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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“This archive is produced by a group of academics to honor and commemorate these lives and those of the many other teachers and researchers in higher education murdered in Gaza during the genocide.” www.publicbooks.org/remember-the...

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Remember Them: Palestine Scholars Murdered in the Gaza Genocide - Public Books

“In Palestine, some 87,000 students have suffered a near total disruption of their studies for the duration of the genocide, and more than 1200 have been killed. Upwards of 200 academic staff have…

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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"This is a film about a system. It focuses on orders, policies, and patterns of operation, not deviations from them. The mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza was not a “tragic byproduct” of a war against Hamas, but a premeditated, calculated, intentional act." www.972mag.com/naza-exposin...

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‘NAZA’: Exposing Israel’s killing machine in Gaza

Our new film shows how Israel’s slaughter of Palestinian civilians was a calculated and intentional act, through the testimonies of those responsible.

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

So, in fact, the most salient point is what you think of Cofnas and his work, specifically how he was hired while he lacked any expertise in the subject he was purportedly hired for, beating out real experts, by a hiring committee of one individual, an alleged racist bsky.app/profile/hoov...

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Vivek Narayanan @naravive.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The real facts of the so-called DEI era

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 22/07/2026

elon stroking his chin in thought, thinking about how the three hour movie he sat still for and paid attention to wasn't as faithful as it could be to the long poem he read all of

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Today's Feature: What Sparks Poetry: Afsar Mohammad on "Evening with a Sufi" Read here: poems.com/poem/evening...

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Evening with a Sufi

After the evening prayer, I knew the body of the Sufi by the embroidered cloth that covered him for many hundred years.

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Today's Feature: What Sparks Poetry: Sylvan Lionni on Rhyming Design and Quatrains in XXV Poems Read here: poems.com/poem/four-po...

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Four Poems

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Today's Feature: "A Lesson in Drawing" by Nizar Qabbani, translated by Rana Bitar from Love and Resistance published by Fernwood Press Read here: poems.com/poem/a-lesso...

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A Lesson in Drawing

I can't pluck a flower from the field without it raising a weapon in my face

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Vivek Narayanan @naravive.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Talk abou a ridiculous and deeply unscientific report.

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Asia Society New York @newyork.asiasociety.org · 08/06/2026

We’re teaming up with @hanumaneds.bsky.social for a conversation this Wednesday at 6:30 PM with writers and translators @antonhur.com and @naravive.bsky.social on the art of translation, how to translate ideas, and temporalities between the ancient and the highly contemporary in literature.

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Translating Ideas in Literature: Vivek Narayanan & Anton Hur

A conversation presented with Hanuman Editions between the poet and translator Vivek Narayanan and the writer and translator Anton Hur, on translating ideas, temporalities between the ancient and the ...

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Asia Society New York @newyork.asiasociety.org · 03/06/2026

Join us and @hanumaneds.bsky.social on June 10 at Asia Society New York for a conversation between poet Vivek Narayanan and writer @antonhur.com on translation and its practices in world literature.📚 🎟️: asiasociety.org/new-york/events/tra…

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Today's Feature: What Sparks Poetry: upfromsumdirt on "What Light Through Beyond Yonder Window" from The Shoes of the Fisherman’s Wife published by University Press of Kentucky Read here:

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What Light Through <em>Beyond</em> Yonder Window

& the heady poems of mythic black folk both floating to surface in ambush of sky

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skip intro @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 01/06/2026

and only Vivek could talk me into my first official online essay... poems.com/features/wha...

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Upfromsumdirt on Establishing Your Own Poetic Ground

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Vivek Narayanan @naravive.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The Shoes of the Fisherman’s Wife is an amazing collection— I’d advise you not to sleep on it!

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skip intro @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 01/06/2026

eternal gratitude to @naravive.bsky.social for featuring my poem, What Light Through Beyond Yonder Window for Poetry Daily... ❤️ poems.com/poem/what-li...

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What Light Through <em>Beyond</em> Yonder Window

& the heady poems of mythic black folk both floating to surface in ambush of sky

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Today's Feature: "Guava Season in Exxon Guyana’s Cash-Grant Line" written and translated from the Guayana Creole by Jeremy Jacob Peretz & Joan Cambridge-Mayfield from Jombii Jamborii published by @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/guava-s...

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Guava Season in Exxon Guyana's Cash-Grant Line

but the money's not for everyone much less those like you and I we who grovel

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Vivek Narayanan @naravive.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Pallava dynasty script— cool stuff

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Vivek Narayanan @naravive.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Beautiful, illuminating piece by @jntod.bsky.social . The reading of Prynne’s recent (2020s) work is really helpful as I’ve found it hard to enter.

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Vivek Narayanan @naravive.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Adani corruption meets Trump corruption. This is like some kind of crossover episode

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Abid Surti was also a close friend and editorial consultant to H. N. "Atom" Golibar (1949-2024), who published a weekly adfree Gujarati pulp magazine with a 45-year run. Alongside joke columns and science news, it serialised Golibar's supernatural horror novels. Read one in Gujarati Pulp Fiction!

Gujarati Pulp Fiction selected and translated by Vishwambhari S Parmar

Gujarati cover of Kaal Kundali by H N Golibar shows a monstrous-faced man in a blue cloak holding a dagger with a carved snakehead hilt and plunging it into a horoscope

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Equality Labs @equalitylabs.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

1/✊🏽✨“Desi Love Beats South Asian Hate” is more than a message. It is a refusal to be defined by fear, erasure, or discrimination. 🫂We know who we are. We know where our power lies, in our communities, in our collective voice, and in our refusal to stay silent.

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Vivek Narayanan @naravive.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Bedil’s one of the very greatest and most influential Indian poets —he’s almost forgotten now in India but revered outside of it, in Afghanistan for instance. Homa Mojadidi’s Bedils are the first ones that really sing to me, help me understand what the big deal is

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Ria Chakrabarty @riachia93.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

April and voting rights

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/04/2026

This short film about one night in one city documents racial profiling and a host of other abuses by ICE using body cam footage. Issued as a video opinion by full editorial board of the New York Times, it is utterly bone-chilling. Gift link. Please take the time to watch it, then call your reps.

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Opinion | White Drivers Got a Warning. Latino Drivers Got Detained.

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Aditi Rao @aditilrao.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Seeing Rai’s coverage of the genocide in, and liberation of, Bangladesh radically changed my sense of what South Asian history “looked like”. An extraordinary life which brought so many other lives into the light.

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Vivek Narayanan @naravive.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

RiP Prynne. I always felt his greatest work was his least characteristic- The Plant-Time Manifold - an amazing foray into speculative science. Originally written for Ed Dorn’s zine Been News it showcases his multidisciplinary genius in a way that is relaxed and openly funny.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Pope Leo today: "Blessed are the peacemakers." "Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth."

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Torgeir Fjeld @phatic-talk.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

"no one will listen to you just as you never listened to me" The hardest part to accept about Hegel -- according to Wolfgang Schirmacher -- is the part about the "struggle for recognition" that takes place between the master and the (let us call them) non-masters. And, yet. There it is.

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Vivek Narayanan @naravive.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

John Yau on the writing of "Memories of Charles Street", from his fantastic and (for me) eye-opening Diary of Small Discontents: New and Selected Poems, 1974- 2024. poems.com/features/wha...

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John Yau on the Writing of “Memories of Charles Street”

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Today's Feature: What Sparks Poetry: Medha Singh on "Another Life" Read here: poems.com/poem/another...

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Another Life

I’m writing love on a serviette as mourners gather on a mound for the disgraced dead, still in grave-clothes underfoot—

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Eric T. Racher @ericracher.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

"butterfuly" is a very nice typo.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology

She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Hard to read this and not feel hopeful about some stubborn and essential spirit of our country, which its current leaders seem to have entirely misunderstood

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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

"We’re in need of the sun tell the shadows to vanish If me-ness disappears nothing remains in my heart but you" —Homa Mojadidi Translates Bedil Dehlavi anmly.org/ap41/homa-mo...

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Homa Mojadidi Translates Bedil Dehlavi – ANMLY

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Saudamini Deo @saudaminideo.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Just received today this exquisite gift of a book by Vivek Narayanan, one of the few poets doing stellar experimental work in Indian English poetry. The Karuntokai and Its Mirror is a fractalized translation and reinterpretation of a classical work in the Tamil Sangam canon.

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Torgeir Fjeld @phatic-talk.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Always nice when one’s prejudices are confirmed. We have long suspected that LLMs over-generalise. They do. Here's the documentation.

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Eric T. Racher @ericracher.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

"To say LLMs can produce essays or poems that resemble the frequent generation of robotic production by humans is NOT to say there is no difference: it is to say humans can do better and need to stay alert and mobile. And that means: resist forms of ...

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Forum on “A Defence of LLM-Assisted Poetics” with Althusser, Ayer, Baal Shem Tov, Baldwin, Benveniste, Blake, Bloom, Deleuze, Du Bois, Heidegger, James, Kuhn, Lacan, Lucretius, Rawls, Schmidt, Stein,

VENDLER, WYNTER -- An Fantasy by Artie Intaglio: In Sum 17

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 23/12/2025

‘Psychoanalysis was born of a moment not dissimilar to our own: a moment when the image of the human as a rational animal seemed fragile if not preposterous, and the progressive liberalism founded on that image was revealed to be dangerously naive.’ Amia Srinivasan: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Amia Srinivasan · The Impossible Patient: Return of the Unconscious

You may not wish to commit yourself ontologically to some thing called the ‘unconscious’, and you may reasonably...

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