A big thank you @betarish.bsky.social for a very encouraging review of Beast in Under the Radar Issue 36! The flight issue looks ♥️ and can be ordered here: ninearchespress.ecwid.com/Under-the-Ra... @ninearchespress.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

Read my poem "The Crossing," a finalist for The Atlanta Review International Poetry Contest 2025 hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/the-crossing #poetry #writingcommunity

When we defend cruelty as a preference, we diminish whatever we believe it is that makes us human. See it for what it is. Going to post one of these every week as a reminder. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Read my poem "Hamartia" in the new issue of Asymptote. www.asymptotejournal.com/special-feature/hamartia-daniel-carden-nemo/ #poetry #writingcommunity

Read my new translation and literary analysis of 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒔 by 𝐓𝗼𝐦𝗮𝐬 𝐓𝗿𝐚𝗻𝐬𝘁𝐫𝗼̈𝐦𝗲𝐫. hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/the-stones #poetry #poetrycommunity #translation #Swedish #Transtromer

If animals are commodities, life is collateral damage. Let them live. Going to post one of these every week as a reminder. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

"The world is a mess, but then it’s always been, / tragedies ongoing no matter how I write / against them." Two poems by 𝗧𝗶𝗺 𝗦𝘂𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗱𝘁 in the Fall 2025 issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

Today's Feature: "Sleeper" by Krisztina Tóth, translated by George Szirtes from My Secret Life published by @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/sleeper/

Read my new translation and literary analysis of 𝑴𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝑼𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒓 by 𝐓𝗼𝐦𝗮𝐬 𝐓𝗿𝐚𝗻𝐬𝘁𝐫𝗼̈𝐦𝗲𝐫. hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/meditation-in-uproar #poetry #poetrycommunity #translation #Swedish #Transtromer

When a habit depends on someone else's suffering, it stops being habit and becomes harm. See it for what it is. Going to post one of these every week as a reminder. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

If you love the natural world, you can read my study on how we came to mistake our own constructs for the world itself, in an invitation to look for the cracks where the underlying reality seeps through. hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/low-devotions #essay #reality #writingcommunity

Congratulations to 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝗲 𝗭𝘄𝗮𝗿𝘁 @janezwart.bsky.social whose debut collection is out on Feb 3 from Orison Books. Read two of her poems first published in Amsterdam Review: bit.ly/jane-zwart and buy a copy here: www.orisonbooks.com/product-page/oddest-oldest-saddest-best-poems-by-jane-zwart

All creatures have a right to life. They aren’t just a part of nature, they 𝒂𝒓𝒆 nature. Going to post one of these every week as a reminder. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

"How to fight embodiment? Expand / against embrace, shake radiation like a dog, / strip, condense, reconfigure." A poem by 𝗟𝗶𝗹𝗮 𝗥𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗻 in the Fall 2025 issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

Really interesting reflections on poetry collection as concept album here, alongside some great recommendations (delighted to be among them) @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

Read my new translation and analysis of 𝑺𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑨𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒉𝒆 by 𝐓𝗼𝐦𝗮𝐬 𝐓𝗿𝐚𝗻𝐬𝘁𝐫𝗼̈𝐦𝗲𝐫. hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/strophe-and-antistrophe #poetry #translation #Swedish #Transtromer

The word MEAT is a linguistic shield. Try using BODY instead. Going to post one of these every week as a reminder. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Are taste buds more important than a social, sentient creature's life? Let them live. Going to post one of these every day as a reminder. More at bit.ly/world-revisi... #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

A meal that requires empathic creatures to die shouldn't be called "comfort food." See it for what it is. Going to post one of these every day as a reminder. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

We need another concept of animals—they are “gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear” (Henry Beston). Going to post one of these every day as a reminder. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Read my new translation and analysis of 𝑺𝒌𝒊𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒓'𝒔 𝑻𝒂𝒍𝒆 by 𝐓o𝐦a𝐬 𝐓r𝐚n𝐬t𝐫ö𝐦e𝐫, a piece that threads symbolic nuances and personal fascinations with isolation, survival, memory, and the spectral traces of trauma. hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/skippers-tale #poetry #translation #Swedish #Transtromer

Tradition can either be seen as an excuse to ignore suffering or as an invitation to do better. Going to post one of these every day as a reminder. More at bit.ly/world-revisi... #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

"The essential quality of animals is that they live purely by the great purposiveness of life itself; they have not a double consciousness, as we have. They are at one with the invisible vital law." - DH Lawrence More at bit.ly/world-revisi... #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Compassion is not a personality trait—it's an option we all have. Going to post one of these every day as a reminder. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Killing and eating animals is the endorsement of a system built on violence and denial. See it for what it is. Going to post one of these every day as a reminder. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

