eileen chengyin chow
@chowleen.bsky.social
@chowleen most elsewhere; my old tweets reappear here at odd times.
Duke prof, APSI Dir+DGS, Duke Story Lab founder. DUP Sinotheory, LAReviewOfBooks board. Shewo Institute 舍我紀念館 Director, Biographical Lit 傳記文學 publisher
周成蔭 #everynightapoem
Duke prof, APSI Dir+DGS, Duke Story Lab founder. DUP Sinotheory, LAReviewOfBooks board. Shewo Institute 舍我紀念館 Director, Biographical Lit 傳記文學 publisher
周成蔭 #everynightapoem
Pinned
A pair of happy hammerhead sharks
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
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John Berger, most beloved, passed away on January 2, 2017.
"What reconciles me to my own death more than anything else is the image of a place: a place where your bones and mine are buried...With you I can imagine a place where to be phosphate of calcium is enough.”
#everynightapoem #ofsorts
"What reconciles me to my own death more than anything else is the image of a place: a place where your bones and mine are buried...With you I can imagine a place where to be phosphate of calcium is enough.”
#everynightapoem #ofsorts
January 2, 2025 at 10:59 PM
John Berger, most beloved, passed away on January 2, 2017.
"What reconciles me to my own death more than anything else is the image of a place: a place where your bones and mine are buried...With you I can imagine a place where to be phosphate of calcium is enough.”
#everynightapoem #ofsorts
"What reconciles me to my own death more than anything else is the image of a place: a place where your bones and mine are buried...With you I can imagine a place where to be phosphate of calcium is enough.”
#everynightapoem #ofsorts
Ah yes. And the future is 2026.
January 1, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Ah yes. And the future is 2026.
“And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been…”
Rainer Maria Rilke, in a letter to his wife, the sculptor Clara Rilke, on January 1, 1907
(Translated by Jane Bannard Greene and M.D. Herter Norton)
#everynightapoem #january
Rainer Maria Rilke, in a letter to his wife, the sculptor Clara Rilke, on January 1, 1907
(Translated by Jane Bannard Greene and M.D. Herter Norton)
#everynightapoem #january
January 1, 2026 at 6:37 PM
“And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been…”
Rainer Maria Rilke, in a letter to his wife, the sculptor Clara Rilke, on January 1, 1907
(Translated by Jane Bannard Greene and M.D. Herter Norton)
#everynightapoem #january
Rainer Maria Rilke, in a letter to his wife, the sculptor Clara Rilke, on January 1, 1907
(Translated by Jane Bannard Greene and M.D. Herter Norton)
#everynightapoem #january
January 1st park run - happy new year
January 1, 2026 at 2:39 PM
January 1st park run - happy new year
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Thank you
“Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.”
“Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.”
January 1, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Thank you
“Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.”
“Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.”
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A pair of happy hammerhead sharks
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
December 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
A pair of happy hammerhead sharks
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
January 1, 2026 at 3:47 AM
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
As ever - sharing Tennyson’s exhortation to leave the old year dying in the night.
In gratitude, fellow travelers. #everynightapoem
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
As ever - sharing Tennyson’s exhortation to leave the old year dying in the night.
In gratitude, fellow travelers. #everynightapoem
January 1, 2026 at 2:32 AM
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
As ever - sharing Tennyson’s exhortation to leave the old year dying in the night.
In gratitude, fellow travelers. #everynightapoem
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
As ever - sharing Tennyson’s exhortation to leave the old year dying in the night.
In gratitude, fellow travelers. #everynightapoem
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Squali in festa
A pair of happy hammerhead sharks
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
December 31, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Squali in festa
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Reading. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/n...
‘This Is Our Time’: Acclaimed Poet to Honor Mamdani With Inaugural Poem
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Reading. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/n...
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They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
April 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
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This thread is 100% worth your time and attention.
right after my father died several of his contemporaries invited me to come speak at their churches ... they knew i was in college and wanted to help me out
December 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM
This thread is 100% worth your time and attention.
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You must react everyday to what is happening. But that is no way to write a book or a sentence.
-James Baldwin, intv w Joe Walker, 1972
-James Baldwin, intv w Joe Walker, 1972
December 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM
You must react everyday to what is happening. But that is no way to write a book or a sentence.
-James Baldwin, intv w Joe Walker, 1972
-James Baldwin, intv w Joe Walker, 1972
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what I do, personally, is something like letting all those things in, and then when it is time to write a book or a sentence they are still around, but quieter, not demanding reaction but to be speaking to the reality at hand
You must react everyday to what is happening. But that is no way to write a book or a sentence.
-James Baldwin, intv w Joe Walker, 1972
-James Baldwin, intv w Joe Walker, 1972
December 29, 2025 at 6:32 PM
what I do, personally, is something like letting all those things in, and then when it is time to write a book or a sentence they are still around, but quieter, not demanding reaction but to be speaking to the reality at hand
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"This from their good friend, Maria Shriver—this I believe: 'They loved their kids so much, and they never stopped trying to be really good parents.' Really, that’s the most and the best anyone can ever do."
