Artemisia Gentileschi’s Revenge Is Still Radical
At the Columbus Museum of Art, three paintings made in fury and grief take us inside one of the Baroque's most original and uncompromising minds.
By Dian Parker for Observer
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Are you aware that animals used for eggs and milk are slaughtered once their productivity declines?
Personal choice ends where another’s suffering begins—if it involves harming others, it’s no longer “personal.” See it for what it is.
More at bit.ly/world-revisited in Amsterdam Review, an ecocentrist lit mag.
#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
Human disaster is contagious, so I’m left alone, like I thought I wanted. Self-pity says no one wants a sinking ship of a woman, rafting on hate for how much what she knows she keeps taking. No heartbreak or inspiration to sell as end goal, rarely beauty. Instead, indictment and unrelenting grief, pain and identifying purpose, blame and sour shame—all wounds that won’t heal. World won’t let the stitches set before landing another blow—no entertaining real solutions. Outside the self the reckoning bulks up like a recurrent tumor. Or a monstera
"I can’t help how my brain wires / catastrophic knowing. What happens when alchemy fails / all the way?"
A poem by @khadijahqueen.com in the Spring issue
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Lovely to have two new poems in the Amsterdam Review. Both will be included in my new collection Coracle - out Oct. 2026 w @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
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J'ai habité l'instant flexible I lived in the flexible moment —Samira Negrouche I have entered five fevered days swim in my salty skin the sea awaits will take me when-- eyes gliding over undulant teal skin
"Lines stunted / half-born / I dig them out with a flat stone"
Read a poem by 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻 in the Spring issue
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The white flock grows: great gulls dressed in sailcloth from wrecked ships but stained by the smoke of forbidden shores. Alarm alarm around the gash from a vessel! The gulls crowd in close and form a bunting that signals “prey here.” They course across the open water with blue fields striding through the foam. A phosphorescent path toward the sun
Read my new translation and literary analysis of 𝑆𝑜𝑛𝑔 by 𝐓𝗼𝐦𝗮𝐬 𝐓𝗿𝐚𝗻𝐬𝘁𝐫𝗼̈𝐦𝗲𝐫, born on this day in 1931.
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#poetry #translation #Swedish #Transtromer
Did you know animals not only influence the living environments of the planet but also lead “complex lives that involve feelings and mental control?”
"Each creature is a key to a room in the mansion of the world, a room we may never otherwise enter" - William Beebe
Read more at bit.ly/world-revisited in 𝐀𝐦𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐦 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰, our ecocentrist lit mag.
#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
Our Spring 2026 issue is OUT NOW!
Featuring #interviews with Eleni Sikelianos and Jane Zwart, as well as works by Raúl Zurita, Jane Clarke, Khadijah Queen, Tom Laichas, Dian Parker, Susan Irvine, and many more.
Read here: bit.ly/AmsterdamReview
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System of Lines and Arcades A poem by Daniel Carden Nemo
Slide between the lines eyes shut // about and about, shift // here, where— / pitch-dark / braids / & sticky cords // reshuffle space / & billow out [...]
Read "System of Lines and Arcades," a poem after 𝑭𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒆 𝑵𝒖𝒅𝒆𝒔 by 𝐄𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐇𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐥 (1906)
hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/system-of-lines-and-arcades
Did you know meat-eaters unwittingly shut down their brains’ automatic response to the pain of animals?
"Everything which has life has a right to live, the same as we have." Albert Schweitzer
We call it 𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒆 𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒆𝒓 because killing the innocent for convenience and profit sounds too honest. See it for what it is.
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Did you know the animal industry is the leading cause of deforestation worldwide?
"Man is not the center of things. The animals too are envoys of the divine, voices of the universal mind." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
If animals are commodities, all life is collateral damage. Let them live.
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Did you know that most farm animals are slaughtered at a fraction of their natural lifespan, often before reaching social or cognitive maturity?
STOP FACTORY FARMING!
We sacrifice everything that’s real, the natural world, sentient animals, our health, our climate, to uphold a contrived paradigm that equates meat with wellness and prosperity.
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Day-Night Shift A poem by Tomas Tranströmer translated from Swedish by Daniel Carden Nemo
"The wood ant keeps watch rooted to the spot, looking into
nothing. And nothing is heard but the dripping
from dark leaves and the night’s murmur deep
in summer’s canyon [...]"
Read my new translation of 𝐷𝑎𝑦-𝑁𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑆ℎ𝑖𝑓𝑡 by 𝐓𝗼𝐦𝗮𝐬 𝐓𝗿𝐚𝗻𝐬𝘁𝐫𝗼̈𝐦𝗲𝐫.
hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/day-night-shift
#poetry
Did you know there are “underlying commonalities in emotional perception and expression” in all mammals?
"We see ourselves as different, superior, set apart. But animals are there, in their fullness, in their suffering, in their being, regardless of how we deny them." - J. M. Coetzee
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Friends A poem by Marin Sorescu translated from Romanian by Daniel Carden Nemo
Read 𝑭𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔, a poem by 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐮 in my translation.
hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/friends
#poetry #poetrycommunity #translation #surrealism
Did you know our destruction of habitats has led to the loss of two-thirds of the planet’s vertebrates?
"Each animal is surrounded by its own bubble of significance." - Jakob von Uexküll
All creatures have a right to life. They aren’t just a part of nature, they 𝒂𝒓𝒆 nature.
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#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
If you think the film industry took a wrong turn somewhere, read my piece The Candy House: One Bad Film After Another.
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#essay #Hollywood #film #Oscars
Do you think concern for animal welfare along with the use of animal products could represent a case of cognitive dissonance?
"We must learn to see that everything which has life has a right to live, the same as we have."- A Schweitzer
Killing and eating animals is the endorsement of a system built on violence and denial. See it for what it is.
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#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
Did you know the limbic activity of mammals draws their emotions into immediate congruence?
"The animal is not beneath us, but beside us; its path through time runs parallel to ours, only differing in the music by which it moves." - Eliseo Reclus
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Did you know that nurturance, social communion, (vocal) communication, and play are rooted in limbic territory?
"We must learn to see that everything which has life has a right to live, the same as we have." - Albert Schweitzer
The word MEAT is a linguistic shield. Try using BODY instead.
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Did you know that mammals are endowed with limbic brains same as humans?
“Organisms, in pursuing their goals, make value-based choices. As such, they make our world… a 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐟𝐮𝐥 one. In undermining the value of organisms and their agency, we strip our own world of its value too” M. Challenger
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Are you aware that pigs exhibit play behavior well into adulthood, indicating emotional complexity and a need for well-being?
We call it 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙚 𝙨𝙡𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙚𝙧 because killing the innocent and unwilling for convenience sounds too honest. See it for what it is.
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#nature #veganism #animalethics
Did you know birds were the first creatures to have dreams?
Pigeons spend hours each day preening their cladding. We only see them as dirty “rats with wings” in cities because they're caught in the systemic quagmire of our clutter.
Going to post one of these sometimes as a reminder.
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On a winter morning you can feel how the earth surges forward. Against the house walls a blast of air rattles out of nowhere. Surrounded by motion: the tent of tranquility. And the secret rudder in the migrating bird flock.
Read my new translation and literary analysis of 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝐼𝑠 𝑃𝑒𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑢𝑟𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑤 by 𝐓𝗼𝐦𝗮𝐬 𝐓𝗿𝐚𝗻𝐬𝘁𝐫𝗼̈𝐦𝗲𝐫.
hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/there-is-peace-in-the-surging-prow
#poetry #translation #Swedish #Transtromer
Read 𝐶𝑖𝑟𝑐𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑉𝑜𝑖𝑑, an interview with poet and multimedia artist 𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗮 𝗞𝗵𝗼𝗶 𝗡𝗴𝘂𝘆𝗲𝗻.
hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/circling-the-wound-of-the-void
#poetry #writingcommunity #interview
Did you know “humane” labels are largely unregulated or misleading, and animals are still bred, confined, and ultimately killed long before their natural lifespan?
Slaughtering animals for meat isn’t a collective need—it’s an individual choice. Let them live.
Going to post one of these every week as a reminder.
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They say things come back to where they’d been before, like some sort of comet feelings. You just need to know how to wait for them, you need to wear out, standing still, countless pairs of boots. This means the acacia tree that was cut last fall will shoot up briefly from its old root. That you will love me again in a few billion light years.
Read 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒂𝒊𝒕 by 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐮 (transl. 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐥 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐍𝐞𝐦𝐨) in the Fall issue
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#poetry #poetrycommunity #translation #Romanian
Are you aware that calves deprived of maternal contact show long-term changes in stress reactivity and social behavior?
Personal choice ends where another’s suffering begins—if it involves harming others, it’s no longer “personal.” See it for what it is.
Going to post one of these every week as a reminder.
More at bit.ly/world-revisited
#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
The herring gull, the sun captain, steers his course. Below him is the water. The world is still sleeping like a many-colored stone in the water. Undecipherable day. Days— like Aztec hieroglyphs! The music. And I’m enmeshed in its tapestry, with arms raised high—like a figure out of folk art.
Read my new translation and literary analysis of 𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈/𝑬𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒚 by 𝐓𝗼𝐦𝗮𝐬 𝐓𝗿𝐚𝗻𝐬𝘁𝐫𝗼̈𝐦𝗲𝐫, another poem in which Tranströmer’s literary artistry shines in the way he compresses broad concepts into concrete images.
hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/morningentry
#poetry #translation #Swedish #Transtromer
