essay by Eileen Myles/ poem by Leslie Scalapino— both amazing

Congratulations to Arthur Sze for being named the 25th U.S. Poet Laureate! We featured his poem, Papyrus Pantoum, in April. Read here: spare.poems.com/poem/Papyrus...

I think about this poem by Ian Duhig — about Jo Cox, the Labour MP assassinated by a man shouting ‘Britain first’ — every day at the moment. No other contemporary poet has looked so clearly at the political reality of the far right as a minority who must always be appeased

A couple of thoughts on the Hindu nationalist response to Navarro's comments. Brief 🧵 -- thewire.in/diplomacy/pe...

The Woman Holding Chinese Mining Giants Accountable insideclimatenews.org/news/2408202...

Looks like this is working fine, but still testing it. Would you all please go and add a couple seed lines of your own? The more seed lines the programs have to choose from, the more interesting the results. *Remember to add lines to all four games / tabs, so we can see how they work.*.

the-desnos-machine.replit.app THE DESNOS MACHINE Hi all, a few of you may know/remember that I've been exploring tech-assisted collaborative / mass poetry composition / performance for many years. Here, some brand new incarnations of Michael Scharf's and my *Desnos Machine*.

I was unhappy with the ending of Galatea 2.2 (1995!) when I read it in like 2003, but now when I think, it was not only very prophetic but may offer us a way of thinking out of our delusions and the ai hype/ mess we're in. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galatea...

You really gotta watch the whole video "This wall is looooong" 🤣 www.kickstarter.com/projects/533...

I’ve been writing a series about how to understand Indian identity via Shah Rukh Khan films. Here’s the first piece on Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge open.substack.com/pub/popcultu...

⚖️1/ A historic ruling by a US Federal Court determined that defending the civil rights of caste-oppressed people does not constitute religious infringement. This news follows the court’s dismissal of a lawsuit, which claimed that caste protections violate religious freedom.

This is pretty essential reading I think— demystifies “AI” aka Large Language Models aka Bullshit Machines in wonderfully lucid language : how they work, what they might be helpful for, and why you should never ever trust them.

Today’s Featured Poem: “Anticipation of the Inevitable” by samodH Porawagamage from becoming sam published by @burnsidereview.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/anticip...

Today’s Featured Poem: “A Touch of Salt on My Confession” by Abdourahman A. Waberi. Translated from the French by Nancy Naomi Carlson from When We Only Have the Earth published by @univnebpress.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/a-touch...

The "survivorship bias" of thinking that trans adults who didn't receive treatment as children turned out okay. Important essay by @notquitehydepark.bsky.social We need to take care of our trans and nonbinary kids www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Alok Dhanwa, the cult Hindi poet, available for the first time in English in my translation. The World is Made Up Every Day, out now in India (available in US/Europe in October). Order here: seagullbooks.org/products/the...

Today’s Featured Poem: “Poem” by Bill Knott from The Naomi Poems: Corpse and Beans published by @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/poem-2/

Thrilled to see my translation of Alok Dhanwa's poem Seven-Hundred-Year-Old Verse (from The World is Made Up Every Day, forthcoming from Seagull Books) as a featured poem on @poetrydaily.bsky.social: poems.com/poem/seven-h...

We have gone from the margin of error to the margin of effort. On the day before the election, we stand on the verge of toppling a political dynasty and winning a city we can afford. But we can only do it with you. zohranfornyc.com/gotv

No matter what the courts say, we are not going anywhere. Our fight continues. 📸 Will Martinez Jr

Cf. Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2 "When these people first reached out to me, they were convinced it was all true. Only upon later reflection did they realize that the seemingly authoritative system was a word-association machine that had pulled them into a quicksand of delusional thinking."

Read 'From Kuruntokai' by Vivek Narayanan: modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/from-ku...

Want to hear me talk about queer poems and sex ed and mermaids? @poetryfoundation.bsky.social has you covered @harvardpress.bsky.social tysm to host H de Groot www.poetryfoundation.org/podcasts/ser...

Today’s Featured Poem: “[On a green summer night,]” by Sayumi Kamakura, translated from the Japanese by James Shea. From Applause for a Cloud published by @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/on-a-gr...

