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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 26/09/2026
Spent the afternoon with Yukinori Yanagi at The Warehouse.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 25/09/2026
Sunday I saw Tricky at Trees, and tonight it’s an ABBA cover band at the lake. I contain #multitudes.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 17/09/2026
A "theoretical" punk band called The Ethical Billionaires, but after they're introduced by the announcer the stage remains empty.
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Stephen Harding @shmonkey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could all just go home early when faced with difficult or potentially embarrassing work?
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 14/09/2026
One of the rare few writers whose work deftly dances along the brink of desire and repulsion like a pleasurable paper cut.
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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“[I]ndeterminacy, what we might call irresolution, might be our only befitting fate as beings of language. Hiding right there on the surface of the poem is the very concrete, literal effacement of surface meaning, but that surface meaning is the only thing that is there.” @frankgarrett.online
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 10/09/2026
You can too: Online talk by art historian Tomasz Grusiecki, Early Slavic Studies Association Lecture Series. From the 16th century onward, Jaktorów Forest in Mazovia, Poland, became the last refuge of the aurochs, a now-extinct species of long-horned wild cattle.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 10/09/2026
Rusty Undercarriage is my geriatric porn name.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 09/09/2026
Let "onward / at any cost" be our motto as we continue to fight Nazis and fucking russians.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 01/09/2026
My old, and even older, haunts of the Polish provinces. Funnily, just yesterday I had proposed a new tour to my colleague Pan Tomasz, who founded and still runs teatrnn.pl, based on my latest translation project.
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From Dublin to Lublin: the haunting pleasures of eastern Poland
Zamość and Lublin are full of thought-provoking historical monuments and quietly charming moments
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Stephen Harding @shmonkey.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Edith Keeler must live. I need an alternative timeline. This one sucks.
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Stephen Harding @shmonkey.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Seen in the wild at @milkweededitions.bsky.social , @alinaetc.bsky.social !
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 17/08/2026
Only 3 more weeks before the next Modern Jewish Thought seminar begins. This fall we're looking at post-Holocaust poetics, esp in Paul Celan and Edmond Jabès. You can register here: frankgarrett.online/philosophy/j...
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Modern Jewish Thought - Frank Garrett Online
A series of informal, online seminars on some of the most significant & influential Jewish philosophers of the twentieth century.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 08/08/2026
“…language, in refusing transparency, only ever shows itself as the possibility, and not the guarantee, of communication and of truth.” Read some of my thoughts on a couple of my obsessions: Václav Havel and Wim Wender’s Until the End of the World.
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Heavy Feather Review @hfr.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
“A Brief but at Times Illuminating Encounter”: @matthewkinlin.bsky.social Interviews Literary Translator Frank Garrett @sublunary.bsky.social #babyeatbooks Read the whole interview at the link in bio 📕 heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/08/04/f...
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“A Brief but at Times Illuminating Encounter”: Matthew Kinlin Interviews Literary Translator Frank Garrett
Frank Garrett is an independent scholar, writer, and literary translator based in Dallas, Texas. We spoke over Zoom about his projects in translation, philosophy, and specifically his ongoing work …
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 04/08/2026
"It’s bad enough when historians read Benjamin!" Watch me, as the kids say, go off: heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/08/04/f.... Thanks to the lovely & talented @matthewkinlin.bsky.social for asking me hard questions and making me think, and to @hfr.bsky.social for publishing our conversation.
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“A Brief but at Times Illuminating Encounter”: Matthew Kinlin Interviews Literary Translator Frank Garrett
Frank Garrett is an independent scholar, writer, and literary translator based in Dallas, Texas. We spoke over Zoom about his projects in translation, philosophy, and specifically his ongoing work …
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≠matthew←kinlin●●◯♜ @matthewkinlin.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Derrida. Blanchot. The city of Lublin. ❤️‍🔥 I got to interview independent scholar, writer & literary translator @frankgarrett.online for @hfr.bsky.social about philosophy, his wider project of translation, & queer Polish poet Czechowicz @sublunary.bsky.social 🔥 heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/08/04/f...
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“A Brief but at Times Illuminating Encounter”: Matthew Kinlin Interviews Literary Translator Frank Garrett
Frank Garrett is an independent scholar, writer, and literary translator based in Dallas, Texas. We spoke over Zoom about his projects in translation, philosophy, and specifically his ongoing work …
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Stephen Harding @shmonkey.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
35 years is a long time in the lives of two people. It has all been worth it. @frankgarrett.online
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 25/07/2026
My new flex is whispering, “Eres porno,” when I pass a hot shirtless dude at the lake. #eresporno #hotmesssummer
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 22/07/2026
Does Not Rhyme -through -cough -though -rough -bough Does Rhyme -pony -bologna
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 16/07/2026
Yesterday I translated a poem from the early 1930s that completely rewired my brain, especially these lines: "nicość / przepaści głodna". My translation: "the nothingness / hungry for abyss". (It could also read "the hungry nothingness / of the abyss" bc of the fun indeterminacy of Polish grammar.)
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 11/07/2026
My nom de guerre is Porkchop Molotov.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 09/07/2026
Remember when you were living in a polygag and giving off sparks? #misheardlyrics
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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Who could have seen this coming? Besides every liberal arts faculty member in the country, I mean.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 29/06/2026
Mint juleps bc summer.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 24/06/2026
Registration is now open for my upcoming Modern Jewish Thought seminar on Poetics: frankgarrett.online/philosophy/j... (September-November). We'll focus on Celan & Jabès and read essays by Levinas, Derrida, and Szondi.
