Reposted by Ilya Kaminsky
War on immigrants who probably fled countries where the U.S. started wars
October 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM
War on immigrants who probably fled countries where the U.S. started wars
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Hello from Odesa, Ukraine, friends. An intense 24hours here, ranging from sleepless night of bombardments to a wondrous meeting of poetry with kids at our Poetry Studio (poemsnotbombs.org) here in Odesa.
Hello from Odesa, Ukraine, friends. An intense 24hours here, ranging from sleepless night of bombardments to a wondrous meeting of poetry with kids at our Poetry Studio (poemsnotbombs.org) here in Odesa.
September 7, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Hello from Odesa, Ukraine, friends. An intense 24hours here, ranging from sleepless night of bombardments to a wondrous meeting of poetry with kids at our Poetry Studio (poemsnotbombs.org) here in Odesa.
Hello from Odesa, Ukraine, friends. An intense 24hours here, ranging from sleepless night of bombardments to a wondrous meeting of poetry with kids at our Poetry Studio (poemsnotbombs.org) here in Odesa.
Reposted by Ilya Kaminsky
✨COVER REVEAL!✨ Poetry in translation collection LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET GO TO WAR by acclaimed Ukrainian writer Lesyk Panasiuk, translated by National Book Award finalist poet Ilya Kaminsky (@ilyakaminsky.bsky.social) and Katie Ferris is available January 2026.
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September 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
✨COVER REVEAL!✨ Poetry in translation collection LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET GO TO WAR by acclaimed Ukrainian writer Lesyk Panasiuk, translated by National Book Award finalist poet Ilya Kaminsky (@ilyakaminsky.bsky.social) and Katie Ferris is available January 2026.
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Friends, I will be taking time away from social media for a while. Be well.
Vacation
Today I cannot receive you
desperation, disappointment, tough legions of death.
Come by some other time, never,
and leave gallantly your business cards.
Emil Botta, Tr. from Romanian by Liviu Georgesc
Vacation
Today I cannot receive you
desperation, disappointment, tough legions of death.
Come by some other time, never,
and leave gallantly your business cards.
Emil Botta, Tr. from Romanian by Liviu Georgesc
July 17, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Friends, I will be taking time away from social media for a while. Be well.
Vacation
Today I cannot receive you
desperation, disappointment, tough legions of death.
Come by some other time, never,
and leave gallantly your business cards.
Emil Botta, Tr. from Romanian by Liviu Georgesc
Vacation
Today I cannot receive you
desperation, disappointment, tough legions of death.
Come by some other time, never,
and leave gallantly your business cards.
Emil Botta, Tr. from Romanian by Liviu Georgesc
When our government is asking to spend millions of dollars on the unnecessary wall instead of very necessary health care plans, these words should be our rallying cry:
"Move disability from the realm of medicine into that of political minorities"
--Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
"Move disability from the realm of medicine into that of political minorities"
--Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
July 8, 2025 at 2:54 AM
When our government is asking to spend millions of dollars on the unnecessary wall instead of very necessary health care plans, these words should be our rallying cry:
"Move disability from the realm of medicine into that of political minorities"
--Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
"Move disability from the realm of medicine into that of political minorities"
--Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
I went to college in 1997. My mother was a widow, a refugee, and couldn’t help me pay for it. There is no way I would be able to afford college if it was 2025 & the bill US Congress just passed was the law of the land. There are millions of people like me. What a shame.
July 3, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I went to college in 1997. My mother was a widow, a refugee, and couldn’t help me pay for it. There is no way I would be able to afford college if it was 2025 & the bill US Congress just passed was the law of the land. There are millions of people like me. What a shame.
Everyone is tired of endless images of violence—but if I don’t post this, who will? Since you won’t find it in most Western news: Russia attacked Odesa again, yet another assault this week. “A court martial of a city,” a friend calls it.
June 20, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Everyone is tired of endless images of violence—but if I don’t post this, who will? Since you won’t find it in most Western news: Russia attacked Odesa again, yet another assault this week. “A court martial of a city,” a friend calls it.
“ Write it. Write. In ordinary ink
on ordinary paper: they were given no food,
they all died of hunger. "All. How many?
It's a big meadow….”
Szymborska wrote this after WW2. What changed? Starving people is a war crime. Starving people is a war crime.
t.co/9Elc3lTWud
on ordinary paper: they were given no food,
they all died of hunger. "All. How many?
It's a big meadow….”
Szymborska wrote this after WW2. What changed? Starving people is a war crime. Starving people is a war crime.
t.co/9Elc3lTWud
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hunger-camp-at-jaslo/
t.co
June 17, 2025 at 9:30 PM
“ Write it. Write. In ordinary ink
on ordinary paper: they were given no food,
they all died of hunger. "All. How many?
It's a big meadow….”
Szymborska wrote this after WW2. What changed? Starving people is a war crime. Starving people is a war crime.
t.co/9Elc3lTWud
on ordinary paper: they were given no food,
they all died of hunger. "All. How many?
It's a big meadow….”
Szymborska wrote this after WW2. What changed? Starving people is a war crime. Starving people is a war crime.
t.co/9Elc3lTWud
Killing people in food lines is a war crime.
June 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Killing people in food lines is a war crime.
Four words, and already we are in Kafka Territory:
"Hey You! Papers, please?"
"Hey You! Papers, please?"
June 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Four words, and already we are in Kafka Territory:
"Hey You! Papers, please?"
"Hey You! Papers, please?"
Overheard:
"Soon, bored with their i-phones, i-pods and other forms of "mini me" which they see as mirrors, and not forms of surveillance -- they will udnerstand: t o remember is to betray a regime built on forgetting. Memory itself becomes a form of rebellion."
