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Opinions: Finding the courage to flee U.S. to save my trans daughter www.washingtonblade.... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

This could be us, but you said it's "woke"... #annecarson #poetry #literature

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Sorry/not sorry if I'll mention Bukowski too often in my rants, even I can admit not everything he wrote is that bad, but quite a few poets in my country based their personality on worshiping him and, generally, the least interesting of the Beat poets. One rarely hears of Gary Snyder around here...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

American academic poetry is virtually unknown in my country, where poets tend to not know much beyond Bukowski and Ginsberg, yet I find it impressive.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

My first crosspost to Bluesky and Mastodon via this OpenVibe client thingy.... seems to be working.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

"Ceasefire" is becoming the most hollowed word of this historical era. It is now a certainty that whenever this word is being employed, it always means rather the opposite. Each new fire refuses to cease.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

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...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Nice interview with a great Romanian-Canadian poet I've met years ago, when she performed for the first and only time in Bucharest. periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/03/nina...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

For the record, I don't drink, I don't take drugs - other than cheese (will only take tofu when I find it cheaper), chocolate, sugar... One might add music in here too. Polemics and ranting are still part of my "brand", at least for now. But I should stop... See you when I get something done.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Yes, I come from an Eastern Europea lower middle class family, how could you tell? Thanks to my parents and our rent-free commie apartment, I could dedicate years to reading and writing... then I faced the realities of the job market, the real estate market, and politics.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

In my high school and college years, I read #poetry of nearly all types and traditions, despite knowing from early on what I preferred, because I took the craft seriously and also wanted myself to be taken seriously.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

For the last few years, I've been working on a poem where 'Bifo' Berardi is kidnapped by a gang of poets. Berardi insists that poetry detaching from "reality" is akin to financial speculation, while they want him to think how to escape this conundrum. I have failed so far to think the ending.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Derrida wasn't an anarchist punk per se, he was just an intellectual who happened to take the project of Western philosophy to its peak of self-consciousness. Conservatives confusing that for a demolition derby are an autoimmune disease that will actually lead to self-destruction.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Always eyerolling when I read "intelligent" conservatives who almost get it, but insist on sticking to the transphobic transcript. Also, obligatory mention of Derrida being misrepresented almost every single time...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

There is bipartisan interest in the Senate to repeal section 230 of the CDA and make it possible to sue a website over what people post on it. This is a terrible idea especially given the current administration and it’s unsurprising that Democrats are being clueless enough to go along.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Mandelshtam remained in history for being maimed by Stalin, which is an unfair fate when I recall his subtle ambient poetry that I've savored in high school... Maybe I should revisit him in between my more punk readings.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Necropolitics, by Achille Mbembe #booksky #academicsky #politics

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

As the wee one her weekly (again) ukulele lessons, entering The art of brevity, crafting the very short story by Grant Faulkner,

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments