Alina Stefanescu
@alinaetc.bsky.social
poet. writer. editor. reviewer. translator. corrupted bibliomaniac. exists in romanian and alabamian. hybrid in she/her dreams. self-deleting. self-ghosting.
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My Heresies by Alina Stefanescu
Sarabande Books. 2025. 118 pages.
worldliteraturetoday.org
Grateful beyond words to Candice Daquin for reviewing my heresies for @worldlittoday.bsky.social, and to @sarabandebooks.bsky.social for publishing the book itself and to @kristenmiller.bsky.social for everything that holds it together. 🖤
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One thing that is clear in this diary is Brian Eno’s fury at the genocide in Bosnia— and his belief that art speaks to the world that creates it. Eno’s protest against the genocide of Palestinians is not a virtue signal: it is a logical result of his worldview.
January 6, 2026 at 5:35 AM
One thing that is clear in this diary is Brian Eno’s fury at the genocide in Bosnia— and his belief that art speaks to the world that creates it. Eno’s protest against the genocide of Palestinians is not a virtue signal: it is a logical result of his worldview.
It rained insanely and there was music.
January 6, 2026 at 3:37 AM
It rained insanely and there was music.
Reposted by Alina Stefanescu
‘Her temper flared when people were bland, self-congratulatory or, worse still, sought her approval. Gary Indiana described her on these occasions as “a hilarious terror”.’
Jo Applin on Louise Bourgeois:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jo Applin on Louise Bourgeois:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jo Applin · Diary: Louise Bourgeois’s Suitcase
In September, a suitcase filled with sculptural odds and ends was discovered beneath a spiral staircase in Louise...
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January 5, 2026 at 9:10 PM
‘Her temper flared when people were bland, self-congratulatory or, worse still, sought her approval. Gary Indiana described her on these occasions as “a hilarious terror”.’
Jo Applin on Louise Bourgeois:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jo Applin on Louise Bourgeois:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Looking forward to this 🖤
The next 804 lit salon will be on January 17th in DC. You can register for the event below
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January 5, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Looking forward to this 🖤
“I do not see why a loss of faith in the known image and symbol in our time should be celebrated as a freedom. It is a loss from which we suffer, and this pathos motivates modern painting and poetry at its heart.”
- Philip Guston
- Philip Guston
January 5, 2026 at 4:48 AM
“I do not see why a loss of faith in the known image and symbol in our time should be celebrated as a freedom. It is a loss from which we suffer, and this pathos motivates modern painting and poetry at its heart.”
- Philip Guston
- Philip Guston
“No musicology, no music criticism can tell us as much as the action of meaning which is performance. . . . When it speaks of music, language is lame.”
- George Steiner, Real Presences
- George Steiner, Real Presences
January 4, 2026 at 6:44 PM
“No musicology, no music criticism can tell us as much as the action of meaning which is performance. . . . When it speaks of music, language is lame.”
- George Steiner, Real Presences
- George Steiner, Real Presences
January 4, 2026 at 6:38 AM
Total bummer for Clio falling in love with Adonis. Not even that hourglass she kept hidden under her robe could protect her from the amatonormative urges.
January 4, 2026 at 5:46 AM
Total bummer for Clio falling in love with Adonis. Not even that hourglass she kept hidden under her robe could protect her from the amatonormative urges.
Reposted by Alina Stefanescu
“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate."
― Edward Said
― Edward Said
January 4, 2026 at 4:27 AM
“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate."
― Edward Said
― Edward Said
One of the best uses (and spacings) of "shake it" ... had great for folding laundry. 🥹
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So Many Ways
YouTube video by Morphine - Topic
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January 4, 2026 at 5:14 AM
One of the best uses (and spacings) of "shake it" ... had great for folding laundry. 🥹
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5et...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5et...
A servant of this paradise, not a God
In front of a screen, naked, lonely, asking—
No more a God than the crown of vultures
Frightened by a hiss that was a tire deflating?
Why would you trade Paradise for an argument
About Paradise?
- Roger Reeves, "The Head of the Cottonmouth"
In front of a screen, naked, lonely, asking—
No more a God than the crown of vultures
Frightened by a hiss that was a tire deflating?
Why would you trade Paradise for an argument
About Paradise?
