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Christina Sharpe. Writer/Professor/CRC. Ordinary Notes (2023). In the Wake: On Blackness & Being (2016). Monstrous Intimacies (2010). What Could a Vessel Be? (2026). Black. Still. Life. (2027) Agent: Jackie Ko/Wylie
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Read The World After Rain.
November 2, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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A student brought me these eggs. Beauty.
A dozen chicken eggs. Browns. Greens. Light blues. Beauty.
October 22, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Canadian paperback. Coming soon-ish.
ORDINARY NOTES CHRISTINA SHARPE NATIONAL-BOOK-AWARD FINALIST WRITER'S TRUST HILARY WESTON PRIZE WINNER NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
October 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Next. Canisia Lubrin’s The World After Rain.
FROM THE AUTHOR OF CODE NOIR THE WORLD AFTER RAIN CANISIA LUBRIN
October 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Tomorrow. Asiya Wadud’s Syncope and Natalie Diaz’s Postcolonial Love Poem.
Asiya Wadud’s Syncope and Natalie Diaz’s Postcolonial Love Poem. Syncope has a blue cover with black lines cut by circles. Diaz’ cover is a blurred photo of the pier with her hand fixing her bangs. One eye visible. She is wearing a black and red beaded necklace.
October 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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The US edition of The City of Our Dreaming is available for sale. Use the discount code in the image!
THE ALCHEMY LECTURE The City of Our Dreaming LALEH KHALILI V. MITCH MCEWEN GABRIELA LEANDRO PEREIRA LEANNE BETASAMOSAKE SIMPSON With an Introduction by CHRISTINA SHARPE The City of Our Dreaming The Alchemy Lecture LALEH KHALILI, V. MITCH MCEWEN, GABRIELA LEANDRO PEREIRA, AND LEANNE BETASAMOSAKE SIMPSON The third annual Alchemy Lecture brought together four "Alchemists"-thinkers and practitioners working across disciplines and geographies-to share a constellation of ideas for the future. Their urgent, poignant and inventive lectures comprise The City of Our Dreaming, which shares their ideas for cities and how to shape them according to community needs. Together, V. Mitch McEwen, Laleh Khalili, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, and Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer and musician Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, offer new models for crafting architectures of freedom in disparate imaginative spaces. From suggesting a city modeled on buoyancy that reconsiders displacement and a dream of radical kinship and bonds through reciprocal giving, to "projects paved by the audacity to inhabit" that are built from dreams-the site from which all Black emancipation begins-and the ways collectives form at the thresholds between things, The City of our Dreaming is a clarion calls for new conceptions of city life. The Alchemists imagine the architectures and infrastructures that make possible, inevitable and irresistible gestures of freedom, modes of sustenance, and the necessity and pleasure of breaking bread, together. dukeupress.edu/the-city-of-our-dreaming November 2025 | 182 pages 978-1-4780-3869-6 | $26.95 paperback $18.87 with discount Special offer: Use coupon code E26CITYD to save 30% when you order from dukeupress.edu. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
October 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Happy pub day! The World After Rain. Canisia Lubrin.
FROM THE AUTHOR OF CODE NOIR THE WORLD AFTER RAIN CANISIA LUBRIN "How incandescent the language is, each line emitting light through the membrane of time and anticipated grief. The work has a rigorousness, the poet pushing through the ache of experience from the first to the last word." DIONNE BRAND
October 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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A mini bouquet of pink dahlia on a bookshelf with inventory (Dionne Brand), Feeding the Ghosts (Fred D’Aguiar), Blacklife (Rinaldo Walcott and Idil Abdillahi), The Renunciations (Donika Kelly), Slave Moth (Thalias Moss) and Wilson Harris (Companions of the Day and Night) among others. Some beauty.
A mini bouquet of pink dahlia on a bookshelf with inventory (Dionne Brand), Feeding the Ghosts (Fred D’Aguiar), Blacklife (Rinaldo Walcott and Idil Abdillahi), The Renunciations (Donika Kelly), Slave Moth (Thalias Moss) and Wilson Harris (Companions of the Day and Night) among others.
October 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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It’s The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action.
October 11, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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The garden. Hosta. Japanese grasses. Smoke bush. Barberry. Fall.
October 11, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Some light. The garden in fall. Some respite.
Sunset. Pink clouds. Smokebush. Lilac. Wire. Sunset. Pink clouds. Smokebush. Lilac. Wire.
October 11, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Love after Love. Derek Walcott.
Love after Love Derek Walcott The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread, Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.
October 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Double delight. Some beauty.
Double delight roses. Profile. Brilliant pink petals. Green leaves.
October 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Water lily. Pink with bright yellow stamens. .
October 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Flight.
Clouds sky horizon and a shaft of light out of the window of a plane. Clouds sky horizon and a shaft of light out of the window of a plane. Clouds sky horizon setting sun and a shaft of light out of the window of a plane.
October 5, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Some small beauty. September Charm. Japanese Anemone.
September Charm. Japanese Anemone. Pink flowers with yellow stamen and whitish center. September Charm. Japanese Anemone. Pink flowers with yellow stamen and whitish center. September Charm. Japanese Anemone. Pink flowers with yellow stamen and whitish center.
September 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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That rose. Beauty.
Double delight rose. Yellowish cream and shades of pink. Double delight rose. Yellowish cream and shades of pink. Double delight rose. Yellowish cream and shades of pink. Double delight rose. Yellowish cream and shades of pink.
September 26, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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That double delight rose.
Pink white yellowy cream. Double delight rose. Pink white yellowy cream. Double delight rose. Pink white yellowy cream. Double delight rose. Pink white yellowy cream. Double delight rose.
September 21, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Three hummingbirds at the feeder. Every day they helped me.

Some large beauty.
September 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Ruby topaz. Look at his head.
September 19, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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I spent months in their company. Every day they lifted my spirits. Black throated mango (I believe).
September 19, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
The new TOC from academia dot edu. By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.
September 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Steve McQueen. BASS. Schaulager. Basel.
September 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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The Alchemy Lecture 2025

Sound—at the Interregnum

Glen Coulthard
Canisia Lubrin
Madeleine Thien
Immanuel Wilkins

Date: October 30, 2025
Time: 5 - 8 p.m. (Reception: 5 - 6 p.m.)
Venue: Tribute Communities Recital Hall, CIBC Lobby (Location) YorkU
Event type: Hybrid – in person and online
GLEN COULTHARD (Yellowknives Dene/Canada), Scholar of Indigenous Studies) CANISIA LUBRIN (St. Lucia/Canada) Poet MADELEINE THIEN (Canada) Novelist IMMANUEL WILKINS (US) Saxophonist, Composer, Arranger
September 14, 2025 at 8:25 AM