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Adam Gurri
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This is really excellent, glad to see you given the space to go big with this
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Video: Opinion | Is This Who Trump Meant by the âWorst of the Worstâ?
The columnist Jamelle Bouie argues that the Trump administrationâs immigration policy has more in common with ethnic cleansing than actual immigration enforcement.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010664980/is-this-who-trump-meant-by-the-worst-of-the-worst.html?smid=url-share&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Ashley Miller
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An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
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More parenting poems... I think this was when they watched Spirited Away or something like that.
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7 days ago
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Super happy to share "Haiku Against the Police" from
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's "Sunday Poem" feature. It's the first poem I've published from my new manuscript, The Adorations, and it's a signaling from the flames. (Also please post your responses to the prompts.)
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"Iâm not sloppy, Iâm meticulous. Working on sonnets or something like that would also be fun, but thatâs so old-fashioned, and I want to communicate with the contemporary world and find a new language, not show off conventional skillfulness." - Aase Berg Interview:
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Aase's Death · Aase Berg · Exclusive Interview · paulsemel.com
Exclusive Interview: "Aase's Death" Author Aase Berg \ In which she talks about her new collection of poems.
https://paulsemel.com/exclusive-interview-aases-death-author-aase-berg/
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Donna Vorreyer
10 days ago
Third poetry book of the year was Aase's Death by Aase Berg translated by
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. Spare and uncomprising, these small poems left a big impression, taking the reader to the bottom of the sea and the bottom of the heart with a dark humor and wisdom in simplicity.
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@jamellebouie.net
is correct again. But it's really not a complex solution. It's common sense. End this authoritarian BS.
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amanda moore đą
13 days ago
Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.
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Mickey Kuhns
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ICE kidnap 17-year-old U.S. citizen working at Target then dump him bleeding and crying miles away in a Walmart parking lot⊠đ€Ź
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"I never consciously start with an explicit theme, because the purpose is to learn something new about the world + influence it in my own way. At least push some small particle in the universe around. I feel like some kind of quantum ghost. The book writes itself once I get started." - Aase Berg
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"Giving up, no matter how much you want to, doesnât work." Aase Berg interviewed by Paul Semel about her latest book, Aase's Death
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Aase's Death · Aase Berg · Exclusive Interview · paulsemel.com
Exclusive Interview: "Aase's Death" Author Aase Berg \ In which she talks about her new collection of poems.
https://paulsemel.com/exclusive-interview-aases-death-author-aase-berg/
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Ben Niespodziany đđȘ
16 days ago
Aase Berg tr.
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Acyn
18 days ago
AOC: What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman while she was trying to flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every Americanâs worst nightmare: their government turning into a tyranny.
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This was a fantastic event. Great poetry, great vibes. Brought joy and defiance into my heart. Expertly organized and curated by
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. Also what a bar The Whistler is. Like a black lodge of poetry.
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18 days ago
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Looking forward to this reading. I'll read some poems from Aase's Death and some of my new poems. Really looking forward to this. Hope to see you there, Chicagoans.
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20 days ago
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Strong recommend for this approach to reading Spencer's Faerie Queene (and vice versa)...
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the Mountain Goats
23 days ago
this is kinda it. I'm posting and flailing and irl just havin a fuckin Saturday I guess because what is there? but it sucks. the US destabilizing governments wantonly for a century plus sucks.
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I haven't had time to write any Substack essays for months but I did write one this morning about the year that passed - about Chile and my mom and flowers and the poetry I did and did not write:
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Annual Report: Souvenirs from a Terrible Year
Sitting here on my computer on the last day of this horrific year taking stock of some of the stuff I didâŠ.
https://open.substack.com/pub/johannesgransson/p/annual-report-souvenirs-from-a-terrible?r=43huy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Here's a good thread with tips for poetry in translation -
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Amish Trivedi
about 1 month ago
Excited to have the long title poem of the new book ms in the latest Notre Dame Review alongside some of my favorite poetsâ especially
@rodrigo-toscano.bsky.social
and
@richard-siken.bsky.social
and
@dylanwk.bsky.social
and
@samuelamadon.bsky.social
Thanks so so much to
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poemakontsa
about 1 month ago
Samuel Beckett on longing Cascando the hours after you are gone are so leaden they will always start dragging too soon
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"In a handful of words, that evokes the haunting glimpses of nature found throughout this collection, as well as the way that Berg establishes a sense of the familiar turning alien. Aaseâs Death memorably juxtaposes the cosmic and the quotidian, and it gives this book a disquieting energy."
