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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 16h

Industrial animal farming is a destructive force not for a couple of reasons, but for ALL the reasons. Look it up wherever you can. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #veganism #animalethics

Did you know that dairy cows can anticipate positive events and show excitement behaviors when expecting rewards?

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Pryscilla Hebel @phebel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What a privilege to meet Mircea Cărtărescu during his recent book tour in the Netherlands. Looking forward to the release of Theodoros (🇺🇸 transl. Sean Cotter) by @deepvellum.bsky.social!

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Read an #interview with one of the greatest contemporary fiction writers, 𝐌𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐚 𝐂𝐚̆𝐫𝐭𝐚̆𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐮, in the Fall issue of Amsterdam Review. bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #writing #fiction #novels #writingcommunity

The Möbius Strip of Reality and Dream

Amsterdam Review in conversation with Mircea Cartarescu

"If the words don't shine with all their power, if you don't send 'most of your stars out,' as Salinger wrote, everything is in vain, because for a real writer literature is more than a profession and even more than an art: it is a religion."

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Our Fall 2026 issue is OUT NOW! Featuring #interviews with Mircea Cărtărescu and Diane Sahms, as well as works by Iain Britton, Angela Townsend, Marcia Yudkin, Kevin Grauke, Carla Schwartz, Jane Lockwood, and many more. Read here: bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #fiction #translations #amsterdam 🇳🇱

Amsterdam Review Fall 2026

Mircea Cartarescu, Katrina Naomi, Marion Rost, M. Anne Avera, Alina Stefanescu, Jen Jabaily-Blackburn, Daniel Carden Nemo, Gabriela Denise Frank, and many more...

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Can we only “live life to the fullest” by killing and putting these amazing creatures in a bucket, KFC? More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Did you know that chickens demonstrate self-control, delaying gratification to obtain better rewards?

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"But maybe the meaning is / it’s all music. / Maybe that is what music is?" Three poems by 𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝐃𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐲 @stdougherty.bsky.social in Amsterdam Review www.amsterdamreview.org/three-by-sean-thomas-dougherty.html #poetry #poetrycommunity

What Music Is
Have you ever seen a Pomeranian goose?
One comes to visit me every morning
at the end of third shift. It's domesticated
& the people next door to our medical facility
let it wander. It waddles up to the walk
as I leave work: honk honk do you have bread sir?
Perhaps a fish or two? It's brown
& white & big & a bit pushy.
Pretty bird I tell it & it preens
like an addled swan.
I always wonder what the birds are saying.
How do starlings sway in their murmuration
across the sky? After do they tell each other,

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Doubt, mortality, desire— / You know—a comedy. Nothing / To discard from the slaughter ..." Three poems by 𝐄𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐲 in Amsterdam Review www.amsterdamreview.org/three-by-eric-pankey.html #poetry #poetrycommunity

LATE QUARTETS
The canyon walls’ striations
Wrought by water, by wind,
Reveal deviations
In the parallel of lines.

: :

How to integrate the minutiae—
The febrile marks, a torn web,
A ragged rope bridge— when
Each act of ritual distances?

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"we come forth and sometimes singing. but no one / cares after the song or what promise, this thing / called faith. the revelation is always home-grown" 3 poems by @kebishop.bsky.social in Amsterdam Review www.amsterdamreview.org/three-by-karen-elizabeth-bishop.html #poetry #poetrycommunity

alight
i thought we were trees,
shrieking, dense, millenial. but no, we were hands,

we were ocean hands, blind,
fleeing, ignorant. unknowing we swept seawater into

speech, cleaving, the fugitive
madness settles, grief a feathered mouth, a mother

that stays, when we face
pain she says, alight, child, alight, we are torn, born

wanting. hollow as moon &
sometimes the fragment is a continent that floats

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Reducing a sentient being to a commodity is the exact same cognitive toolkit used to justify human atrocities, racism, violence, and exploitation. See it for what it is. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Did you know that pigs show empathy-related behaviors, responding emotionally to the distress of other pigs?

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"She knew it was something strange / because if it happened to anyone she knew they never / talked about it..." Two poems by 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐂𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 @patrickcotterpoet.bsky.social in Amsterdam Review www.amsterdamreview.org/two-by-patrick-cotter.html #poetry #poetrycommunity

Scenes from the Lives of a Girl
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The dead leaves clung to the young girl. They leapt
from the earth to clothe her. The linden and the oak,
elm and sycamore. Every time she arrived home she
was met by her exasperated mother moaning about
the leaves’ flaky deposits in her hallway, the baby slugs,
the not completely dead aphids. “Why don’t you brush
them off before you come home?” Her mother presumed
electricity in some static form had a hand. She never
witnessed the looks of astonishment that greeted her
daughter all along the road as leaves swept themselves up
to envelop her, astonishment too deep to rally an insult
or catcall. Astonishment of a kind no emoji exists for.

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"The capital of capital / is a city impossible to besiege. It moves, / after all, all the barons and pirates..." Two poems by 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐙𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐭 @janezwart.bsky.social in Amsterdam Review www.amsterdamreview.org/two-by-jane-zwart.html #poetry #poetrycommunity

Market Forces
When there was less, it was easier to tell
a story about why there wasn’t enough.
Inside the lion’s emptiness, the zebra’s;
inside the zebra’s, the field’s; inside that,
the sky’s. In the age of sieges, you could
draw a circle around a city and, just like that,
boost the cost of flour. And doors’ futures.

In the age of abstractions, a market force
can not be demoed in dominoes. Instead
the tongues of our sneakers tell tales.
In all of them, the capital of capital
is a city impossible to besiege. It moves,
after all, all the barons and pirates
setting up shop over and over, halfway
between a zeitgeist and the latest fad.

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"It is a curious thing, that in observing animals closely, one sometimes feels as if they are attending to us with an intelligence parallel to our own, though built on different lines." - Charles Darwin More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Did you know the limbic activity of mammals draws their emotions into immediate congruence?

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We sacrifice everything that’s real, the natural world, sentient animals, our health, our climate, to uphold a contrived paradigm that equates meat with wellness and prosperity. But MEAT is a linguistic shield. We eat DEAD BODIES. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #veganism #animalethics

Did you know that empathy is measurable in many species, not just in behavior, but in neurological patterns mirroring human compassion?

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"All the deaths have taken on new forms, / suspended in air, shapes never touching but in / motion. Maybe this is beauty. Maybe derailed beauty is still beauty." 3 poems by @victoriachang.bsky.social in Amsterdam Rev www.amsterdamreview.org/three-by-victoria-chang.html #poetry #poetrycommunity

Hemlock, 1956
A wooden door in front of everything. A door
on my country. A door on the lake. My poems

prefer wooden hunting dogs. If I say there is a
door on my heart in the poem, then there is.

Now I can open this door. The door is a short
door though. I must kneel down to crawl in, drag

my body through with my wooden elbows. I bump
into my wooden mother who is also crawling

in my heart. She smiles so large at me that her
suffering lights up the tunnel. I can now see my

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"Once we had language, / we said, / we had been sent, / gone forth... " Four poems by 𝐑𝐚𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐭 in Amsterdam Review www.amsterdamreview.org/four-by-rae-armantrout.html #poetry #poetrycommunity

H(over)
Gray July day,
humming-bird hovers

beak-deep in a hank
of late-blooming wisteria.

Is it—are they—
ever aware of failing,

of being awkward, inept?
Never.

They’re nothing if not
perfect.

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"I am stuck / between one / and zero / cropping for myself / a place in nature: / the answer to form / is the formless." Three poems by 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐍𝐞𝐦𝐨 @danielnemo.bsky.social in Amsterdam Review amsterdamreview.org/three-by-daniel-carden-nemo1.html #poetry #poetrycommunity

Will I Be Still the Hero
Lately I see things
fade to a dark shade
till they wear through
their own orbit.

What strikes my eye
is an altercation of fluency.

Part concomitance
of form. Part vacuum
that sucks me in.

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"Each animal is surrounded by its own bubble of significance, its own world full of colors and tones we shall never perceive." - Jakob von Uexküll Animals aren’t just a part of nature, they 𝒂𝒓𝒆 nature. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Did you know that social mammals, when deprived of contact, exhibit brain patterns indistinguishable from those of human loneliness?

