Reading the new issue of @markaz-review.bsky.social themarkaz.org/why-national... Why #Nationality ?

When Howl was published, I was 8. ( Where were you ? ) Did I imagine I'd be invited by @citylightsbooks.bsky.social to take part in a celebration of its 70th anniversary – livestreamed to registrants ? ¿ { free nirvana } ? citylights.com/events/howl-... #poetry

When Howl was published, I was 8. ( Where were you ? ) Did I imagine I'd be invited by @citylightsbooks.bsky.social to take part in a celebration of its 70th anniversary – livestreamed to registrants ? ¿ { free nirvana } ? citylights.com/events/howl-... #poetry

Five-Spirited Garden هرگز نمیرد آن که دلش زنده شد به عشق ثبت است بر جریدهٔ عالم دوام ما www.parsagon.com/five-spirite... #Hafez #Hafiz #poetry #translation #world #wine #lovei #wisdom #garden #حافظ

Ragas Live Festival ragaslive.com#schedule2025 #desi #raga

Today is #HafezDay garygach.com/.../hafizs-l... ( it's also #NationalFarmersDay too )

www.latitude38.com/lectronic/ep... #writers #YA #Nautical

4 Am feeling like it's time for a media fast for me for a while. Fortunately, I have few followers and those who'll miss my scribblings will know I'll come back on the other side. Be kind.

3 And then recent posts by Sahar Delijani courtesy of KKavita Krishnan resonating with what I'm hearing my dear, exhausted Iranian American friends all saying. www.facebook.com/kavita.krish...

2 Then, turning towards Iran, this report from Tehran in The Markaz Review from an anonymous eyewitness. He's calling it a "Twelve-Day War." Let's hope right now is not a lull & the cease-fire actually sticks. ( Why not!? ) themarkaz.org/missiles-and...

Not turning away from the suffering depicted in 2 dozen different posts from Gaza City this morning – [ Enough already! Please, STOP!! ]

Friends, If unable to attend, perhaps you might wish to donate. Pass it along. partiful.com/e/MLQ7icTZ3e... Sahba Aminikia : www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsXf... Flying Carpet Festival : www.flyingcarpetfestival.org #Iran #healing

Happy #Juneteenth! Sharing some ways to support Black people today and everyday ✊🏾❤️

Please post word from anybody's friends / relatives in Iran.

Violence boomerangs. – LaoZi, 4th century BC.

Ari Honarvar on how #art keeps us tethered to #freedom on " A Soulful Revolution Podcast" hosted by Rev Lauren Grubaugh Thomas podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s... #spirituality

I need stationery as big as the sky to say Thank You. Alice Quinn selected 4 poems by Ko Un SSN – translated by Prof Young-moo Kim, An Sonjae, & me – for @newyorker.com. 18 years later, Kevin Young includes them in "100 Years of Poetry in 'The New Yorker" from @aaknopf.bsky.social. #poetry

I'll Still Try To Love You : The Power of Nonviolence dailyquaker.com/2025/03/but-... #nonviolence #satyagraha #Quaker

What could possibly go wrong

Interview: Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh, Master of Nimatullahi Order I -مصاحبه دکتر جواد نوربخش، پیر سلسله نعمت‌اللهی www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfhW... #Sufi #Sufism

New website www.nimatullahi.org #Sufi #Sufism

NIH focus on the brain – but not beyond – has overshadowed our appreciation of the gut as a second brain ( cf Candace Pert ), & the heart ... wakeup-world.com/2012/02/29/h...

Is it naive to hope all sides to warfare reconsider ? Probably. Is that any reason not to ?

For this year's memorial day weekend, I've recorded Strange Meeting by Wilfred Owen. If you do listen, I'd like hear how it makes you feel. drive.google.com/file/d/1ne85...

"Writing the Body" w @margosteines.bsky.social is back! What skills, craft tools, literary instincts, and embodied practices can writers use to support our body work? Learn allt his and more w @christinajcooke.bsky.social, @porochista.bsky.social, Sarah Manguso, & Krys Malcom Belc: buff.ly/JOxfnwQ

A Sufi Commentary on the Tao Te Ching by Seyyed Hossein Nasr Translators: Mohammad H. Faghfoory, Toshihiko Izutsu fonsvitae.com/product/a-su... #Sufism #Daoism #Interfaith

The Future of Publishing & Literature in Translation @City of Asylum vimeo.com/event/498936... #translation #literarytranslation

RIP Alice Notley November 8 1945 – May 19 2025 lareviewofbooks.org/article/betw... via @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social by Shoshana Olidort #motherhood #epic #poetry #poetrylovers #AfterLife

It's also possible to create a full spectrum with 2 colors, but – that's another story. #color #light #farbenlehr

The great poet Alice Notley has died. Her 1992 book ‘The Descent of Alette’ is a journey into the underworld, into what is under our world, into thinking and rethinking and memory, and back out into the light.

wakeup-world.com/2012/02/29/h... #heart #brain #consciousness

O MOTHER GAIA, documentary about poet ecologist Buddhist Gary Snyder, available for free until May 11 vimeo.com/1080606289/9... #poetry #buddhism #ecology

How anti-caste reformer BR Ambedkar left his legacy on modern Buddhism by Richa Karmarkar @rns.org tinyurl.com/ytsrddaz #Buddhism #socialjustice #india #caste #Hindu @ambedkar.bsky.social

#Alcatraz has already been spoken for. www.iitc.org/save-the-dat...

World Press Freedom Day en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_P...

What Is Haiku ? What Is Zen ? archive.org/details/Gary... #haiku #zen

May is Read the World Month cup.columbia.edu/read-the-wor...

WHAT WORK IS www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52173/...

Kazuaki Tanahashi has published vital translations, such as Dogen, and the Heart Sutra. Here is an 8-minute video on his calligraphy. ( First enso sighting is at 5:11) www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8P4... #zen #calligraphy

National Poetry Month: A selection of Hafez-e Shirazi tinyurl.com/36sdbrc3 from "Hafiz's Little Book of Life" translated by Erfan Mob & me. tinyurl.com/58543678 Audio edition tinyurl.com/ebvpjf32 #iran #Sufi #poetry #booksky #love

What 2,000 years of Chinese history reveals about today’s AI-driven technology panic – & the future of inequality theconversation.com/what-2-000-y... #AI #history #technology #inequality #china @theconversation.com

www.juancole.com/2025/04/viet... #Vietnam. #VietnamWar

Happy Anniversary of Charles Mingus' Birth Date 24-Hour Marathon Broadcast from WKCR @columbiauniversity.bsky.social www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/story/c...

Happy Anniversary of Charles Mingus' Birth Date www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny_T...

Excellent practical advice from @maiaduerr.bsky.social . As we again embark on a season of widescale collective #activism, it's important to consider where our strengths and energies lie. www.buddhistdoor.net/features/man...

tundra _ one-word #haiku by Michael Dylan Welch Happy National Haiku Day !!!

#poets walking in empty juan felipe herrara worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/intervi...