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about 1 month ago
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Ben Niespodziany đđȘ
about 2 months ago
NEXT NEON NIGHT MIC! đ
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takeover edition, celebrating the launch of AASEâS DEATH by Swedish author Aase Berg (translated by Johannes Göransson) đ€ Johannes Göransson đ€ Hedgie Choi đ€ Paul Cunningham đ€ Carrie Olivia Adams đ€ Brian Foley đ€ Nathan Hoks
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"I Love The Perfect Theft You Write That You Have Wept Enough Tears To Wash All My Clothes But Have You Seen My Closet You have Lost The Ticket Before The Theater Is Even Built Black Horsese In Your Alley Black Horses In Your Alley" Some early Bruno K Ăijer
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about 1 month ago
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âAnd wanting to live in Maria Callasâs voice. And not having money. And waiting for payment from poetry.â Wow this poem by Afrizal Malna⊠i dont want to read anything else for a week or ten. (Trans Daniel Owen)
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"You know very well that God gouges out the eyes of flowers, as his obsession is blindness." - Huidobro
about 2 months ago
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There will be a special Aase Berg night in Chicago in January. I will read with a bunch of Chicago writers to welcome my translation of Berg's AASE'S DEATH into the world. Thanks to
@neonpajamas.bsky.social
for organizing, for foregrounding translation.
about 2 months ago
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"fervent and propulsive. devastating and sublime." - Christine Shan Shan Hou on Summer in Goodreads (lol I'm the last person in the world to discover Goodreads)
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Summer
... inside language treacherous lilac / language syreneâŠ
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62233349-summer
2 months ago
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The racism and incompetence of AI.
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2 months ago
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Thanks for post Ben. I like this one a lot - JÀderlund at her most Björling-esque.
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2 months ago
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"Beautiful and grotesque surrealist poetry. Sludgy secrets between sea floor abominations. This is Bergâs best collection since âWith Deerâ." This is what someone on Goodreads wrote about Aase Berg's Aase's Death. It's out now from Black Ocean:
www.blackocean.org/catalog1/aas...
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Aase's Death by Aase Berg, translated by Johannes Göransson â Black Ocean
One might expect a book by Aase Berg with the title Aaseâs Death to be dark, and it is. You may also expect it to be parodic, and maybe it is that too. But if itâs parodic, itâs darkly parodic. A defi...
https://www.blackocean.org/catalog1/aasesdeath
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J Hoberman
2 months ago
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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
3 months ago
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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Ben Niespodziany đđȘ
3 months ago
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
3 months ago
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. Weâll worry about AI slop, cognitive atrophy, AI psychosis, etc. AFTER we compel every teacher & student to use it. đ€Ź
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Weâre 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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âI slept, then recited my most beautiful poems. The flames of my poetry dried the Virginâs 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 âs Aaseâs Death! 25% off with code DEATH at checkout!
www.blackocean.org/catalog1/aas...
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Aase's Death by Aase Berg, translated by Johannes Göransson â Black Ocean
One might expect a book by Aase Berg with the title Aaseâs Death to be dark, and it is. You may also expect it to be parodic, and maybe it is that too. But if itâs parodic, itâs 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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4 months ago
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Top advice on teaching creative writing: teach Keats' letter to Leigh Hunt. "Iâll 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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4 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 â 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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"Itâs difficult picking up another collection of poetry after finishing Burn the Losses; itâs 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-...
4 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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FrĂ„n âAases Dödâ [âJag gĂ„r naturligâ]
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
5 months ago
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Matt Neil Hill
5 months ago
Cracked open Aase Berg's "Hackers" as part of my reading for Women in Translation month and this is the first page đ„ Eagerly awaiting her new book later this year.
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J Hoberman
5 months ago
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P. Adams Sitney (1944â2025)
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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