Ben Meyerson
@benmeyerson.bsky.social
Poetry collection SEGUIRIYAS at Black Ocean Press (2023) | PhD candidate at the University of Toronto studying flamenco, medieval troubadour lyric, Sephardic oral tradition, poetics and philosophies of material complexity | https://benmeyersonmedia.com
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Ben Meyerson
@benmeyerson.bsky.social
· Dec 12
Fan Wu interviews Ben Meyerson on /Seguiriyas/
Ben's debut poetry collection out now from Black Ocean
commonmeasure.substack.com
Now live: an interview in Common Measure about my book SEGUIRIYAS (Black Ocean, 2023). I talk process philosophy and the role of violence in collectivity + how metaphor and the voice of a flamenco singer can both act as vehicles for historical solidarity: commonmeasure.substack.com/p/fan-wu-int...
Had a great conversation with @varnvlog.bsky.social about subjectivity and the production of social interiority in medieval and contemporary poetics, my book Seguiriyas with @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social, flamenco, various elements of MFA culture, 'difficult poetry,' and much more
May 7, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Had a great conversation with @varnvlog.bsky.social about subjectivity and the production of social interiority in medieval and contemporary poetics, my book Seguiriyas with @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social, flamenco, various elements of MFA culture, 'difficult poetry,' and much more
Tune into BBC Radio 3 today to hear me get interviewed about the history and contemporary relevance of flamenco alongside some of the foremost living performers and scholars of the art form: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, Flamenco Is Like the Sun
Robert Elms explores his passion for flamenco music in Andalusia.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Tune into BBC Radio 3 today to hear me get interviewed about the history and contemporary relevance of flamenco alongside some of the foremost living performers and scholars of the art form: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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The cover of my forthcoming #poetry collection. I am delighted with it. Brilliant work by the @faberbooks.bsky.social designers.
March 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The cover of my forthcoming #poetry collection. I am delighted with it. Brilliant work by the @faberbooks.bsky.social designers.
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The island of Orasaigh is the inspiration for a book I have a book out with @steveeely.bsky.social
Following two exhibitions, this unique collaboration between poet & photographer has been published by @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
More here 👇
www.ansolasoir.com/orasaigh
#Poetry
#Photography
Following two exhibitions, this unique collaboration between poet & photographer has been published by @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
More here 👇
www.ansolasoir.com/orasaigh
#Poetry
#Photography
Orasaigh | An Solas Òir
Orasaigh is a collaboration between poet Steve Ely and photographer Michael Faint, inspired by the landscape around the tidal island of Orasaigh, South Uist
The work of the artists combines and inter...
www.ansolasoir.com
January 5, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The island of Orasaigh is the inspiration for a book I have a book out with @steveeely.bsky.social
Following two exhibitions, this unique collaboration between poet & photographer has been published by @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
More here 👇
www.ansolasoir.com/orasaigh
#Poetry
#Photography
Following two exhibitions, this unique collaboration between poet & photographer has been published by @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
More here 👇
www.ansolasoir.com/orasaigh
#Poetry
#Photography
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Join us for an AWP offsite reading with @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social and Saturnalia Books on Thursday 3/27 @barhenryla in Echo Park! 📖🎤🗣️
➡️ News | Burnside Review
#awp #awp2025 #losangeles #awpoffsitereading
➡️ News | Burnside Review
#awp #awp2025 #losangeles #awpoffsitereading
February 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Join us for an AWP offsite reading with @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social and Saturnalia Books on Thursday 3/27 @barhenryla in Echo Park! 📖🎤🗣️
➡️ News | Burnside Review
#awp #awp2025 #losangeles #awpoffsitereading
➡️ News | Burnside Review
#awp #awp2025 #losangeles #awpoffsitereading
Long shot, but does anyone know if the line "Soñé que la nieve ardía" predates the Chilean composer Osmán Pérez Freire's "Ay Ay Ay" from 1913? It appears in folk musics throughout Spain (jota, flamenco, Gallego music, etc) and also in Peruvian music. Is there a longer history?
February 12, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Long shot, but does anyone know if the line "Soñé que la nieve ardía" predates the Chilean composer Osmán Pérez Freire's "Ay Ay Ay" from 1913? It appears in folk musics throughout Spain (jota, flamenco, Gallego music, etc) and also in Peruvian music. Is there a longer history?
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We are deeply troubled to learn that some members of the Jewish community are calling for the deportation of foreign-born university students and faculty who they deem “pro-Hamas,” and compiling lists of those they want to target for deportation.