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Slaughtering animals for profit - the sole remaining purpose of meat - isn’t a collective need but an individual choice. See it for what it is. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #veganism #animalethics

Are you aware terms like livestock, etc., are used to desensitize consumers by referring to sentient beings as products?

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"When to read poetry–someone asked a long time ago / but is still asking / for no answer was returned." Four poems by 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐥 𝐋𝐞𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐤 in Amsterdam Review www.amsterdamreview.org/four-by-suphil-lee-park.html #poetry #poetrycommunity

Such Is the Way the Heart Inflects
It brays
and won’t break.
And breaks
a storm the pasture can’t bridle.
Let it break away.
Let the breadth of land grow.
Never mind
losing sight of it
or mending.
Even a gentle heart won’t gentle
in the know.
Catch
a break
in the storm.
Light made more light more
light made
light of.

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“All you who feed on the food of earth… Return all the soft-bodied animals / to their homes: sea pansies, anemones, boars, bears, even pet guinea pigs not distracted from being by footsteps across the floor” - Eleni Sikelianos More at bit.ly/world-revisited #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

What do the possibilities of human nature hold if they fail to take into account those of the non-human world?

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"Now that / the symbol is / neither a doorway / nor a door, the / door / opens..." Two poems by 𝐀𝐦𝐲 𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐳𝐚𝐧𝐨 in Amsterdam Review www.amsterdamreview.org/two-by-amy-catanzano.html #poetry #poetrycommunity

The Politics of Abstraction
In the green room of the poem
an artificial intelligence flexes
its wings. Protesting, the surrealist
logs out forever. There is always
at least one memoirist at the
space station without the proper
joker card. The nonconformists
stop all the clocks to gain access
to restricted areas. You keep
preparing for the superfiction
party. Each page of the party
is a quanta of data, a thing-
in-itself. The afterparty is for
reading science and fiction and
science fiction. On the moon,
a phone number is written
in dust. Maybe it is your number.

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

What if we started being honest and called meat what it is: 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒊𝒆𝒔? We have choices, animals don't. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Are you aware language helps distance us from the reality of what we're eating—using words like “beef” or “pork” instead of cow or pig or deer?

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"Return all the soft-bodied animals /to their homes: sea pansies, anemones /boars, bears / even pet guinea pigs not distracted from being by / footsteps across the floor" 5 poems by 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐢 𝐒𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐬 in Amsterdam Review www.amsterdamreview.org/five-by-eleni-sikelianos.html #poetry #poetrycommunity

Real World Feeds
All you who feed
on the food of earth

frog
like a piece of dry leather creaking in the field
snapping up flies

hunter
licking the pot of tiger bone stew

tire
a black tongue lapping
a black cold road

Get this ghost mama off a me
What is it?

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Karen Elizabeth Bishop @kebishop.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

So grateful to @amsterdamreview.bsky.social for the nod and for honoring Raúl Zurita's always extraordinary work and Héctor Hernández Montecinos' exquisite curation ❤

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

They can dream, sing, fly, see by sound, they are just like superheroes—only not made up. Imagine if we found inspiration in our fellow creatures instead of gimmicks. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Did you know that communication in many species like bees and ants relies on multi-sensory codes we have only begun to decipher?

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

On the news today they were voicing farmers’ concerns about the outbreak of Bluetongue, wishing their sheep and cattle were happy and healthy, in the same breath as agonizing over having to go without their roasts. Who are we kidding? More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #veganism #animalethics

$Did you know that most farm animals are slaughtered at a fraction of their natural lifespan, often before reaching social or cognitive maturity?$

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"Give it new life, I thought, / the wrecked house, the apple orchard. / Camped on the edge of the property, / I’d wrapped myself in a wool blanket." 3 poems by 𝐊𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐦 𝐀𝐲𝐫𝐞𝐬 @kellamayres.bsky.social in Amsterdam Review www.amsterdamreview.org/three-by-kellam-ayres.html #poetry #poetrycommunity

Final Day
Even in August, a chill.
Boxes stacked on the painted pine floor.
Sheets pulled over the wingbacks, the sofa.
The door closed after letting in the last
of the room’s good air.