"Soon, bored with their i-phones, i-pods and other forms of "mini me" which they see as mirrors, and not forms of surveillance -- they will udnerstand: t o remember is to betray a regime built on forgetting. Memory itself becomes a form of rebellion."
June 14, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Overheard:
"Soon, bored with their i-phones, i-pods and other forms of "mini me" which they see as mirrors, and not forms of surveillance -- they will udnerstand: t o remember is to betray a regime built on forgetting. Memory itself becomes a form of rebellion."
"Soon, bored with their i-phones, i-pods and other forms of "mini me" which they see as mirrors, and not forms of surveillance -- they will udnerstand: t o remember is to betray a regime built on forgetting. Memory itself becomes a form of rebellion."
overheard:
"In a life-time of a regime, a moment arrives when vulgarity isn’t a personal failing — it’s a state policy. Kitsch is armor against ethics; it’s collective anesthesia, pumped through every glowing screen and marching chant.
"In a life-time of a regime, a moment arrives when vulgarity isn’t a personal failing — it’s a state policy. Kitsch is armor against ethics; it’s collective anesthesia, pumped through every glowing screen and marching chant.
June 14, 2025 at 2:31 AM
overheard:
"In a life-time of a regime, a moment arrives when vulgarity isn’t a personal failing — it’s a state policy. Kitsch is armor against ethics; it’s collective anesthesia, pumped through every glowing screen and marching chant.
"In a life-time of a regime, a moment arrives when vulgarity isn’t a personal failing — it’s a state policy. Kitsch is armor against ethics; it’s collective anesthesia, pumped through every glowing screen and marching chant.
Our Kids Poetry Studio in Odesa is in second year and kids, many of whom are refugees of war, are writing poems. If you read Ukrainian, here is the article: vo.od.ua/rubrics/kult... If you read English, here is a link: poemsnotbombs.org. Please consider support this work.
May 29, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Our Kids Poetry Studio in Odesa is in second year and kids, many of whom are refugees of war, are writing poems. If you read Ukrainian, here is the article: vo.od.ua/rubrics/kult... If you read English, here is a link: poemsnotbombs.org. Please consider support this work.
Yesterday, Russia unleashed the biggest drone bombardment on Ukraine since war. People died. Meanwhile in Odesa, Ukraine, kids who are refugees of war continue to meet at the poetry studio and write poems—despite attacks on the city.
Please support:
poemsnotbombs.org
Please support:
poemsnotbombs.org
May 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Yesterday, Russia unleashed the biggest drone bombardment on Ukraine since war. People died. Meanwhile in Odesa, Ukraine, kids who are refugees of war continue to meet at the poetry studio and write poems—despite attacks on the city.
Please support:
poemsnotbombs.org
Please support:
poemsnotbombs.org
Overheard:
“—This isn’t a time for decent people.”
“—When is?”
“—This isn’t a time for decent people.”
“—When is?”
May 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Overheard:
“—This isn’t a time for decent people.”
“—When is?”
“—This isn’t a time for decent people.”
“—When is?”
"Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on."
--Simone Weil
--Simone Weil
May 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
"Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on."
--Simone Weil
--Simone Weil
A writing prompt to distract you for a few minutes from the sadness of what we see around us:
“Give to each emotion a personality, to each state of mind a soul”
— Pessoa, 1931
“Give to each emotion a personality, to each state of mind a soul”
— Pessoa, 1931
May 3, 2025 at 10:53 AM
A writing prompt to distract you for a few minutes from the sadness of what we see around us:
“Give to each emotion a personality, to each state of mind a soul”
— Pessoa, 1931
“Give to each emotion a personality, to each state of mind a soul”
— Pessoa, 1931
Friends: Katie & I were a part of a team working on a documentary about Viktor, deaf man in war zone in Ukraine. And now you have a chance to see it in NYC & speak to Viktor himself, who will visit from Ukraine:
Sun., May 4
4:30 pm | LeFrak Theater at the American Museum of Natural History
Sun., May 4
4:30 pm | LeFrak Theater at the American Museum of Natural History
April 30, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Friends: Katie & I were a part of a team working on a documentary about Viktor, deaf man in war zone in Ukraine. And now you have a chance to see it in NYC & speak to Viktor himself, who will visit from Ukraine:
Sun., May 4
4:30 pm | LeFrak Theater at the American Museum of Natural History
Sun., May 4
4:30 pm | LeFrak Theater at the American Museum of Natural History
“We knew the war would come.
Still, it caught us unprepared.”
—Szymborska
(from “The End and the Beginning”)
Still, it caught us unprepared.”
—Szymborska
(from “The End and the Beginning”)
April 25, 2025 at 10:17 AM
“We knew the war would come.
Still, it caught us unprepared.”
—Szymborska
(from “The End and the Beginning”)
Still, it caught us unprepared.”
—Szymborska
(from “The End and the Beginning”)
"In our former lives, we have all been earth, stone, dew, wind, fire, moss, tree, insect, fish, turtle, bird and mammal"
--Thich Nhat Hanh (quoting the Buddha)
--Thich Nhat Hanh (quoting the Buddha)
April 18, 2025 at 4:02 AM
"In our former lives, we have all been earth, stone, dew, wind, fire, moss, tree, insect, fish, turtle, bird and mammal"
--Thich Nhat Hanh (quoting the Buddha)
--Thich Nhat Hanh (quoting the Buddha)
Orban, Putin, Erdogan….sounds familiar?
Just saying:
Just saying:
April 17, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Orban, Putin, Erdogan….sounds familiar?
Just saying:
Just saying: