, listed below. More than a thousand blogs and poems can be found through the menu to the left. Many came in the form of a series, which are listed as part of the series' specific archives.

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Orange Is The New Ick (Poems on current affairs)

Algorithm And Blues (Poem to reflect the blues of the modern world)

Motifs (Poem urging us to look at something other than motive in mass killings)

The Smallest Man In The World (Poem on the 21st century's greatest freak show)

No Vacancy (Heaven and Hell are both closed off)

Fold (Poem on the church shooting in Minneapolis . . . sort of)

Codependence Day (Poem on irony of Independence Day 2025)

Chanticleer (Poem revising Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale)

Full list of Orange Is The New Ick posts

Close To Home (Recent posts of a personal level)

Intervals (Poem on the periods between creative bursts)

Look Out Australia, Here Come The Americans, Baby (On being asked to consider opening a campus in Australia)

Hiding In The Peanut Butter (Quick poem appreciating a dog's view of life)

Life's A Screen (Poem on lack of privacy)

Outside Sherwood Forest (Poem on mysterious heroes)

Use-By Date (Poem on human "freshness" dates) 

 About David Fleming

I am a retired Provost/Chief Academic Officer, now full-time hack writer.