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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 10h

Everyone employed at a postsecondary institution (& esp deans of students) should read Kate Manne's powerful essay: "Cease to be a place where sexual assault is often subject to less punishment than protesting and plagiarism. ... become a place where our sons are not initiated into rape culture."

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

A pair of happy hammerhead sharks (ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)

Paintings of hammerhead sharks depicted in the "Oki National Products Illustration Notes". From Japan, Edo Period, ca 1735

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

此生此夜不長好明月明年何處看 happy autumn moon #everynightapoem #fragment #蘇軾

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Three years without Kate. Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time. -Anne Carson, from Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides #everynightapoem #fragment

a stack of letters and photos with Kate Laird, 1968-2023.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

此生此夜不長好明月明年何處看 happy autumn moon #everynightapoem #fragment #蘇軾

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Dear friends, As have become a habit, I mark each #autumnequinox by sharing a small poem by Xin Qiji. I also start my translation cycle of Chinese and Japanese poems and prose that mark the twenty-four lunisolar micro-seasons. Translation notes blogged here: #everynightapoem

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Sorrow is composed of a heart in autumn

a short lyric by Xin Qiji, and some thoughts on translation to mark the fall equinox

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Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I love this Xin Qiji poem, translated by @chowleen.bsky.social

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AndaliteBandit @andalitebandit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Close to that time again, and such a beautiful poem! I'm grateful to OP for sharing it with all of us!

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Excellent oped in @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social by my @harvard.edu colleague Jill Lepore. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

But of course, the machine conversation is not free. It comes at the cost of our common life together as teachers, learners, and researchers, colleagues, mentors, and friends. Not to mention, supervising student researchers is our job.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Rereading books is such a fascinating material-affective experience.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

And the third time would be in spring of 2020, when Yiyun Li saved us from ourselves by convening and reading #tolstoytogether. Now reading War and Peace once again with BU friends and colleagues, who have been generous in welcoming me into their annual “Big Fat Books” project!

Inside title pages of both translations with my inscriptions

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fourth time reading War and Peace, after three-and-a-half go arounds. The first time, age 13?, gulped it down in Chinese (but I no longer have the book); the second time in college, during a period when I read Russian literature nonstop (the “half” was me making my way through with 3rd year Russian)

Photo of two English translations of War and Peace

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lando kardashian @adamsideas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

man, #tolstoytogether was so much fun...

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"Colorstruck! He had me at the name. Richard J. Powell has written a gorgeous book about Black artists and their use of color, and every page leaps up at you, jolting you into attention." commonreader.wustl.edu/colorstruck-...

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Colorstruck-in Segregated St. Louis - Common Reader

He had me at the name. Richard J. Powell has written a gorgeous book about Black artists and their use of color, and every page leaps up at you, jolting you into attention.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

i bear witness to no thing more human than hate i bear witness to no thing more human than love apples and honey apples and honey what is not lost is paradise -Lucille Clifton, "Rosh Hashanah" 2001 No words suffice, so sharing Clifton's. #everynightapoem

rosh hashanah
i bear witness to no thing more human than hate
i bear witness to no thing more human than love
apples and honey apples and honey
what is not lost is paradise

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Ceci n’est pas une pomme (It’s actually a baozi -sweet white flour bun with golden custard filling - figured it was apples and honey season)

A baozi bun resembling a golden apple on a white plate

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, getting a personal tour of the National Museum of African American History and Culture with Dr. Lonnie Bunch, founding curator of the NMAAHC and Director of the Smithsonian. A scheduled 45 minutes turned into 3 plus hours that day. So grateful.

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Thomas D. Carroll @thomasdcarroll.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

In case you need a little more John Coltrane in your day... This streaming channel is pretty wonderful. www.youtube.com/live/TVEYASJ...

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John Coltrane 100: The Essential Station

YouTube video by John Coltrane

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Beth Moon, The Ifaty Teapot, Adansonia za, in Toliara, Madagascar 1,200 yrs old, trunk can store more than 31,000 gallons of water.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

She remembered it was August and they say August brings bad luck. But September would arrive one day like an exit. And September was for some reason a lighter and more transparent month. Clarice Lispector (trans. Katrina Dodson) #everynightapoem #september as ever, for my favorite month

red door with latticed peep hole and hand-shaped door knocker (our house in macanet)

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

啊何勇 Part of my best memories of Beijing in the 1990s was listening to all of them, listening to this song 是誰出的題這麼難到處都是正確答案 www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrhV...

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He Yong “Bell Drum Tower” Beijing China

YouTube video by COMA aka Chinatown Organization for Media Awakening

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I’ll have more to post on this later but a) please feel free to subscribe to read the whole thing (there’s quite a bit), & b) my thesis is simple: Right now, the most urgent moral test for this nation today is happening in Springfield, Ohio We as a country are currently failing this test miserably

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Here is Gloria Steinem’s final essay, published tonight by @newyorker.com “When you’re lucky enough to have lived a long life, as I have, your role is to remind us how far we have come.” www.newyorker.com/culture/life...

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Gloria Steinem’s Final Essay

Gloria Steinem writes about what she meant when she called herself a feminist.

