@don-schofield.bsky.social
Poet, Memoirist, Translator, Expat, Lover of Life
Here's the November issue of Weekly Hubris (posting it again because I had trouble posting it earlier). Enjoy! weeklyhubris.com?fbclid=IwY2x...
23.11.2025 15:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I'm delighted to be participating tomorrow and Saturday in the 3rd International Poetry Festival of Serres, Greece. This year the festival is honoring the centenary of Mikis Theodorakis' birth.
20.11.2025 11:31 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Better yet, on his tombstone!
20.11.2025 06:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sure can relate to this.
20.11.2025 06:27 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
He's gone, just as the Greece he knew is gone. But like bits of carbon from stars, something of both remains. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Eky...
08.11.2025 14:54 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just out in Weekly Hubris, "Two Arrivals," an excerpt from my memoir FROM THE CYCLOPS CAVE, due out in a few weeks from Open Books Press. weeklyhubris.com/two-arrivals/
02.11.2025 10:32 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Just out in Weekly Hubris, "Two Arrivals," and excerpt from my memoir FROM THE CYCLOPS CAVE, due out in a few weeks from Open Books Press. weeklyhubris.com/two-arrivals/
02.11.2025 10:27 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A pleasure hearing Thanos Giannoudis, Martha Vasiliadi and Sofia Potari read and talk about Thanos’ translations of Four Poets on the Threshold of Modernism. And what a delight that they invited me—quite unexpectedly!—to read a couple in the original English. Thanks too Mythistoria Bookstore.
19.10.2025 15:07 — 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
My Savior...
07.10.2025 11:41 — 👍 18 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
After...
07.10.2025 11:40 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My latest hospital adventure at Agio Louka (Thessaloniki):
Before.
Many thanks to the Circle of Poetry and all the wonderful poets who read at this year's World Poetry Festival for an amazing four days of hope and dreams.
05.10.2025 07:46 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
It's rare that commentary on an excellent poem (the second one here, though the first is a fine poem too) moves me as much as the poem itself. But here Alicia Stallings does it with grace: www.english.ox.ac.uk/echolocation...
04.09.2025 13:53 — 👍 21 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
How can any human being turn a blind eye to the kinds of atrocities this whistleblower--and others--are bringing to light? No amount of rationalization, of "What about X," can make what's happening in Gaze right now right! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyNu...
01.08.2025 06:57 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Among the few "leaders" speaking out. So many more need to step up. www.politico.eu/article/gaza...
21.07.2025 05:59 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0And here’s the link to the excerpt from TRO-KAY. Many thanks to Charlotte Slivka and the folks at Lit Mag.
www.litmagazine.org/in-transit/
The Summer ’25 issue of Lit Magazine, published by the creative writing master’s program at NYC’s New School, is just out, which includes the first chapter of my micro-memoir TRO-KAY: A MOURNING JOURNAL. Enjoy!
www.litmagazine.org/lit-40-summe...
Nice melding of elements. The end is great. Maybe cut the penultimate stanza. To me it feels insistent.
12.06.2025 15:13 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I spent so many years covering propaganda anticipating this exact moment and so many of my peers bought the paid-for contrarian line that even covering disinformation was somehow, itself, censorship.
Now we're at the event horizon. Celebration is protest is riot is justification for a police state.
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
20.05.2025 11:04 — 👍 12978 🔁 3826 💬 770 📌 1884
the first and third by Lenias Zafeiropoulou and the second by Alexandra Mouriki ❤️), then sings with the string quartet (First Violin, Iro Seira; Second Violin, Stella Karitinou; Viola, Patrick Evans; and Cello, Maria Skandali).
Enjoy!
Those of you who like poetry rendered into music (even in other languages) might enjoy this evening of contemporary classical music by the contemporary Greek composer Georgos Zervos. Soprano Fani Antonelou first reads the three poems,
18.05.2025 08:05 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0A long wishlist.
09.05.2025 07:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Wait till Trump hears about this opportunity!
03.05.2025 15:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hang in there! It seems these days we've all got something.
27.03.2025 10:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I was in Job Corps with him. While he hit the pushing bag all day, I studied warehousing. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/m...
22.03.2025 18:13 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Many thanks to Todd Sullivan and Samjoko Magazine (in the Republic of Korea!) for publishing three poems from A Different Heaven. Great to see them!
www.samjokomagazine.com/athens-snow
Many thanks to Todd Sullivan and Samjoko Magazine (in the Republic of Korea!) for publishing three poems from A Different Heaven. Great to see them!
www.samjokomagazine.com/athens-snow
