"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 Animals aren’t just a part of nature, they 𝒂𝒓𝒆 nature. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

"A fish’s opercle bone, / delicate shield for a soft comb of gills, / a trap door for water to / sieve into breath, the connector of self / to everything else." Two poems by 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐚 𝐒𝐞𝐝𝐝𝐨𝐧 in the Spring issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

Slaughtering animals for meat isn’t a collective need—it’s an individual choice. Evolution doesn’t imply violence any more than tradition implies killing. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

"Hearth at the edge of the barren / heath. Heart in the flames, licking / his lips..." A poem by 𝐉𝐚𝐜𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐊𝐧𝐢𝐫𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝 in the Spring issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

So grateful to the editors of @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social for publishing two of my poems: 𝐴𝑝𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑎 and 𝐶𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑅𝑜𝑎𝑑 𝐶𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑚𝑎. Read in their excellent new issue 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝑩𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝑼𝒔: aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g... #poetry #poetrycommunity

"It is a curious thing, that in observing animals closely, one sometimes feels as if they are attending to us with an intelligence parallel to our own, though built on different lines." - Charles Darwin More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Congratulations to 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐢 𝐒𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐬 on the publication of 𝑴𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝑹𝒆𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔𝒂𝒍 @citylightsbooks.bsky.social! Read two extracts and an interview in the Spring issue of Amsterdam Review: bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #prose #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #writingcommunity

We call it 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙚 𝙨𝙡𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙚𝙧 because killing out of habit or convenience sounds too honest. Continuing to kill and eat animals is the endorsement of a system built on violence and denial. See it for what it is. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

"To gulp / means to swallow, / a swallow’s a bird, / a group of swallows, / a flight; / a flight / to explain why / the cormorant’s eye is blue: oh, / it’s because / First Cormorant swallowed the sky." A poem by 𝐀𝐦𝐲 𝐆𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐨𝐧 in the Spring issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

77% of global soy is used as livestock feed, while only 7% is allocated for direct human consumption in products like tofu, soy milk, & other plant-based foods. Most cultivated soy does not directly feed people but rather animals raised for meat & dairy production. www.veganok.com/en/soy-and-d...

"To look at the animal is to confront another mode of existence, complete in itself and closed to ours." - José Ortega y Gasset If animals are commodities, all life is collateral damage. Let them live. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

"She passes a sullen-faced man brooding / as if her stilled-eyed smile was rough fingers bruising / the peach surface of his soul." A poem by 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐂𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 in the Spring issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

Read my new translation of 𝐸𝑝𝑖𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑢𝑒 by 𝐓𝗼𝐦𝗮𝐬 𝐓𝗿𝐚𝗻𝐬𝘁𝐫𝗼̈𝐦𝗲𝐫, from his first book 17 𝑃𝑜𝑒𝑚𝑠. hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/epilogue #poetry #translation #Swedish #Transtromer

"He learned to read the land / by colour: not to tread / on lime-green moss, / but to let yellow anthers / of deergrass and pink-purple / clusters of heather / guide him to drier ground." Two poems by @janeclarke.bsky.social in the Spring issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

"We see ourselves as different, superior, set apart. But animals are there, in their fullness, in their suffering, in their being, regardless of how we deny them." - J. M. Coetzee STOP FACTORY FARMING! More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

A peculiar morning ritual sparks a connection with a fragile creature before an unexpected intruder comes to disrupt the balance, turning casual observation into obsession. Read 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑐ℎ𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑧𝑒𝑙, a story by 𝗘𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗯𝘆𝗲 in the Spring issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #writingcommunity #fiction

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). More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

"This / snake broke my body / shattered blue glass / everywhere This snake / had a shard of me propped / between his jaws" Two poems by 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐀𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐲 in the Spring issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

Got the brilliant opportunity to read and review Lomasko's latest for Asymptote. www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/08... @nplusonemag.com

What is lost when a place is destroyed — and who is owed recognition, protection or repair? Pablo Fernandez Velasco and colleagues examine ecological grief as more than emotion: as part of how we understand climate justice, rights and place attachment. wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

"The sky above revolves, / you remain motionless. / What connection is there between things?" Read my poem 𝐶𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝐿𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/central-locking #poetry #writingcommunity

"Manifest change in the hall of mirrors / by looking yourself in the eye and repeating ten times / I love you. Soon, you will start to see an inner child rise [...]" A poem by 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚 𝐒𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐞 in the Spring issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

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"We must learn to see that everything which has life has a right to live, the same as we have." - Albert Schweitzer Replace the linguistic shield MEAT with the word BODY for a reality check. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

"All the while, she’s singing and the house continues to rise. Now / it’s ten feet off the ground." A poem by 𝐓𝐨𝐦 𝐋𝐚𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐬 in the Spring issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

"The animal reminds us that life precedes thought, and that thought is only one way of being alive." - Hannah Arendt Read more at bit.ly/world-revisited in 𝐀𝐦𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐦 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰, an ecocentrist lit mag. #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Read my new translation of 𝐸𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑦 by 𝐓𝗼𝐦𝗮𝐬 𝐓𝗿𝐚𝗻𝐬𝘁𝐫𝗼̈𝐦𝗲𝐫, from his first book 17 𝑃𝑜𝑒𝑚𝑠. hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/elegy #poetry #translation #Swedish #Transtromer

