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Poet, friend. Wrote Sensorium Ex, an opera, with composer Paola Prestini (2025.) Books of poetry: TANYA (Knopf 2023) The Octopus Museum (Knopf 2019) So Much Synth (2016) Our Andromeda (2012) Human Dark w/ Sugar (2008) Interior with Sudden Joy (1999).
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Our opera Sensorium Ex opens in 4 days, at the Sapp Field House in Omaha. In dress rehearsals now and it’s looking gorgeous. Paola Prestini’s music is divine.(commonsensesfestival.org) (www.visionintoart.org/via-projects/sensorium-ex)

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New trailer for the opera ✨ vimeo.com/1082191184/f...

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Grace Paley forever. 🖤

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YES. This.

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A Princeton undergrad saying what needs to be said.

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An important thread:

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Here are the links to said pod & playlist.

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I yap with Aaron & James on @breakingformpod—we remember & wonder & lament & wander poetry together. Or if you need fuel for yr fight, listen to my Brenda’s Resistance Playlist—where Mitski & Cecile & St. Vincent & Janelle & We Are Ladyparts rule! www.instagram.com/p/DHlMEypu5R...

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Why hasn’t musk been arrested for anything? He breaks laws & NO ONE can come up w/ a charge? He stole govt $ & info, made himself co-prez, colonized the very skies. Meanwhile if a woman 8wks pregnant drives out of Idaho for an abortion, SHE’S a criminal. He has an army of fetii on ice! WTAF?!

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Sometimes it feels like I’m going crazy, because there is something that is right in front of our faces, has been for years, and nobody of consequence ever says it: Donald Trump works for Vladimir Putin. How much more proof does anyone need? And what is anybody going to do about it?

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There’s something happening in this country.

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What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

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SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

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it’s bad and it’s gotten exponentially worse in the past 6 months. if you write anything involving deep research/old books/forgotten periodicals you’re probably noticing “wiki creep,” because it’s one of the few resources left standing. the internet as an archive is disappearing, has disappeared.

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Megarich/technocrats know creative talent is the only irreducible human juice that $ can’t “make happen.” This frustrates them. Being unable to purchase, possess & control creativity enrages & embitters them. They’d gladly destroy art & any notion of artistic meaning, w their big dumb AI, jealous.

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Holiday books to give relatives this season! Give the gift of maybe your loved one might crack a book, contextualize, comprehend: Maria Ressa, Angela Y. Davis, Jill Lepore, Marilyn Frye, James Baldwin, Alexandra Kollontai, Masha Gessen, Kazuo Ishiguru, Audre Lorde, Wendy Brown.

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Time for this cursed seasonal confusion again:

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Pay attention. Idaho did this too. Trying to erase the facts that women are dying because reproductive healthcare’s now illegal/criminalized in vast swaths of this nation. www.propublica.org/article/geor...

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Kickass brilliant debut poetry from Spencer Williams: TRANZ. Four Way Books. The real deal 🤩💐✨

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Thinking of myriad anti-fascist uses of a home photocopier/printer w/ advanced finishing functions (booklet, staples, d/s, color, photo settings.) Pamphlets, zines, how-tos, poetry, letters on paper. Writers/educators/former Kinkos ppl: recs for under $600? The less “Smart” the better. Leads?

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Is anybody else realizing you’re having to use your “poetry brain” (whatever that means) a lot more, lately, in more emergency functions, esp. in trying to keep up w/ & process all the chaos/fear? Like: my poetry journal is now my to-do list.

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Dorothy Allison RIP. Her work was there for me at the very beginning, changing everything. What a shero. Never to hear her again: just another thing I can’t accept, but will be forced to. Brokenhearted to bits these days, a feeling she understood & from it made beauty/wisdom/strength/eros/survival.

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The snuff on Twix is too horrible. I can’t anymore. So I’m asking here: does anyone know what Scarlet Letter Doofus thinks the “A” means? Is she saying that having a hard week “as a woman” = what exactly?? I never heard of her before today but now I gotta know: what does she think “A” means?

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Ok I’m doing a few readings this month. I typed it up for you:

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I put on a new old-fashioned kitchen radio to do the dishes to (That sentence? Is it one?) & this interview from the NYer radio hour came on. Considerably brightened a dim, stormy morning. ✨ Hernan Diaz is delightful & brilliant! www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/tny...

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