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Poetry collection SEGUIRIYAS at Black Ocean Press (2023) | PhD candidate at the University of Toronto studying flamenco, medieval troubadour lyric, Sephardic oral tradition, poetics and philosophies of material complexity | https://benmeyersonmedia.com
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Join us for an AWP offsite reading with @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social and Saturnalia Books on Thursday 3/27 @barhenryla in Echo Park! 📖🎤🗣️ ➡️ News | Burnside Review #awp #awp2025 #losangeles #awpoffsitereading

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Long shot, but does anyone know if the line "Soñé que la nieve ardía" predates the Chilean composer Osmán Pérez Freire's "Ay Ay Ay" from 1913? It appears in folk musics throughout Spain (jota, flamenco, Gallego music, etc) and also in Peruvian music. Is there a longer history?

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We are deeply troubled to learn that some members of the Jewish community are calling for the deportation of foreign-born university students and faculty who they deem “pro-Hamas,” and compiling lists of those they want to target for deportation.

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Something rather lovely for the poets from Marian Christie... marianchristiepoetry.net/from-fibs-to...

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Michael Longley

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We’re mourning the loss of the wonderful Michael Longley, who has died in Belfast aged 85. A Vice President of The Poetry Society, we were proud to publish him in our magazine The Poetry Review throughout his long career. Sharing below a 2014 poem which celebrated his long marriage to Edna Longley.

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some above/ground press author activity: Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social , Saba Pakdel, rob mclennan, Derek Beaulieu @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social + Ben Meyerson, abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2024/12/some...

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Now live: an interview in Common Measure about my book SEGUIRIYAS (Black Ocean, 2023). I talk process philosophy and the role of violence in collectivity + how metaphor and the voice of a flamenco singer can both act as vehicles for historical solidarity: commonmeasure.substack.com/p/fan-wu-int...

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Mimbres School 2025 Courses: SPRING: Slavery and Unfreedom When is Capitalism? Philosophy: Friend or Foe? SUMMER: Domestication Syndrome Anti-Kant FALL: Political Arithmetic Prehistory of Islam Childhood Tuition $250. Registration open soon. See thread for descriptions

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Happening live NOW 24hr Global Reading starting now from Palestine Join the livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxJN...

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Reiterating that there are more Gazans here and they are more persistent in posting their links because there has essentially been no flour in all of South Gaza for well over a week. It is also cold. Please treat them how you’d want people to treat you or your family in a famine.

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The concept of the lyric (the poetic movement from interiority to exteriority) implies a poetic subject that is anterior to the poem. What are the ideological positions underpinning our willingness to accept that any poet's attention can ever be separated from the form into which it is funneled?

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I have spent the past year transposing very old discursive and notational templates into poetic forms and am now realizing that beyond the abstract terms that we've all inherited from hylomorphism (form as the emergence of content, etc), I still need to figure out what a form actually is

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@djolder.bsky.social is hosting a workshop for us on narrative fundamentals on December 19th! All proceeds go to Motasim’s family in GZ. Sign up here: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/cri...

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Poetry for the Sameer Project, Workshops 4 Gaza.

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And now: the "shameless self-promotion" segment of my día internacional del flamenco posts. Here's a poem from my book SEGUIRIYAS (Black Ocean, 2023) that treats the flamenco voice and duende as splints fusing fractured historical memory in the body, expanding on Nathaniel Mackey's related insights:

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In the waning hours of día internacional del flamenco, I'll pivot to a reception of flamenco in the English by the poet Nathaniel Mackey. Mackey constellates flamenco and various black musics as attenuated responses to social death that can reanimate sundered memory: my-blackout.com/2018/09/27/n...

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A theme we’ve come up against in “Abraham to Oedipus” has been how inadequate an umbrella ‘Abrahamic’ is when there are shifting alliances between Judaism, Islam and Christianity and profound variability in the sacrifices made to be inside the community and the circle of divine acknowledgment

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Flamenco culture has entered a wide variety of media. It makes sense, then, to use at least one of today's posts for día internacional del flamenco to direct you toward the kinetically charged and flamenco-inspired paintings and drawings of Patricio Hidalgo: www.patriciopinceles.com/galeria

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I want to spotlight a few contemporary artists for día internacional del flamenco, since it's so easy to fall into the trap of focusing only on past greats. Here's Samuel Serrano, one of the best younger flamenco singers working today: youtu.be/cYpOtFoOxd4?...

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My next post for día internacional del flamenco highlights the great gitano/romani poet and playwright José Heredia Maya, who worked with some of the greatest flamenco dancers of his era and wrote poetry that was steeped in flamenco culture: faustomarcelo.blogspot.com/2021/10/poem...

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Still in honor of día internacional del flamenco, here's Pastora Pavón, who went by the moniker "La Niña de los Peines." She was a foundational figure in the first half of the 20th century: an innovator with remarkable command of the old tradition. Here she is por soleá: youtu.be/1gy7r9cc7sY?...

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It's día internacional del flamenco today, so I'll be sharing relevant music, art and writing whenever I find a spare moment. Let's start with a performance por seguiriyas from the great cantaor Antonio Núñez "El Chocolate": youtu.be/TPylKJFJsgI?...

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Ben Meyerson, Seguiriyas robmclennan.blogspot.com/2023/12/ben-...

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