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Geoffrey Olsen @geoffreyolsen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Somehow just encountering this now, but guitarist Mike Cooper made an album inspired by Wilson Harris's incredible Guyana Quartet novels a couple years ago. Eerie and beautiful. mikecooper.bandcamp.com/album/slow-m...

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Slow Motion Lightning, by mike cooper

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V. I. Lenin @livinglenin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

There can be no doubt that dire poverty alone compels people to abandon their native land, and that the capitalists exploit the immigrant workers in the most shameless manner. But only reactionaries can shut their eyes to the progressive significance of this modern migration of nations.

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Geoffrey Olsen @geoffreyolsen.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Great interview with poet and publisher Ryan Skrabalak. Ryan's poetry generates a feeling of warm awe within me and I'm grateful for the access to his thinking this interview gives. He's also one of the people giving essential life to experimental poetry in the US via Spiral Editions.

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Spiral Editions

Poetry chapbooks, ephemera, etc.

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Talonbooks @talonbooks.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

The new work of poetry by Nicole Raziya Fong is here! SUBTEXT collages the echoes of diasporic and colonial histories through poetry, drama, autobiography, and archival uncovering. SUBTEXT asks readers to negotiate the unsteady shoals of identity and history.⁠ talonbooks.com/books/subtext

A spread of copies of SUBTEXT by Nicole Raziya Fong. The cover reads SUBTEXT in all caps in a black, serif font across the top. Blue-grey watercolour brush strokes/marker strokes descend diagonally, taking up most of the cover. Behind this is white. In the bottom in black serif font. The left side is grey and looks stitched.

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Annulet @annulet.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Annulet returns with Issue (9) and (10), a double decker that features the first iteration of our open folio "American Poetry & Poetics, 2008–2025." So much is here for you to read. We're so happy to be back.

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Joshua Polanski @joshuapolanski.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I talked to Lav Diaz about Donald Trump, anti-colonial filmmaking, his course-correcting depiction of Enrique of Malacca (a man enslaved by Magellan), his political reasoning for using translators while on the press circuit, the Wakwak connection between Norte and Magellan, and much more.

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I Want to Speak in My Sovereign Tongue: An Interview with Lav Diaz on Magellan | In Review Online

A new interview with filmmaker Lav Diaz, director of Magellan, for film review site In Review Online.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 12/11/2025

🗳️ Bronx Teacher Launches NY-15 Campaign to Unseat Ritchie Torres Andre Easton, a public-school English teacher in the South Bronx and father of three, announced his run for Congress in New York’s 15th District (NY-15) in late October. He describes himself as a socialist running as an independent...

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As a father, a teacher, and someone raised by Jamaican immigrants, I’ve always felt connected to the Palestinian struggle for freedom.

My campaign to unseat Ritchie Torres in NY-15 goes beyond my disdain for organizations like AIPAC.

We need to recognize the humanity of everyone who’s been held back by the system, from the Bronx, to Palestine, to the entire world.

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ARP Books @arpbooks.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

We're excited to announce Cam Scott's sequel of politically-inflected personal collage and city poems, MANOR's RANSOM—the second installment of a life-poem that began with the Lambda-nominated ROMANS SNOWMARE (2019).

Book cover with title MANOR’S RANSOM split between top left and bottom right of page, with Cam Scott at centre bottom. Cover image is a black and white semi-abstract copy collage of repeating elements by Bret Parenteau, featuring a single repeating paved step along a roadway, and a cascading vine shape down the centre

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Geoffrey Olsen @geoffreyolsen.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Great piece on trumpeter/composer Bill Dixon on his centennial. I've been moving through his Odyssey: Solo Works, a gorgeous expanse of solo trumpet. burningambulance.substack.com/p/bill-dixon...

