Come discuss 3 classic Edgar Allen Poe works with the American Center's Book Club in Taipei! My session, on his 1836 essay "Maelzel’s Chess-Player" engages contemporary debates around so-called "AI"—do we have artificial intelligence, or is it a ruse, like the "Mechanical Turk" under the blankets?

Thrilled and still astonished to have an essay in here, reviewing Julia Armfield's Private Rites and Yael van der Wouden's The Safekeep! I struggled with sharing the first-person vulnerability, and could not have done it without @claireoleson.bsky.social! kenyonreview.org/piece/a-home...

Thanks, Peatsmoke, for pairing my photograph with Marie Buck's flash "Baby," and letting me share some context of my title, "忠孝東路 Loyalty and Filial Piety East Road." www.peatsmokejournal.com/winter-2026-...

Read "labyrinth" written by @acadialogue.bsky.social and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social. "The only person standing in the tiny windowless club, I hold in any move to dance like a secret, battling urges to conceal or spill it." tinyurl.com/4ktyn5pf

after years of enjoying (& teaching) Flash Frontier, it's a joy to have a piece in their dance issue, also featuring @lailamiller.bsky.social @charhamrick.bsky.social @cbigs.bsky.social @judydarley.bsky.social @chriscottom.bsky.social @kathicrawford.bsky.social flashfrontier.com/december-202...

Sentences too full and brimming to snip a quote from, read the whole thing down to the last syllable and feel the title come up and slam you to the mat. @acadialogue.bsky.social whew. templeinacity.com/fiction-l-ac...

Literary/theory salon in Changhua Friday, 19th Dec! After a screening of A City of Sadness, Tzuchien Tho will speak about the film, then I will speak about the Unbecoming Trope of Suicide in Taiwanese Queer Literature (a project with Lainey Hsu). RSVP/more info: www.instagram.com/nice.h0use247/

pleased to have a dark little flash in the Imprint issue, alongside work from @iamchrisscott.bsky.social @hilary55.bsky.social @crankypacifist.bsky.social @joannatheiss.com @robm67.bsky.social @chriscottom.bsky.social @sagreene1.bsky.social & others

#cfp & more #AcademicConference info: tinyurl.com/TouchAndEmotion

You are invited! Literary translator @yilinwriter.bsky.social will give a talk, "Translating Modern and Contemporary Chinese Poetry into English: A Feminist and Sino Diaspora Poet-Translator's Approach," New NTU Humanities Bldng rm B208 Tuesday, November 4th 3:30–5PM (free & open to the public)

Everything is a distraction from this.

my favorite historian says “Evangelicals want to keep Israel real for the rapture,” now their plans are falling into place: their bombs are... read the whole poem here: www.almamagazines.com/fiction-and-...

Seattle Special #Hugo Award for Best Poem: Ä War of Words”by Marie Brennan (Strange Horizons, Sept. 2024) The Hugo committee is considering adding Hugo for Best Poem as a permanent award. If you found this poem moving, remeber the threat presented in it is one faced by many, everyday. #SciFiChat

Hello, Bluesky! This is a weird day to go live with this project, but: this is an initiative to add a Translated Speculative Fiction category to the Hugo Awards. If you are a fan of global SF, and want to put some more "World" in "Worldcon", check out our site! Lots more to come. translatedhugo.org

What a treat to get personalized reading recs from @hugobookclub.bsky.social in the #Worldcon book exhibit: @carysgreenauthor.bsky.social’s Always On My Mind, @aptshadow.bsky.social's The Hungry Gods, and @nedbeauman.bsky.social’s Venomous Lumpsucker!

Great to finally attend #SFRA in-person for this year's 'Trans People are (in) the Future' conference at the picturesque University of Rochester! @sfrareview.bsky.social

Poets, subs are open for Taipei Poetry Collective Review! #FreeSubs #SubsOpen #poetry #LitMag docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

“'Ocean green of shadow': Coloring the Speculative Urban Landscape in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon and Beyond" is out and #OpenAccess from Tamkang Review tamkangreview.org/data/10000/u... #SpeculativeFiction #Africanfuturism #ClimateChange #ColorTheory @nnedi.bsky.social

"'Demand a Red Line Against Genocide' in Photos" by PS newbloommag.net/2025/06/23/r...

Party this Saturday! www.nokings.org

Buzzing to start the day joining @ahmedmehreen.bsky.social @carriganak.bsky.social @taralabovich.bsky.social @cb99videos.bsky.social @danadelibovi.bsky.social @hayleyshucker.bsky.social @saybar12.bsky.social @aaronlelito.bsky.social & others to read from the new Door Is A Jar issue!

