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J. Hoberman · Desperate Character: Rambunctious R. Crumb
Rambunctious and often offensive, R. Crumb draws freely on pre-existing racial and gender stereotypes, and always draws...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n21/j.-hoberman/desperate-character
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Julie Carr
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Trump promised the tariffs would help lower grocery bills. Dept. of agriculture has money from tariffs and he is barring them from using that money to fund SNAP. Tell everyone who voted for him (the not-rich ones, the rich ones don't care). Also, ball rooms easily funded. Hungry kids, nah.
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Joyelle McSweeney winning Jeopardy is a win for poets everywhere
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Congrats to Joyelle for winning Jeopardy tonight...
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Matt Seybold
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I know it is infuriating to faculty at Ohio State that their institution is being converted into a para-governmental incubator for technofeudal collaborationist hackery like this. We’ll worry about AI slop, cognitive atrophy, AI psychosis, etc. AFTER we compel every teacher & student to use it. 🤬
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We’re Losing the Thread on AI in Education
A call for systematic preparation in an increasingly reactive landscape
https://open.substack.com/pub/nickpotkalitsky/p/were-losing-the-thread-on-ai-in-education?r=hykx&utm_medium=ios
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My trip to Chile was incredible. Not only did I read from Verano/Summer in Neruda's house, but I found this great cafe run by a young guy and there in a fit of inspiration I finished writing my next book. I marked my gratefulness to Santiago by having this tattoo made by a Santiago artist.
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”I slept, then recited my most beautiful poems. The flames of my poetry dried the Virgin’s hair. She thanked me and went off, seated on her soft rose." At Huidobro's grave in Cartagena, Chile. (Thanks Weinberger for translation.)
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I'm in Santiago Chile to do some readings from Summer/Verano as well as talk about translation. It's spring here and the city is beautiful.
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Now on sale! Aase Berg ’s Aase’s Death! 25% off with code DEATH at checkout!
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Aase's Death by Aase Berg, translated by Johannes Göransson — Black Ocean
One might expect a book by Aase Berg with the title Aase’s Death to be dark, and it is. You may also expect it to be parodic, and maybe it is that too. But if it’s parodic, it’s darkly parodic. A defi...
https://www.blackocean.org/catalog1/aasesdeath?ss_source=sscampaigns&ss_campaign_id=68ec0f4316cd100a4f41933e&ss_email_id=68ee5797e27cc4669fd27a65&ss_campaign_name=Aase%E2%80%99s+Death&ss_campaign_sent_date=2025-10-14T14%253A02%253A30Z&fbclid=IwY2xjawNcwxNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHsrpFzxUcYX29ziriTbH3k38_NCJ_CpdM_u7b7-uzG5o0R8yXd7wSjCYXLD3_aem_63voSXfwnrye4M1bDlq5UA
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Top advice on teaching creative writing: teach Keats' letter to Leigh Hunt. "I’ll cavern you, and grotto you, and waterfall you, and wood you, and water you, and immense-rock you, and tremendous-sound you, and solitude you..."
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AASE'S DEATH (Forthcoming from Black Ocean)
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Some of my Courtney Love fan fiction
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about 2 months ago
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Be sure to check out the internet launch of the critical-electronic edition of Joyelle McSweeney's brilliant and immensely influential Dead Youth, or The Leaks today at 3:30 eastern time. There will be reading, discussion and writing prompts.
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Open Poetics — Launch & Workshop w. Joyelle McSweeney & Tonya M. Foster
eBook Launch of Dead Youth, or, The Leaks with a Generative Writing Workshop led by Joyelle McSweeney & Tonya M. Foster
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/open-poetics-launch-workshop-w-joyelle-mcsweeney-tonya-m-foster-tickets-1651250738409?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl
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"It’s difficult picking up another collection of poetry after finishing Burn the Losses; it’s such a damn compelling and spellbinding book... it is stunning both in image and in idea." Review of Gamoneda's Burn the Losses at Action, Spectacle:
www.action-spectacle.com/summer-2025-...
about 2 months ago
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September issue of Poetry Magazine is up on the PF website, incl my translations of a couple poems from Aase's Death. They also posted sound files of us reading the poems, so if you want to hear what Aase Berg sounds like when she reads her poems, go here:
www.poetryfoundation.org/audio/171462...
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Från “Aases Död” [“Jag går naturlig”]
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/audio/1714622/fran-aases-dod-jag-gar-naturlig
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Matt Neil Hill
3 months ago
Cracked open Aase Berg's "Hackers" as part of my reading for Women in Translation month and this is the first page 🔥 Eagerly awaiting her new book later this year.
