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New book: Festival (Belladonna 2025). Current research project: Poetry in the Age of Global English (NWO Veni).
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Perfect illustration of today reality…
November 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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If you’re around Utrecht on 11 November, Biswamit Dwibedy will be in town!
November 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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The ability to understand the significance or poetry of something without behaving as if it is literally true, whether that thing is an ancient myth or modern literary character or an AI chatbot, is *incredibly important* to functioning in contemporary society and much rarer than we'd like to think.
November 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Love showering in poop water, love doing the dishes in poop water, love accidentally rinsing my toothbrush in poop water, love boiling for three minutes a large pan of poop water, love making coffee with boiled poop water, love filling my dog’s bowl with poop water, just love it 🤎💩💦
November 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
If you’re around Utrecht on 11 November, Biswamit Dwibedy will be in town!
November 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Young poet Batool Abu Akleen has been evacuated from the ongoing genocide in Gaza and has arrived in Paris on 28 October. Please contribute to this fund for her monthly scholarship in France - every small donation helps: chuffed.org/project/1431...
Financer la licence de Batool Abu Akleen, poétesse gazaouie
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chuffed.org
October 30, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Dutch elections are always so unsatisfying. I never understand if we’re relieved or if we’re just screwed in another combination of ways. Can someone let me know before the cabinet falls again?
October 29, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Kim Hyesoon has a new book, which has the beautiful title Synchronized Sea Anemone, and it is funny and strange and makes me see again the shifting limits of our (more than human) bodies and how that shapes the form of our living. I got to translate the title poem for the Korean publication. 🪼🩵🪸
October 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Anyway, read @miayou.bsky.social's poem "The Love Song of My Hologram" brainwashfestival.nl/en/poem-by-m...
mia you: the lovesong of my hologram – Brainwash Festival
brainwashfestival.nl
October 10, 2025 at 9:36 AM
It’s kind of amazing to me how people can ask for so much interest and attention without ever offering it back.
October 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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So grateful I got to be there for this - make sure you catch this gorgeous film when it comes your way
Very much looking forward to seeing Marie Valentine Regan in Utrecht, who will screen and talk about her documentary on the great Etel Adnan. I’ve seen fragments and even these did do much to restore and inspire my heart. 💜 @ilfu.com

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Film & Talk: Etel Adnan (speciale voorvertoning van 'Adnan being and time') • ILFU
For English, click hereSpeciale voorvertoning van deze filmdocumentaire (duur: 70 min) van Marie Valentine Regan over het schilder- en dichtwerk van Etel Adnan. Met een exclusieve Q&A met filmmake...
ilfu.com
October 1, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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@historiek.bsky.social licht enkele recent verschenen geschiedenisboeken uit. "Schrijven over vernietiging" -over de Holocaust, kolonialisme, Gaza- is één van de tien boeken, net als het nét verschenen "De wereld volgens Noord-Korea" van @remcobreuker.bsky.social . Gebroederlijk boven elkaar.
Nieuwe geschiedenisboeken, week 40 (2025) | Historiek
Wekelijks verschijnen er nieuwe geschiedenisboeken. Van lijvige studies tot publieksboeken en van naslagwerken tot historische strips. Op Historiek plaatsen we veel voorpublicaties en we bespreken…
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October 1, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Very much looking forward to seeing Marie Valentine Regan in Utrecht, who will screen and talk about her documentary on the great Etel Adnan. I’ve seen fragments and even these did do much to restore and inspire my heart. 💜 @ilfu.com

ilfu.com/agenda/film-...
Film & Talk: Etel Adnan (speciale voorvertoning van 'Adnan being and time') • ILFU
For English, click hereSpeciale voorvertoning van deze filmdocumentaire (duur: 70 min) van Marie Valentine Regan over het schilder- en dichtwerk van Etel Adnan. Met een exclusieve Q&A met filmmake...
ilfu.com
September 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Felix Straatsma maakte voor Radio @sleutelstad.bsky.social een mooie reportage over de boekpresentatie van "Schrijven over vernietiging". Interviews met Sander Bax, Mia You, bram ieven, Bareez Majid en ondergetekende.

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'Schrijven over vernietiging': nieuw boek eert Holocaust-overlever Sem Dresden
De Universiteitsbibliotheek (UB) in Leiden organiseerde maandag voor de tweede keer een symposium ter nagedachtenis aan de in 2002 overleden hoogleraar en Holocaust-overlever Sem Dresden. Tijdens dit ...
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September 17, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Friends in Paris: I’ll be reading with Claudia Rankine and Gabriel Gauthier on 24 September, Atelier Michael Woolworth, for the wonderful Double Change collective. Please come by and say hello. 💞

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September 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Same for NL please
Can we shift away from low-quality UUK leadership?
September 12, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Now with Gloria Wekker too ❤️‍🔥
Happy to get to join this program on Audre Lorde’s literary & political legacy with Mariken Heitman, @sylvanasimons.bsky.social & @lazeefuik.bsky.social .

As Lorde said, “Every day of your lives is practice in becoming the person you want to be.” 🍉
Een nieuwe spelling van onze namen – over 'Zami' van Audre Lorde
September 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Will spend the rest of my life considering how we were rushed into "going paperless" for the good of the environment only for the next generation of digital tools to become far worse for the environment.
August 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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August 26, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Ik vind 'wonen' een sympathiek en belangrijk speerpunt voor de aanstaande verkiezingen, maar binnen dat thema zou ik de vraag 'Hoe zorgen we ervoor dat we niet binnen 8 jaar in een door AI gestroomlijnde fascistische staat wonen?' op één zetten.
August 21, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Hier hebben we de afgelopen tijd knetterhard aan gewerkt en ik ben er super trots op. Met de geweldige @remcobreuker.bsky.social als hoofdpersoon, gids, reisgezel. Montage door maatje @nvrens.bsky.social en camera Jefrim Rothuizen. Later meer.
August 19, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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In september komt dit boek uit, dat ik met Goran Bouaziz en bram ieven heb samengesteld.

Het gaat over de vraag hoe je kunt schrijven over geweld, de verschrikkingen van concentratiekampen.

Maar ook over wat het betekent om over de Holocaust na te denken ten overstaan van de gruwelen in Gaza.
Schrijven over vernietiging - Verbum Holocaust Bibliotheek
Verschijningsdatum: 15 september 2025
verbum.nl
August 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Who wants to do a panel with me but our panel is a seance asking the ghosts of modernists random anachronistic questions? Like: Gertrude, do you see a white dress or a blue dress? Ezra, f*ck marry kill, Mussolini, Putin, Dump?
Exciting news! The CFP for the joint MSA/ BAMS conference in Loughborough next July is out now. Because this is a joint conference in the UK, there are a number of changes to note for MSA members, including the earlier deadline (Dec. 1) for papers, panels, workshops, etc. More details at the link!
The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...
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August 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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🐋 1 month left! CFP for #EASLCE2026 – Join the Orca Uprising! (14–17 April, Utrecht University).
Deadline for abstracts: 15 Sept 2025.
Keynotes: Greg Garrard, Kate Rigby, Eva Meijer.
Full details here: easlce2026.sites.uu.nl
@easlce.bsky.social
@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
August 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM