Geoffrey Olsen

I Want to Speak in My Sovereign Tongue: An Interview with Lav Diaz on Magellan | In Review Online A new interview with filmmaker Lav Diaz, director of Magellan, for film review site In Review Online.

I talked to Lav Diaz about Donald Trump, anti-colonial filmmaking, his course-correcting depiction of Enrique of Malacca (a man enslaved by Magellan), his political reasoning for using translators while on the press circuit, the Wakwak connection between Norte and Magellan, and much more.

🗳️ Bronx Teacher Launches NY-15 Campaign to Unseat Ritchie Torres Andre Easton, a public-school English teacher in the South Bronx and father of three, announced his run for Congress in New York’s 15th District (NY-15) in late October. He describes himself as a socialist running as an independent, focused on housing justice, workers’ rights, and opposition to corporate and pro-Israel donor influence in politics. Easton’s campaign enters one of the country’s more densely populated and poorest districts, where incumbent Ritchie Torres (D) faces intense criticism from the left, particularly for his support for Israel’s genocide. Former state assemblyman Michael Blake is also running in the Democratic primary, while Jose Vega joins Easton among independent challengers. ➤ NY-15 covers much of the South Bronx, one of America’s poorest urban districts, where housing insecurity and rent burdens dominate local politics. Easton’s platform calls for new public housing and rent capped at 20% of income — and he’s made Palestine a central issue in recent interviews and videos, like below: 👇🇵🇸

Andre Easton @AndreEastonBX As a father, a teacher, and someone raised by Jamaican immigrants, I’ve always felt connected to the Palestinian struggle for freedom. My campaign to unseat Ritchie Torres in NY-15 goes beyond my disdain for organizations like AIPAC. We need to recognize the humanity of everyone who’s been held back by the system, from the Bronx, to Palestine, to the entire world.

🗳️ Bronx Teacher Launches NY-15 Campaign to Unseat Ritchie Torres

Andre Easton, a public-school English teacher in the South Bronx and father of three, announced his run for Congress in New York’s 15th District (NY-15) in late October. He describes himself as a socialist running as an independent...

ICE Out of NY! Court Accompaniment Volunteer Training The training covers basic rights when interacting with ICE and other law enforcement and how to stay safe, organized, and effective before, during, and after accompaniment.

Join ICE Out of NY for A Court Accompaniment Volunteer Training!

📆 Sat. Nov 15
🕙 10:00AM
🛜 Hybrid
📍In-Person at The People’s Forum, 320 W 37th St.
🌐Virtually on Zoom
🔗RSVP at peoplesforum.org/nov15

Book cover with title MANOR’S RANSOM split between top left and bottom right of page, with Cam Scott at centre bottom. Cover image is a black and white semi-abstract copy collage of repeating elements by Bret Parenteau, featuring a single repeating paved step along a roadway, and a cascading vine shape down the centre

We're excited to announce Cam Scott's sequel of politically-inflected personal collage and city poems, MANOR's RANSOM—the second installment of a life-poem that began with the Lambda-nominated ROMANS SNOWMARE (2019).

Bill Dixon @ 100 Lessons in self-determination

Great piece on trumpeter/composer Bill Dixon on his centennial. I've been moving through his Odyssey: Solo Works, a gorgeous expanse of solo trumpet. burningambulance.substack.com/p/bill-dixon...

Poème électronique
(Iannis Xenakis, Edgard Varèse & Le Corbusier, Pavillon Philips, Expo 1958, Bruxelles, 17 avril – 19 octobre 1958)

Steamroom @steamroom.bsky.social

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I answered a series of questions on my poetry from tireless collective poetry conduit, @robmclennan.bsky.social

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Geoffrey Olsen Geoffrey Olsen is the author of Nerves Between Song (Beautiful Days Press 2024) and seven chapbooks, most recently In Sleep the Searing (...

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Geoffrey Olsen / @geoffreyolsen.bsky.social ;
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Hello! Here’s the first of some forthcoming updates—the Critical Circle is on! Send your application between today and June 15th. Time for discourse in July!

This New Documentary Gets at What the Columbia Encampments Were Actually About "We were like, 'Wow, we're sitting on a movie that is ready to go, that debunks everything that Trump is saying.'"

I was one of a few journos inside the Columbia encampment last year.

a new documentary focused in part on Mahmoud Khalil and Grant Miner, the expelled student union president, was released in theaters early, after Khalil's abduction. my interview with a director and student organizer @teenvogue.com

This is a 15 minute walk from my apartment. I lament the loss of being able to watch film there daily.

Allyson Paty, Jalousie at the center of the bridge high ridge and contour of the land past the banks my father without fail: imagine sailing onto this ...

Allyson Paty, Jalousie / @tupelopress.bsky.social ;
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As always, new essays by @vanishingsigns.bsky.social are not to be missed.

Captive Songs Lukax Santana at Valparaíso

I wrote about the functions of music under the Pinochet regime, recent attempts upon Chile's carceral infrastructure, and the work of percussionist Lukax Santana (asking, as always, “¿Qué hacer?”): www.recent-songs.com/captive-songs/

NECK FIELD, my newest chapbook, is now available from Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs: yoyolabs.com/olsen.html. These poems were written immediately before and after a bike accident at the end of last summer. Poems of recovery and fracture in the mulch of imperial epoch.

A reading flyer: P.I.T. Presents the release of Airs (a summer suite), a book of art and poetry. Featuring Loren Connors (opening the night with a set of music), Dylan Angell & Lizzy Hindman-Harvey (authors of Airs), Emily Martin (poetry), Geoffrey Olsen (Poetry). March 14th at P.I.T. 411 South 5th St. Los Sures, Brooklyn, NYC 11211. 6pm Doors. 6:30pm Show. $10 suggested donation. No one turned away for lack of funds.

Reading tonight with Loren Connors in celebration of Dylan Angell & Lizzy Hindman-Harvey's collaborative book Airs (a summer suite). Almost can't believe this is happening -- Connor's music has been a motivator for my own poems for years!

UPDATE: Mahmoud Khalil is being held by ICE in the Jena/LaSalle Detention Facility in Louisiana, per ICE detainee tracker

Khalil was detained Saturday night from his New York apartment building

“Dhalgren” illustration by John Harris.

Early portrait of Alexandra Kollontai, aged 28 (c. 1900).

Alexandra Kollontai masterminded International Women's Day as a Soviet holiday with the support of Vladimir Lenin.

Male revolutionaries, including Lenin, Trotsky, Mao, Sankara, etc. have all openly recognized the fundamental importance of women's involvement in the success of their movements.

Ryan Skrabalak : on THE ORCHIDS Absence unshadows its own agenda. What is used as a tool of listening besides ear, what is the architecture of thought, what if an...

newly posted: Ryan Skrabalak : on THE ORCHIDS
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The Revolution of 1936–1939 in Palestine: Background, Details, and Ana A radical analysis of Palestinian resistance from one of their most influential voices. Revisit Ghassan Kanafani’s pivotal text in a new English edition. Kanafani presents a concrete analysis of the m...

Ghassan Kanafani's The Revolution of 1936-1939 in Palestine 1804books.com/products/the...

Pictures Of The Warm South, by Vanessa Rossetto 17 track album

very proud to announce the seventh Erstwhile release from Vanessa Rossetto, her second ErstSolo:

Vanessa Rossetto - Pictures Of The Warm South (ErstSolo 010-2)

Submerged in this sound

Poster for a poetry reading and sound event. Sound: Lia Simone and Ceremonial Abyss. Text: Jared Daniel Fagen, Jessica Elsaesser, Will Fesperman and Geoffrey Olsen. Selva, 1329 Willoughby Ave, Suite 121, Brooklyn

Providing some poetry for this reading and sound event on Sunday.

The movement to Stop Cop City isn’t going anywhere Back in January Rachel Garbus reported for Hell World on the movement against the construction of Cop City in Atlanta and the aftermath of the police killing one of the protesters. Today Micah Herskin...

Two years ago GA police murdered Tortuguita a peaceful forest protector. “Manuel loved the forest,” their mother said. “It gave them peace. They meditated there. The forest connected them with God. I never thought that Manuel could die in a meditation position.”

working on new above/ground press titles by Catriona Strang (cover by Aoife), Andy Weaver @weaverandy.bsky.social , Alice Burdick @aliceburdick.bsky.social , Ryan Skrabalak + Lydia Unsworth @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social ; have u thot of subscribing fr 2025?
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BREAKING: The Teamsters are dramatically escalating their strike and taking it to Amazon’s largest NYC warehouse.

Beginning at midnight tonight they will picket the massive facility with 5,500 workers.

JFK8 on Staten Island is the first unionized Amazon warehouse.

Thank you for this generous piece on Lemonade. I'm so sorry for your family's sudden loss.

Bombardment of tents housing displaced people