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Robert Jay Lifton, a psychiatrist who peered into the dark corners of history, from Hiroshima to the Holocaust to the Vietnam War, has died. nyti.ms/42gXETc
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“You inhabit another realm when you are writing a novel. It’s like being in love—being ‘in novel.’ ” —Luisa Valenzuela
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Smart people who are forced to live in a society that doesn’t make sense often end up angry and chronically anxious if they don’t have the courage to move away before it’s too late.
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If you’ve ever heard that
- The F-Word is an acronym for “Fornication Under Consent of the King”
- The Sh-Word is an acronym for “Ship High in Transit”
- Any other older word being an acronym
It’s untrue.
Acronyms are, by and large, a 20th-century phenomenon.
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“The fate of a writer is strange . . . after many years he may attain, if the stars are auspicious, not simplicity, which in itself is nothing, but a modest and hidden complexity.”
-- Jorge Luis Borges (tr. by Norman Thomas Giovanni)
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Here are a few more journals opening for submissions soon! 🗓️
➡️Michigan Quarterly Review - 1 August
➡️New Ohio Review - 15 August
➡️Copper Nickel - 15 August
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dear friends, i've been endorsed by the Arts Council England for the Global Talent Visa, but I am unable to do this all on my own. i will need all the help i can get 😅
Thank you 🤍
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In trenches and foxholes, soldiers fight, bleed, and sacrifice for your buddy That's A Creed In Every Army
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In the future, when someone says poetry doesn't matter, I will remind them of the time after Andrea Gibson’s passing when my all of my social media was filled with poetry and tributes.
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Rock bottom is not the end. It is the raw beginning of rebirth
The body breaks but the mind decides what lives or dies. No loss is final when a man chooses to rise.
Pain sharpens those who refuse to stay down
Circumstance bends to conviction
A man with the right mindset can rebuild an empire from ashes
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"At times books you haven’t read shine more brightly than those you have, and often reading part of a book will shape your mind more decisively than reading all of it; there is no inherent epistemic superiority to having read a book or not having read it."
- John Durham Peters
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Anna Akhmatova, translated from the Russian by D.M. Thomas in Akhmatova Poems (Everyman, 2006).
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If we did not hold so much, I would not write.
—Linda Gregg
ALT from “The Ghosts Poem” by Linda Gregg VIII. If we did not hold so much, I would not write. If it were not for memories, for the ghosts carrying the hundred clamoring moons, I would be safe. The forests keep saying I should not remember, but always there is the sound of their breathing. If it were all right just to love and die, I would not be in this empty place three stories up looking out on nothing I know. If I could bind my mouth or teach my heart despair of living, I would not be here learning what to say.
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Just you, just as you are, including that terrible paragraph in your letter, that’s the way I want you.
Franz Kafka, 1914.
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i think a workshop can be helpful and the disparaging of all mfa programs is its own cliché, but sometimes i feel that the best "advice" i can give a student is to write more. write a hundred poems. then write a hundred more. don't be precious about it. just fail, and try again
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“Poetry’s about what can’t be said. And I think that language emerges out of what could not be said. Out of this desire to utter something, to express something inexpressible … the consonants are the attempts to break it, to control it, to do something with it.” - W.S. Merwin