DJcontraption AKA Dahron J

And at last the wheel has rest, is still,
Shrunk to an adamant core,
Fulfilling its will in fixity.
But the yearning atoms, as they grind
Closer and closer, more and more
Fiercely together, beget
A flaming fire upward leaping,
Billowing out

fr—The Burning Wheel
Aldous Huxley
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Yarmolinski, Avrom () (January 13, 1890–September 28, 1975) — Congress for Jewish Culture Yarmolinsky, Avraham He was born in Haysyn, Lithuania (Ukraine?). He studied in European and American universities and graduated with Ph.D. For many years he was director of the Slavonic Division...

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Young Refugees and Knowledge in New York during World War II: The Example of Babette Deutsch's 'The Welcome' - Migrant Knowledge Babette Deutsch's children's book, 'The Welcome,' was rooted in real life and can help shed light on child refugees as go-betweens.

Babette Deutsch: bit.ly/48MNwFW

Pushkin and the Imperial Lyceum: A Sentimental Education for an Unsentimental Upbringing

Among the glaucous waves that kiss gold Tauris’ beaches
I saw a Nereid, as dawn flushed heaven’s reaches.
I barely dared to breathe, hid in the olive trees,
While the young demigoddess rose above the seas

fr—A Nereid
Alexander Pushkin
tr—Babette Deutsch & Avrahm Yarmolinsky
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The Poet’s Nightstand with David Roderick Poets talk about five books that have made a big impression on them recently.

Fall fell wind-wise today—
trembles of dried lilac stalks, dead
hydrangea that couldn’t reach
water, all the finches and wrens
boldly on the move. Fall fell, my friend.
It ended summer like the last page
of the last chapter of your life

fr—[Fall fell wind-wise]
David Roderick
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What a great show with @thisisnashville.bsky.social at noon today—Blake Farmer, Mark Rogers, & Meribah Knight were all lovely conversation partners.

Thank you to them, & I'll leave it to you all: should @wpln.bsky.social get this band back together again sometime??

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Tracking How the Shutdown Is Affecting Federal Services and Workers (Gift Article) The shutdown could suspend the work of at least 600,000 employees, disrupting a wide range of federal programs. Here’s what we know so far.

Really useful @nytimes.com piece on which agencies, workers, programs, and services are and will be most impacted by the federal government shutdown www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Oh, hi there...

Thank you to @thisisnashville.bsky.social for creating this opportunity for conversation. And thank you to @tnequality.bsky.social for connecting me with it...

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Live Poetry and Q&A with Blas Falconer | CAFFEINATED VERSE #11 Live poetry and interview with award-winning poet and professor, Blas Falconer, Ph.D.! 👉 SUBSCRIBE TO MY POETRY NEWSLETTER: https://www.nathanhassall.com/subscribenow 📚 BUY BLAS FALCONER'S POETRY: - Rara Avis - https://amzn.to/4i13GNp - Forgive the Body This Failure - https://amzn.to/4gPgzJB - A Question of Gravity and Light - https://amzn.to/40ZSsSq - The Foundling Wheel (Stahlecker Selections) - https://amzn.to/4hVNzke 🌟 SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL: https://www.nathanhassall.com/support-our-journey ✍️ FOLLOW FOR MORE Linktree: https://linktr.ee/nathanhassall BUSINESS INQUIRIES ONLY: thepoetryvessel@gmail.com ⏰ Timestamps 00:00 – Introduction 04:42 – Blas Falconer Reading Starts 23:32 – Poetry Q&A — FTC DISCLAIMER: Some of the links above may be affiliate links, which means that if you click on them I may receive a small commission. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. The commission is paid by the retailers, at no cost to you, and this helps to support our channel and keep our videos free. Thank you! #poetlaureate #NathanHassall #BlasFalconer #WordPower #PoetryInAction #poetsofinstagram #poetsandwriters #poetsofyoutube #poetsoftiktok #PoetsOfMalibu #ArtOfWords #poetrycommunity

A hoof implies the presence of
the whole horse. A saddle implies

a horse and a rider. Where are you
taking me? In the barn, they crane

their necks to see who’s coming.
I feel the weight, the gesture in

my own body. You become
the horse:

fr—This Is Not a Horse
Blas Falconer
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We are physical, emotional, existential, and spiritual selves. Come out to a night with BoroPride that welcomes them all:

I will note that what that photo really demonstrates to me is that if folks really cared about women's sports, they'd work on boosting participation, not furthering discriminatory and fearmongering narratives meant to divide us amongst ourselves.

Yes, I'm talking about you, @usacycling.bsky.social.

I reference repeatedly my own small example of this phenomenon: the photo some have circulated of me in second place on a podium is also a picture of me dead last, having finished a lap down & over 10 minutes behind the other woman—& very deserving winner!—standing with me (& one step higher!) (1/2)

Poesía en acción | Translator Micro-Interview Series: Kristin Dykstra • Action Books 1. How did you start translating The Star-Spangled Brand? What drew you to this work? Marcelo and I published an earlier bilingual edition, The World as Presence, in 2016. He had already started writi...

Yo quería que entendiera porque así yo veo el mundo.
Para ella es más lógico que una muñeca abra los ojos por la noche.
Que una muñeca tenga hijos es la lógica para ella.
Ha tratado de explicarme, pero yo tampoco entiendo bien

fr—[]
Marcelo Morales
tr—Kristin Dykstra
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Marcelo Morales in Conversation with Max Alletzhauser and Erik Lindman Mata April 4, 2025 reading and conversation at Nord Books in Stockholm. Poets Marcelo Morales, Max Alletzhauser, and Erik Lindman Mata

I wanted her to get it, because that’s how I see the world.
For her, it’s more logical that a doll would open its eyes in the night.
That a doll would have children, that’s logical to her.
She tried to explain to me, but I don’t really get it either

fr—[]
Marcelo Morales
tr—K Dykstra
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Unseen Nashville Tours Unseen Nashville Tours See the city through a different lens. Led by The Contributor’s newspaper vendors with lived experience of homelessness, Unseen Nashville street tours offer a powerful, one-mile...

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Just so folks know: Giant is a literal giant--serving as the OEM manufacturer for a multitude of brands, besides being a major brand on its own.

If you thought the retail bike industry was in dog days before, it's really impossible to explain just how huge the impact of this will be:

CBP issues Withhold Release Order on Giant Manufacturing Co. Ltd. Securing America's Borders

Wild. CBP is detaining any Giant manufactured bikes, frames, parts or accessories from Taiwan www.cbp.gov/newsroom/nat...

The image show several Bi Pride flags.

Happy Bi Visibility Day. If you are in Nashville this evening, join us at Perfectly Fine in West Nashville to celebrate. We will be joined by Nashville Pride and the TN Pride Chamber.

YouTube video by TNEquality Crys Matthews interview

Music, advocacy, and showing up in unexpected places. @crysmatthews.bsky.social talks with TEP Nashville Co-Chair Brian Sullivan. youtube.com/shorts/aEXyI...

Gender laws police all of us, ALL OF US:

Slow Reading Programme No. 1: Ark Ramsay x Shivanee Ramlochan For our first Slow Reading Programme we want to reflect on a limited edition chapbook that Fresh Milk supported the making of, in partnership with Poinciana Paper Press and supported by the Panta Rhea Foundation. The inaugural Lucayan Archipelago Residency took place in The Bahamas from September to November 2024 bringing together Barbadian non-binary writer Ark Ramsay with Puerto Rican Jocmarys Viruet Feliciano, a visual artist whose practice focuses on hand papermaking and book arts. To assist in engaging more meaningfully with the book entitled a prayer in motion, we invited Shivanee Ramlochan, Trinidadian poet, essayist, and critic, to have a slow conversation with Ark about this very limited edition of six chapbooks. After the discussion, Joko talks us through her collaboration with Ark and their cooperative making of this chapbook which uses writing and the crafts of book arts to collectively respond to the physical environment of The Bahamas through an ecological lens. For the full report on the Lucayan Archipelago Residency, you may visit the link here: https://freshmilkbarbados.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/lucayan-archipelago-residency-report-draft-1_compressed.pdf

—rings like hidden weddings brought to light.
Know I’ve been wanting to come to die here,
for the longest while. My brown limbs as roots.

