Sara Majka
@saramajka.bsky.social
writer, i teach, i have an old home in providence, ri
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Untitled (flipped), by Marsden Hartley, early-mid 20th c, 📸 via @BlakeHHarris
November 1, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Untitled (flipped), by Marsden Hartley, early-mid 20th c, 📸 via @BlakeHHarris
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This dream-like illustration is a detail from William Blake’s illustration to the 'Divine Comedy', Purgatorio XXVII, showing Dante and Statius sleeping with Virgil watching.
Detail from Dante and Statius sleeping, William Blake, 1827. WA1918.3
Detail from Dante and Statius sleeping, William Blake, 1827. WA1918.3
October 9, 2025 at 7:01 AM
This dream-like illustration is a detail from William Blake’s illustration to the 'Divine Comedy', Purgatorio XXVII, showing Dante and Statius sleeping with Virgil watching.
Detail from Dante and Statius sleeping, William Blake, 1827. WA1918.3
Detail from Dante and Statius sleeping, William Blake, 1827. WA1918.3
milton avery's studio is ❤️
What Happens to Artists’ Studios After They Die?
www.nytimes.com
September 23, 2025 at 9:32 PM
milton avery's studio is ❤️
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Next week a stack of 900 books is going to arrive at The Map Center as part of my first ever book distribution deal. Cartographer Damien Saunder wrote "Maps on Vinyl" as a celebration of maps that appear on album cover art and the places that made the music. I'm so excited! Booksellers DM me.
June 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Next week a stack of 900 books is going to arrive at The Map Center as part of my first ever book distribution deal. Cartographer Damien Saunder wrote "Maps on Vinyl" as a celebration of maps that appear on album cover art and the places that made the music. I'm so excited! Booksellers DM me.
tonight at RISD! Novel to Graphic Novel: The Craft of Adaptation.
They will be talking about adapting Auster’s Trilogy, including City of Glass.
They will be talking about adapting Auster’s Trilogy, including City of Glass.
Novel to Graphic Novel: The Craft of Adaptation with Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli
Discover unique opportunities at! Find and attend events, browse and join organizations, and showcase your involvement.
involved.risd.edu
May 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
tonight at RISD! Novel to Graphic Novel: The Craft of Adaptation.
They will be talking about adapting Auster’s Trilogy, including City of Glass.
They will be talking about adapting Auster’s Trilogy, including City of Glass.
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The devastating, shortsighted attack on literature continues. List from Magic City Books. Who'd they miss? Note: the small publishers selected here for financial attack include (among other very worthy and important presses) @transitbooks.bsky.social, publisher of 2023 Nobel laureate Jon Fosse.
May 6, 2025 at 10:51 AM
The devastating, shortsighted attack on literature continues. List from Magic City Books. Who'd they miss? Note: the small publishers selected here for financial attack include (among other very worthy and important presses) @transitbooks.bsky.social, publisher of 2023 Nobel laureate Jon Fosse.
poetry happening tomorrow night on the RISD campus. if not for little league practice, would be sure to go...
Free tickets, open to the public, sponsored by RISD/Rhode Island Center for the Book
www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...
Free tickets, open to the public, sponsored by RISD/Rhode Island Center for the Book
www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...
An Evening with Hanif Abdurraqib
2025 Reading Across Rhode Island Author Hanif Abdurraqib
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April 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
poetry happening tomorrow night on the RISD campus. if not for little league practice, would be sure to go...
Free tickets, open to the public, sponsored by RISD/Rhode Island Center for the Book
www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...
Free tickets, open to the public, sponsored by RISD/Rhode Island Center for the Book
www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...
panic buying appliances
April 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
panic buying appliances
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Sign up: Rally for Working Class Needs Over Billionaire Greed this Sat at 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM across from the Tesla Dealership www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
Rally for Working Class Needs Over Billionaire Greed · Mobilize
Register here: https://www.neari.org/advocating-for-change/action-center/take-action/rally-working-people
Working people built America and we deserve a government that fights for us!
Instead, Trump,...
www.mobilize.us
March 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Sign up: Rally for Working Class Needs Over Billionaire Greed this Sat at 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM across from the Tesla Dealership www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
If you're in providence, contact your council member today. Contact info found below. If you don’t know which ward you are, you can find that here: pvdgis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappv...
March 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
If you're in providence, contact your council member today. Contact info found below. If you don’t know which ward you are, you can find that here: pvdgis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappv...
As a homeowner, i had applied for a RI program funded by the Inflation Reduction Act—it was fed $ for electrification. Then program was paused re:trump and I wasn’t able to get aid. but I just got a call from the state that the program is being restarted. So some $ must being starting to flow again
Home Energy Rebate Programs | Rhode Island Office of Energy Resources
energy.ri.gov
March 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
As a homeowner, i had applied for a RI program funded by the Inflation Reduction Act—it was fed $ for electrification. Then program was paused re:trump and I wasn’t able to get aid. but I just got a call from the state that the program is being restarted. So some $ must being starting to flow again
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I found the book angle on much of my discontent with my elected officials, and I went off. lithub.com/shilling-boo...
Shilling Books While Rome Burns: Why Politicians Need to Focus on Their Day Jobs
To some of his constituents, it may seem as though Chuck Schumer, the Minority Leader of the US Senate, has spent a bunch of time pontificating on Bluesky lately and not enough time taking decisive…
lithub.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I found the book angle on much of my discontent with my elected officials, and I went off. lithub.com/shilling-boo...