Years ago I burned here.
Brought him into the near dark.
Held his hands while he breathed in my hair,
passed it between his lips.

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

We need another concept of animals—they are “gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear” (Henry Beston). More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Did you know that migratory animals use magnetic fields, polarized light, scent, and even the stars to navigate continents and oceans?

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"The night’s been hollowed out into silence, a quiet deep enough for Virgil to feel / what’s left of the earth / humming underneath his feet." Two poems by 𝐑𝐞𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐜𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐣𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐤𝐢 in Amsterdam Review www.amsterdamreview.org/two-by-rebecca-macijeski.html #poetry #poetrycommunity

Rapture, or When It Happens
- April 14, 1935, Black Sunday
Virgil waits for the black blizzard to pass.
No one tells him what to see or how long to wait.
There’s just Virgil and the fiddle
and the elbow where two roads meet
along an empty horizon purpled out
into darkness.

First it’s a vague distance, a collection,
the earth roiling out of itself.
Then the devil is in the dust
carrying what we’ve cast off—seeds, bits of skin,
what would have been wheat
in the land’s broken promise
lifting like a cloud.

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

We’re pleased to announce our Best of the Net nominations for this year! @patrickcotterpoet.bsky.social @khadijahqueen.com @kebishop.bsky.social @jasonbentsman.bsky.social Read more: bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

Amsterdam Review Best of the Net Nominations 2026

Poems
Yes Yukon by Sara Barnett
Fable: The Barn Owl, the Woodworm & the Rain by Anthony Caleshu
Delicate Weapon by Patrick Cotter
Winter Night by Susan Irvine
Disconnect by Khadijah Queen
Natural Selection by Klara Seddon

Stories
Less Than Hero by Roberto Ontiveros
The Schnitzel by Eric Melbye

Creative nonfiction
Funeral Rites by Raul Zurita

Works of art
Monochrome Cinematic by Jason Bentsman #2
Monochrome Cinematic by Jason Bentsman #6

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Pryscilla Hebel @phebel.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Good luck to all the nominees!

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"My need for solitude was vast / Yet my wish for nothing plagued me / I tried to want what I did not need" Selected poems by 𝐋𝐚𝐲𝐧𝐢𝐞 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧 in Amsterdam Review www.amsterdamreview.org/selected-poems-by-laynie-browne.html #poetry #poetrycommunity

from Antediluvian Sonnets
All worked up to purchase nothingness
What you don't know but now inhabit
Detached from your name
Detail the diagram, labeling the biology
Of loss in everlasting diaristic acrobatics
Comb, pillow, dust
Read flourishing trace
The hand in your pocket
When did news become advice
Bury invitations, plant ancestral
Relics in plain blight
You don't need to tell anyone
Take the language from your body
Revelry

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"Could this be how / death arrives too, an intimate self / half-recognized" Two poems by 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐚 𝐀𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 in Amsterdam Review www.amsterdamreview.org/two-by-linda-anderson.html #poetry #poetrycommunity

First, they were ducks
nestling into the long grass.
Then they were branches
stuck upright in a circle.

A shake of the head
and they were a conclave
of deer, conversing privately
in the way deer do.

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"The animal is not beneath us, but beside us; its path through time runs parallel to ours, only differing in the music by which it moves." - Eliseo Reclus More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Did you know that animals dream, and birds, dogs, cats, and rats all exhibit REM sleep patterns associated with imagined experience?

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"Tell me, mare of the white star, / tail like the quill / with which God wrote His book into being, / is He still writing it now" Three poems by 𝐉𝐚𝐜𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐊𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐨𝐯 in Amsterdam Review www.amsterdamreview.org/three-by-jacqueline-kolosov.html #poetry #poetrycommunity

In death they float, and so became known
as the “right” whales. Escalating now, their vanishing. By day
the remaining few brave ships, nets. Ahab said the eyes

define the face of man. What of a whale’s eyes?
Theirs capture the light, too.

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Would an animal lover really slaughter one animal to feed another they keep as a pet? More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Did you know that pigs outperform dogs and even young children in certain tests of spatial memory and problem-solving?

