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Ben Meyerson @benmeyerson.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

A welcome surprise to receive so extensive and careful a review of my book -- one that is invested in understanding the Jewishness of my writing even as it works to come to grips with the role of flamenco and of concepts such as "duende" in my poetics: www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/duende-and...

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Duende and the Diaspora: Ben Meyerson's Seguiriyas

Reviewed by Michael Greenstein

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Ben Meyerson @benmeyerson.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Had a great conversation with @varnvlog.bsky.social about subjectivity and the production of social interiority in medieval and contemporary poetics, my book Seguiriyas with @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social, flamenco, various elements of MFA culture, 'difficult poetry,' and much more

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Ben Meyerson @benmeyerson.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Tune into BBC Radio 3 today to hear me get interviewed about the history and contemporary relevance of flamenco alongside some of the foremost living performers and scholars of the art form: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, Flamenco Is Like the Sun

Robert Elms explores his passion for flamenco music in Andalusia.

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Matthew Francis @mfrancispoet.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

The cover of my forthcoming #poetry collection. I am delighted with it. Brilliant work by the @faberbooks.bsky.social designers.

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Michael Faint @ansolasoir.com · 05/01/2025

The island of Orasaigh is the inspiration for a book I have a book out with @steveeely.bsky.social Following two exhibitions, this unique collaboration between poet & photographer has been published by @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social More here 👇 www.ansolasoir.com/orasaigh #Poetry #Photography

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Orasaigh | An Solas Òir

Orasaigh is a collaboration between poet Steve Ely and photographer Michael Faint, inspired by the landscape around the tidal island of Orasaigh, South Uist The work of the artists combines and inter...

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Burnside Review @burnsidereview.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Join us for an AWP offsite reading with @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social and Saturnalia Books on Thursday 3/27 @barhenryla in Echo Park! 📖🎤🗣️ ➡️ News | Burnside Review #awp #awp2025 #losangeles #awpoffsitereading

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Ben Meyerson @benmeyerson.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Long shot, but does anyone know if the line "Soñé que la nieve ardía" predates the Chilean composer Osmán Pérez Freire's "Ay Ay Ay" from 1913? It appears in folk musics throughout Spain (jota, flamenco, Gallego music, etc) and also in Peruvian music. Is there a longer history?

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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

We are deeply troubled to learn that some members of the Jewish community are calling for the deportation of foreign-born university students and faculty who they deem “pro-Hamas,” and compiling lists of those they want to target for deportation.

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EXCLUSIVE: Jewish Group Gives Trump Admin List Of ‘Pro-Hamas’ Foreign Students, Faculty To Deport

Betar US sent the Trump administration files on dozens of allegedly pro-terrorist college students and faculty, hoping President Donald Trump will deport them.

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Michael Longley

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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · 23/01/2025

We’re mourning the loss of the wonderful Michael Longley, who has died in Belfast aged 85. A Vice President of The Poetry Society, we were proud to publish him in our magazine The Poetry Review throughout his long career. Sharing below a 2014 poem which celebrated his long marriage to Edna Longley.

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Ben Meyerson @benmeyerson.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Now live: an interview in Common Measure about my book SEGUIRIYAS (Black Ocean, 2023). I talk process philosophy and the role of violence in collectivity + how metaphor and the voice of a flamenco singer can both act as vehicles for historical solidarity: commonmeasure.substack.com/p/fan-wu-int...

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Fan Wu interviews Ben Meyerson on /Seguiriyas/

Ben's debut poetry collection out now from Black Ocean

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drumm, colin @drumm-colin.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Mimbres School 2025 Courses: SPRING: Slavery and Unfreedom When is Capitalism? Philosophy: Friend or Foe? SUMMER: Domestication Syndrome Anti-Kant FALL: Political Arithmetic Prehistory of Islam Childhood Tuition $250. Registration open soon. See thread for descriptions

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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Happening live NOW 24hr Global Reading starting now from Palestine Join the livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxJN...

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Global Reading for Freedom of Expression and Solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon (2nd Iteration)

YouTube video by Pamenar Press

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Ben Meyerson @benmeyerson.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

The concept of the lyric (the poetic movement from interiority to exteriority) implies a poetic subject that is anterior to the poem. What are the ideological positions underpinning our willingness to accept that any poet's attention can ever be separated from the form into which it is funneled?

