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@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
a new small post on 柏舟 ("Cypress Boat") from the Book of Songs (c 600 BCE).

My heart is not a mirror
To reflect what others will

My heart is not a stone
It cannot be rolled

My heart is not a mat
It cannot be folded away

我心匪鑑 不可以茹
我心匪石 不可轉也
我心匪席 不可卷也

#everynightapoem chowleen.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
(Because we need a diversion)

I don’t have the NYT cooking app so someone who does might tell me: why would it take a whole *30 minutes* to make egg drop soup?? Are we collecting eggs from the hen coop? Making bone broth from scratch??
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Watched Taxi Driver again tonight - last saw it in college probably.
Just astoundingly, disturbingly good.
November 8, 2025 at 5:09 AM
"We are the leaders we've been waiting for."
-Grace Lee Boggs
November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
via @notoriousrsg.bsky.social: "Holding a Roaring Twenties party for your billionaire friends while you’re doing everything you can to make Americans relive the 1930s."
November 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Both recovering from the plague, but wouldn’t miss a vote. Actually 15yo gave me informed opinions on the slate, and helped me make up my mind on a key vote
#nc #vote
November 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Durham County Government, in collaboration with local partners, has created a food and nutrition resources page that contains important information and links for residents who are impacted by the federal government shutdown.
#Durham #NC #food
➡🔗 dconc.gov/Public-Infor...
November 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
“It is also November. The noons are more laconic and the sundowns sterner...November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.”

-Emily Dickinson, letter to Elizabeth Holland (Nov 1865)
#everynightapoem #november
November 3, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I just love that Otani shared this Yamamoto lion’s roar
#大谷翔平 #山本由伸 #WorldSeries
November 2, 2025 at 8:16 PM
My tsundoku 積ん読 to be read book pile costume was originally crowned with a nightstand reading lamp on my head, but it toppled over…
#halloween
November 1, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I was going to attend the ball of ghosts and witches,
A delegation would appear there in masks and wigs,
And dance, unrecognized, in the chorus of the living.

Czeslaw Milosz, All Hallow's Eve
#everynightapoem
November 1, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Deciduous indecisiveness
October 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The level of pumpkin carving to which I aspire
(By the artist Michael Cherney)

「忽肚痛不可堪,不知是冷熱所致,欲服大黃湯,冷熱俱有益。如何為計,非臨床。」
October 29, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Absolutely worth seeing on 35mm in theaters #bugonia
October 27, 2025 at 1:55 AM
"Protests broke out in Chinatown after an ICE raid on Canal Street. Multiple people were detained. According to AMNY, 30-40 vendors were arrested, while ICE officials say 9."

[Susan Chen, Chinatown Block Watch, 2022 @brooklynmuseum.org]
October 23, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Always great to have the opportunity to welcome Curtis Chin to Duke! I will be in conversation with Curtis, and the talk will be free and open to the public.
If you're in #DurhamNC area:
TODAY 10/22 Wed, East Duke Building 209 4pm
October 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
You wonder who they mean,
but then you see. Their poison hemlock? That
is you. Their brown tree snake. Their killer bee.

-Amit Majmudar, 'Invasive Species'
#everynightapoem
We flower where we flower.
October 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
And of course this was the verso of my “Immigrant and Here to Stay” sign #nokings #durhamnc
October 19, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Got off the plane and went straight to #nokings #durhamnc. What a turnout.

(Love my neighbors- so many folks cheered my “Immigrant and Here to Stay” sign)
October 19, 2025 at 1:09 AM
High school students representing!
October 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This was startling yesterday
October 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
October 16, 2025 at 10:17 PM
On Beale Street.

In Memphis for the first time to give a public lecture at Rhodes College this evening, on the subject of southern Asian food, and tomorrow I'll be taking part in and delivering a keynote for the #1882Foundation Conference on Rural Chinatowns and Hidden Sites. 🩷 1882foundation.org
October 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I am the man. I suffered,
I was there.
-Whitman

In Baldwin’s hand, cover page for the manuscript of Giovanni’s Room
#everynightapoem
October 15, 2025 at 1:37 AM
James Baldwin, May 17, 1963

Time Magazine cover palate cleanser
October 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM