like when was the last time a new poem made me fucking cry
04.08.2025 15:22 — 👍 19 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
🙏🙏
04.08.2025 21:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
Antidote (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgDy...
04.08.2025 20:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi
The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible
This should wake up everyone who still thinks we might squeak by. And JFC @harvard.edu listen up. Your *US students* are starting to flee abroad. Not just yr international students. And dear United States: this is the way to totally reach yr end.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
04.08.2025 12:12 — 👍 17 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Oh wow. I was so unsure of it I tried to withdraw it!!🫣
04.08.2025 03:58 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Click on link at the end to read the poem with restored lines. Thank you @nybooks.com for providing that option!
03.08.2025 19:00 — 👍 30 🔁 9 💬 4 📌 1
Dominic West reading Edwin Morgan’s dramatic monologue ‘Byron at Sixty-Five’, next to the fireplace at 50 Albemarle Street, into which the only copy of Byron’s memoirs was thrust after his death.
‘We didn’t simply record the actors in a studio,’ Sam Kinchin-Smith explains.
‘We recorded Dominic West reading Edwin Morgan’s dramatic monologue next to the fireplace at 50 Albemarle Street, into which the only copy of Byron’s memoirs was thrust after his death.’
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
01.08.2025 15:16 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Actor and activist Khalid Abdalla reads Mohammad Darwish’s elegy ‘Requiem for Mohammad al-Dura' at Palestine House, a new ‘cultural embassy’ in central London.
‘Khalid Abdalla, one of the most courageous public figures voicing support for Gaza, read Mohammad Darwish’s elegy ‘Requiem for Mohammad al-Dura’ in English and Arabic on the top floor of Palestine House, a new ‘cultural embassy’ a short walk from the LRB office.’
www.lrbstore.co.uk/products/lon...
01.08.2025 15:18 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Adjoa Andoh reads Jorie Graham’s poem ‘To 2040’, a dystopian vision of the aftermath of ecocide at the Grant Museum of Zoology in Bloomsbury.
‘Adjoa Andoh read @joriegraham.bsky.social’s ‘To 2040’, a dystopian vision of the aftermath of ecocide, at the Grant Museum of Zoology in Bloomsbury, surrounded by the relics of species and biodiversity loss.’
www.lrbstore.co.uk/products/lon...
01.08.2025 15:21 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
LRB 45s: Volume 1
Why is the London Review of Books putting out records? Read more about this project on the LRB blog. A handmade box-set containing three 7-inch singles and an accompanying 40-page photographic bookle...
We're marking the LRB’s 45th anniversary with a series of 45 rpm vinyl singles.
Ten poems from the paper, including Tony Harrison’s ‘v’ and @joriegraham.bsky.social's ‘To 2040’, have been recorded in resonant locations and released in a limited edition box set.
www.lrbstore.co.uk/products/lon...
01.08.2025 15:10 — 👍 28 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 2
Volume 72, Issue 13 (2025-08-21)
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Our 8/21 issue is now online, with @davidcole-gtown.bsky.social on the Supreme Court’s scorn for precedent, Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Jamaica Kincaid’, @seanmcarroll.bsky.social on cosmic timing, poems by John Berryman & @joriegraham.bsky.social, and more.
31.07.2025 12:03 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Moving to Canada has never looked better….
31.07.2025 05:58 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Israeli public figures call for ‘crippling sanctions’ on Israel over Gaza starvation
Thirty-one high-profile Israelis express shame over ‘brutal campaign’ and demand permanent ceasefire in letter
Brown caves. Allows Trump admin to monitor admissions. Yes you read that right. A University is one thing before it is all else: it is WHOM IT ADMITS. Then faculty & programs matter. But first off it’s which new minds flow into campus as freshman w/their genius.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
31.07.2025 02:04 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Let’s help him lose it some more. Let’s help him out the door. Watch The Bibi Files @jolt.film , no, truly, find the damn film & watch it.
31.07.2025 01:54 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
This is apparently not true. No deal. No way. Don’t understand the source of these falsehoods but probably inside T admin?
31.07.2025 01:51 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
Booker Won’t Back Down: Demands Epstein Files Over GOP Objections
youtu.be/rNMGFMEFYFw?...
30.07.2025 19:49 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
This is truly incredible. He has no idea what he just admitted to. None. Nada. Zero. Goose cooked. Open & shut case.
29.07.2025 20:08 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Not sure what it means
29.07.2025 17:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Obama on the starvation in Gaza…
27.07.2025 19:47 — 👍 1941 🔁 498 💬 93 📌 33
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