Read an #interview with 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐢 𝐒𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐬 ahead of the release of her latest book, 𝑀𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑅𝑒ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑙 (City Lights @citylightsbooks.bsky.social, May 19th) bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #writingcommunity

STOP FACTORY FARMING! We sacrifice everything that’s real, the natural world, sentient animals, our health, our climate, to uphold a contrived paradigm that equates meat with wellness and prosperity. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

"It’s almost morning / or nearly evening / and the sea wind feels on its face—the land wind." Two poems by Nobel Prize winner 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗿𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗻 (transl. 𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗛𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗻) in the Spring issue bit.ly/AmsterdamRev... #poetry #poetrycommunity

"I remembered how we drove / through Nebraska past midnight / once. It was a long, dark stretch / I was certain would be perfect / for star gazing" A poem by @kellyrsamuels.bsky.social in the Spring issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

✨Poetry Day Ireland is an annual island-wide celebration of poetry. ✨ Poetry Day Ireland 2026 will take place on Thursday 28th May with the theme of 'Home'. 🏠❤ 🔗 Check out our website for more details. www.poetryireland.ie/poetry-day-i...

"We’ve been offered a homecoming, / some modest decree to preserve / the illusion of the ozone layer / when it comes apart together with the ozone layer—" Read my poem 𝐴 𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡 hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/a-forest #poetry #writingcommunity

"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

"I was in love, and he insisted that he was too. Only he was a tease, and I wasn’t. Only he was lazy, and I wasn’t. Only he was gay, and I wasn’t." Read 𝑇𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑜 𝐵𝑙𝑢𝑒, a story by 𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿 in the Spring issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #writingcommunity #essays

Artemisia Gentileschi’s Revenge Is Still Radical At the Columbus Museum of Art, three paintings made in fury and grief take us inside one of the Baroque's most original and uncompromising minds. By Dian Parker for Observer observer.com/2026/03/arti...

Personal choice ends where another’s suffering begins—if it involves harming others, it’s no longer “personal.” See it for what it is. More at bit.ly/world-revisited in Amsterdam Review, an ecocentrist lit mag. #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

"I can’t help how my brain wires / catastrophic knowing. What happens when alchemy fails / all the way?" A poem by @khadijahqueen.com in the Spring issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

Lovely to have two new poems in the Amsterdam Review. Both will be included in my new collection Coracle - out Oct. 2026 w @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social www.amsterdamreview.org/two-by-jane-...

"Lines stunted / half-born / I dig them out with a flat stone" Read a poem by 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻 in the Spring issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

Read my new translation and literary analysis of 𝑆𝑜𝑛𝑔 by 𝐓𝗼𝐦𝗮𝐬 𝐓𝗿𝐚𝗻𝐬𝘁𝐫𝗼̈𝐦𝗲𝐫, born on this day in 1931. hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/song #poetry #translation #Swedish #Transtromer

"Each creature is a key to a room in the mansion of the world, a room we may never otherwise enter" - William Beebe Read more at bit.ly/world-revisited in 𝐀𝐦𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐦 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰, our ecocentrist lit mag. #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Our Spring 2026 issue is OUT NOW! Featuring #interviews with Eleni Sikelianos and Jane Zwart, as well as works by Raúl Zurita, Jane Clarke, Khadijah Queen, Tom Laichas, Dian Parker, Susan Irvine, and many more. Read here: bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #fiction #translations #amsterdam 🇳🇱

Slide between the lines eyes shut // about and about, shift // here, where— / pitch-dark / braids / & sticky cords // reshuffle space / & billow out [...] Read "System of Lines and Arcades," a poem after 𝑭𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒆 𝑵𝒖𝒅𝒆𝒔 by 𝐄𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐇𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐥 (1906) hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/system-of-lines-and-arcades

"Everything which has life has a right to live, the same as we have." Albert Schweitzer We call it 𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒆 𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒆𝒓 because killing the innocent for convenience and profit sounds too honest. See it for what it is. More at bit.ly/world-revisi... #nature #veganism #animalethics

"Man is not the center of things. The animals too are envoys of the divine, voices of the universal mind." - Ralph Waldo Emerson If animals are commodities, all life is collateral damage. Let them live. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

STOP FACTORY FARMING! We sacrifice everything that’s real, the natural world, sentient animals, our health, our climate, to uphold a contrived paradigm that equates meat with wellness and prosperity. More at bit.ly/world-revisi... #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

"The wood ant keeps watch rooted to the spot, looking into nothing. And nothing is heard but the dripping from dark leaves and the night’s murmur deep in summer’s canyon [...]" Read my new translation of 𝐷𝑎𝑦-𝑁𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑆ℎ𝑖𝑓𝑡 by 𝐓𝗼𝐦𝗮𝐬 𝐓𝗿𝐚𝗻𝐬𝘁𝐫𝗼̈𝐦𝗲𝐫. hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/day-night-shift #poetry

"We see ourselves as different, superior, set apart. But animals are there, in their fullness, in their suffering, in their being, regardless of how we deny them." - J. M. Coetzee More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics