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I never saw this! What a great piem

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Loved how someone in the movie says “we are the greatest civilization “ as if Homer had already anticipated he would one day be appropriated by Elon Musk

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From the 1930s through 50s Hollywood had some amazing movies. And so well made. I was struggling to think of a single iconic or memorable image from this movie— maybe the cyclops, but that too seemed like a visual quote from 40s claymation

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But they used to be able to make a big budget movie in Hollywood that was inventive and original in its images— no longer?

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Strangely I was thinking the same thing—over certain amount and the consultants weigh in. Odysseus has to be a likable lead so monogamous

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Vivek Narayanan @naravive.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I agree, having compared it line for line with other translations. But I also completely agree with Wilson’s review of the Nolan film!

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I happen to agree with you about this translation!

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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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Vivek Narayanan @naravive.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

How do I search for this on instagram?

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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...

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

Evening with a Sufi

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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...

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

A Lesson in Drawing

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

Though blissfully incapable of examining their own assumptions

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

Fascinatingly, the discipline of anthropology is singled out as being the worst offender. Philosophy is seen as the most truthful. And the panel is dominated mostly by (analytic) philosophers! Not suspicious at all!

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:

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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maniacally abstrack black @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 01/06/2026

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

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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maniacally abstrack black @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...

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...

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.

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

Counters a naive reading of the poem as autobiography, and reveals it to be, apart from a representation of the shifting sands of memory, a really genius parody of a certain kind of 'immigrant poem!! The poem is linked at the bottom and is also on Poetry Daily.