Yigru Zeltil
@yigruzeltil.bsky.social
From Romania; am on both autistic and LGBT spectrums. Reading/writing/translating poetry. Working on Princeps Poesis, a database of poetry books from all around the world. (see:
https://whydonate.com/en/fundraising/princeps-poesis) IT, Linux, Esperanto etc
https://whydonate.com/en/fundraising/princeps-poesis) IT, Linux, Esperanto etc
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Yigru Zeltil
@yigruzeltil.bsky.social
· Apr 1
I don't have any new poems in English ready for publication yet, but my old chapbook from 2018 is still online:
https://khoraimpex.wordpress.com/2019/03/18/scrappybook-yigru-zeltil/
https://khoraimpex.wordpress.com/2019/03/18/scrappybook-yigru-zeltil/
The fire in Rahova, #Bucharest is yet another tragic example of how neoliberal privatization and descentralization affects the services which most need utmost responsibility and planning.
October 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The fire in Rahova, #Bucharest is yet another tragic example of how neoliberal privatization and descentralization affects the services which most need utmost responsibility and planning.
The newest #Nobel Award in Literature went to a male author who has nothing but male authors in his personal canon... No surprises there.
October 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The newest #Nobel Award in Literature went to a male author who has nothing but male authors in his personal canon... No surprises there.
...But also there are books that are not meant to be mere containers of interchangeable texts - see Ulises Carrión's ambitions in The New Art of Making Books, which I found brilliant.
October 6, 2025 at 6:04 PM
...But also there are books that are not meant to be mere containers of interchangeable texts - see Ulises Carrión's ambitions in The New Art of Making Books, which I found brilliant.
Not reading the entirety of a book can be perilous, and I say this even if I like books that can be read from anywhere...
October 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Not reading the entirety of a book can be perilous, and I say this even if I like books that can be read from anywhere...
Affectionate for this piece of writing (that Shakespeare analysis brings back fond uni memories), but it misses how we're in this dark place because of ableist capitalism...
Jeremy Noel-Tod on the importance of ‘unfunded’ or ‘hobbyist’ research in academica.
open.substack.com/pub/someflow...
open.substack.com/pub/someflow...
Unfunded Hobbit Research
In defence of academic inspiration
open.substack.com
September 21, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Affectionate for this piece of writing (that Shakespeare analysis brings back fond uni memories), but it misses how we're in this dark place because of ableist capitalism...
Kind reminder that switching now to #Linux or #FreeBSD is the best thing to do at a time when #Microsoft decided to make millions of computers too obsolete for Windows 11.
September 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Kind reminder that switching now to #Linux or #FreeBSD is the best thing to do at a time when #Microsoft decided to make millions of computers too obsolete for Windows 11.
One of the reasons I have been less active on Bsky is precisely that I disagree with their biased moderation.
So I have signed up to migrate to @transrights.northsky.social, which is hosted in Canada and I hope is not going to bow to totalitarian censorship.
So I have signed up to migrate to @transrights.northsky.social, which is hosted in Canada and I hope is not going to bow to totalitarian censorship.
If anyone's migrating off bsky.app to alternate appviews like blacksky.community (or "northsky"?) here's a tip. Install the "redirector" addon:
addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefo...
And config as below (see alt text)
Now URLs you type or paste, or links to bluesky on the web, go to blacksky instead.
addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefo...
And config as below (see alt text)
Now URLs you type or paste, or links to bluesky on the web, go to blacksky instead.
September 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
One of the reasons I have been less active on Bsky is precisely that I disagree with their biased moderation.
So I have signed up to migrate to @transrights.northsky.social, which is hosted in Canada and I hope is not going to bow to totalitarian censorship.
So I have signed up to migrate to @transrights.northsky.social, which is hosted in Canada and I hope is not going to bow to totalitarian censorship.
Dreamed of an architect who coined a certain philosophy of architectural sustainability, named something like 1:24/48, and also became insanely good at photography because the veŕy first photographer they hired was like "f@#% your ugly buildings, can't find any good angle for them"...
September 15, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Dreamed of an architect who coined a certain philosophy of architectural sustainability, named something like 1:24/48, and also became insanely good at photography because the veŕy first photographer they hired was like "f@#% your ugly buildings, can't find any good angle for them"...
If my Bsky account gets shutdown, you can always find me on either Mastodon, Hubzilla (my favorite fediverse software tbh), Friendica, Lemmy, Piefed or Pixelfed, soon Akkoma too.
