Books save lives. 🌈

“After all, dictators are always afraid of poets.”

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Conversations on Writing, which collects three conversations Ursula had with David Naimon, is published by Tin House.

tinhouse.com/book/ursula-...

"How else I know I saw a ghost is the child seemed so composed, happy, and it was way too early in the morning for someone so young to be out riding alone." -Soham Patel

#poetry #writing #poems

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Poetry is for everybody. If more publishers and newspapers and magazines and media in general treat poetry like something that is present, accessible, in demand, and marketable like they do other genres, they will see more and more people reading and buying poetry books. Truth.

“Another air raid alert
As if they are walking the whole country to the execution
But shoot just one of us”

--Victoria Amelina, Ukrainian poet who died from wounds inflicted by the Russian bombardment

History = a series of endless cataclysms
Poetry = in the middle of all this a human voice is trying to sing

Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.

Everyone on this site has a library card

High definition image of a dead star.
This is Cassiopeia A, a star that died 320 years ago.
This image was presented today on AAS Nova (ApJL).
aasnova.org/2024/11/12/t...
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Most distant object known to humanity.
Found by JWST, JADES-GS-z14-0 is the most distant galaxy ever discovered. It's located 13.6 billion light years from us, and since it takes time for light to travel, we see it as it was only 290 million years after the Big Bang.
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From Saeed Jones (@theferocity.bsky.social)'s book, Alive at the End of the World: bookshop.org/a/862/978156...

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From Kate Baer's book, And Yet: bookshop.org/a/862/978006...

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