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J Hoberman
2 months ago
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P. Adams Sitney (1944–2025)
Film critic J. Hoberman looks back on the life of film history pioneer P. Adams Sitney.
https://www.artforum.com/columns/p-adams-sitney-obituary-j-hoberman-1234733719/
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”Hers are poems of the abyss, its irresistibility, its absurdity, its gooey splendor…” Great review of Aase Berg’s Aase’s Death (forthcoming from Black Ocean) by Nina MacLaughlin
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Slugs, Swedish poetry, Mel Allen's New England, lots of litfests
New England Literary News
https://open.substack.com/pub/ninamaclaughlin/p/slugs-swedish-poetry-mel-allens-new?r=43huy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Joyelle McSweeney on the connection between grief and "disobedience" in the late great Alice Notley's work:
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A Charmed and Desperate Poet
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/1716572/a-charmed-and-desperate-poet?fbclid=IwY2xjawMcBNVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHqueK_wKHosyHFhOtKgISIYhAarxguK3h6jLajVgtOXvABjDAEg_uaokecOe_aem_UkUkD1J1kq5RtB9E0lZWjg
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Looking forward to seeing Verano, the Spanish translation of my book Summer, to be published in Chile this fall. Especially look forward to it bc it's so indebted to Latin American poetry, esp Chilean poetry.
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Ghayath Almadhoun's second English-language book, I Have Brought You A Severed Hand (Action Books 2025), is on the filmmaker Sepideh Farsi great list of Palestinian books here:
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8 essential books to add to your Palestine reading list
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk director Sepideh Farsi gives us eight essential texts to add to your Palestine reading list.
https://a-rabbitsfoot.com/editorial/culture/filmmaker-sepideh-farsi-picks-8-books-to-add-to-your-palestine-reading-list/?fbclid=IwY2xjawMSq-lleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHuAp0mFRzqSie5yYdIVYMDN6CoR9OPCerdTO7FCzcWX-7D36XL-bIYAXxPdW_aem_EKTZ2uq2nawmS8xvGrD5Fg
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I'm syllabus-making which reminded me of Swift's "On Snow," which kind of disproves the common rhetoric that poetry should not be a riddle:
poets.org/poem/snow-0
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Interesting article about the homogenizing effects of Anglo/US literature worldwide but also suggests that a lot of the most ambitious new work is being written elsewhere. Tho he doesn't really explore the reason. Why is US literary establishment so normative?
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
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‘It’s another form of imperialism’: how anglophone literature lost its universal appeal
There’s a growing appetite for stories from around the globe – if only we can avoid the cliches and exoticism of recent years, writes the International Booker nominee
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/08/its-another-form-of-imperialism-how-anglophone-literature-lost-its-universal-appeal
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“These are refugee footnotes…” Kym Cunningham on I Have Brought You a Severed Hand by Ghayath Almadhoun (Action Books, 2025)
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Kym Cunningham - book review of Ghayath Almadhoun — Action, Spectacle
https://www.action-spectacle.com/summer-2025-part-iii/cunningham?fbclid=IwY2xjawMAapVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETE5UEVaa3YybllpSzZDQUFHAR61TT4UnCJ4pB_xTPc6jdiUQPMRwB5MKrG_a79MMksv4jwhKy76c6WLNGRq5Q_aem_Q7hxOYS0nJxJMxf4Fd3NBg
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Stefanie Kirby
4 months ago
Something to look forward to this fall!! Big fan of Aase Berg since WITH DEER, and of all things Black Ocean. Really grateful to
@johannesg.bsky.social
for all of these translations! 🙏
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J Hoberman
3 months ago
theintercept.com/2025/08/02/s...
Trickledown corruption or Brownshirt DEI?
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Guess Who’s Eligible for Student Loan Forgiveness: New ICE Agents
Thanks to the Supreme Court and the Trump administration, student loan forgiveness is out of reach for many — unless you work for ICE.
https://theintercept.com/2025/08/02/student-debt-loan-forgiveness-ice-agents/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter
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from a pageant I wrote where one of the main characters came from that Hole song. Here she is pointificating about my childhood.
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from Gunnar Waerness' Friends with Everyone:
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"Gudding has effectively translated through a prism of punk, allowing himself, like his source poet, to remain an agent of fire.” Gabe Gudding wins Harold Morton Prize for translation of Gunnar Waerness's groundbreaking book Friends with Everyone (Action Books).
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The Academy of American Poets Announces the 2025 Winners of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award and the Raiziss/de Palchi Book Prize
New York, NY (July 24, 2025)—The Academy of American Poets, a leading champion of
https://poets.org/academy-american-poets-announces-2025-winners-harold-morton-landon-translation-award-and-raizissde
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Electric Literature
4 months ago
“Literature, like space travel, offers an escape, but also a way to reimagine what it means to be tethered to this planet.”
