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Translating Grief - Cable Street Your Dazzling Death by Cass Donish and its connection to Marosa di Giorgio’s Historial de las violetas About three years ago, I received an email with what seemed an unusual request. Acclaimed US poet...

We published this fascinating review of “Your Dazzling Death”—the book by Cass Donish @cassdonish.bsky.social reviewed by Jeannine Pitas @janinalapapita.bsky.social 💙📚Neat twist: Pitas translated a book by the poet Marosa di Giorgio that inspired Donish’s work.

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graphic featuring a portion of Cass Donish's poem

black and white photograph of poet Cass Donish

"Today’s poem articulates grief in a way I admire so deeply," host Maggie Smith shares in today's episode of The Slowdown, number 1413.

Read “On Proliferation” by @cassdonish.bsky.social — from their book YOUR DAZZLING DEATH — and our full episode transcript: bit.ly/3YweJGB

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need a writing residency in an enchanted diner with magical coffee & cigarettes that aren’t bad for you

Just received news that 27 people have been arrested in Parliament Square under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action".
This is real police state behaviour.

volume 18 number 2 diode poetry journal : volume 18 number 2

Lots of good work in the new Diode, including new poems by Andrew Robin, Aaron Caycedo-Kimura. Mellissa Fite Johnson, Cass Donish and Ephraim Scott Summers and much more.

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You, Emblazoned by Cass Donish You, Emblazoned    for Kelly Caldwell (1988–2020) Yet your voice was  here —                          just there-here in our house, shining ...

You, Emblazoned by Cass Donish
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The evil that men do lives after them

I need to start coming here more often! Hello! Some big news today—I’m so so honored to be named a finalist for the Audre Lorde Award 💜💜💜 & in such good company of present & past finalists & winners 🌈🕯️✨

5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

Okay, I cannot recommend 5calls.org enough. Enter your address and it will find all your reps (federal and state). AND give you a list of issues to call about AND which reps to call about each of them AND a little script for each, in case it's helpful. They have an app, too.

Best books of 2024!

*Cass Donish *Bernardine Evaristo *Scott Preston *Yael van der Wouden *Megan Nolan *Ruthvika Rao *Kate Foster *Isabella Hammad #booknerd #bookish #litfic

I may need mutual aid soon because I gave others mutual aid, but I don’t regret that because their needs were going unmet & I had the capacity to contribute at that time, & if resources need to be redistributed to me because I redistributed resources, that’s the point of mutual aid.

Facing Cuts Likely to Worsen Under Trump, Academic Librarians Urgently Organize As the war on higher education looks to heat up, academic libraries will likely be the first on the chopping block.

Support your local academic libraries, which are already being targeted for reduction or removal by campus administrators. truthout.org/articles/fac...

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Reading in Kansas City on September 23 with the lovely Ruth Williams!

Could "carecore" be a genre? I want it to be.

Barrelhouse - Latine Monsters Issue Thanks for submitting your work to Barrelhouse!  Before you proceed, a note about open and closed categories. If you don't see the category that fits your work, we're not open for that thing. We keep...

Reminder that we are currently open for submissions for a new online issue on LATINX MONSTERS, guest edited by our friend Ofelia Montelongo. Fiction, poetry, nonfiction. We pay $50, no sub fee. We'd like this to run in late Oct. so we're moving quickly on it. Full details:

the bar is so low that whenever a cis man is actually really lovely i'm delighted, as if i've found a rare gem

Our talk yesterday at the Universidad de Chile Austral about Flores raras, our anthology of 55 Uruguayan women poets born between 1783 and 1939!

A Brief Ontological Investigation What can I say to cheer you up? This afternoon the sky is like five portholes between the clouds. The unidentifiable weeds are tall and still unidentifiable and I miss the cows in the field, where have they gone? Sometimes one would wander then stand in the middle of the road and I'd have to stop my car and wait for it to decide to finish crossing. …I mean, we all overflow; we all feel an abundance of something but sometimes it's just emptiness: vacant page, busy signal, radio static, implacable repeat rut where the tone arm reaches across a spinning vinyl record to play it again, rest its delicate needle in a groove and caress forever the same sound from the same body.

Useful Junk, poems by Erika Meitner. Pink striped pajama pants and brown dog’s bad legs framing the book. Coffee cup in view.

“…we all overflow; we all feel in abundance of something, but sometimes it’s just the emptiness: vacant page, busy signal, radio static, implacable repeat rut where the tone arm reaches across a spinning vinyl record to play it again…”

—Erika Meitner, from Useful Junk (BOA, 2022)

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“Are you surprised” political discourse makes it seem like the point of politics is whether one is sufficiently cynical and not whether one is defending the rights or policies in danger—a stance which only supports the status quo.

Surprise lilies, Lycoris squamigera, popping up all over town after the storms. Also known as resurrection lilies or naked ladies. #FlowerReport from Columbia, Missouri 🌷

“When my hand hits the keyboard I’m lying.”
—Eileen Myles, FOR NOW

w/ @lisanik.bsky.social & @vanessid.bsky.social & Naomi Williams & Nayomi Munaweera