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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

The iceberg of poetry at any(?) given moment seen in retrospective... I guess.

An iceberg of poetry, with the lines "Major Canon", "Popular But Not So Canonical", "Minor Canon", "Trend Colleagues", "Trailblazers" over the water, and "Once Popular", "Tailblazers", "Dictionary Presence", "Child Prodigies", "Known Outsiders", "Folk Poetry", "Schoolbox", "Unknown Outsiders", "Lost Poetry" and "Uncollected Folklore".

Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Next month in Bucharest, at OmniOpenCon 2026, I'm going to have a talk, "The Nuts and Bolts of Decentralized Social Media", on my experiences with #ActivityPub and #ATproto.

Sessionize page with a confirmation that my talk at the Omni Open Con Bucharest 2026 event is taking place, and a description of my talk on decentralized social media.

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 03/08/2026

"Small Politics of Literature", new text available on my #Gemini capsule: gemini://princepspoesis.gemcities.com/texts/5-SmallPolitics.gmi (need to use a Gemini compatible browser, like Buran or Lagrange)

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 28/07/2026

My self-hosted database of #poetry books - princeps-poesis.xyz - is in a phase where I'm still working on importing the Romanian poetry dataset, now up to 1969. English when? Can't give an ETA, maybe next year.

A page on Princeps Poesis (https://princeps-poesis.xyz) listing poetry books in Romanian from the year 1969 that were added to the database.

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 21/07/2026

The same texts from my #Gemini page can also be read on my #Gopher page, as shown here in Emacs elpher (which allows one to browse both Gemini and Gopher): gopher://gopher.princeps-poesis.xyz/

Screenshot of an Emacs floating window, showing the webpage gopher://gopher.princepspoesis.xyz - both Emacs and the wallpaper behind are in the Solarizared Dark color scheme, with dark blue-green and pale hues of white.

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 21/07/2026

I write regularly on the #smolweb, in particular #Gemini and #Gopher. Download a browser like Buran or Lagrange and read my texts at gemini://princepspoesis.gemcities.com/ (more about what this is further down the thread)

Screenshot of Buran browser, displaying the webpage gemini://princepspoesis.gemcities.com/

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 03/07/2026

A poet of my generation whom I've not interacted with in a few years, out of the blue, drops an ironic reference to me in the middle of a literary enquête: in a world without hierarchies, "Tucă would win awards for poetry, and we would see Yigru Zeltil leading the Romanian Academy"... Context>>

Screenshot of https://matcaliterara.ro/cum-citim-poezia-astazi/

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 11/04/2025

Emmett Williams, SOLDIER, one of the classics of concrete #poetry:

Concrete poem with rows of the word "SOLDIER", with "DIE" written in red letters and the rest in blue letters.

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 09/04/2025

Mahmoud Darwish's #poetry can still be found in Bucharest bookstores, despite our media being mindlessly pro-Zionist and routinely confusing antisemitism with anti-Zionism.

Mahmoud Darwich, "Palestine mon pays", Minuit ed.

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 08/04/2025

Dickinson's envelope poems made me realize probably the best for paper #poetry are mirror editions with hand-written or typed manuscripts alongside printed typescript, so that one can read the texts, but also engage more materially with that poetry.

Emily Dickinson, "The Gorgeous Nothings".

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 07/04/2025

Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori was a First Nations painter who invented on her own a pictorial language which superficially resembles Western Abstract Expressionism, yet her kin easily connected her colors with elements of their ecosystem. www.wikiart.org/en/sally-gab...

The painter Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori at the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair, 2012 / © The Australian

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 07/04/2025

One of my chapbooks from a decade ago, bound by a friend of mine in a edition of 5 copies, each with slightly unique front.

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 04/04/2025

"If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho" transposed by Anne Carson, turning remains of ancient #poetry into a wonder of our times.

"If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho", Anne Carson.

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 04/04/2025

"WHAT THE PRESIDENT WILL SAY AND DO!!" by Madeleine Gins could have been published today, but it's from 1984.

WHAT THE PRESIDENT WILL SAY AND DO!! - MADELEINE GINS

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 03/04/2025

In the upcoming issue of Z9Magazine's from Sibiu, I'm featured with a text on the Jewish-Romanian-French avant-garde poet Ilarie Voronca.

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 02/04/2025

Muriel Rukeyser, great poet. I've translated some of her poems into Romanian and had even obtained copyright permission, yet circumstances prevented them from being published.

Muriel Rukeyser, Selected Poems, edited by Adrienne Rich.

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 01/04/2025

An excerpt from "Le mécrit", a book by Denis Roche, one of the poets in the French Theory group Tel Quel, who believed disrupting the conventions of #poetry could spark a revolution in the West...

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 01/04/2025

I don't have any new poems in English ready for publication yet, but my old chapbook from 2018 is still online: khoraimpex.wordpress.com/2019/03/18…

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 25/03/2025

My poem "in (380 mg)" was written in calligraphic lines, each line a single stroke, except for the dots on the "i"'s, stripes on the "t"'s, and the diacritics. Going to use it as front page image on my upcoming website...

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 16/03/2025

This #poetry book is also going to be banned in the US, because it's too woke and, of course, it doesn't have Joseph Massey in it... (On a serious note, I look up to Rothenberg, a paradigm-shifting personality - he made clear like no one else how related poetry traditions fundamentally are.)

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 09/03/2025

Perelmuter seems to suggest there is a crowd of right-wing ”bros” who are taking a misogynistic delight in making an identity out of reading - or claiming to read - exclusively thick and difficult books from writers such as Cărtărescu. I have a problem with that. open.substack.com/pub/revistaa...

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 03/03/2025

I posted the initial post from Friendica. Bluesky didn't parse the image - curiously, I gave Friendica an URL to the picture hosted elsewhere and, without letting me know, they end up hosting the file themselves.

Front page of an article about Pierre Joris, a photograph of Pierre Joris, and four cover images of books translated and/or edited by him.

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 03/03/2025

"M. NourbeSe Philip's epic poem Zong! gives voice to slave ship victims". A fine example of how experimental writing (all too often presumed to be necessarily white) can meet decolonialism and social consciousness. #BookSky

A picture of M. NourbeSe Philip dressed in white and crouching next to a microphone, adjacent to a reproduction of the cover of her book, "Zong!".

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