How Rob Reiner Made Children His Issue
Pushing for greater investments in early childhood development, he improved the lives of countless kids.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:00 AM
"This from their good friend, Maria Shriver—this I believe: 'They loved their kids so much, and they never stopped trying to be really good parents.' Really, that’s the most and the best anyone can ever do."
Introduced the kids last night to #ThisIsSpinalTap, which I knew they would love because well, it’s an eleven.
And bc a longtime family favorite is Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous — pretty much a sentimental cover version of Spinal Tap.
What I am trying to reconstruct is how I understood it 1/2
And bc a longtime family favorite is Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous — pretty much a sentimental cover version of Spinal Tap.
What I am trying to reconstruct is how I understood it 1/2
December 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Introduced the kids last night to #ThisIsSpinalTap, which I knew they would love because well, it’s an eleven.
And bc a longtime family favorite is Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous — pretty much a sentimental cover version of Spinal Tap.
What I am trying to reconstruct is how I understood it 1/2
And bc a longtime family favorite is Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous — pretty much a sentimental cover version of Spinal Tap.
What I am trying to reconstruct is how I understood it 1/2
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my partner uses the particularly happy one as his discord pfp and we call him (the happy shark, not my partner) Shork
A pair of happy hammerhead sharks
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
December 29, 2025 at 2:37 AM
my partner uses the particularly happy one as his discord pfp and we call him (the happy shark, not my partner) Shork
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Heated Rivalry (2025)
A pair of happy hammerhead sharks
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
December 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Heated Rivalry (2025)
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Can we bring back "sociable mayor husband and aloof artist wife" discourse for like a minute.
A pair of happy hammerhead sharks
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
December 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Can we bring back "sociable mayor husband and aloof artist wife" discourse for like a minute.
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Edorky 😻
A pair of happy hammerhead sharks
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
December 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Edorky 😻
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This could be us but you won’t do the reading!!!!
A pair of happy hammerhead sharks
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
December 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This could be us but you won’t do the reading!!!!
A pair of happy hammerhead sharks
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
December 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
A pair of happy hammerhead sharks
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
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And counterpoint.
"I was *your* friend
but in the dream you didn't say a word.
In the dream his poem was like a letter
to someone who has no right
to be there but must be treated gently..
Clara, why don't I dream of you?"
from Adrienne Rich, "Paula Becker to Clara Westhoff" (1976)
#everynightapoem
"I was *your* friend
but in the dream you didn't say a word.
In the dream his poem was like a letter
to someone who has no right
to be there but must be treated gently..
Clara, why don't I dream of you?"
from Adrienne Rich, "Paula Becker to Clara Westhoff" (1976)
#everynightapoem
December 15, 2024 at 8:40 PM
And counterpoint.
"I was *your* friend
but in the dream you didn't say a word.
In the dream his poem was like a letter
to someone who has no right
to be there but must be treated gently..
Clara, why don't I dream of you?"
from Adrienne Rich, "Paula Becker to Clara Westhoff" (1976)
#everynightapoem
"I was *your* friend
but in the dream you didn't say a word.
In the dream his poem was like a letter
to someone who has no right
to be there but must be treated gently..
Clara, why don't I dream of you?"
from Adrienne Rich, "Paula Becker to Clara Westhoff" (1976)
#everynightapoem
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Coda:
In the staircase of the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Jenny Holzer erected a 12 meter length digital neon billboard with glowing blue text as an homage to the artist Paula Modersohn-Becker.
[Jenny Holzer, “For Paula,” 2005]
In the staircase of the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Jenny Holzer erected a 12 meter length digital neon billboard with glowing blue text as an homage to the artist Paula Modersohn-Becker.
[Jenny Holzer, “For Paula,” 2005]
December 15, 2024 at 7:02 PM
Coda:
In the staircase of the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Jenny Holzer erected a 12 meter length digital neon billboard with glowing blue text as an homage to the artist Paula Modersohn-Becker.
[Jenny Holzer, “For Paula,” 2005]
In the staircase of the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Jenny Holzer erected a 12 meter length digital neon billboard with glowing blue text as an homage to the artist Paula Modersohn-Becker.
[Jenny Holzer, “For Paula,” 2005]
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“And now I am at a loss as to how to sign this letter. I am not Modersohn, and I am also no longer Paula Becker.
I am Me.
and hope to become ever more so.”
-Paula, letter to Rilke, 17 Feb 1906, upon deciding to leave her marriage to focus on her art (t. Ulrich Baer)
#everynightapoem #epistolary
I am Me.
and hope to become ever more so.”
-Paula, letter to Rilke, 17 Feb 1906, upon deciding to leave her marriage to focus on her art (t. Ulrich Baer)
#everynightapoem #epistolary
December 15, 2024 at 5:52 PM
“And now I am at a loss as to how to sign this letter. I am not Modersohn, and I am also no longer Paula Becker.
I am Me.
and hope to become ever more so.”
-Paula, letter to Rilke, 17 Feb 1906, upon deciding to leave her marriage to focus on her art (t. Ulrich Baer)
#everynightapoem #epistolary
I am Me.
and hope to become ever more so.”
-Paula, letter to Rilke, 17 Feb 1906, upon deciding to leave her marriage to focus on her art (t. Ulrich Baer)
#everynightapoem #epistolary