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Manel Ollé @manelolle.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Zhang Xiaogang 张晓刚 (1958) Línies de sang 血缘

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Line Stockford @linecaro.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I had such a dream in 2020. I met a group of post apocalyptic survivors. Hunter-gatherer style furs and a blue, painted shaman. The main figure had very cool leather shoes with a curved seam. More of a vision than dream, that left me feeling very moved and convinced that some people will make it. ☺️

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Rakel @lobster667.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is one of those slogans that are powerful and then get a little extra powerful if you happen to look at it through a trans lens.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

In a dream you saw a way to survive and you were full of joy Jenny Holzer, election time 1984 (Survival 1983-85) Photo Pelka/Noble #everynightapoem

In a dream you saw a way to survive and you were full of joy

Sign on a truck, Jenny Holzer

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Pastor Carl Ruby, of Springfield's Central Christian Church, can state the issue more clearly than 98% of people working in politics today.

"I wish President Trump could hear the mom's wails. The

family wants people to know that this was a suicide and they

want people to know that President Trump, (Stephen) Miller, and Markwayne Mullin's inhumane immigration policies made this happen," Ruby wrote.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest. -Wendell Berry 1934-2026, from “Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front” full poem here: commongood.cc/reader/manif... Safe travels.

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“Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front”

“Listen to carrion – put your ear/ close and hear the faint chattering/ of the world that is to come.” Berry’s famous poem encourages readers to remain feral. Whether in dense urban neighborhoods, sub...

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Jeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

" Your mind will be punched in a card and shut away in a little drawer."

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

RIP Wendell Berry 💜

For an Absence
When I cannot be with you I will send my love (so much is allowed to human lovers)
to watch over you in the dark— a winged small presence who never sleeps, however long the night. Perhaps it cannot protect or help, I do not know, but it watches always, and so you will sleep within my love within the room within the dark.
And when, restless, you wake and see the room palely lit by that watching, you will think,
"It is only dawn," and go quiet to sleep again.

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“Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front”

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Rest in peace, Wendell Berry.

The Peace of Wild Things
Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

from Openings: Poems (1968)

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Rev. Dr. Rob Lee @roblee4.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.” — Wendell Berry Rest in peace and rise in glory.

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Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)

A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

So Microsoft Outlook is down everywhere? Duke mail is definitely out of commission.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

So heartbreaking. “The force of the deluge was such that nearly a dozen bodies were swept hundreds of miles away and found in India.” Nepal Turns to Mass Burials, as Thousands Remain Missing from Floods www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/w...

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Nepal Turns to Mass Burials, as Thousands Remain Missing from Floods

Only a fraction of the over 2,500 missing are turning up among the dead, underscoring a bleak reality: The death toll is likely to keep rising for days to come.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

“I lost a few goddesses while moving south to north” A poem for Sunday morning from a true favorite poet - Wisława Szymborska, “A Speech at the Lost-and-Found” (trans. S Baranczak & C Cavanagh) #everynightapoem

A SPEECH AT THE LOST-AND-FOUND I lost a few goddesses while moving south to north, and also some gods while moving east to west.
I let several stars go out for good, they can't be traced.
An island or two sank on me, they're lost at sea.
I'm not even sure exactly where I left my claws, who's got my fur coat, who's living in my shell.
My siblings died the day I left for dry land and only one small bone recalls that anniversary in me.
I've shed my skin, squandered vertebrae and legs, taken leave of my senses time and again.
I've long since closed my third eye to all that, washed my fins of it and shrugged my branches.
Gone, lost, scattered to the four winds. It still surprises me how little now remains, one first person sing., temporarily declined in human form, just now making such a fuss about a blue umbrella left yesterday on a bus.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Don’t let folks tell you Gen Z students can’t read. Kicked-off my Duke first-year class with this favorite Lydia Davis story - projected text onto a whiteboard so we could annotate by hand. So many smart and insightful readings, by a group of 18 year-olds in their first week of university life.

If you ask her what is a favorite story she has written, she will hesitate for a long time and then say it may be this story that she read in a book once: an English-language teacher in China asked his Chinese student to say what was the happiest moment in his life. The student hesitated for a long time. At last he smiled with embarrassment and said that his wife had once gone to Beijing and eaten duck there, and she often told him about it, and he would have to say the happiest moment of his life was her trip, and the eating of the duck.

-Lydia Davis, Happiest Moment

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Julio Ricardo Varela @juliorvarela.com · 28/08/2026

New by me for Pressing Issues: I connected with Richard LA's legal team about the latest in his immigration case and how, even after being detained for more than 300 days, he is still continues to report from his cell in Adelanto.

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The Longest-Detained Journalist in U.S. Custody Keeps Fighting

Carlitos Ricardo Parias — aka Richard LA — was shot by ICE officials and has been detained for more than 300 days

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Rivers flow backwards And my tears are dry Swans hate the water And eagles can't fly But I'm alright now Now that I'm over you And the sky is green And the grass is blue And I don't love you -Dolly Parton 1946-2026 She was sheer genius. #everynightapoem www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFH-...

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Dolly Parton - The Grass Is Blue - The Grass Is Blue

YouTube video by Music

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