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Lost & Found @cunypoetics.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

For students in all disciplines who interested in archival research in or around 20th century poetry, poetics or other art forms (see link for more), and will range from $500 to $3,000. Due Feb. 13th! Learn more! centerforthehumanities.org/2026-lost-fo... @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

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The Center for Humanities @humanitiescuny.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Ammiel Alcalay‘s highly-anticipated, monumental new book: a mix of memoir, poetry, auto-critique, prose narrative, history, and investigative journalism by other means. www.eventbrite.com/e/controlled... @cunypoetics.bsky.social @zohrasaed.bsky.social

Book Launch & Reading
CONTROLLED DEMOLITION: Book Launch & Reading with Ammiel Alcalay
Fri, Sep 19, 2025
6:00 PM–8:00 PM
Martin Segal Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave, NYC. Free and open to all. Registration required.

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The Center for Humanities @humanitiescuny.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Celebrate new poetry! Two extraordinary book-length poems confronting violent colonial histories. The poets will read from their new books, followed by a conversation. www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-rea... @cunypoetics.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @futurepoem.bsky.social

Poetry Reading and Conversation with Cristina Pérez Díaz and Isabel Sobral Campos
Wed, Sep 17, 2025
6:30 PM–8:00 PM
Martin Segal Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave, NYC. Free and open to all. Registration required.

A blue and white figurative image captioned: Detail from cover art by Suzanne Goldenberg from Cristina Pérez Díaz's book "From the Founding of the Country"

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The Center for Humanities @humanitiescuny.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

This is tomorrow! We hope you can join us in listening to these wonderful writers.

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

but even still I am obsessed with beauty Paige Taggart

I am obsessed with beauty
even when shit is dire
even when we are in the throes of a fascist world
and our planet is melting
and all we wake up thinking is good god
another day of this
the particulate matter of hatred is spreading itself across everything
but even still I am obsessed with beauty
even still I have eyes lighten up by nature’s performance
and the artistic merit found in shapes textures objects songs
I still see fully rehearsed dragging on display
beauty so female
so long lasting it leaves a creamy residue sparking unfading motions
can the lilies frequent as cargo
the purple of jet streams
red air lifting out potions
smattering undulating mercifully
diving deeper than before

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Jacqui @heajacq.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

“so long lasting it leaves a creamy residue sparking unfading motions” What a line! ✍🏻✨

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Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

"Even still I have eyes lighten up by nature's performance / and the artistic merit found in shapes textures objects songs" Stunning poem by Paige Taggart 💙 #poetrycommunity #poetry

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I am the list of things you will break. Sampson Starkweather (@sampsonstarkweathr.bsky.social)

Sometimes, like right now, when snow has muted the world, I can hear the sound of your sadness, a small bird flailing in the grass, one wing making a useless music, and sometimes circumstance is the victim. There are certain silences only those who have suffered can know, what Coleridge called “the secret ministries of frost.” They make a lake between us, an untouchable body. Misunderstanding is more than a language we've mastered — it’s a life. This will go on until there is no more ground between us, until we're entwined in incessant falling. Things break. This is the first law of any beauty. Gravity. The way islands are made. I am the list of things you will break. I'm not really trying to tell you anything; I just wanted you to hear the sound of being alone, oh yeah, and the snow is deep and bright.

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Lost & Found @cunypoetics.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

"Even now, our thoughts and tomorrow’s to-do lists might be worlds apart. Yet, there’s this moment. a connection I call “click.” For me, that click began with Theresa’s work." Read more: centerforthehumanities.org/between-deli...

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Lost & Found @cunypoetics.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

When Ju Ly Ban first arrived at the @bampfa.bsky.social, Theresa’s letters spoke to her most. Her correspondences seemed to breathe, their voices rippling across time. The letters that follow continue this conversation. centerforthehumanities.org/between-deli...

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Untitled (Theresa and family), 1974-1981; 11 color slides.; 0 x 0 in.; University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Gift of the Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Memorial Foundation

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Lost & Found @cunypoetics.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Thanks to all who came out to celebrate the lives and works of Elias Khoury & Mahmoud Darwish. Thank you Ammiel Alcalay & Sinan Antoon for reading their translated poems & stories and sharing your reflections on their legacy and the social justice causes they fought for. Link of videos & pics in bio

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Lost & Found @cunypoetics.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

TOMORROW! Join us at CUNY Graduate Center for a reading and conversation bringing together poets and translators of poets from South America, around emerging poets from the region, and their work in translation, with an emphasis on small-press ecosystems. centerforthehumanities.org/event/many-p...

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The Center for Humanities @humanitiescuny.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Plotting Abolition: featuring a film screening followed by a discussion of multi-scalar abolitionist struggles to close prisons and jails, stop the construction of cop cities, and build life-affirming infrastructures. centerforthehumanities.org/event/plotti... @craiggilmore.bsky.social

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The Center for Humanities @humanitiescuny.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

This event will consist of readings followed by a conversation around emerging poets from the region, and translations. Register to join us! centerforthehumanities.org/event/many-p... @cunypoetics.bsky.social @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social @thesongcave.bsky.social @archipelagobooks.bsky.social

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The Center for Humanities @humanitiescuny.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Thu, Feb 27, Noon All are welcome. Are we allowed to “want” enlightenment? What is being goal-versus process-oriented? This 60-min online meditation series will take place virtually via Zoom. Register below to attend and we’ll email you the Zoom link. centerforthehumanities.org/event/medita...

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The Center for Humanities @humanitiescuny.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

TUESDAY! bsky.app/profile/huma...

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Lost & Found @cunypoetics.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Our Fellows Showcase was a success! Thank you to all of our hardworking Fellows who presented their archival research projects. Click the link in our bio to stay up to date on more events like this! Applications for our next Archival Research Fellowships are due today by 11:59pm

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The Center for Humanities @humanitiescuny.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

This event is a great way to learn about what one of our amazing hubs is up to. Please join us if you love archives, poetry, music, or art! @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

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Lost & Found @cunypoetics.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Hi Bsky! Get to know us THIS THURSDAY, 6pm, at the L&F Fellows Showcase: New Poetics and Archival Research Projects @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social Archival research projects on artists whose contributions to New American Poetry remain understudied. centerforthehumanities.org/event/2025-l...

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