- Roger Reeves, "The Head of the Cottonmouth"
January 4, 2026 at 2:44 AM
A servant of this paradise, not a God
In front of a screen, naked, lonely, asking—
No more a God than the crown of vultures
Frightened by a hiss that was a tire deflating?
Why would you trade Paradise for an argument
About Paradise?
- Roger Reeves, "The Head of the Cottonmouth"
In front of a screen, naked, lonely, asking—
No more a God than the crown of vultures
Frightened by a hiss that was a tire deflating?
Why would you trade Paradise for an argument
About Paradise?
- Roger Reeves, "The Head of the Cottonmouth"
Dear daughter, when I was young
we had what had not been.
Dear daughter, I placed some of my heart
in you—no one’s ever lost who neighbors the dark.
- Fady Joudah, "Lullaby in Echo"
www.divasofverse.com/2025/11/lull...
we had what had not been.
Dear daughter, I placed some of my heart
in you—no one’s ever lost who neighbors the dark.
- Fady Joudah, "Lullaby in Echo"
www.divasofverse.com/2025/11/lull...
Lullaby in Echo by Fady Joudah
Lullaby in Echo Our ancestors didn’t get everything right and died like several of their dotted letters and many declensions. What they slan...
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January 4, 2026 at 2:40 AM
Dear daughter, when I was young
we had what had not been.
Dear daughter, I placed some of my heart
in you—no one’s ever lost who neighbors the dark.
- Fady Joudah, "Lullaby in Echo"
www.divasofverse.com/2025/11/lull...
we had what had not been.
Dear daughter, I placed some of my heart
in you—no one’s ever lost who neighbors the dark.
- Fady Joudah, "Lullaby in Echo"
www.divasofverse.com/2025/11/lull...
There are birds here,
so many birds here
is what I was trying to say
when they said those birds were metaphors
for what is trapped
between buildings
and buildings. No.
- Jamaal May
www.divasofverse.com/2015/10/ther...
so many birds here
is what I was trying to say
when they said those birds were metaphors
for what is trapped
between buildings
and buildings. No.
- Jamaal May
www.divasofverse.com/2015/10/ther...
There Are Birds Here by Jamaal May
There Are Birds Here For Detroit There are birds here, so many birds here is what I was trying to say ...
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January 4, 2026 at 2:39 AM
There are birds here,
so many birds here
is what I was trying to say
when they said those birds were metaphors
for what is trapped
between buildings
and buildings. No.
- Jamaal May
www.divasofverse.com/2015/10/ther...
so many birds here
is what I was trying to say
when they said those birds were metaphors
for what is trapped
between buildings
and buildings. No.
- Jamaal May
www.divasofverse.com/2015/10/ther...
When one of my favorite thinkers on Derrida has a new band!!
January 4, 2026 at 2:26 AM
When one of my favorite thinkers on Derrida has a new band!!
It didn't take Trump long to jump on that old neocon, oil-baron ship, eh? Looks like another war for "western civilization" to accompany the billion-dollar genocide of Palestinians. The rich get filthier and richer and filthy-richer. Class warfare NOW. It's us or them.
January 4, 2026 at 2:25 AM
It didn't take Trump long to jump on that old neocon, oil-baron ship, eh? Looks like another war for "western civilization" to accompany the billion-dollar genocide of Palestinians. The rich get filthier and richer and filthy-richer. Class warfare NOW. It's us or them.
History and biography came into being together, make constant reference to each other, make us see the one in the other, make us think in the same way; but it is about the end, and the other can only ever be about endings.
- Carolyn Steedman, Dust
- Carolyn Steedman, Dust
January 2, 2026 at 11:56 PM
History and biography came into being together, make constant reference to each other, make us see the one in the other, make us think in the same way; but it is about the end, and the other can only ever be about endings.
- Carolyn Steedman, Dust
- Carolyn Steedman, Dust
Yesterday afternoon, I noticed the chiminea was still smoking from New Year’s Eve— and I appreciated its temporal insouciance.
January 2, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Yesterday afternoon, I noticed the chiminea was still smoking from New Year’s Eve— and I appreciated its temporal insouciance.
Whistler’s nocturnes are unforgettable.
'Nocturne in Grey and Gold.' (1872) Colour was central to Whistler’s paintings, as demonstrated in the title he chose for this work. The blacks and greys of night are contrasted with gold - the gaslights that illuminated the streets of Chelsea in London on the bank of the Thames
January 2, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Whistler’s nocturnes are unforgettable.