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naravive.bsky.social
Poetry: The Kuruntokai and its Mirror (Hanuman Editions, 2024); After (New York Review Books / HarperCollins India, 2022); Life and Times of Mr. S (2012); Universal Beach (2006). I teach Creative Writing in the MFA Program at George Mason University.
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“When I was growing up, no one took Korean pop seriously in the West, and Korean culture was just a series of racist punchlines in Gilmore Girls.” I forgot I wrote this and someone reminded me today that I did

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This is a pretty gorgeous essay— great going @ericracher.bsky.social

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Hi all everyone everywhere please join us for my first virtual event as Co-director of Poetry Daily. This is a stunning collection of poems some of us consider an underground master... @poetrydaily.bsky.social

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‘Then don’t you think that the translation of poetry is best left to poets who are in possession of an English they have each made their own…?’ -Mark Strand, from The Weather of Words (2000).

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Today's Featured Poem: "COVID Roadshow" by Ken Bluford, from Skip Tracing, published by Wry Awry. Read here: poems.com/poem/covid-r...

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One of the disturbing reactions to the Mahmoud Khalil arrest is people making things up that he did to justify it that even the Trump admin doesn't claim he did. People just see him as the *type* of person who did the things they're mad about, so punishing him for it is acceptable. Lynching logic.

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SCOOP—Emails obtained by @zeteo.com show Mahmoud Khalil reached out for help from the Columbia administration *one day before* ICE detained him. He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving. He even wrote that he feared ICE "might come to my home."

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Today's Featured: In this week's installment of What Sparks Poetry: Other Arts, Gregory Pardlo writes on his poems "Beauty School Wig Head” and “[Erasure]." Read here: poems.com/features/wha...

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Mahmoud Khalil did everything MAGAs claim they care about: He followed the law, got his green card legally, got married & started a family, had no criminal record—but because the party of free speech didn't like HIS free speech, he's abducted & set for deportation www.qasimrashid.com/p/ice-abduct...

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Hi all everyone everywhere please join us for my first virtual event as Co-director of Poetry Daily. This is a stunning collection of poems some of us consider an underground master... @poetrydaily.bsky.social

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For National Poetry Month this April, Poetry Daily would like to turn the spotlight on YOU, the loving READER of poetry. Read more at the link below for a chance to be featured in our groundbreaking What Sparks Poetry series and win a free book! poems.com/celebrate-na...

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"[The] diversity of voices and styles, translated from the French, Dutch, German, Chinese, and more, surprises and entices in turn." Eric Bies reviews AT THE LOUVRE: POEMS BY 100 CONTEMPORARY WORLD POETS (@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social): tinyurl.com/3zcthc24.

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Pierre Joris (1946-2025): Seven Minutes on Translation The prolific poet, essayist, translator, and anthologist Pierre Joris died today after a long battle with cancer. Back in 2011, he wrote us these "Seven Minutes on Translation."

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‘A steady trickle of Hindus professed Islam to escape their misery. Within this neat metaphor of the nation’s history, as he saw it, Savarkar would reprise a miniature Maratha rebellion.’ Raghu Karnad on Savarkar and the origins of Hindutva: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Brilliant initiative- please support and share widely

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In order to succeed, every writer needs two helpers: one to hold the parasol and another to hold the flywhisk Ethiopia, 17th c. (?) #luke #evangelist #gospel #scribe #africanwriter #africanart

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The lyric lounging with the epic

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