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Modern Jewish Thought - Frank Garrett Online
A series of informal, online seminars on some of the most significant & influential Jewish philosophers of the twentieth century.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 09/06/2026
This (at 1:30) is the most accurate origin story ever for my alter ego Euro Frankie.
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May 26, 2026
YouTube video by Jordan Jensen
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 04/06/2026
Every new poem I translate becomes both (1) the most difficult translation I've ever done and (2) the greatest poem ever written.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 03/06/2026
Me: “There is no such thing as a ‘wrong’ translation.” Also me: “Some people’s translation choices make me want to punch a wall.”
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 04/06/2026
Got called to my supervisor’s office this afternoon. He said I was doing a good job but that he’s noticed I’ve been slacking off on the afternoon tickles of late. I promised to do a better job.
Mr. Harold Z. Delgato, my boss.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 02/06/2026
Happy Pride.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 31/05/2026
S: What would your name be if you were a superhero? F: I don’t know. Frankgirl?
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 30/05/2026
The longer you live, the more your fear of quicksand gets replaced by a fear of sinkholes.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 20/05/2026
Reminder from someone who read The Tin Drum on Miami’s South Beach and The Brothers Karamazov on the La Jolla Cove: any book can be a beach read.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 21/04/2026
On the anniversary of Paul Celan’s death, here is my translation of his „In eins”: frankgarrett.online/2010/07/at-o.... „he spoke / to us a necessary word in the hand”
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At Once: A Second Word in Passing - Frank Garrett Online
In eins Dreizehnter Feber.  Im Herzmund erwachtes Schibboleth.  Mit dir, Peuple de Paris.  No pasarán. 5     Schäfchen zur Linken:  er, Abadias, der Greis aus Huesca, kam mit den Hunden über das Feld,...
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 12/04/2026
More people need to identify as cis-boom-bah bc plain old cis is just boring.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 03/04/2026
Overheard at breakfast: “Punk used to be so much more melodic.”
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 04/04/2026
“I suppose if it was 9:45... I'd think it was after midnight!” Finally watched David Lynch’s Inland Empire a few weeks ago for the first time. What an effing mind trip! And its entire Polish subplot?! Thankfully @matthewkinlin.bsky.social had written this essay that guides in the gentlest of ways.
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GOODNIGHT, SWEET PRINCE - MATTHEW KINLIN ON GRACE ZABRISKIE'S VISITOR #1 IN INLAND EMPIRE
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 10/03/2026
Come get your gender on.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 06/03/2026
"We came from a community that was viscerally and intimately experienced in the feeling of annihilation. So when we watched 9/11 I remember being scared, but also feeling that this kind of trauma was familiar to me. The idea that 2,000 people could suddenly evacuate the planet? That’s called AIDS."
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‘We watched 9/11 from the rooftop, blasting the music out’: how The Disintegration Loops became a requiem for the attacks
It is an epic piece of music that literally falls apart – and it perfectly captured the end-of-days chaos after the tragedy. Composer William Basinski and musician Anohni recall its febrile birth in N...
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 07/03/2026
One more week before our philosophy study group starts back: frankgarrett.online/philosophy/g.... Come join us.
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Vexing Gender - Frank Garrett Online
Our 2026 study group will read key texts by philosophers who work with and on the gender/sex problematic: Butler, Cixous, and Irigaray.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 27/02/2026
Two weeks before the philosophy study group starts back up. "Is gender a name for a social inscription imposed upon bodies, or does it designate a more originary way of being, an instability at the heart of subjectivity itself?" Register here: frankgarrett.online/philosophy/g...
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Vexing Gender - Frank Garrett Online
Our 2026 study group will read key texts by philosophers who work with and on the gender/sex problematic: Butler, Cixous, and Irigaray.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 24/02/2026
Ukraine is always in my thoughts. Here's something I published four years ago that includes excerpts of my journal from when I was living there. Слава Україні! Героям слава!
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Ukrainian Lessons — Frank Garrett
Excerpts from my journal when I lived in Ukraine.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 22/02/2026
Caught the closing performance of Cara Mía’s Medea/Liturgia by Diego Fernando Montoya, and ohmygod what an outstanding thing of wonder, with strong echoes of Isabella’s reactivation & critique of myth (from Fabulæ).
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Interview with Diego Fernando Montoya
YouTube video by Cara Mía Theatre
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 20/02/2026
Our backyard Mexican Plum is doing a thing.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 20/02/2026
You have another month to register for the first series of seminars on Modern Jewish Thought: Ethics. Feel free to dm if you have questions.
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Modern Jewish Thought - Frank Garrett Online
A series of informal, online seminars on some of the most significant & influential Jewish philosophers of the twentieth century.
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 12/02/2026
My philosophy study group starts back up in a few weeks. The 2026 topic is 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 bc… And I've scheduled the first 2 seminar modules over 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗝𝗲𝘄𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁: Ethics and Poetics. You can find descriptions & schedules here: frankgarrett.online/philosophy/. Feel free to dm for more info.
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Philosophy - Frank Garrett Online
Study Group/Seminars Since January 2021 I have been conducting a monthly online study group. The theme changes every year. If you are interested in studying philosophy with me and an international gro...
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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 28/01/2026
Announcement for the philosophy study group and a series of seminars over Modern Jewish Philosophy.
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New Study Group + Seminars
Since no one is rushing to offer me a teaching position. Or: let me be your Alexandre Kojève.
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