We're hiring 6 TT (basically) positions in #French, #BritishLit, Literary & #CulturalStudies, #Drama in English, #TESOL, + Computational #Linguistics! #ForeignLanguages & #Literature NTU #Taiwan Deadline: Sept 10 '25 PhD in hand required No Mandarin required www.forex.ntu.edu.tw/the-dfll-tea...

LAST CHANCE! Today is the last day to reach our fundraising goal & we can use all the help we can get!! Be the reason that the Locus lights stay on! Help us out at igg.me/at/locusmag2025. We are so grateful for your support! Fundraiser link in bio #sff #scifi #fantasy #books

#CFP! Project+ June 2025 Issue: Apocalypse Deadline: May 15, 2025 Email full pieces ( #essays, #reviews, #poetry, #ShortStory, #memoir, #cnf, 'Collective (Re)Definition') to: Lainey Hsu [email protected]

Flash Fiction writing workshop with @karissachen.bsky.social?! What a treat! Tuesday, April 29th 1:10PM—free and open to the public at NTU. Come learn from a celebrated local Taiwanese-American author, and get your copy of Homeseeking signed! Bookman Books will have a few for sale.

How do 21st-century film adaptations of 'Red Classics' resurrect the socialist past? Come learn more at Yvonne Lin (UC Berkeley)'s DFLL colloquium talk Thursday April 24, 3:30–5PM at NTU! Free & open to the public

"Universality reborn: Hannah Arendt’s natality in feminist ethics" is out today from Continental Philosophy Review. rdcu.be/eg7zH Thanks to @dananaomymills.bsky.social and particularly our supervisor, the late Professor Pamela Sue Anderson, always.

Happy #NaPoWriMo, Poets! I'm thrilled to be starting this April with a residency at Taiwan Literature Base and a speculative marine poem in Abyss & Apex! www.abyssapexzine.com/2025/03/noct... (you can also listen to me reading the poem)

Laura Moye is offering a Workshop on Making a Case for Human Rights this coming Tuesday afternoon at NTU! Thanks to @bootssky.bsky.social for designing the poster, and NTU's DFLL for sponsoring this free workshop!

You're invited! I'm running two free creative writing workshops at 臺灣文學基地 Taiwan Literature Base as part of my residency in April (#NaPoWriMo), both in English with Mandarin translation. Taipei Poetry Collective is co-hosting the first, on current events poetry! Register at reurl.cc/4LRVej

Tomorrow at NTU! Thanks @bootssky.bsky.social for the gorgeous poster design and ordering the donuts!

Taipei, 3 free upcoming talks at NTU: Tues. 3/11: Sheila Cavanagh “Shakespeare through Culinary History" Wed. 3/19: Kevin Wu "Perng Ching-Hsi’s Rendition of Shakespeare" Thurs., 3/20: Elly McCausland "Why You're Still Singing Along" details: www.forex.ntu.edu.tw/%e5%ad%b8%e8...

I'm excited to be attending Science Fiction Research Association (#SFRA2025) this summer, and presenting "Dousing Brutalism with Alchemical Tinctures: the Capricious Trans-Blackness of Shola von Reinhold’s LOTE." Who else is going?

“'Let the Sky Rain Potatoes': Shakespeare through Culinary History" Prof. Sheila T. Cavanagh (Emory University) will be giving a talk at NTU Tuesday, March 11. More info at the link www.forex.ntu.edu.tw/3-11-faculty...

"Every small town has its hero who jumped the gorge —–blindfolded tamed the wildest mustang —–with whispers..." @bootssky.bsky.social has a new poem featured in Palette Poetry! www.palettepoetry.com/2025/02/24/a...

And bookshop.org now has ebooks! Your ebook purchase through them can support your local bookstore.

Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place advait.org/files/lee_20...

Indivisible is urging people to visit their senators' local offices between now and Thursday to demand that they use every tool—including denying a quorum and blocking unanimous consent—to fight the confirmation of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought for head of OMB docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Stone of Madness Press gave a home to my two animal news found poems! In "Squatting strangely," middle management makes fishy mischief, while in「頹廢模式」“decadent mode" a spotted hyena relaxes like a drunken uncle. stoneofmadnesspress.com/l-acadia-2 Thanks @cavar.bsky.social

Feral is always fun, and I'm happy that this issue includes a poem from my parental text message series, as well as work from @amgraue.bsky.social @jenshaines.bsky.social @amitmajmudar.bsky.social @tomsnarsky.bsky.social @mkzariel.bsky.social & others

"Whetted sun cuts through three days of sheet rain like wasabi root through congestion..." A final poem before the holiday: "Typhoon Eye" by @acadialogue.bsky.social

Thanks so much to Star*Line for the Pushcart Nomination!

seconded!

thanks to the idealistic, exciting new pub manywor(l)ds for including a flash from my war dreams series in issue 6—a fitting first post for bluesky!