We need another concept of animals—they are “gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear” (Henry Beston). Going to post one of these every day as a reminder. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

We haven’t evolved until we stop calling cruelty and avoidable harm “tradition.” You can choose what to pass on. Going to post one of these every day as a reminder. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

"The animal is not beneath us, but beside us; its path through time runs parallel to ours, only differing in the music by which it moves." - Eliseo Reclus Going to post one of these every day as a reminder. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Treating living beings as consumables shows lack of respect for life itself. Let them live. Going to post one of these every day as a reminder. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

"I try to insert my will but receive / only the bump and grind of joints refer- / ring pain" A poem by 𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗢𝗸𝗮𝗷𝗶 @robertokaji.bsky.social in the Fall 2025 issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

"Man is not the center of things. The animals too are envoys of the divine, voices of the universal mind." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Going to post one of these every day as a reminder. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

All living beings possess their own truth and are made from the same stuff as we are. Slaughtering them for meat isn’t a collective need—it’s an individual choice. Going to post one of these every day as a reminder. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Read my new translation and literary analysis of 𝑮𝙤𝒈𝙤𝒍 by 𝐓o𝐦a𝐬 𝐓r𝐚n𝐬t𝐫ö𝐦e𝐫, a haunting portrait of the Russian writer in a tribute that affirms the enduring awe one artist can feel toward another. hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/gogol #poetry #poetrycommunity #translation #Swedish #Transtromer

All living beings possess their own truth and are made from the same stuff we are. Going to post one of these every day as a reminder. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Personal choice ends where another’s suffering begins—if it involves harming others, it’s no longer “personal.” Going to post one of these every day as a reminder. More at bit.ly/world-revisi... #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

We sacrifice what’s real—natural world, sentient animals, our health, our climate—to uphold a contrived paradigm that equates meat with wellness and prosperity. Going to post one of these every day as a reminder. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #veganism #animalethics

"Each animal is surrounded by its own bubble of significance, its own world full of colors and tones we shall never perceive. To enter it is impossible, yet it exists as fully as our own." - Jakob von Uexküll More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Slaughtering animals for meat isn’t a collective need—it’s an individual choice. Let them live. Going to post one of these every day as a reminder. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

"You promised me that there were lava flows on the dark side of the moon. / I acted on your insufficient faith." A poem by 𝗝𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗼 𝗙𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀 in the Fall 2025 issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

Narcissists "experience a kind of temporal void, an endless repetition of old patterns with no true progression, accompanied by feelings of emptiness and a nagging fear of death." Read my study on narcissism here: hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/a-timeless-mirror-world #psychology #mentalhealth

"The essential quality of animals is that they live purely by the great purposiveness of life itself; they have not a double consciousness, as we have. They are at one with the invisible vital law." - DH Lawrence More at bit.ly/world-revisi... #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

“I’m coming back. I’m coming home. Sometimes that happens. You think, oh, it’s happening again. You feel an interior quickening. . .” Marie Howe – a guide for this morning and every morning.

"Listen, / we are all soft brains straining / to translate whole worlds." A poem by 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗮 𝗚𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗶 in the Fall 2025 issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

We sacrifice what’s real—natural world, sentient animals, our health, our climate—to uphold a contrived paradigm that equates meat with wellness and prosperity. Let them live. Going to post one of these every day as a reminder. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #veganism #animalethics

"Each animal is surrounded by its own bubble of significance, its own world full of colors and tones we shall never perceive. To enter it is impossible, yet it exists as fully as our own." - Jakob von Uexküll More at bit.ly/world-revisi... #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Personal choice ends where another’s suffering begins—if it involves harming others, it’s no longer “personal.” Going to post one of these every day as a reminder. More at bit.ly/world-revisi... #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

We need another concept of animals—they are “gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear” (Henry Beston). Going to post one of these every day as a reminder. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

We sacrifice what’s real—natural world, sentient animals, our health, our climate—to uphold a contrived paradigm that equates meat with wellness and prosperity. Let them live. Going to post one of these every day as a reminder. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #veganism #animalethics

We need another concept of animals—they are “gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear” (Henry Beston). Going to post one of these every day as a reminder. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Read my new translation and literary commentary of 𝑭𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒛𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝑻𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒖 by Tomas Tranströmer, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2011. hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/five-stanzas-to-thoreau #poetry #poetrycommunity #translation #Swedish #Transtromer