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Trump's sweeping global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court ruling - follow live The Supreme Court rules with a 6-3 majority that Trump exceeded his authority when he imposed tariffs via a law reserved for national emergencies.

SCOTUS NIXES TRUMP'S TARIFFS! NO TYRANTS, NO KINGS!

Silicon Valley’s Favorite Doomsaying Philosopher Nick Land believes that digital superintelligence is going to kill us all. In San Francisco, his followers ask: What if, instead of trying to stop an A.I. takeover, you work to bring it on as fast as possible?

During a recent conversation between the neo-reactionaries Curtis Yarvin and Nick Land, Yarvin said that, after all jobs had been automated, people could make money selling their organs. “But our new robot overlords do not need human organs,” Land replied. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/zLjrNH

Why do the Brits see the Epstein Class for what they are, while the US Department of Justice orders thousands of more gallons of ink for the redactions?

This was Buffalo in the 1970's, and to some extent it is true of Buffalo now. My friends are amused when I call Buffalo a 'ghost adjacent city,' but "The souls of the wives of the robber barons/ Are imprisoned in the chandeliers."

Hass was on that University at Buffalo Department of English faculty that Silverblatt studied with briefly--his first teaching job after receiving his Ph.D from Stanford.

Thinking of Michael Silverblatt's recent passing and his time in Buffalo reminded of this Robert Hass poem from his 1972 collection "Field Guide" which received the Yale Younger Poets Prize.

It could have been the cheap wine, but it left me with nausea and an "Eliot Complex"!😜

As an undergraduate at the University at Buffalo 50 years ago and *under the influence of alcohol,* I was persuaded to participate in an ensemble reading of Eliot's Ash Wednesday at the Katherine Cornell Theater in UB's Ellicott Complex.

This is often referred to as T.S. Eliot's "conversion [to Anglicism] poem." And the 'conversion' it brought about in me was a strong distaste for Eliot.

"Another strategy is to create new structures that further the art... Create a langauge the unborn might be unashamed to speak."

- C. D. Wright laying down this gauntlet here for us

AI does not enhance “efficiency.” AI is a permission structure for a totalizing regime of austerity and labor immiseration.

David Foster Wallace once said Silverblatt was the best live literary interviewer he ever met.

People on the East Coast and Midwest were generally unaware of how great a program KCRW's "Bookworm" was because we had WHYY's "Fresh Air," a more general interest interview program built out by Terry Gross, another UB alum.

LA Times left out Robert Creeley, Leslie Fiedler, Robert Hass, Rene Girard, Raymond Federman, et al. All were on the UB faculty at that time.

Michael Silverblatt, 'genius' host of KCRW literary show 'Bookworm,' dies at 73 Silverblatt’s 30-minute show, which ran from 1989 to 2022, included interviews with celebrated authors including Gore Vidal, Kazuo Ishiguro, David Foster Wallace, Susan Orlean, Joan Didion and Zadie S...

Former classmate at the University at Buffalo: "Until he left home for UB, Silverblatt said he had never met an author...His college, however, was filled with such famous authors as Michel Foucault, John Barth, Donald Barthelme and J.M. Coetzee, who were all working as professors."

Buffalo Area Poetry & Literature Calendar (Feb. 16-Feb. 22) - The final Screening Room Poetry Series reading, Wednesday Night Live at Caffe Aroma, and a UB Poetics Plus Book Talk by Amy De’Ath are noteworthy this week. Wednesday, February 18th, […]

The final Screening Room Poetry Series reading, Wednesday Night Live at Caffe Aroma, and a UB Poetics Plus Book Talk by Amy De’Ath are noteworthy this week. @thebuffalohive.bsky.social

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For ICE detainees, 'luck of the draw' decides who gets a hearing and chance for release The debate over what to do about immigrants who have entered the country illegally or as refugees has been playing out for months in government offices and on the streets of American cities. But it also is a daily occurrence in federal courtrooms.

ICYMI: The debate over what to do about immigrants who have entered the country illegally or as refugees has been playing out for months in government offices and on the streets of American cities. But it also is a daily occurrence in federal courtrooms.

He will be the featured reader at the next Kenmore Village Improvement Society Open Mic Night curated and hosted by BlazeVOX Books publisher Geoffrey Gatza from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Thursday, February 26th at the KVIS/Made for Good Shop, 7 Warren Avenue (near Delaware Ave.) in Kenmore, NY.

His collaborative book Color Me White (with the late artist and illustrator Mickey Harmon) is known for its witty and provocative engagement with identity and culture. Deeply involved in community and creative exchange, Kevin brings curiosity, humor, and rigor to everything he shares.

Civics Test by Kevin Thurston - Just Buffalo Literary Center | Buffalo, NY Read "Civics Test" by Kevin Thurston - part of the Poem of the Week series, curated by literary legacy awardee R.D. Pohl.

@justbuffalolit.bsky.social Poem of the Week. Kevin Thurston is a Buffalo-based writer, conceptual artist, performer, and longtime presence in the Western New York literary scene. Kevin was (with Chris Fritton) the co-founder and co-organizer of the Buffalo Small Press Book Fair from 2006 to 2016.

ANGELICAL SALUTATION OF EVERY GIRL IN HISTORY
A poem by Divya Victor in The Atlantic.

Sorry to hear that. Hope you feel better soon.

Whether it's Robert F. Kennedy, Sr. fighting to desegregate public restrooms or Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. snorting cocaine off of toilet seats, toilets play a key role in the history of the Kennedys.

Jorie Graham · Poem: ‘You Shall Not Speak’

Once they rivered everywhere –
meanders – currents – you must let me

speak
words – do not bark
at me – my sounds
come slowly – no they are not

answers – they are cries –
how long have you been
human

‘You Shall Not Speak’, a poem by @joriegraham.bsky.social.

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Steely Don thinks CBS was too Deacon blue, but night fly Bari’s shift to MAGA pretzel logic and a quack Dr. Wu isn’t exactly reeling in the viewers. How long till kid Dokoupil gets the news, drinks his Big Black Cow, and gets out of here?

by Maureen Dowd

never get involved in a land war in Minnesota

GOLDMAN: Do you know what other regimes in the 20th century required similar proof of citizenship?


LYONS: Various nefarious regimes did that

GOLDMAN: Is Nazi Germany one?

LYONS: This is the wrong type of question

Will Lewis has just told staff at the Washington Post he is stepping down

Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.

Susan Howe, The Art of Poetry No. 97 “I often think of the space of a page as a stage, with words, letters, syllable characters moving across.”

“Emily Dickinson is one of the greatest poets we have, and I don’t mean ‘we’ merely in America. I mean she is one of the greatest of poets.” —Susan Howe