Jean Stein you will always be a legend, a legend, a legend

Crazy, this was on my mind all day yesterday, so reread it (for the millionth time) did not know it was his birthday. One of those I will always be reading.

Apx 2500 cops now guarding a pro-
Palestinian congress that (acc to its online program) features little over 20 speakers - a fourth of which are Jewish. Yesterday WELT platformed fascist AfD politician Björn Höcke, letting him drivel over Holocaust history. Both within 24 hours.

The wrong lesson from the Holocaust: the German government deports a leading war surgeon who was elected as Rector of the University of Glasgow this month to prevent him from describing in Berlin the atrocities he witnessed while serving in Gaza.
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“World literature.”

Eternally,

Osip Mandelstam

'Their theories to explain all manner of matter, though no theory to explain this thirst for theories.'
– John Keene, Annotations

I am an intellectual adventurer.

- Carl Schmitt, embodying Schmittianism during his interrogation at Nuremberg

Sharon Olds published STAG’S LEAP 15yrs after the divorce. Which is to say the poems will come when they come and how they come.

The solidarity among nominees for the Jean Stein Book Award is particularly beautiful to see in light of the late Stein’s own solidarity with the people of Palestine, which, as her friend Philip Weiss wrote, extended to a decades-long personal boycott of “Israel.”

My favorite thing about human beings are the vulnerable flash autobiographies people leave in the comments under videos of songs on youtube

Mind-blowing beauty from Gourgouris. The best of comparative literature and Antigone in clover.

It smells so good and it is everywhere. ❤️

1915: Lukacs completes 'The Theory of The Novel.'

2024: All the novelists collectively freakout about the bourgeois politics of their genre & decide to write only tweets & newsletters instead.

Grateful to Rebecca for thinking aloud about this. As Alabama doubles-down on punishing LGBTQA kids and cursing every human with a womb, I am reminded that my state’s most powerful leaders are women: Kay Ivey and Katie Britt. Ptuie ptuie ptuie.

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Girls love Beyoncé. I love the poetics of relation and where I'm from so I wrote about Cowboy Carter

We’ve opened submissions! 12th April - 3rd May. To summarise: we’re looking for your best work, for writing that resists definition for stories & poems that strain against classification. gorse.ie/submission/

My favorite poet Emily Skaja dropping knowledge & 50 ways to end a poem for Literary Hub this morning✨Somebody should hire her to teach at a summer writing workshop. Just saying!

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Louise Bourgeois, 'Untitled', 1996

Nothing is foreordained. Nothing is fated. . . . even if we prefer to *believe* that things cannot change because it absolves us of imagining an otherwise and acting in relation to the impossible possibilities. Things can change, and things MUST change.