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8 Books About Space That Reimagine What It Means to Live on Earth - Electric Literature
Space doesn’t belong to billionaires. It belongs to storytellers and dreamers
https://buff.ly/LMCtitu
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"Reads like a transmission from an other-than-human consciousness in an other-than-Earth setting. Berg’s poetry moves through alien ecologies and dystopian transformations." Atterbury on Aase Berg's visionary sci-fi epic Dark Matter
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8 Books About Space That Reimagine What It Means to Live on Earth - Electric Literature
Space doesn’t belong to billionaires. It belongs to storytellers and dreamers
https://electricliterature.com/8-books-about-space-that-reimagine-what-it-means-to-live-on-earth/?fbclid=IwY2xjawLvUIVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHuGo41Zc4Y8vIbNjyxsxxRks4uxd_hnG41BfR_a5X-2Md7zQeEs1LTG2XAzC_aem_L5G0HniNBFz5SpnqDY350w
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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪
4 months ago
Ann Jäderlund tr. by
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Happy to hear from people who are ready for Aase's Death... I think it's a dark book, but Aase thinks it's funny...
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4 months ago
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I'm reading from Aase's Death (by Aase Berg) tomorrow in Chicago. Email Olivia Cronk for the secret location.
4 months ago
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Constantly struck by how good academia is at teaching people to be critical of texts, but how poor at engaging with the beauty of the text. This suspicious mode of thinking, discussing art seems often to be a way of avoiding having that unsettling, profound encounter with the weird beauty of art.
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Dan Sinykin
4 months ago
If you want to read deeply researched accounts of what happened to novels in the last fifty or so years, may I recommend Novel Competition: American Fiction and the Cultural Economy, 1965–1999 by Evan Brier
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Interesting essay that draws on Aase Berg's essay "Language and Madness," Dadaism and Benjamin to discuss the experience of interacting with a young child.
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M. Forajter
4 months ago
Send me something pretty & gross. I want yr disgusting, fetid, lush bouquet. Art-writing-poems-photos-trashbags-luminol stains-vampires: what is yr autoerotic aphyxiation? (think: infanticide, tigerskin rugs). My view of art is expansive: take a chance. The world is ending, time to pee yr undies
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This translation from Aase's Berg's Aase's Death (forthcoming from Black Ocean this fall) is in new issue of APR. I'm very happy about that.
4 months ago
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I see a lot of people for some reason giving their lists of the best films of the millennium and it seems many of them have forgotten/repressed that Von Trier gave us this movie:
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Melancholia - Official Trailer
YouTube video by Madman Films
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Wrote a substack post about Bob Dylan, J Hoberman and my mom:
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A RIOT OF SPARKS: ON DYLAN, ROTOLO, HOBERMAN AND "THE NOW" OF ART
I often say that everything I know about poetry I learned from my mom’s record collection.
https://johannesgransson.substack.com/p/a-riot-of-sparks-on-dylan-rotolo
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This discussion about Notley's masterpiece is one of the best discussions about the book I've ever read/heard. Excellent work
@kjavadizadeh.bsky.social
(+ Joyelle).
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Came back to this essay from last fall: "Translations are acts of mimetic excess, they generate too-much-ness, volatility, transformation... Translation is not an economical act; it’s an act of “transgressive circulation.”"
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“The sound for darkness”: On Translating Jäderlund Translating Celan and Bachmann
Translations are acts of mimetic excess, they generate too-much-ness, volatility, transformation.
https://poems.com/features/what-sparks-poetry/the-sound-for-darkness-on-translating-jaderlund-translating-celan-and-bachmann/
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Coming this fall... Aase's Death...
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Aase's Death
Aase's Death [Berg, Aase, Göransson, Johannes] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Aase's Death
https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Aases-Death-Aase-Berg/dp/1965154077?fbclid=IwY2xjawKxPq1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFic2hLR2dWa2xFUlVVYjYxAR78ftodAWZjWuw3mTzRbdC3bjxgMS0zhJF3oSCaOfiInRJ0CibirnyewxpoXg_aem_D3buPVsmgtUvrcxjoOstMg
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What English-language poets are in conversation with Christensen's work?
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Notre Dame Review has posted some of the Inger Christensen poems from our issue #59 online. These are outtakes from her masterpiece Alphabet, poems that she either excised or heavily revised, including the legendary "O series."
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5 months ago
I read and loved this post about blotches. And am digging out the Angelgreen Sacrament to reread in light of its dress revelations
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I wrote a post about blotches:
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The Poetry of Blotches
1. One of my favorite recent books I have read is George Didi-Huberman’s Fra Angelico (translated by Jane Marie Todd, she writes a great translator’s note), about the Italian Renaissance artist.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-164810586?source=queue
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A super-interesting post relating Anger to Lynch, and relating both to the saturation/hyper-stylization of Art.
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