Must-read. "For Zheng, and for me, the function of poetry, its innate raison d’être, is to mourn. And in mourning, to point a finger. Look! the poet cries, Look! Look at everything that’s been lost, that we are in the process of losing, that we are throwing away out of ignorance and fear..."

Today’s Featured Poem: “Fate the Hunter” by Abū Dhu’ayb, translated by James Montgomery from Fate the Hunter published by NYU Press. Read here: poems.com/poem/fate-th...

“You can’t write a confrontational book and expect everyone to like it”

Tsitsi Jaji: "Translation, to pluck words from another's tongue..." #WriteTheWorld #translation

What a great discussion. To stay in the know, follow @bethlehemattfield.bsky.social, @kolatubosun.bsky.social, and @naravive.bsky.social. #WriteTheWorld #translation #xl8 #Africa #AfricanLiterature

Today's Featured Translator: SUNEELA MUBAYI is a translator between Arabic, Urdu and English, an independent scholar, and writer of mixed descent, whose interests stand at the juncture where language, the body, and poetry intersect.

Meet our new senior editor, @truffaut015.bsky.social! Lesley Smith has volunteered for Poetry Daily since 2019, and enjoys indulging in her dual passions for poetry and open-access digital publishing. She has been reading and writing poetry since she won her first poetry competition, aged 6.

Kabir/Arvind Krishna Mehrotra done slam style

From the BBC, a surprisingly good obituary of Koyo Kouoh, a towering figure in the contemporary art world, who has died far too young. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins

Meet our new managing editor, @elenamacdonald.bsky.social ! Elena Macdonald (they/she) is a writer from Virginia. Their work has been featured or is forthcoming in The Ekphrastic Review, Kitchen Table Quarterly, and Twin Bird Review. Elena is grateful and excited to be taking on this role.

Mass detentions. Home demolitions. Collective punishment. In The Polis Project, @suchitravijayan documents how the Indian state is using the Pahalgam attack to unleash brutal repression across Kashmir. Read: thepolisprojectinc.substack.com/p/wreckage-a... #Kashmir #Pahalgam

Just heard about this. "The collapse allowed some 50 million liters of waste containing concentrated acid, dissolved solids and heavy metals to flow into a stream that links to the Kafue River, Zambia’s most important waterway" 😞 apnews.com/article/mini...

Africa has just lost one of its greatest thinkers: V. Y. Mudimbe. The French translation by Laurent Vannini of his seminal book "The Invention of #Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy and the Order of Knowledge" (Indiana UP, 1988) was published by Présence Africaine in 2021 bit.ly/2QQmAj6 #VYMudimbe #Mudimbe

“When I was growing up, no one took Korean pop seriously in the West, and Korean culture was just a series of racist punchlines in Gilmore Girls.” I forgot I wrote this and someone reminded me today that I did

This is a pretty gorgeous essay— great going @ericracher.bsky.social

Hi all everyone everywhere please join us for my first virtual event as Co-director of Poetry Daily. This is a stunning collection of poems some of us consider an underground master... @poetrydaily.bsky.social

‘Then don’t you think that the translation of poetry is best left to poets who are in possession of an English they have each made their own…?’ -Mark Strand, from The Weather of Words (2000).

Today's Featured Poem: "COVID Roadshow" by Ken Bluford, from Skip Tracing, published by Wry Awry. Read here: poems.com/poem/covid-r...

Today's Featured: In this week's installment of What Sparks Poetry: Other Arts, Gregory Pardlo writes on his poems "Beauty School Wig Head” and “[Erasure]." Read here: poems.com/features/wha...

Hi all everyone everywhere please join us for my first virtual event as Co-director of Poetry Daily. This is a stunning collection of poems some of us consider an underground master... @poetrydaily.bsky.social

For National Poetry Month this April, Poetry Daily would like to turn the spotlight on YOU, the loving READER of poetry. Read more at the link below for a chance to be featured in our groundbreaking What Sparks Poetry series and win a free book! poems.com/celebrate-na...

"[The] diversity of voices and styles, translated from the French, Dutch, German, Chinese, and more, surprises and entices in turn." Eric Bies reviews AT THE LOUVRE: POEMS BY 100 CONTEMPORARY WORLD POETS (@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social): tinyurl.com/3zcthc24.