Anthony Tao
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Book: We Met in Beijing | Poetry from Beijing: anthonytao.substack.com | poetryxmusic.com
"Today in America my international experience seems to have little value. Worse, it feels anathema to the values marketed by the ruling class."
stevescherer.substack.com/p/my-journey...
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My journey from foreign correspondent to Uber driver in Trump's America
I once documented human displacement and desperation; now I am living it
https://stevescherer.substack.com/p/my-journey-from-foreign-correspondent
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My band Poetry x Music has just set an official release date for our album ā February 14. "All of Those Times" is now available for pre-order (there's a Chinese edition, too, if you prefer). Check it out:
poetryxmusic.bandcamp.com/album/all-of...
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12 days ago
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Via Eric Olander: "Chinaās ability to influence events in Venezuela and elsewhere in Latin America is extremely limited, so the assessment that what happened in Caracas was a blow to Beijing may also be overstated."
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Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Hereās that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] sā¦
https://lithub.com/renee-nicole-good-murdered-by-ice-was-a-prize-winning-poet-heres-that-poem/
16 days ago
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Alejandra Caraballo
16 days ago
This is another angle of CBP murdering a woman in cold blood.
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My first reverse poem, about two different experiences of
#Beijing
ā Like winter birds, like outsiders Chasing joy, we spin in circles Untethered, unrestricted, wild, Bare, our souls drunk...
anthonytao.substack.com/p/our-beijing
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Our Beijing
A reverse poem: Different experiences of the same city.
https://anthonytao.substack.com/p/our-beijing
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"Performatively aloof" is a great phrase from Cole Rooty, a cutting critique of Insta poets, w/ wider application too Of course, ppl will perform any which way to get attn, esp these days. Perhaps better to be aloof than violent But poetry can push us toward genuine
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m_J...
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What Makes a Poem Good?
YouTube video by Cole Rooty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m_JXgvVue8
25 days ago
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Evan Michael Anderson wrote quite the short story on
@tacobellquarterly.org
:
tacobellquarterly.org/the-migratin...
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The Migrating Eel I Met on His Way to the Sargasso Sea
By Evan Michael Anderson The first time I ever had sex was a Craigslist hookup against the side of a dumpster behind a Taco Bell in Gentilly. He was just passing through on his way to the Bermuda Tā¦
https://tacobellquarterly.org/the-migrating-eel-i-met-on-his-way-to-the-sargasso-sea/
25 days ago
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So, this is where everyone's been
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Very cheap cigarettes. How a courier in Shanghai gets by with 7,400 yuan per month with a mortgage and a wife and child:
www.pekingnology.com/p/life-as-a-...
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Life as a Migrant Food Delivery Rider in Shanghai
Making ends meet on $1,064 a month, for a separated family of three
https://www.pekingnology.com/p/life-as-a-migrant-food-delivery-rider
25 days ago
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"China needs more ppl who care about universal issues, produce universal knowledge, and solve concrete problemsānot self-styled experts and scholars who do little more than chant slogans, stay indifferent to (Chinaās and othersā) problems, and ultimately fool themselvesā
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Fixation on imperial history risks clouding Chinaās path to modernity, Shiping Tang warned
Intellectual closure dressed up as awakening, and a dynasty swap turned into a loyalty test.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-182311885
25 days ago
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Thank you, David. Also, sorry for the late reply
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25 days ago
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Aron Smith
4 months ago
#NowPlaying
on
#SHMUFM
: "Magpie" by Anthony Tao & Liane Halton
#Wordplay
#IrregularFeature
shmu.org.uk/fm
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Paul French
10 months ago
An amazing night at the Macau Literary Festival featuring Anthony Tao & his band Poetry X Music & the amazing Lisbon Poetry Orchestra and Os Surrealistes, all at the incredible Teatro Dom Pedro V (built 1860) on Largo de Santo Agostinho
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eddi vulic āļøšš¬ļøš§ļø
over 1 year ago
@KaiserKuo Long-time listener to the @SinicaPodcast (and @ChinaGSProject !), but listening to your recent chat with Anthony Tao convinced me to subscribe to the substance. I could feel the love for Anthony and Beijing in your voice. Thank you.
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David Harrison Horton
over 1 year ago
Very excited to announce the launch of SAGINAW no. 13, featuring Rae Armantrout, Vivekanand Selvaraj, Melissa Eleftherion Carr, Nada Gordon and Anthony Tao. Folks, this is a really good issue. SAGINAW is free to good readers. Reach out if you would like a copy.
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