August 21, 2025 at 7:47 AM
If my Bsky account gets shutdown, you can always find me on either Mastodon, Hubzilla (my favorite fediverse software tbh), Friendica, Lemmy, Piefed or Pixelfed, soon Akkoma too.
Except human rights were never a real priority for the powers that be.
August 21, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Except human rights were never a real priority for the powers that be.
A protocol for decentralized Internets? Sounds incredible, but good to be aware of.
reticulum.network
reticulum.network
Reticulum Network
reticulum.network
August 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
A protocol for decentralized Internets? Sounds incredible, but good to be aware of.
reticulum.network
reticulum.network
Dreamed about Yoko Ono this morning. A bit later, reminded of how seemingly few read not just Ono's Grapefruit, but also the other Fluxus writings and Duchamp's earlier non-poems, which aged like aluminium cans in the desert...
August 19, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Dreamed about Yoko Ono this morning. A bit later, reminded of how seemingly few read not just Ono's Grapefruit, but also the other Fluxus writings and Duchamp's earlier non-poems, which aged like aluminium cans in the desert...
"..But now Gaza’s sky is no longer a canvas for myths or dreams. It is weaponized, heavy with drones and death. Carson asks what it meant to write on the sky; in my context, the question becomes, What does it mean to live beneath a sky turned into a weapon?"
www.monabaker.org/2025/08/08/t...
www.monabaker.org/2025/08/08/t...
Translating the Unseen: Gaza’s Sky and Anne Carson’s Vision | Mona Baker
By Alaa Alqaisi Arab Lit & Arab Lit Quarterly February 10, 2025 It began with an email from Dr.
www.monabaker.org
August 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
"..But now Gaza’s sky is no longer a canvas for myths or dreams. It is weaponized, heavy with drones and death. Carson asks what it meant to write on the sky; in my context, the question becomes, What does it mean to live beneath a sky turned into a weapon?"
www.monabaker.org/2025/08/08/t...
www.monabaker.org/2025/08/08/t...
Reposted by Yigru Zeltil
Assigned Media tracked down every single queer author who withdrew from the Polari Prize after they longlisted a self-proclaimed TERF, and linked to all their books.
These authors showed solidarity and our story is blowing up with traffic from people who want to support them in return.
These authors showed solidarity and our story is blowing up with traffic from people who want to support them in return.
Queer Authors Withdraw From Writing Prize En Masse Over Inclusion of Self-Proclaimed TERF — Assigned
A UK LGBTQ+ writing prize seems to be crumbling as the queer community protests the inclusion of an anti-trans writer on the long list. Trans prisoners in Georgia accuse the state of cruel and unusual...
www.assignedmedia.org
August 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Assigned Media tracked down every single queer author who withdrew from the Polari Prize after they longlisted a self-proclaimed TERF, and linked to all their books.
These authors showed solidarity and our story is blowing up with traffic from people who want to support them in return.
These authors showed solidarity and our story is blowing up with traffic from people who want to support them in return.
Reposted by Yigru Zeltil
Been deactivated for a few days so not sure if this is doing the rounds but is worth sharing and filling out. We need basic income in the arts. It has to be made permanent.
Please share if you agree. And even if you don't, just be sound for once.
ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
Please share if you agree. And even if you don't, just be sound for once.
ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
August 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Been deactivated for a few days so not sure if this is doing the rounds but is worth sharing and filling out. We need basic income in the arts. It has to be made permanent.
Please share if you agree. And even if you don't, just be sound for once.
ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
Please share if you agree. And even if you don't, just be sound for once.
ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
File compression forced back into fashion... #cyberpunk2025
The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems'.
http://jrnl.ie/6788643
http://jrnl.ie/6788643
UK government advises people to delete old photos and emails as England faces water shortfall
The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as ‘data centres require cast amounts of water to cool their systems’.
jrnl.ie
August 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
File compression forced back into fashion... #cyberpunk2025
The Wikipedia page on hermeticism in poetry - nothing about its anticipations in Baroque poetry, by the way - is just one example of how not unified is our knowledge of world literature.
August 1, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The Wikipedia page on hermeticism in poetry - nothing about its anticipations in Baroque poetry, by the way - is just one example of how not unified is our knowledge of world literature.
As for queer hermeticism (in poetry, but we can think also of Ellsworth Kelly and other kinds of artists), it would be a still quite speculative research topic, but well worth attention.
August 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
As for queer hermeticism (in poetry, but we can think also of Ellsworth Kelly and other kinds of artists), it would be a still quite speculative research topic, but well worth attention.
For instance, Romanian hermetic poet Ion Barbu is taught in schools as this mathematician who likened poetry to math - nothing about how some of his strange images are actually plain descriptions of drug effects.
August 1, 2025 at 10:42 PM
For instance, Romanian hermetic poet Ion Barbu is taught in schools as this mathematician who likened poetry to math - nothing about how some of his strange images are actually plain descriptions of drug effects.
I brought up hermeticism because I was thinking of the psychedelic and queer erotic aspects of some hermetic poetry that have eluded critics.
August 1, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I brought up hermeticism because I was thinking of the psychedelic and queer erotic aspects of some hermetic poetry that have eluded critics.
Hermeticism is one of the big tendencies in modern poetry, yet its Wikipedia page is focused on merely the Italian movement, with a mention of Mallarmé, Rimbaud and Verlaine as mere decadentists...
August 1, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Hermeticism is one of the big tendencies in modern poetry, yet its Wikipedia page is focused on merely the Italian movement, with a mention of Mallarmé, Rimbaud and Verlaine as mere decadentists...
Kees Ouwens: ‘I was a man, but in the sense of //
no more than this signification of words / nor did I dare to periodize / the bodily plasticity in terms of / a development’
(Bsky doesn't let me post the Versopolis URL for some reason)
no more than this signification of words / nor did I dare to periodize / the bodily plasticity in terms of / a development’
(Bsky doesn't let me post the Versopolis URL for some reason)
July 30, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Kees Ouwens: ‘I was a man, but in the sense of //
no more than this signification of words / nor did I dare to periodize / the bodily plasticity in terms of / a development’
(Bsky doesn't let me post the Versopolis URL for some reason)
no more than this signification of words / nor did I dare to periodize / the bodily plasticity in terms of / a development’
(Bsky doesn't let me post the Versopolis URL for some reason)
Writing poetry has something humble. It feels more appropriate for inhabiting this world, as I get soaked with its atmosphere and let language dance with/through me. Storytelling? More like a hard drug making you feel close enough to God to manipulate other people's lives. It's got danger to it.
July 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Writing poetry has something humble. It feels more appropriate for inhabiting this world, as I get soaked with its atmosphere and let language dance with/through me. Storytelling? More like a hard drug making you feel close enough to God to manipulate other people's lives. It's got danger to it.
Memories from my poetry reading days (10)
I stacked "collected" volumes and anthologies on my desk. There are those who have one brilliant poem hidden in a haystack of filler. And there are poets where you need to get a whole picture. Now I prefer chapbooks - but 1-2 page samples? Always a bad idea.
I stacked "collected" volumes and anthologies on my desk. There are those who have one brilliant poem hidden in a haystack of filler. And there are poets where you need to get a whole picture. Now I prefer chapbooks - but 1-2 page samples? Always a bad idea.
July 20, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Memories from my poetry reading days (10)
I stacked "collected" volumes and anthologies on my desk. There are those who have one brilliant poem hidden in a haystack of filler. And there are poets where you need to get a whole picture. Now I prefer chapbooks - but 1-2 page samples? Always a bad idea.
I stacked "collected" volumes and anthologies on my desk. There are those who have one brilliant poem hidden in a haystack of filler. And there are poets where you need to get a whole picture. Now I prefer chapbooks - but 1-2 page samples? Always a bad idea.
Memories from my poetry reading days (9)
As a reader and writer, I realized early on that one needs to let go of the idea that there's only "major" and "minor" authors and that only the former deserve one's attention. It's a limited perspective; Jakobson would also point out it's not future proof.
As a reader and writer, I realized early on that one needs to let go of the idea that there's only "major" and "minor" authors and that only the former deserve one's attention. It's a limited perspective; Jakobson would also point out it's not future proof.
July 20, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Memories from my poetry reading days (9)
As a reader and writer, I realized early on that one needs to let go of the idea that there's only "major" and "minor" authors and that only the former deserve one's attention. It's a limited perspective; Jakobson would also point out it's not future proof.
As a reader and writer, I realized early on that one needs to let go of the idea that there's only "major" and "minor" authors and that only the former deserve one's attention. It's a limited perspective; Jakobson would also point out it's not future proof.