poetry

"Range contraction of the Yangtze finless porpoise inferred from classic Chinese poems", Zhang et al. 2025
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00266-0

"we examine an unusual source of information: classic Chinese poetry. From 724 ancient poems containing references to the Yangtze finless porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis), we infer that the range of this subspecies has contracted by at least 65% over the past 1400 years."

#biology #porpoise #poetry

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a number of incorrect statements about autistic people recently, one of which was that "they'll never write a poem."

Bradley J. Irish, an autistic professor of English, writes for @TheConversationUS@newsie.social about the remarkable corpus of poetry written by autistic people, from modern poets like David Miedzianik and Adam Wolfond, to people from the past who may have been neurodivergent or autistic. Neurodivergent poet and educator Chris Martin describes working with autistic students: “Time and again, I have watched my students … grasp the hand of poetry and begin dancing like they’ve been doing it their whole lives.”

https://flip.it/4sHSTO

#Poetry #Culture #Literature #Writing #Autism #Neurodivergence

#DailyHaikuPrompt for4/27 #Lingering (North)

Slate pebbles
Lingering grays
Soft shades
Of cloud evening mist
Blossoming Cocoons

Copyright 2025 Do not use in AI

#Waka #和歌 #WakaPoetry #Haiga #俳画 #PoetryOnTheFly
#haiku #poetry #詩 #poetrycommunity
@dailyhaikuprompt@mastodon.world @poetry.a.gup.pe #NMPrompts
#Photography #マストドン写真部 #写真
#urbanphotography #都市写真
#Spring #春 #PussyWillow #かわやなぎ

150. Geburtstag von Rilke: Der Klangzauberer bewegt bis heute

Seine Worte werden in sozialen Netzwerken rezitiert, Stars tragen sie auf der Haut. Der Dichter Rainer Maria Rilke bleibt bis heute - 150 Jahre nach seiner Geburt - in den Köpfen und bewegt auch jüngere Generationen. Von Julia Wacket.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/kultur/literatur-rilke-jubilaeum-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&amp%3Bat_campaign=tagesschau.de

#Rilke #RainerMariaRilke #Literatur #Poesie

#poetry

And so say all of us, @brianbilston@mastodon.online

#Poetry #Culture #BrianBilston #Poem

your best men die in alleys
under a sheet of paper
while your worst men
get statues in parks
for pigeons to shit upon for
centuries.

-Charles Bukowski

#poetry #bukowski

On the third anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, U2 vocalist Bono performed an excerpt from Taras Shevchenko's poem "To the Dead, the Living, and the Unborn..." to the accompaniment of a piano.

He called Shevchenko the poet who defined the concept of Ukrainian-ness.

"All who believe in freedom and sense the jeopardy we Europeans now find ourselves in are not sleeping easily on this, the third anniversary of the invasion,"

• Bono
  #AureFreePress #News #press #u2 #Bono #poetry

📙 "Something About Living" by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

A collection of poems about Palestine. What a great read. There's a lot of sadness and anger, but not passively, it energizes you, it's the kind that doesn't look away from all of the violence and somehow still manages to see the beauty of life too.

Usually I read poem collections slowly, just a few poems per day. I read this in one sitting. Every poem was so well written, every last sentence such a perfect closure, that every time I finished one I just sat there thinking '...just one more, please'. This continued for all 80 pages. No regrets, would do again (probably will, soon).

#FreePalestine #AmReading #poetry

“If I Must Die” : le livre posthume de Refaat Alareer, #poète #palestinien tué par Israël https://search.app/ogcsy3SBQg3ijkcq5
Tué par l’armée israélienne en décembre 2023, le poète gazaoui Refaat #Alareer est devenu un symbole. Son livre posthume paraît en anglais le 3 décembre : “If I Must Die” reprend notamment ses #poèmes écrits sous les violents bombardements israéliens #poesie #gaza #Palestine

Le corps du poète vient d'être retrouvé

#poetry

I stare at the bruise
as ice thins and flowers choose
shape - I select mine

#VssPoem - #bruise
#vss365 - #nexus
#BlueSkyRelay - #WindowShopping
#DailyHaikuPrompt - thin ice
#WritingCommunity #poetry #haiku
#NaHaiWriMo

#KBFPhotography #MobilePhonePhotography #Photography
#FotoVorschlag - 'Punkte - Dots / Points'

@brianbilston@mastodon.online knows what's what.

#Poetry #PoetryCommunity #BrianBilston #January

Listen to Latif Askia Ba's poem "22 septembre" here: https://soundcloud.com/brooklynpoets/latif-askia-ba-22-septembre
His collection The Choireic Period is out now in Milkweed Editions' exciting new Multiverse series.
#disabilityPoetics #poetry #literature #cerebralPalsy #reading #contemporaryPoetry #brooklynPoetry

Best of 2024, from Gabriel Fine: “As I scroll through news and social media feeds so overwhelming as to become numbing, I ask: How can I hold myself near, how can I keep #Palestine at the mantle of my heart?”
https://www.texasobserver.org/palestine-israel-texas-poetry-gaza/

#culture #poetry #Houston #GulfCoast #Texas #HumanRights

What an incredible honour to have my haiku nominated for both The Touchstone Award for Individual Poem and The Red Moon Press Anthology 2024 by #Femkumag! Thank you so much, Rowan Beckett Minor and Vandana Parashar!

#haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity #poem #writing #writingcommunity #amwriting #TouchstoneAward #RedMoonPressAnthology

Gabriel Cantú Westendarp has published five collections of poetry, including Naturaleza muerta (2011); Poemas del árbol (2009); El filo de la playa (2007); El efecto (2006); and Material peligroso (2015), in which these poems appear. She has also published a novel called Hamburgo en alguna parte (2016). She won the Ramón López Velarde National Poetry Prize in 2012 for Material peligroso (2015). She also co-founded the magazine Otra Orilla and works at the Metropolitan University of Monterrey.

#100refutations #mexico

Esraa Elbanna is a student of English literature living in the Gaza Strip, Palestine.

An artist and a writer, she says “Words are my way of expressing art, which exists to remind you of what you can learn about different peoples and what you can tell them about yourself.”

She adds, “I fully realize that reading what other people have thought can help us form our own judgments about life.”

Current as of October 2024

#palestine #humanRights

source: https://cld.bz/users/user-N5y4U8g/Trafika-Europe-Quarterly/TE16-Turkish-Delight/212/ #turkey #turkish #kurdish #humanRights

Gabriel Cantú Westendarp has published five collections of poetry, including Naturaleza muerta (2011); Poemas del árbol (2009); El filo de la playa (2007); El efecto (2006); and Material peligroso (2015), in which these poems appear. She has also published a novel called Hamburgo en alguna parte (2016). She won the Ramón López Velarde National Poetry Prize in 2012 for Material peligroso (2015). She also co-founded the magazine Otra Orilla and works at the Metropolitan University of Monterrey.

#100refutations #mexico

It’s winter, and I am counting down to Ramadan. The nights are long and cold in the crowded tent, away from home. One morning, the weight of the genocidal war and displacement gets hold of me, and I get angry at everything and everyone around me. With the unraveling of the rage that has been pent up inside me for far too long, I stop recognizing myself.

And so, without informing my family, I start walking, away from the tent in the Saudi quarter and head west. I walk to abate anger, to overcome anxiety, and to alleviate fear. I walk and find myself by the beach.

#palestine #gaza #humanRights

The napkin smeared with lipstick you left upon the table – I carry it, always, in my pocket. Your smile and just-brushed hair I carry in my mind, the scent of you I carry in my palm as an undying rose the smell of your breath when we kiss hello, I carry in my surprise. In my anger I carry those who look at you, walking. In my excitement I carry the rhythm of your step curve of your high-heeled shoe In my dreams is the sound of your dress as you step out and it In my sleep I carry the lightness of you falling on my bed In my loneliness I carry the sound of your voice breaking into music Every letter of you, their tone and inflection I carry one by one in my eyes The meaning of your dreams I carry in my fantasies. I carry the freshness of the water you drink In my mouth.

translated by Caroline Stockford source: https://smokestack-books.co.uk/book.php?book=223

#turkey #turkish #kurdish #hunanRights

José Solón Argüello Escobar (1879-1913) was born in León, Nicaragua. During his life he worked as a teacher, poet, and Mexican politician. In Nicaragua, he founded both a private school and a journal, El Heraldo. He was politically active in Mexico his entire life while continuing to publish numerous works of poetry. In 1913, the year his book Cruel Things was published, he actively campaigned for his friend Francisco I. Madero to end what he called “a tyranny in Mexico” and to “restore democracy.” After the assassination of Madero, Argüello fled to New York, but after a short while—disguised as a railroad worker—he snuck back into Mexico with the intention to “execute by his own hands the usurper Victoriano Huerta” (Poetas Modernistas de Nicaragua, 170). He was discovered in August 1913 and executed by firing squad just a few weeks later.

#100refutations #nicaragua #mexico

#palestine #humanRights

Originally expected to be released in August 2024, Turkish authorities kept renowned poet İlhan Sami Çomak jailed for another 96 days. Now, İlhan Sami Çomak is finally a free man, after having been imprisoned for 30 years, having been subjected to torture, and driven to sign false confessions.

It is about time to celebrate İlhan Sami Çomak's poetical work, and we will do this for seven days!

A video-art installation by Eran Karakiraz is kick-starting the celebration if İlhan Sami Çomak's newly won freedom, with the poet himself reciting one of his poems, so enjoy!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dLUAi5p2iEE

#freedom #humanRights #videoArt #poetryFilm #turkey #turkish #kurdish

The Popol Vuh is a collection of mythic, legendary, and historical narratives from the K’iche Maya people, whose current descendants live primarily in Guatemala and the Mexican southwest. It is often referred to as both a historical account and sacred book. It has no single author and may be one of the most important documents to survive colonial cultural eradication efforts. Current copies of the Popol Vuh are taken from the transcription made by Fray Francisco Ximénez and, it has been theorized, an unknown native man who learned the Latin alphabet and then transcribed it from the recitation of an old Maya man.