OhOldOcean
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Bea Szymkowiak, French-American poet, PhD
Red Zone (Finishing Line Press), B/RDS (University of Utah Press)
Red Zone (Finishing Line Press), B/RDS (University of Utah Press)
‘Orwell: 2+2=5’ Review: How George Came to See the World as Orwellian www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/m...
‘Orwell: 2+2=5’ Review: How George Came to See the World as Orwellian
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October 3, 2025 at 3:57 AM
‘Orwell: 2+2=5’ Review: How George Came to See the World as Orwellian www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/m...
A Professor’s Hunt for the Rarest Chinese Typewriter www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/n...
A Professor’s Hunt for the Rarest Chinese Typewriter
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July 22, 2025 at 7:05 PM
A Professor’s Hunt for the Rarest Chinese Typewriter www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/n...
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“When the glaciers are all gone, what do you call an island that used to be Iceland? Just … Land?” asks Andri Snær Magnason, an Icelandic writer and filmmaker.
Opinion | The Icelandic Landscape Is Changing, and It’s Changing Us
It is impossible to separate our language from its island at the edge of the Arctic.
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July 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
“When the glaciers are all gone, what do you call an island that used to be Iceland? Just … Land?” asks Andri Snær Magnason, an Icelandic writer and filmmaker.
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Less than one week remains to submit proposals for the $2500 Essential Voices Editorial Fellowship: greenlindenpress.com/submit
June 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Less than one week remains to submit proposals for the $2500 Essential Voices Editorial Fellowship: greenlindenpress.com/submit
Live Updates: Mark Carney Wins New Term as Canada’s Prime Minister on Anti-Trump Platform www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...
Live Updates: Mark Carney Wins New Term as Canada’s Prime Minister on Anti-Trump Platform
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April 29, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Live Updates: Mark Carney Wins New Term as Canada’s Prime Minister on Anti-Trump Platform www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...
Thank you the Dewdrop!
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March 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Thank you the Dewdrop!
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thedewdrop.org/2025/03/09/b...
A Tiny Press Took a Big Risk on Experimental Books. It Paid Off. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/b...
Tilted Axis Press Took a Big Risk on Translated Literature. It Paid Off.
The British publisher Tilted Axis specialized in innovative translated literature. It won them major awards. Now they’re coming to the U.S.
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February 17, 2025 at 4:56 AM
A Tiny Press Took a Big Risk on Experimental Books. It Paid Off. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/b...
Amazing book alert. You can now pre-order Kyce Bello's gorgeous new collection "Far Country"! It will be out March 4.
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Far Country: Poems
Poems
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February 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Amazing book alert. You can now pre-order Kyce Bello's gorgeous new collection "Far Country"! It will be out March 4.
bookshop.org/p/books/far-...
bookshop.org/p/books/far-...
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“The colonization of time has not only deafened us to the rhythm of wild clocks; it has also eliminated, or at least sought to eliminate, the many Indigenous ways of timekeeping that would not coordinate with the priorities of empire-building.” —David Farrier
https://buff.ly/2Ur2kGq
https://buff.ly/2Ur2kGq
February 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
“The colonization of time has not only deafened us to the rhythm of wild clocks; it has also eliminated, or at least sought to eliminate, the many Indigenous ways of timekeeping that would not coordinate with the priorities of empire-building.” —David Farrier
https://buff.ly/2Ur2kGq
https://buff.ly/2Ur2kGq
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<<Who can read /
across the vertiginous stanza /
breaks? And what /
possible explanation is there /
for our wrong turning, but our insistent / repetition of the wrong turning?>>
across the vertiginous stanza /
breaks? And what /
possible explanation is there /
for our wrong turning, but our insistent / repetition of the wrong turning?>>
Today's Featured Poem:
"[Now the Joshua trees are withering]" by Forrest Gander, from Mojave Ghost, published by New Directions.
Read here:
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"[Now the Joshua trees are withering]" by Forrest Gander, from Mojave Ghost, published by New Directions.
Read here:
poems.com/poem/now-the...
[Now the Joshua trees are withering] – Poetry Daily
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February 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
<<Who can read /
across the vertiginous stanza /
breaks? And what /
possible explanation is there /
for our wrong turning, but our insistent / repetition of the wrong turning?>>
across the vertiginous stanza /
breaks? And what /
possible explanation is there /
for our wrong turning, but our insistent / repetition of the wrong turning?>>
Now in College, Luddite Teens Still Don’t Want Your Likes www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/s...
Luddite Teens Still Don’t Want Your Likes
Three years after starting a club meant to fight social media’s grip on young people, many original members are holding firm and gaining new converts.
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January 30, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Now in College, Luddite Teens Still Don’t Want Your Likes www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/s...
You Know Emerson and Thoreau. Why Not Their Female Counterparts? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/b...
Book Review: ‘Bright Circle,’ by Randall Fuller
In “Bright Circle,” Randall Fuller shines a light on the women behind — and before — the male philosophers of 19th-century Massachusetts.
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January 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
You Know Emerson and Thoreau. Why Not Their Female Counterparts? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/b...
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We are excited to announce that our special issue "Thread of Translations" (May–June 2024) is going to be out in two weeks from now!
It features translations of "Languages and Nation-States" by Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil into thirty non-hegemonic languages.
PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY VIA LINK IN BIO!
It features translations of "Languages and Nation-States" by Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil into thirty non-hegemonic languages.
PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY VIA LINK IN BIO!
April 22, 2024 at 3:30 PM
We are excited to announce that our special issue "Thread of Translations" (May–June 2024) is going to be out in two weeks from now!
It features translations of "Languages and Nation-States" by Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil into thirty non-hegemonic languages.
PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY VIA LINK IN BIO!
It features translations of "Languages and Nation-States" by Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil into thirty non-hegemonic languages.
PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY VIA LINK IN BIO!