White men I’ve longed for have walked face-first
into the rainforest & misunderstood it so
beautifully

fr—The Meaning of Trees
Shivanee Ramlochan
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Nashville Teachers Struggle to get Needed School Supplies - Nashville Banner Discover how teachers in Nashville go above and beyond to provide for their students, despite limited funding and restrictions on fundraising activities.

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Le poème sera, de plus en plus aveugle, plus rien que des mots:
Personne qui pourra les entendre pour de vrai.
Quelque chose d’autre viendra dans des ruines de temps et d’amitié,
Ce sera même pas la peine de dire

Un jour écrire deviendra trop difficile
James Sacré
tr—Youmna M Chamieh
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James Sacré – « Chaque poème est un visage de mots » - L'Actualité Nouvelle-Aquitaine — science et culture, innovation Entretien avec le poète James Sacré dont un livre, Figures qui bougent un peu, est au programme du bac professionnel.

The poem will be, more and more blind, nothing but words:
No one will be able to truly hear them.
Something else will come in the ruins of time and friendship,
It won’t even be worth saying

One day writing will become too difficult
James Sacré
tr—Youmna M Chamieh
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@chrisgeidner.bsky.social just making sure I hadn't missed any write-up by you on this...

Ruth Ward Ruth Ward is a writer and translator of both poetry and fiction. Her most recent work, Váh (Midsea Books, 2024), is a bilingual collaboration, with Immanuel Mifsud, of text and visual art. Ward’s tran...

nimxi fid-dlam—m’għandix bżonn dawl biex nimxi
triqti magħrufa minn ġewwa—bin-nifs
li niġbed, bin-nifs li narmi, bin-nifs
li jiċċaqlaq, li jċaqlaqni, jeħodni
lejn dak l-imkien fejn ħadd aktar ma jersaq

fr—Ġebla
Immanuel Mifsud
trans—Ruth Ward
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I go forth in the dark, as I need no light to make my way—
which I know well: through the breath
I exhale, inhale; the breath that
moves, moves me, lifts me
to that summit where no one approaches

fr—Stone
Immanuel Mifsud
trans—Ruth Ward
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Orpheus and Creativity with James Meetze Hello everyone, in this episode of the podcast I am speaking with James Meetze about Orpheus. Amongst other things we talk about Orpheus as somewhere in between Apollo and Dionysus, how his High School English teacher threw a book at him and after reading ‘Howl’ by Allen Ginsberg he started writing poetry, Orphic capability and the lyric Self, The San Francisco Renaissance - Jack Spicer, Robin Blaser and others, the long song, the serial poem, carmen perpetuum, and the Creativity program at Pacifica. James Meetze [pronounced Metz] is the author of five books of poetry, including Phantom Hour (2016) and Dayglo (2011), winner of the Sawtooth Poetry Prize. He divides his time between Split, Croatia and San Diego, California, where he teaches writing and film studies at University of Arizona Global Campus and in the Depth Psychology and Creativity program at Pacifica Graduate Institute.

—reklo bi se—

da nije tih par kuštravih ovaca

skutrenih pred pljusak

u oboru

ispred kamene pojate

što malo-malo

trznu bjelkastim glavama

da ti daju do znanja

fr—Poezija u malom jeziku
Damir Šodan
trans—James Meetze
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Poezija na živo: Damir Šodan www.booksa.hr

—one might add—

if it weren’t for the pair of those

ragged sheep

huddled before the rain

on the empty lot

in front of a stone barn

bobbing their whitish little heads

here and there

just to let you know

fr—Poetry in Small Language
Damir Šodan
trans—James Meetze
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