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

"Hold if you want: / when look at child holding, feel your hand cup / how you think" Three poems by 𝐀𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚 𝐀𝐮𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐡 in Amsterdam Review bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

There is no wrong way
get into, just press it. Back of keyboard becomes
dirt ground, press to
become a foot and see the dirt disturbed come up
on outer edge of sneaker foot,
you have to picture it to feel:

it also work through screen. Three children Henry,
Elinor, and August they are holding
just-hatched chicks bought for my cousin’s business
taking pictures

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Let see what's going to run out first: the words to describe the loss of world or the world. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Did you know that humans have a disproportionately negative effect on the Earth and most of its organisms?

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

All our problems start with humans hurting animals, which, to paraphrase @herbivoreclub.bsky.social, has come to be considered so natural that refusing to hurt them is seen as anti-human. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Can ethical treatment really exist in a system that ends in the killing of the subject after a life of suffering?

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"Animals are not instruments for human use, but sentient beings whose lives matter to themselves." - Peter Singer More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Did you know that proximity to the mother is an inborn need for all mammals?

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Karen Elizabeth Bishop @kebishop.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

So pleased that this translation found its home in the @amsterdamreview.bsky.social. A joy to work with such enthusiastic editors and to see Zurita's prose go far & wide

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"Each animal is surrounded by its own bubble of significance, its own world full of colors and tones we shall never perceive. To enter it is impossible, yet it exists as fully as our own." - Jakob von Uexküll More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Did you know that prairie dogs have a language so detailed they can describe the color, size, and speed of approaching predators?

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Read 𝐹𝑢𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑅𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑠, an #essay by 𝐑𝐚𝐮́𝐥 𝐙𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚 (transl. 𝐊𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐄𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐡 𝐁𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 @kebishop.bsky.social) in the Spring issue. Zurita is widely regarded as one of the most significant contemporary writers from South America. bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #nonfiction #poetry #writingcommunity

Funeral Rites
by Raúl Zurita

translated from Spanish and with a foreword by Karen Elizabeth Bishop

Translating Zurita in this stereophonic form is like handling one hundred thousand stars that each announce themselves and their distance at once. I’m up close, inside, and then it’s gone before I even realize where I’m at and I’m on to the next one. Only in stepping back does the whole picture, the whole night sky, come into view. What becomes clear before us is that Zurita’s interventions in prose rival his poetic voice. And that Zurita sees our shared human future very clearly.

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

We sacrifice what’s real—natural world, sentient animals, our health, our climate—to uphold a contrived paradigm that equates meat with wellness and prosperity. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #veganism #animalethics

Are you aware that industries promoting meat and dairy products have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo, even if it's at odds with scientific, environmental, or ethical insights?

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Read my new translation of 𝐼𝑧𝑚𝑖𝑟, 𝑇ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑂'𝐶𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑘 by 𝐓𝗼𝐦𝗮𝐬 𝐓𝗿𝐚𝗻𝐬𝘁𝐫𝗼̈𝐦𝗲𝐫, from his book 𝐻𝑒𝑚𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑎̊ 𝑣𝑎̈𝑔𝑒𝑛 (𝑆𝑒𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑎𝑦). hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/izmir-three-oclock #poetry #translation #Swedish #Transtromer

Izmir, Three O’Clock

Just ahead on the nearly empty street
two beggars, one of them with no legs,
carried on the other's back.
They stood—as an animal stands
on a midnight road, frozen in the headlights—
for a moment, then went on
crossing the street like schoolboys at play
while the myriad clocks
of the midday heat ticked in space.

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

"We coo and bear awe in cold, / brave trace glimpses of cosmos / outside an apartment / standing still and smoking / like leaves burning in autumn" A poem by 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐝𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐢𝐥 in the Spring issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

By
the glow of the

little comet’s tail,
we rapture. We wake

our neighbors, who lean out their railing
to see an echo of the galaxy.

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Why look after some but slaughter the others? Continuing to kill and eat animals when there are alternatives isn’t a collective need—it’s an individual choice. See it for what it is. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Did you know that goats outperform dogs in certain problem-solving tasks involving memory and learning?

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