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Palestinian Lebanese poet Randa Tawil’s “Poem for Gaza” meditates on the vertiginous experience of watching the Palestinian genocide unfold: “Time is bent,” she writes, “It has cracked open. Destiny is devouring us.” proteanmag.com/2024/08/21/poe…

Time bent cracked open, looks like the wavy graphs I made in AB Calc & I cannot remember why they looked like that A scale, history is combusting Randa Tawil, Protean Magazine proteanmag.com/2024/08/21/poe…

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wollay polyglot which Lacson do you refer to? the "A. Lacson" here is Angeli Lacson, and the excerpt is from her book "Unbecoming" (i don't know of an e-copy circulating, but her "Notes on Paralysis" does feature a lot in the book and it's available on Protean: proteanmag.com/2023/06/05/not…)

Today’s poetry: proteanmag.com/2020/11/03/the… THE APOCALYPSE Musa Springer

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I think about this poem all the time. It’s too heartbreaking. RIP Hiba Abu Nada “I grant you refuge from hurt and death, refuge in the glory of our siege, here in the belly of the whale.” (trans. Huda Fakhreddine) proteanmag.com/2023/11/03/i-g…

"In October of 1845, having been silenced by government censors—and on the run from possible extradition—Karl Marx once thought about moving to Texas." proteanmag.com/2024/08/11/mar…

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"Time bent cracked open, looks like the wavy graphs I made in AB Calc & I cannot remember why they looked like that A scale, history is combusting [...]" Randa Tawil, "Poem for Gaza" proteanmag.com/2024/08/21/poe…

From the archives: "Labor," by Maximillian Alvarez. "Our minds have a peculiar and innate tendency to erase the things and people and work that make meaning happen. Capitalism does the same." proteanmag.com/2020/05/20/lab…

"The idea that language is a kind of tool and that its 'meanings' arise from usage suggests that meaning is generated between people in social life, based on what they do and how they do it rather than what they think about it." proteanmag.com/2024/06/22/wit…

Samuel McIlhagga visited Los Angeles to interview L.A. figures influenced by Mike Davis and to seek out touchstones—streets, buildings, and social realities—from Davis’s seminal City of Quartz. Part I comprises interviews with historian Peter Chesney. proteanmag.com/2024/09/06/fin…