Don Schofield
@don-schofield.bsky.social
Poet, Memoirist, Translator, Expat, Lover of Life
Out at last: FROM THE CYCLOPS CAVE: A BRAIDED MEMOIR
A story that intertwines past and present,
weaving a turbulent childhood in 1950s California
with an adult life shaped by solitude
on the Cycladic islands of Greece
Available at Open Books Press
Amazon USA & UK
A story that intertwines past and present,
weaving a turbulent childhood in 1950s California
with an adult life shaped by solitude
on the Cycladic islands of Greece
Available at Open Books Press
Amazon USA & UK
November 30, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Out at last: FROM THE CYCLOPS CAVE: A BRAIDED MEMOIR
A story that intertwines past and present,
weaving a turbulent childhood in 1950s California
with an adult life shaped by solitude
on the Cycladic islands of Greece
Available at Open Books Press
Amazon USA & UK
A story that intertwines past and present,
weaving a turbulent childhood in 1950s California
with an adult life shaped by solitude
on the Cycladic islands of Greece
Available at Open Books Press
Amazon USA & UK
More from the Serres Festival
November 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
More from the Serres Festival
What a wonderful two days of poetry, music and dance at the Third International Serres Poetry Festival. Warm thanks to Tryantafillos Kotopoulos, Isidora Malama and the many others who put on the events at the spacious Kronio Theater and in the warm blue light of the Zinzirli Mosque.
November 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
What a wonderful two days of poetry, music and dance at the Third International Serres Poetry Festival. Warm thanks to Tryantafillos Kotopoulos, Isidora Malama and the many others who put on the events at the spacious Kronio Theater and in the warm blue light of the Zinzirli Mosque.
Here's the November issue of Weekly Hubris (posting it again because I had trouble posting it earlier). Enjoy! weeklyhubris.com?fbclid=IwY2x...
Hubris – Ludic, Literate & Longform Since 2009.
weeklyhubris.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Here's the November issue of Weekly Hubris (posting it again because I had trouble posting it earlier). Enjoy! weeklyhubris.com?fbclid=IwY2x...
I'm delighted to be participating tomorrow and Saturday in the 3rd International Poetry Festival of Serres, Greece. This year the festival is honoring the centenary of Mikis Theodorakis' birth.
November 20, 2025 at 11:31 AM
I'm delighted to be participating tomorrow and Saturday in the 3rd International Poetry Festival of Serres, Greece. This year the festival is honoring the centenary of Mikis Theodorakis' birth.
Sure can relate to this.
Self promo is my bane; it makes me feel like an immense tit when I post stuff about my writing (thanks to upbringing - never blow your own horn), but it is increasingly apparent that all it means is that I'm utterly invisible as a writer...
So, anyway.
I have books and stories out there.
So, anyway.
I have books and stories out there.
November 20, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Sure can relate to this.
He's gone, just as the Greece he knew is gone. But like bits of carbon from stars, something of both remains. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Eky...
Leonard Cohen - Moving On (Official Video)
YouTube video by LeonardCohenVEVO
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November 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
He's gone, just as the Greece he knew is gone. But like bits of carbon from stars, something of both remains. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Eky...
Just out in Weekly Hubris, "Two Arrivals," an excerpt from my memoir FROM THE CYCLOPS CAVE, due out in a few weeks from Open Books Press. weeklyhubris.com/two-arrivals/
November 2, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Just out in Weekly Hubris, "Two Arrivals," an excerpt from my memoir FROM THE CYCLOPS CAVE, due out in a few weeks from Open Books Press. weeklyhubris.com/two-arrivals/
Just out in Weekly Hubris, "Two Arrivals," and excerpt from my memoir FROM THE CYCLOPS CAVE, due out in a few weeks from Open Books Press. weeklyhubris.com/two-arrivals/
November 2, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Just out in Weekly Hubris, "Two Arrivals," and excerpt from my memoir FROM THE CYCLOPS CAVE, due out in a few weeks from Open Books Press. weeklyhubris.com/two-arrivals/
A pleasure hearing Thanos Giannoudis, Martha Vasiliadi and Sofia Potari read and talk about Thanos’ translations of Four Poets on the Threshold of Modernism. And what a delight that they invited me—quite unexpectedly!—to read a couple in the original English. Thanks too Mythistoria Bookstore.
October 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
A pleasure hearing Thanos Giannoudis, Martha Vasiliadi and Sofia Potari read and talk about Thanos’ translations of Four Poets on the Threshold of Modernism. And what a delight that they invited me—quite unexpectedly!—to read a couple in the original English. Thanks too Mythistoria Bookstore.
My latest hospital adventure at Agio Louka (Thessaloniki):
Before.
Before.
October 7, 2025 at 11:39 AM
My latest hospital adventure at Agio Louka (Thessaloniki):
Before.
Before.
Many thanks to the Circle of Poetry and all the wonderful poets who read at this year's World Poetry Festival for an amazing four days of hope and dreams.
October 5, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Many thanks to the Circle of Poetry and all the wonderful poets who read at this year's World Poetry Festival for an amazing four days of hope and dreams.
It's rare that commentary on an excellent poem (the second one here, though the first is a fine poem too) moves me as much as the poem itself. But here Alicia Stallings does it with grace: www.english.ox.ac.uk/echolocation...
Echolocations: Reflections on Poems by A.E Stallings (Issue 4)
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September 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
It's rare that commentary on an excellent poem (the second one here, though the first is a fine poem too) moves me as much as the poem itself. But here Alicia Stallings does it with grace: www.english.ox.ac.uk/echolocation...
How can any human being turn a blind eye to the kinds of atrocities this whistleblower--and others--are bringing to light? No amount of rationalization, of "What about X," can make what's happening in Gaze right now right! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyNu...
Gaza Aid Whistleblower Speaks Out Amid Escalating Famine
YouTube video by Mother Jones
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August 1, 2025 at 6:57 AM
How can any human being turn a blind eye to the kinds of atrocities this whistleblower--and others--are bringing to light? No amount of rationalization, of "What about X," can make what's happening in Gaze right now right! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyNu...
Among the few "leaders" speaking out. So many more need to step up. www.politico.eu/article/gaza...
Gaza killings denounced as ‘disgrace to humanity’ by Belgian king
The EU’s top brass has not publicly responded to the reported deaths of over 100 aid seekers in Gaza over the weekend.
www.politico.eu
July 21, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Among the few "leaders" speaking out. So many more need to step up. www.politico.eu/article/gaza...
And here’s the link to the excerpt from TRO-KAY. Many thanks to Charlotte Slivka and the folks at Lit Mag.
www.litmagazine.org/in-transit/
www.litmagazine.org/in-transit/
In Transit – LIT
www.litmagazine.org
July 4, 2025 at 7:22 AM
And here’s the link to the excerpt from TRO-KAY. Many thanks to Charlotte Slivka and the folks at Lit Mag.
www.litmagazine.org/in-transit/
www.litmagazine.org/in-transit/
The Summer ’25 issue of Lit Magazine, published by the creative writing master’s program at NYC’s New School, is just out, which includes the first chapter of my micro-memoir TRO-KAY: A MOURNING JOURNAL. Enjoy!
www.litmagazine.org/lit-40-summe...
www.litmagazine.org/lit-40-summe...
LIT 40, Summer 2025 – LIT
www.litmagazine.org
July 4, 2025 at 7:21 AM
The Summer ’25 issue of Lit Magazine, published by the creative writing master’s program at NYC’s New School, is just out, which includes the first chapter of my micro-memoir TRO-KAY: A MOURNING JOURNAL. Enjoy!
www.litmagazine.org/lit-40-summe...
www.litmagazine.org/lit-40-summe...
Reposted by Don Schofield
I spent so many years covering propaganda anticipating this exact moment and so many of my peers bought the paid-for contrarian line that even covering disinformation was somehow, itself, censorship.
Now we're at the event horizon. Celebration is protest is riot is justification for a police state.
Now we're at the event horizon. Celebration is protest is riot is justification for a police state.
This took a while to get done, but I've chronicled my day among the protesters in Los Angeles, and the idea that this is anything but a celebration of cultural heritage and a firm, nonviolent demand to protect family, friends and neighbors is totally ridiculous.
prospect.org/justice/crie...
prospect.org/justice/crie...
Cries of Defiance and Songs of Joy in Los Angeles
The protesters are being called unspeakably violent by the Trump administration. I mostly saw clergy sit-ins and Tejano bands.
prospect.org
June 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I spent so many years covering propaganda anticipating this exact moment and so many of my peers bought the paid-for contrarian line that even covering disinformation was somehow, itself, censorship.
Now we're at the event horizon. Celebration is protest is riot is justification for a police state.
Now we're at the event horizon. Celebration is protest is riot is justification for a police state.
Reposted by Don Schofield
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
May 20, 2025 at 11:04 AM
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
Those of you who like poetry rendered into music (even in other languages) might enjoy this evening of contemporary classical music by the contemporary Greek composer Georgos Zervos. Soprano Fani Antonelou first reads the three poems,
May 18, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Those of you who like poetry rendered into music (even in other languages) might enjoy this evening of contemporary classical music by the contemporary Greek composer Georgos Zervos. Soprano Fani Antonelou first reads the three poems,
I was in Job Corps with him. While he hit the pushing bag all day, I studied warehousing. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/m...
George Foreman: from outsider to one of America’s most popular sportsmen
A multiple boxing world heavyweight champion who became a pastor, television celebrity and successful entrepreneur
www.theguardian.com
March 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I was in Job Corps with him. While he hit the pushing bag all day, I studied warehousing. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/m...
Many thanks to Todd Sullivan and Samjoko Magazine (in the Republic of Korea!) for publishing three poems from A Different Heaven. Great to see them!
www.samjokomagazine.com/athens-snow
www.samjokomagazine.com/athens-snow
Athens Snow — Samjoko
www.samjokomagazine.com
March 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Many thanks to Todd Sullivan and Samjoko Magazine (in the Republic of Korea!) for publishing three poems from A Different Heaven. Great to see them!
www.samjokomagazine.com/athens-snow
www.samjokomagazine.com/athens-snow
Many thanks to Todd Sullivan and Samjoko Magazine (in the Republic of Korea!) for publishing three poems from A Different Heaven. Great to see them!
www.samjokomagazine.com/athens-snow
www.samjokomagazine.com/athens-snow
Athens Snow — Samjoko
www.samjokomagazine.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Many thanks to Todd Sullivan and Samjoko Magazine (in the Republic of Korea!) for publishing three poems from A Different Heaven. Great to see them!
www.samjokomagazine.com/athens-snow
www.samjokomagazine.com/athens-snow