EXCLUSIVE: Jewish Group Gives Trump Admin List Of ‘Pro-Hamas’ Foreign Students, Faculty To Deport
Betar US sent the Trump administration files on dozens of allegedly pro-terrorist college students and faculty, hoping President Donald Trump will deport them.
dailycaller.com
January 23, 2025 at 11:38 PM
We are deeply troubled to learn that some members of the Jewish community are calling for the deportation of foreign-born university students and faculty who they deem “pro-Hamas,” and compiling lists of those they want to target for deportation.
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We’re mourning the loss of the wonderful Michael Longley, who has died in Belfast aged 85. A Vice President of The Poetry Society, we were proud to publish him in our magazine The Poetry Review throughout his long career. Sharing below a 2014 poem which celebrated his long marriage to Edna Longley.
January 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
We’re mourning the loss of the wonderful Michael Longley, who has died in Belfast aged 85. A Vice President of The Poetry Society, we were proud to publish him in our magazine The Poetry Review throughout his long career. Sharing below a 2014 poem which celebrated his long marriage to Edna Longley.
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some above/ground press author activity: Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social , Saba Pakdel, rob mclennan, Derek Beaulieu @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social + Ben Meyerson,
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2024/12/some...
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2024/12/some...
some author activity: Davis, Pakdel, mclennan, Beaulieu + Meyerson,
Jordan Davis has a poem up at The Pi Review , as does Saba Pakdel ; rob mclennan has a poem up at Common House Magazine ; Tony Trehy mention...
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December 14, 2024 at 6:26 PM
some above/ground press author activity: Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social , Saba Pakdel, rob mclennan, Derek Beaulieu @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social + Ben Meyerson,
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2024/12/some...
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2024/12/some...
Now live: an interview in Common Measure about my book SEGUIRIYAS (Black Ocean, 2023). I talk process philosophy and the role of violence in collectivity + how metaphor and the voice of a flamenco singer can both act as vehicles for historical solidarity: commonmeasure.substack.com/p/fan-wu-int...
Fan Wu interviews Ben Meyerson on /Seguiriyas/
Ben's debut poetry collection out now from Black Ocean
commonmeasure.substack.com
December 12, 2024 at 7:54 PM
Now live: an interview in Common Measure about my book SEGUIRIYAS (Black Ocean, 2023). I talk process philosophy and the role of violence in collectivity + how metaphor and the voice of a flamenco singer can both act as vehicles for historical solidarity: commonmeasure.substack.com/p/fan-wu-int...
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Mimbres School 2025 Courses:
SPRING:
Slavery and Unfreedom
When is Capitalism?
Philosophy: Friend or Foe?
SUMMER:
Domestication Syndrome
Anti-Kant
FALL:
Political Arithmetic
Prehistory of Islam
Childhood
Tuition $250. Registration open soon.
See thread for descriptions
SPRING:
Slavery and Unfreedom
When is Capitalism?
Philosophy: Friend or Foe?
SUMMER:
Domestication Syndrome
Anti-Kant
FALL:
Political Arithmetic
Prehistory of Islam
Childhood
Tuition $250. Registration open soon.
See thread for descriptions
December 9, 2024 at 9:02 PM
Mimbres School 2025 Courses:
SPRING:
Slavery and Unfreedom
When is Capitalism?
Philosophy: Friend or Foe?
SUMMER:
Domestication Syndrome
Anti-Kant
FALL:
Political Arithmetic
Prehistory of Islam
Childhood
Tuition $250. Registration open soon.
See thread for descriptions
SPRING:
Slavery and Unfreedom
When is Capitalism?
Philosophy: Friend or Foe?
SUMMER:
Domestication Syndrome
Anti-Kant
FALL:
Political Arithmetic
Prehistory of Islam
Childhood
Tuition $250. Registration open soon.
See thread for descriptions
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Happening live NOW
24hr Global Reading starting now from Palestine
Join the livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxJN...
24hr Global Reading starting now from Palestine
Join the livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxJN...
November 29, 2024 at 3:11 PM
Happening live NOW
24hr Global Reading starting now from Palestine
Join the livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxJN...
24hr Global Reading starting now from Palestine
Join the livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxJN...
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Reiterating that there are more Gazans here and they are more persistent in posting their links because there has essentially been no flour in all of South Gaza for well over a week. It is also cold. Please treat them how you’d want people to treat you or your family in a famine.
November 23, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Reiterating that there are more Gazans here and they are more persistent in posting their links because there has essentially been no flour in all of South Gaza for well over a week. It is also cold. Please treat them how you’d want people to treat you or your family in a famine.
The concept of the lyric (the poetic movement from interiority to exteriority) implies a poetic subject that is anterior to the poem. What are the ideological positions underpinning our willingness to accept that any poet's attention can ever be separated from the form into which it is funneled?
