"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...

My band Poetry x Music has just set an official release date for our album — 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...

Via Eric Olander: "China’s 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."

This is another angle of CBP murdering a woman in cold blood.

My first reverse poem, about two different experiences of #Beijing — Like winter birds, like outsiders Chasing joy, we spin in circles Untethered, unrestricted, wild, Bare, our souls drunk... anthonytao.substack.com/p/our-beijing

"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...

Evan Michael Anderson wrote quite the short story on @tacobellquarterly.org: tacobellquarterly.org/the-migratin...

So, this is where everyone's been

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-...

"China needs more ppl who care about universal issues, produce universal knowledge, and solve concrete problems—not self-styled experts and scholars who do little more than chant slogans, stay indifferent to (China’s and others’) problems, and ultimately fool themselves” substack.com/home/post/p-...

Thank you, David. Also, sorry for the late reply

#NowPlaying on #SHMUFM: "Magpie" by Anthony Tao & Liane Halton #Wordplay #IrregularFeature shmu.org.uk/fm

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

@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.

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.