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January 28, 2016

To quote the backdrop of Wolfgang Rihm’s staging of “Die Hamletmaschine”

HOPE IS BUT A LACK OF INFORMATION

January 26, 2016

Egyptian Poet Fatima Naoot Gets Three-year Jail Sentence for ‘Insulting Islam’

via Arab Literature (in English) & mlynxqualey: Poet Fatima Naoot was sentenced today to three years in prison and a 20,000LE fine, found guilty of “contempt of religion”: Photo from Poetry International. According to Ahram Online, Naoot goes to...

Climate Change / Uncategorized

January 18, 2016

Human-made climate change suppresses the next ice age

Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) 01/14/2016 Humanity has become a geological force that is able to suppress the beginning of the next ice age, a study now published...

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January 11, 2016

Where are we now — with Bowie Gone?

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January 4, 2016

On The Road to Idaho…

……check Nicole’s blog for updates on our travels & travails. See you once in the West… Day One is here. Day Two is here. Day Three is here. Day Four is here. Day Five...

Books / Uncategorized

December 29, 2015

My 2015 Booklist

In no specific order & given my reading habits I can’t keep it to a clean or dirty dozen, nor to one language: Nathaniel Mackey, Blue Fasa (NDP) Emilio Villa, The Selected Poetry of...

Collage / Poet / Poetry / Uncategorized

December 24, 2015

Claude Pélieu, poet & collagist extraordinaire…

…left us on this day, 13 years ago. Which I suddenly realized as this morning I set to gather a dossier on his work for an issue of a French magazine (L’Homme sans épaules) to...

Poetry readings / Uncategorized

December 19, 2015

A List: Global Readings for Poet Ashraf Fayadh, Sentenced to Death in Saudi Arabia

via Arabic Literature (in English). BY MLYNXQUALEY on DECEMBER 19, 2015 • ( 1 ) The international literature festival Berlin is calling on “all individuals, institutions, schools and media outlets that care about justice...

Israel / Palestine / Palestinian people / Uncategorized

December 18, 2015

Uri Avnery: A Lonely Lawyer

December 19, 2015 BY NOW EVERY ISRAELI has seen the TV clip several times – showing a 14-year old Arab girl being shot dead near the central market of Jewish Jerusalem. The story is...

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December 7, 2015