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Bill Dixon @ 100

Lessons in self-determination

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David Mennessier @isidoreisou.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Poème électronique (Iannis Xenakis, Edgard Varèse & Le Corbusier, Pavillon Philips, Expo 1958, Bruxelles, 17 avril – 19 octobre 1958)

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steamroom moikai @steamroom.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

steamroom.bandcamp.com 50% off for a bit /暫く半分割引

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Steamroom

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Geoffrey Olsen @geoffreyolsen.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I answered a series of questions on my poetry from tireless collective poetry conduit, @robmclennan.bsky.social

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Annulet @annulet.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Hello! Here’s the first of some forthcoming updates—the Critical Circle is on! Send your application between today and June 15th. Time for discourse in July!

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 10/04/2025

I was one of a few journos inside the Columbia encampment last year. a new documentary focused in part on Mahmoud Khalil and Grant Miner, the expelled student union president, was released in theaters early, after Khalil's abduction. my interview with a director and student organizer @teenvogue.com

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This New Documentary Gets at What the Columbia Encampments Were Actually About

"We were like, 'Wow, we're sitting on a movie that is ready to go, that debunks everything that Trump is saying.'"

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Cam Scott @vanishingsigns.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I wrote about the functions of music under the Pinochet regime, recent attempts upon Chile's carceral infrastructure, and the work of percussionist Lukax Santana (asking, as always, “¿Qué hacer?”): www.recent-songs.com/captive-songs/

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Captive Songs

Lukax Santana at Valparaíso

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Geoffrey Olsen @geoffreyolsen.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

NECK FIELD, my newest chapbook, is now available from Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs: yoyolabs.com/olsen.html. These poems were written immediately before and after a bike accident at the end of last summer. Poems of recovery and fracture in the mulch of imperial epoch.

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Geoffrey Olsen @geoffreyolsen.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Reading tonight with Loren Connors in celebration of Dylan Angell & Lizzy Hindman-Harvey's collaborative book Airs (a summer suite). Almost can't believe this is happening -- Connor's music has been a motivator for my own poems for years!

A reading flyer: P.I.T. Presents the release of Airs (a summer suite), a book of art and poetry. Featuring Loren Connors (opening the night with a set of music), Dylan Angell & Lizzy Hindman-Harvey (authors of Airs), Emily Martin (poetry), Geoffrey Olsen (Poetry). March 14th at P.I.T. 411 South 5th St. Los Sures, Brooklyn, NYC 11211. 6pm Doors. 6:30pm Show. $10 suggested donation. No one turned away for lack of funds.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

UPDATE: Mahmoud Khalil is being held by ICE in the Jena/LaSalle Detention Facility in Louisiana, per ICE detainee tracker Khalil was detained Saturday night from his New York apartment building

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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

“Dhalgren” illustration by John Harris.

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butterfly. ☭ 🇵🇸🔻🇮🇪 @gothgf.rip · 08/03/2024

Alexandra Kollontai masterminded International Women's Day as a Soviet holiday with the support of Vladimir Lenin. Male revolutionaries, including Lenin, Trotsky, Mao, Sankara, etc. have all openly recognized the fundamental importance of women's involvement in the success of their movements.

Early portrait of Alexandra Kollontai, aged 28 (c. 1900).

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Jon Abbey/Erstwhile Records @erstwhile.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

very proud to announce the seventh Erstwhile release from Vanessa Rossetto, her second ErstSolo: Vanessa Rossetto - Pictures Of The Warm South (ErstSolo 010-2)

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Pictures Of The Warm South, by Vanessa Rossetto

17 track album

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Geoffrey Olsen @geoffreyolsen.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Providing some poetry for this reading and sound event on Sunday.

Poster for a poetry reading and sound event. Sound: Lia Simone and Ceremonial Abyss. Text: Jared Daniel Fagen, Jessica Elsaesser, Will Fesperman and Geoffrey Olsen. Selva, 1329 Willoughby Ave, Suite 121, Brooklyn

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Two years ago GA police murdered Tortuguita a peaceful forest protector. “Manuel loved the forest,” their mother said. “It gave them peace. They meditated there. The forest connected them with God. I never thought that Manuel could die in a meditation position.”

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The movement to Stop Cop City isn’t going anywhere

Back in January Rachel Garbus reported for Hell World on the movement against the construction of Cop City in Atlanta and the aftermath of the police killing one of the protesters. Today Micah Herskin...

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

working on new above/ground press titles by Catriona Strang (cover by Aoife), Andy Weaver @weaverandy.bsky.social , Alice Burdick @aliceburdick.bsky.social , Ryan Skrabalak + Lydia Unsworth @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social ; have u thot of subscribing fr 2025? abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2024/10/abov...

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

BREAKING: The Teamsters are dramatically escalating their strike and taking it to Amazon’s largest NYC warehouse. Beginning at midnight tonight they will picket the massive facility with 5,500 workers. JFK8 on Staten Island is the first unionized Amazon warehouse.

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saskatchewan potato utility (redux) @acabirlios.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I had been hesitant to donate to Gazan GFMs because I wasn't sure how often people were actually getting the money/worried about non-Gazans running scams. Molly has a few threads addressing the concerns I (and a lot of people) have and I feel very confident in contributing to Gazan GFMs now.

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IDF Hannibal Brigade @hannibalbrigade.biz · 14/10/2024

This Holocaust is what Joe Biden wants. This Holocaust is what Kamala Harris wants. If it weren’t, they would’ve stopped the weapons shipments long ago.

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

Kenyan activists are being abducted in broad daylight by the police. If you’re a US citizen this is important for you to know because Kenya is a frontline state in the so called “war on terror” and the patterns of abductions and disappearances have their origin in that relationship.

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Steve Salaita @stevesalaita.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

Gaza isn't in any way a "single issue." It has everything to do with the well-being of life across this planet.

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Steve Salaita @stevesalaita.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

As we (rightly) spotlight all this Zionist depravity, let's also make sure to appreciate the spectacular heroism exhibited by Palestinian doctors and nurses, aid workers, caregivers, educators, resistance fighters, and so many others, young and old, from every walk of life.

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Kate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable" @kateschapira.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

My friend Hollis Mickey embroidered the cover art for this book in 2015. Today, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis means she can't move, eat, or go outside w/o pain & exhaustion that can worsen her illness. Donate $10+ to solvecfs.org, (researching causes & cures for ME) & I'll send you a copy of this book.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 02/05/2024

This dead expanse of trash and emptiness is what the ruling class wants to make of the entire world. The vibrant community based in solidarity that had flourished here is what we want instead. Socialism or barbarism, liberation or death.

Tweet from Shay Horse @HuntedHorse

The fighting is finally over. It looks like the camp on the ucla campus looks like it was hit by a tornado. The police didn't even clean, they just broke the protesters things.

Picture of the cleared encampment

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 29/04/2024

"In my nearly 40 years as a faculty member, I have never seen such brazen cruelty toward students and faculty, such cowardice before what amounts to a right-wing witch hunt, and such blatant dishonesty." Robin D. G. Kelley to Columbia President Minouche Shafik: www.bostonreview.net/articles/let...

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Letter to Columbia President Minouche Shafik - Boston Review

You are keeping no one safe, except for your donors, trustees, and the university’s endowment.

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Todd (they/them) #AbolishThePolice @toddbohannon.bsky.social · 28/04/2024

“It is a wonderful thing that you have…decided to speak out against the repression that you see with your own eyes. You are part of something massive, & you are part of something that is on the right side of history,” —Mumia Abu-Jamal. #GazaGenocide www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

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‘Do not bow’: ex-Black Panther praises pro-Palestinian CUNY protesters from prison

Mumia Abu-Jamal tells New York City students they’re on the right side of history by deciding ‘not to be silent and to speak out’

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

The destruction of Gaza, by USA weapons.

Destroyed building with the words "by USA weapons" written on the rubbble

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Steve Salaita @stevesalaita.bsky.social · 09/03/2024

Not "war." Genocide. Not "Netanyahu's government." Zionism. Not "loss of life." Murder. Not "Hamas." All of Palestine.

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