Vivek Narayanan
@naravive.bsky.social
Poetry: The Kuruntokai and its Mirror (Hanuman Editions, 2024); After (New York Review Books / HarperCollins India, 2022); Life and Times of Mr. S (2012); Universal Beach (2006). I teach Creative Writing in the MFA Program at George Mason University.
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Astonishing finds excavated at Berenike in Egypt include Buddha images & other artifacts from India and some made locally in Indian style, plus a bilingual Sanskrit & Greek dedicatory inscription found near a marble Buddha head in an Isis temple courtyard.
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December 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Astonishing finds excavated at Berenike in Egypt include Buddha images & other artifacts from India and some made locally in Indian style, plus a bilingual Sanskrit & Greek dedicatory inscription found near a marble Buddha head in an Isis temple courtyard.
publications.dainst.org/journals/jdi...
publications.dainst.org/journals/jdi...
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This is important www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This is important www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
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"Greeks living in Afghanistan were Buddhist 500 years before China and a thousand years before Southeast Asia" is one of those things that sounds made up but is in fact true
November 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"Greeks living in Afghanistan were Buddhist 500 years before China and a thousand years before Southeast Asia" is one of those things that sounds made up but is in fact true
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Happy pub day to Ron Padgett. ☺️
2013👇 2025👇
2013👇 2025👇
November 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Happy pub day to Ron Padgett. ☺️
2013👇 2025👇
2013👇 2025👇
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I'm delighted to be reading poems this Tuesday evening with @naravive.bsky.social!
Link to register here: bit.ly/WTUI_Nov2025
Link to register here: bit.ly/WTUI_Nov2025
November 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I'm delighted to be reading poems this Tuesday evening with @naravive.bsky.social!
Link to register here: bit.ly/WTUI_Nov2025
Link to register here: bit.ly/WTUI_Nov2025
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Someone tag the Labour party: ““This was a cynical strategic manoeuvre to avoid losing voters to the far right, but it seems, based on polling, that all they have done is prime their own voters to join the far right rather than stay with the Social Democrats.””
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Centre-left tipped to lose Copenhagen for first time in electoral history
Political rivals say PM’s divisive politics have encouraged voters to ditch the Social Democrats for the far right
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Someone tag the Labour party: ““This was a cynical strategic manoeuvre to avoid losing voters to the far right, but it seems, based on polling, that all they have done is prime their own voters to join the far right rather than stay with the Social Democrats.””
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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When copying the #Mahabharata in #Persian in 18th-century #India, did one praise Allah or Rama?
Sometimes, the copyist praised both.
More Hindus read the epics in Persian (versus Sanskrit) in this period.
Images courtesy of Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
Sometimes, the copyist praised both.
More Hindus read the epics in Persian (versus Sanskrit) in this period.
Images courtesy of Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
November 18, 2025 at 10:12 AM
When copying the #Mahabharata in #Persian in 18th-century #India, did one praise Allah or Rama?
Sometimes, the copyist praised both.
More Hindus read the epics in Persian (versus Sanskrit) in this period.
Images courtesy of Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
Sometimes, the copyist praised both.
More Hindus read the epics in Persian (versus Sanskrit) in this period.
Images courtesy of Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
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I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
November 18, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
@nathanpspoon.bsky.social ’s new book, The Importance of Being Feeble Minded is really delightful and I’m looking forward to reading with him on Tuesday, in the What the Universe Is series.
I'm delighted to be reading poems this Tuesday evening with @naravive.bsky.social!
Link to register here: bit.ly/WTUI_Nov2025
Link to register here: bit.ly/WTUI_Nov2025
November 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
@nathanpspoon.bsky.social ’s new book, The Importance of Being Feeble Minded is really delightful and I’m looking forward to reading with him on Tuesday, in the What the Universe Is series.
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Amazing to have a byline with @cbo.bsky.social - read our take on Watson’s ultimate legacy in the Boston Globe. Will be in Sunday’s print edition.
"What James Watson got wrong about DNA"
By the great Sohini Ramachandran (@sramach.bsky.social) and your boy for The Boston Globe (@bostonglobe.com).
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/14/o...
By the great Sohini Ramachandran (@sramach.bsky.social) and your boy for The Boston Globe (@bostonglobe.com).
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/14/o...
What James Watson got wrong about DNA - The Boston Globe
The science he helped pioneer consistently undermines his view that genes determine everything about us.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Amazing to have a byline with @cbo.bsky.social - read our take on Watson’s ultimate legacy in the Boston Globe. Will be in Sunday’s print edition.
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No contract, no coffee.
I'm proud to stand in solidarity with @sbworkersunited.org as they strike for the wages, dignity, and respect they deserve.
Starbucks must come to the table and negotiate in good faith.
I'm proud to stand in solidarity with @sbworkersunited.org as they strike for the wages, dignity, and respect they deserve.
Starbucks must come to the table and negotiate in good faith.
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 15, 2025 at 2:32 AM
No contract, no coffee.
I'm proud to stand in solidarity with @sbworkersunited.org as they strike for the wages, dignity, and respect they deserve.
Starbucks must come to the table and negotiate in good faith.
I'm proud to stand in solidarity with @sbworkersunited.org as they strike for the wages, dignity, and respect they deserve.
Starbucks must come to the table and negotiate in good faith.
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Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
October 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
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The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...
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National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders
National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe
www.chosun.com
September 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...
www.chosun.com/english/nati...
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For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper
Joseph Fasano
Now I let it fall back
in the grasses.
I hear you. I know
this life is hard now...
Joseph Fasano
Now I let it fall back
in the grasses.
I hear you. I know
this life is hard now...
For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper
Now I let it fall back in the grasses. I hear you. I know this life is hard now. I know your days are precious on this earth. But what are you trying to be free of? The living? The miraculous task of ...
