“ Write it. Write. In ordinary ink
on ordinary paper: they were given no food,
they all died of hunger. "All. How many?
It's a big meadow….”

Szymborska wrote this after WW2. What changed? Starving people is a war crime. Starving people is a war crime.

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Szymborska’s work has deeply impacted me.

Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska would be 101 years young this year, and younger in spirit.

It’s been a tough year, if you need a holiday break, here is a 10 day book club I did on her work— all free, courtesy of The Public Space: apublicspace.org/aps-together...

Twitter's Traffic Appears to Be Falling Off a Cliff Over the last month, traffic to the site formerly known as Twitter has taken a nosedive as Bluesky continues to bring in more and more users.

Traffic on Twitter is taking a nose dive and I’m loving it.

Elon Musk was instrumental in getting Trump reelected. I wish nothing but bad news for the social platform tool he used for that evil purpose.

futurism.com/twitter-traf...

The Best Books of 2024, According to Friends of the Review: Part One - The Paris Review Recommendations from five Paris Review fiction writers, three translators, one poet, one poetry editor, and two interns.

The Paris Review asked me to recommend one of my favorite translations to come out this year, and I decided to write about Rio Shimamoto's First Love, translated by @louisehk.bsky.social for Honford Star!

"... a portrait of patriarchy as a series of glassy, threatening surfaces."

congrats!

Just got my dear friend #ElizabethDevlin ‘s new #poetry book #milkspine in the mail and it is so wonderful to cozy up to with a cup of tea before bed. I have seen these #poems churned into the state of fire and bone they are now existing in on the page! Check it out from #dancinggirlpress

So Trump will impose #tariffs on Mexico on Day 1??

More than 60 percent of US vegetable imports and 45 percent of US fruit and nut imports come from Mexico.

Grocery costs are going to skyrocket.

Exactly!

I just submitted some translations of a Romani poet from the French---if they are accepted, they would be appearing for the first time in English!
#translation #poetry #Roma

I'm here for the writers, creators and artists, to conversate and collaborate without the leering eyes of AI and mass marketing machines.

@carvalhais.org and I have a new paper out today: “Rethinking Media Art in a Time of Pervasive Computation" in Vista Journal of Visual Culture.
It's open access and available in both English and Portuguese:
revistavista.pt/index.php/vi...

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