November 23, 2024 at 1:56 PM
The concept of the lyric (the poetic movement from interiority to exteriority) implies a poetic subject that is anterior to the poem. What are the ideological positions underpinning our willingness to accept that any poet's attention can ever be separated from the form into which it is funneled?
I have spent the past year transposing very old discursive and notational templates into poetic forms and am now realizing that beyond the abstract terms that we've all inherited from hylomorphism (form as the emergence of content, etc), I still need to figure out what a form actually is
November 23, 2024 at 1:41 PM
I have spent the past year transposing very old discursive and notational templates into poetic forms and am now realizing that beyond the abstract terms that we've all inherited from hylomorphism (form as the emergence of content, etc), I still need to figure out what a form actually is
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@djolder.bsky.social is hosting a workshop for us on narrative fundamentals on December 19th! All proceeds go to Motasim’s family in GZ. Sign up here: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/cri...
Crisis Creates Us: Fire at the Crossroads of Art and Activism — Workshops 4 Gaza
Register for “Crisis Creates Us” here . Donate to Motasim here (suggested donation $60USD). The poet Martín Espada wrote that every rebellion begins with the idea that conquerors on hors...
www.workshops4gaza.com
November 18, 2024 at 4:06 AM
@djolder.bsky.social is hosting a workshop for us on narrative fundamentals on December 19th! All proceeds go to Motasim’s family in GZ. Sign up here: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/cri...
And now: the "shameless self-promotion" segment of my día internacional del flamenco posts. Here's a poem from my book SEGUIRIYAS (Black Ocean, 2023) that treats the flamenco voice and duende as splints fusing fractured historical memory in the body, expanding on Nathaniel Mackey's related insights:
November 17, 2024 at 3:50 AM
And now: the "shameless self-promotion" segment of my día internacional del flamenco posts. Here's a poem from my book SEGUIRIYAS (Black Ocean, 2023) that treats the flamenco voice and duende as splints fusing fractured historical memory in the body, expanding on Nathaniel Mackey's related insights:
In the waning hours of día internacional del flamenco, I'll pivot to a reception of flamenco in the English by the poet Nathaniel Mackey. Mackey constellates flamenco and various black musics as attenuated responses to social death that can reanimate sundered memory: my-blackout.com/2018/09/27/n...
Nathaniel Mackey | Cante Moro
I would like to touch on the topic of “The New American Poetry“ where it opens onto matters we wouldn’t necessarily expect it to entail—not necessarily “new,” not necessarily “American,…
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November 17, 2024 at 3:10 AM
In the waning hours of día internacional del flamenco, I'll pivot to a reception of flamenco in the English by the poet Nathaniel Mackey. Mackey constellates flamenco and various black musics as attenuated responses to social death that can reanimate sundered memory: my-blackout.com/2018/09/27/n...
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After all, genocide is an act of community building.
November 16, 2024 at 10:14 PM
After all, genocide is an act of community building.
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A theme we’ve come up against in “Abraham to Oedipus” has been how inadequate an umbrella ‘Abrahamic’ is when there are shifting alliances between Judaism, Islam and Christianity and profound variability in the sacrifices made to be inside the community and the circle of divine acknowledgment
November 16, 2024 at 6:19 PM
A theme we’ve come up against in “Abraham to Oedipus” has been how inadequate an umbrella ‘Abrahamic’ is when there are shifting alliances between Judaism, Islam and Christianity and profound variability in the sacrifices made to be inside the community and the circle of divine acknowledgment
Flamenco culture has entered a wide variety of media. It makes sense, then, to use at least one of today's posts for día internacional del flamenco to direct you toward the kinetically charged and flamenco-inspired paintings and drawings of Patricio Hidalgo: www.patriciopinceles.com/galeria
Obras | patriciopinceles
www.patriciopinceles.com
November 17, 2024 at 2:21 AM
Flamenco culture has entered a wide variety of media. It makes sense, then, to use at least one of today's posts for día internacional del flamenco to direct you toward the kinetically charged and flamenco-inspired paintings and drawings of Patricio Hidalgo: www.patriciopinceles.com/galeria
I want to spotlight a few contemporary artists for día internacional del flamenco, since it's so easy to fall into the trap of focusing only on past greats. Here's Samuel Serrano, one of the best younger flamenco singers working today: youtu.be/cYpOtFoOxd4?...
SAMUEL SERRANO POR MARTINETES EN VIVO 2024
YouTube video by Samuel Serrano Cantaor Flamenco
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November 17, 2024 at 1:07 AM
I want to spotlight a few contemporary artists for día internacional del flamenco, since it's so easy to fall into the trap of focusing only on past greats. Here's Samuel Serrano, one of the best younger flamenco singers working today: youtu.be/cYpOtFoOxd4?...