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September 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper
Joseph Fasano
Now I let it fall back
in the grasses.
I hear you. I know
this life is hard now...
Joseph Fasano
Now I let it fall back
in the grasses.
I hear you. I know
this life is hard now...
essay by Eileen Myles/ poem by Leslie Scalapino— both amazing
Today's Feature:
What Sparks Poetry: Eileen Myles on Leslie Scalapino's "III"
Read here:
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What Sparks Poetry: Eileen Myles on Leslie Scalapino's "III"
Read here:
spare.poems.com/features/wha...
Eileen Myles on Leslie Scalapino
Anything goes but with Leslie it's both the gentility and the audacity of the meeting of her work that produces sex or allows how sex occurs in her world that has such a profound effect on me. She tur...
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September 16, 2025 at 1:48 AM
essay by Eileen Myles/ poem by Leslie Scalapino— both amazing
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Congratulations to Arthur Sze for being named the 25th U.S. Poet Laureate!
We featured his poem, Papyrus Pantoum, in April.
Read here:
spare.poems.com/poem/Papyrus...
We featured his poem, Papyrus Pantoum, in April.
Read here:
spare.poems.com/poem/Papyrus...
Papyrus Pantoum
under a rising moon, we step along a ridge of white sand—
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September 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Congratulations to Arthur Sze for being named the 25th U.S. Poet Laureate!
We featured his poem, Papyrus Pantoum, in April.
Read here:
spare.poems.com/poem/Papyrus...
We featured his poem, Papyrus Pantoum, in April.
Read here:
spare.poems.com/poem/Papyrus...
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I think about this poem by Ian Duhig — about Jo Cox, the Labour MP assassinated by a man shouting ‘Britain first’ — every day at the moment. No other contemporary poet has looked so clearly at the political reality of the far right as a minority who must always be appeased
September 13, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I think about this poem by Ian Duhig — about Jo Cox, the Labour MP assassinated by a man shouting ‘Britain first’ — every day at the moment. No other contemporary poet has looked so clearly at the political reality of the far right as a minority who must always be appeased
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A couple of thoughts on the Hindu nationalist response to Navarro's comments. Brief 🧵 --
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Peter Navarro’s Remarks About ‘Brahmins’ Profiteering From Russian Oil Sparks Controversy
The remarks caused an outrage in India with many calling it ‘casteist' and 'sinister' and denouncing it as an “anti-Hindu” narrative.
thewire.in
September 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
A couple of thoughts on the Hindu nationalist response to Navarro's comments. Brief 🧵 --
thewire.in/diplomacy/pe...
thewire.in/diplomacy/pe...
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The Woman Holding Chinese Mining Giants Accountable insideclimatenews.org/news/2408202...
The Woman Holding Chinese Mining Giants Accountable - Inside Climate News
Jingjing Zhang has fought polluting Chinese companies for decades. Now she’s teaching lawyers across the Global South how to do the same. Her work has never been more urgent.
insideclimatenews.org
August 25, 2025 at 6:11 AM
The Woman Holding Chinese Mining Giants Accountable insideclimatenews.org/news/2408202...
Looks like this is working fine, but still testing it. Would you all please go and add a couple seed lines of your own? The more seed lines the programs have to choose from, the more interesting the results. *Remember to add lines to all four games / tabs, so we can see how they work.*.
the-desnos-machine.replit.app
THE DESNOS MACHINE
Hi all, a few of you may know/remember that I've been exploring tech-assisted collaborative / mass poetry composition / performance for many years. Here, some brand new incarnations of Michael Scharf's and my *Desnos Machine*.
THE DESNOS MACHINE
Hi all, a few of you may know/remember that I've been exploring tech-assisted collaborative / mass poetry composition / performance for many years. Here, some brand new incarnations of Michael Scharf's and my *Desnos Machine*.
Desnos II multi-user
the-desnos-machine.replit.app
August 22, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Looks like this is working fine, but still testing it. Would you all please go and add a couple seed lines of your own? The more seed lines the programs have to choose from, the more interesting the results. *Remember to add lines to all four games / tabs, so we can see how they work.*.
the-desnos-machine.replit.app
THE DESNOS MACHINE
Hi all, a few of you may know/remember that I've been exploring tech-assisted collaborative / mass poetry composition / performance for many years. Here, some brand new incarnations of Michael Scharf's and my *Desnos Machine*.
THE DESNOS MACHINE
Hi all, a few of you may know/remember that I've been exploring tech-assisted collaborative / mass poetry composition / performance for many years. Here, some brand new incarnations of Michael Scharf's and my *Desnos Machine*.
Desnos II multi-user
the-desnos-machine.replit.app
August 18, 2025 at 4:33 AM
the-desnos-machine.replit.app
THE DESNOS MACHINE
Hi all, a few of you may know/remember that I've been exploring tech-assisted collaborative / mass poetry composition / performance for many years. Here, some brand new incarnations of Michael Scharf's and my *Desnos Machine*.
THE DESNOS MACHINE
Hi all, a few of you may know/remember that I've been exploring tech-assisted collaborative / mass poetry composition / performance for many years. Here, some brand new incarnations of Michael Scharf's and my *Desnos Machine*.
I was unhappy with the ending of Galatea 2.2 (1995!) when I read it in like 2003, but now when I think, it was not only very prophetic but may offer us a way of thinking out of our delusions and the ai hype/ mess we're in. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galatea...
Galatea 2.2 - Wikipedia
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August 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I was unhappy with the ending of Galatea 2.2 (1995!) when I read it in like 2003, but now when I think, it was not only very prophetic but may offer us a way of thinking out of our delusions and the ai hype/ mess we're in. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galatea...
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