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VP Vance is on vacation in Vermont with his family this weekend and will be skiing at Sugarbush Resort in Warren, VT.
Good Trouble: JD Vance Chastised by Vermont Snow Reporter
JD Vance, fresh off of helping his boss ambush & insult a foreign leader in the White House yesterday afternoon, is on vacation in
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March 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
VP Vance is on vacation in Vermont with his family this weekend and will be skiing at Sugarbush Resort in Warren, VT.
vermont do your thing
Do a mitzvah and help spread the news of this local Vermont protest intended to make J D Vance’s lovely ski vacation less lovely first thing tomorrow morning www.waterburyroundabout.org/opinion-arch...
LETTER: Demonstration organizers share details ahead of vice president’s visit — Waterbury Roundabout
To the Community: Protest the destructive and illegal actions of the Trump/Vance administration in Waitsfield, Vermont.
www.waterburyroundabout.org
March 1, 2025 at 3:23 AM
vermont do your thing
Telegraph’s podcast Ukraine: the Latest has to be the most thorough long running podcast i've listened to. here's the emergency podcast on today's trump/zelensky meeting
Ukraine: The Latest - the Telegraph’s most popular ever podcast
Every weekday our top journalists analyse the invasion from all angles and tell you what you need to know to stay updated
www.telegraph.co.uk
February 28, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Telegraph’s podcast Ukraine: the Latest has to be the most thorough long running podcast i've listened to. here's the emergency podcast on today's trump/zelensky meeting
wish i lived near bard so i could go to this.
Join us in Annandale for a reading by Kelly Link & Jedediah Berry!
Monday, March 3
4 p.m.
Weis Cinema, Bard College
Monday, March 3
4 p.m.
Weis Cinema, Bard College
February 25, 2025 at 2:13 AM
wish i lived near bard so i could go to this.
rhode island example #748 why we can’t have nice things
Gov McKee liked some of what he heard from Stephen Miller at the White House:
"Anytime you can cut down the bureaucracy and the timeframes and the regulation on the federal level, that helps the states. I thought that was good. ... And the president reinforced that"
"Anytime you can cut down the bureaucracy and the timeframes and the regulation on the federal level, that helps the states. I thought that was good. ... And the president reinforced that"
Sparks fly between Trump and governors during White House meeting. Gov. McKee's takeaways
McKee said Trump was "over the top" in remarks to Maine's governor on transgender athletes. But he did find some common ground with the administration
www.providencejournal.com
February 22, 2025 at 4:16 AM
rhode island example #748 why we can’t have nice things
RI Rep Seth Magaziner has been on top of this stuff, so i'm assuming this is the real thing and not a fundraiser. His office is gathering stories of Rhode Islanders affected by federal funding cuts. Seems super smart to tell specific stories about real people
docs.google.com/forms/d/1qAi...
docs.google.com/forms/d/1qAi...
Have you been impacted by the federal funding cuts?
I want to hear directly from Rhode Islanders about how these careless decisions to freeze federal funding have impacted YOU and any worries YOU have about potential future cuts.
Residents of Rhode Is...
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February 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
RI Rep Seth Magaziner has been on top of this stuff, so i'm assuming this is the real thing and not a fundraiser. His office is gathering stories of Rhode Islanders affected by federal funding cuts. Seems super smart to tell specific stories about real people
docs.google.com/forms/d/1qAi...
docs.google.com/forms/d/1qAi...
rally today in downtown providence. we were pretty proud of our sign
February 8, 2025 at 9:59 PM
rally today in downtown providence. we were pretty proud of our sign
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it's my last week of class and i really need to work this afternoon, but also am considering going to this instead. providence at the state house at noon.
www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
Join RI Citizens & Demand Sen. Whitehouse + Reed Fight Back Against the Trump-Musk Funding Freeze · Indivisible
We are facing a crisis and we need all Members of Congress to fight back. Join your friends and neighbors in telling Senators Whitehouse and Reed that we demand they use every tool at their disposal t...
www.mobilize.us
February 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
it's my last week of class and i really need to work this afternoon, but also am considering going to this instead. providence at the state house at noon.
www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
why do politicians in other countries get to make such extraordinary film and literary references
Explaining to CNN the economic chaos that Donald Trump is about to unleash on his own people. We will never break or concede to an erratic thug who seems like Al Capone in his syphilitic phase trying to pull a shakedown.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-ZE...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-ZE...
Canadian MP fires back after Trump says he wants Canada to be 51st state
YouTube video by CNN
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February 3, 2025 at 11:03 PM
why do politicians in other countries get to make such extraordinary film and literary references
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@meredithshiner.com's assessment of the Democratic Party is sadly spot on (as is her suggested solution: Run against them!). The most direct way for us change the party is refuse to wait for our collectively turn to lead. newrepublic.com/article/1909...
February 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
@meredithshiner.com's assessment of the Democratic Party is sadly spot on (as is her suggested solution: Run against them!). The most direct way for us change the party is refuse to wait for our collectively turn to lead. newrepublic.com/article/1909...
Don't know how I got on a MAGA text list, but apparently they are holding a Gulf of America shirt for me.
January 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Don't know how I got on a MAGA text list, but apparently they are holding a Gulf of America shirt for me.