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Ben Meyerson @benmeyerson.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I have spent the past year transposing very old discursive and notational templates into poetic forms and am now realizing that beyond the abstract terms that we've all inherited from hylomorphism (form as the emergence of content, etc), I still need to figure out what a form actually is

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Ben Meyerson @benmeyerson.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

And now: the "shameless self-promotion" segment of my día internacional del flamenco posts. Here's a poem from my book SEGUIRIYAS (Black Ocean, 2023) that treats the flamenco voice and duende as splints fusing fractured historical memory in the body, expanding on Nathaniel Mackey's related insights:

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Ben Meyerson @benmeyerson.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

In the waning hours of día internacional del flamenco, I'll pivot to a reception of flamenco in the English by the poet Nathaniel Mackey. Mackey constellates flamenco and various black musics as attenuated responses to social death that can reanimate sundered memory: my-blackout.com/2018/09/27/n...

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Nathaniel Mackey | Cante Moro

I would like to touch on the topic of “The New American Poetry“ where it opens onto matters we wouldn’t necessarily expect it to entail—not necessarily “new,” not necessarily “American,…

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Ben Meyerson @benmeyerson.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Flamenco culture has entered a wide variety of media. It makes sense, then, to use at least one of today's posts for día internacional del flamenco to direct you toward the kinetically charged and flamenco-inspired paintings and drawings of Patricio Hidalgo: www.patriciopinceles.com/galeria

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Obras | patriciopinceles

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Ben Meyerson @benmeyerson.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I want to spotlight a few contemporary artists for día internacional del flamenco, since it's so easy to fall into the trap of focusing only on past greats. Here's Samuel Serrano, one of the best younger flamenco singers working today: youtu.be/cYpOtFoOxd4?...

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SAMUEL SERRANO POR MARTINETES EN VIVO 2024

YouTube video by Samuel Serrano Cantaor Flamenco

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Ben Meyerson @benmeyerson.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

My next post for día internacional del flamenco highlights the great gitano/romani poet and playwright José Heredia Maya, who worked with some of the greatest flamenco dancers of his era and wrote poetry that was steeped in flamenco culture: faustomarcelo.blogspot.com/2021/10/poem...

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POEMAS DE JOSÉ HEREDIA MAYA

Aunque sea reciente mi carné Aunque sea reciente mi carné yo nací hace milenios: cuando despacio al paso de la bestia el hor...

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Ben Meyerson @benmeyerson.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Still in honor of día internacional del flamenco, here's Pastora Pavón, who went by the moniker "La Niña de los Peines." She was a foundational figure in the first half of the 20th century: an innovator with remarkable command of the old tradition. Here she is por soleá: youtu.be/1gy7r9cc7sY?...

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Soleares de la Serneta: Soy Piedra y Perdí Mi Centro (with Melchor de Marchena)

YouTube video by La Niña de los Peines - Topic

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Ben Meyerson @benmeyerson.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

It's día internacional del flamenco today, so I'll be sharing relevant music, art and writing whenever I find a spare moment. Let's start with a performance por seguiriyas from the great cantaor Antonio Núñez "El Chocolate": youtu.be/TPylKJFJsgI?...

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Seguiriyas. El Chocolate. 1991

YouTube video by Canal Andalucia Flamenco

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

Ben Meyerson, Seguiriyas robmclennan.blogspot.com/2023/12/ben-...

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Ben Meyerson @benmeyerson.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Or: the only true 'theory' is that we need to understand the flows. To that end, we also need to figure out what is impeding our ability to do so

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jordan pruett @pruettjordan.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Made a mimbres school starter pack for anyone else trying to make sure their feed is materialism-maxxed and kinship-pilled (work in progress, lmk if you want to be added) go.bsky.app/BLYS2tj

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Ben Meyerson @benmeyerson.bsky.social · 17/08/2023

In the new issue of Philosophy Today, I wrote about contradiction, noncontradiction, finitude and infinitude in the work of Quentin Meillassoux and Hermann Levin Goldschmidt: www.pdcnet.org/philtoday/content/ph…

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Ben Meyerson @benmeyerson.bsky.social · 18/07/2023

Ruyer thought of the day: the idea that there is a symbolic non-dimensional traversal of distance enacted by the unified subject's survey of the sensations arising from its milieu seems highly relevant to questions relating to diasporic subjectivity! Very useful. Lots to say about how this (1/2)

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Ben Meyerson @benmeyerson.bsky.social · 13/07/2023

Today's Ruyer post: we can grant that the formal idea of a material arrangement must contain its end, but should we assume that the formal idea has been posited anterior to the emergence of that material arrangement? Or would it be more accurate to say that the formal idea been retrojected (1/2)

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Ben Meyerson @benmeyerson.bsky.social · 13/07/2023

I think I'm going to inaugurate this account by doing a deep dive into Ruyer's "Neofinalism" as I read along. So far, there's a very strong post-WWII "let's return to and reassess the cogito" energy. I have to assume he'll get beyond that sooner rather than later.

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