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@dhami

2 years

Whenever I talk to a friend on the phone for 2+ hours, I have to resist the urge to end by quoting O'Hara

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@dhami

2 years

Many of Bernadette’s early books—Memory, Moving, Eruditia ex memoria, Studying Hunger, Ceremony Latin—are free to download on Eclipse, if you want to spend your day reading:

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In college, I tried very hard to avoid large lecture courses, and now I want nothing more than to spend T/R at 12:50PM sitting quietly while someone tells me about Wordsworth or vivisection or derivatives or Mahayana

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@dhami

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Fired for saying "It pains me to see the women from my country going through unimaginable losses themselves during the current genocide in Gaza"

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this is the acceptance speech that got a Palestinian Nurse, Hesen Jabr, fired from NYU Langone. she was fired for honoring her own Palestinian heritage & extending her heart towards the mothers who are suffering in Gaza.

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@dhami

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My love for Sunset Park only outmeasured by my fear of the uses Adams will make of tragedy

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@dhami

7 months

If we want small presses to survive, we need more than distribution—we also need magazines to quit assuming a book is only worth covering if it's supported by a staff that assembles and distributes a press kit 6 months in advance of a carefully planned book release

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@dhami

3 years

Penn Station *is* scary; there a bunch of soldiers with giant guns loitering outside the dunkin and some cops with their grip on the holster hassling a lady for trying to take a nap

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@dhami

2 years

Somehow hate this even more than I do her novels

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@SophieHaigney

2 years

🚨Ottessa Moshfegh on a house in Providence her dad bought for her

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@dhami

2 years

What are the best movies in which women try to track down a sound

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@dhami

2 years

This take pops up monthly, and I want to know: do you want SF and fantasy writers to only imagine worlds without misogyny? How do you think a fictional world gets constructed? Does Butler lack imagination when she "literally makes up" worlds that share our world's bigotries?

Thing Bad

@Merman_Melville

2 years

i think it's very funny that the house of the dragon guys are like "we want to reflect the misogyny of the time period" the time period is the twelfth of makebelieve. it's the 149th year of sir gooby the dragonfoot. it's the eighth age of targabargabor. it's literally made up

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If we're going to revive fantasy versions of nyc's literary past, let's start with "cheap rent near other writers" rather than "salons"

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@dhami

1 year

I have studied the journals of famous writers, unlocking the secret to success: fastidiously keep a diary about how you are 1. smarter than everyone around you and 2. a total failure

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@dhami

2 years

Asked to respond to the Times op-ed on poetry’s purported death, I went to the @poetry__project marathon for proof of life

Visiting a place where poetry is vibrantly alive

At the Poetry Project's 49th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon, no one thinks that poetry is dead.

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@dhami

2 years

Poets can only be replaced by AI if you can also train the model to make robot friends willing read their work out of social obligation or romantic desire

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@dhami

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Realized halfway through a conversation yesterday that my interlocutor believed "Flaco the owl" was an alter ego I had invented to talk about my emotions in the 3rd person

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@dhami

5 months

Acknowledgements pages should reveal the objects of the writer's romantic and aesthetic fixations during the period of composition

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@dhami

3 years

Does anyone have a cure for interest in psychoanalysis

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@dhami

1 year

I wish I handled my depression as George Eliot did

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@dhami

2 years

The childhood discovery that reading above one’s grade level mean access to Forbidden Topics is among the easiest paths to adult literacy; libraries explicitly need books most parents would ban

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@dhami

7 months

I hope someone with a good imagination and a secret inheritance creates a system that allows libraries and bookstores to acquire small press books

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@dhami

2 years

Bob Glück tonight: “You’ve heard of the horrid genre, creative non-fiction — this is creative non-poetry”

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@dhami

2 years

“to add on an extra two years is an attack on life. Are we here on Earth simply to feed - I'm going to use the dirty word - capital?”

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@jacobin

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Nobel laureate writer Annie Ernaux expressed solidarity with French workers protesting Emmanuel Macron's pension reforms in a conversation with striking railway and energy employees.

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@dhami

2 years

A documentary about seniors in Buenos Aires and their 17 year Proust reading group has produced a really specific vision of the rest of my life

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@dhami

2 years

I’m going to stay inside writing and cooking and listening to Luther Vandross until it decides what temperature to be outside. I will emerge in January with a new theory of love

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@dhami

3 years

if you are careful to only write books no one reads, you can quote whomever you like for free

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@dhami

5 months

The inanity of evil

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@nypost

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Mayor Adams suggests migrants could fill NYC’s lifeguard shortage — because ‘they’re excellent swimmers’

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@dhami

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It’s about buying a house that a man lost in foreclosure, and, while she demolishes the walls, him stopping by and sobbing about the loss. But don’t worry—she found room for a signature weird line about a woman’s body:

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@dhami

7 months

No one but editors gives a shit about whether a review is "timely"

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@dhami

10 months

If you think it’s meaningless for small arts orgs to commit to the cultural boycott, then I encourage you to do something you feel has meaning

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@dhami

6 years

“ex” is the best gender-neutral term for an SO

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@dhami

11 months

Shiv and I wrote about the growing numbers of arts orgs committing to the cultural boycott

The New Inquiry

@newinquiry

11 months

"Boycotts shorten the perceived distances between moral actors." In this @wawog_now dispatch, @dhami and Shiv Kotecha describe the push to make cultural institutions commit to PACBI as part of BDS

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@dhami

7 years

Kafka wrote some good morose anti-sexts

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@dhami

2 years

Telling myself bad pictures of me exist for the same reason one cannot capture the moon on iPhone

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@dhami

3 years

I’ve learned so much about gender from this site! Women can’t shoot in 35mm, are excellent bosses and generous lovers, and never leave their homes unsupervised after dark. Men, on the other hand, live a life of absolute but soulless freedom

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@dhami

3 years

When I die, please let the people who hated me make some jokes

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@dhami

1 year

Read Lydia Davis on being Bernadette Mayer's neighbor, and trading poetry for milk

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@dhami

2 years

Every now and then I look up the list of writers who publicly supported suing the Internet Archive in 2020, so I can remember who is owed a swirly when we meet in hell

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@dhami

2 years

But this plan fails, as he begins to realize that building any world requires building its economic system:

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@dhami

6 months

I see they're trying the hunger-as-collective-punishment strategy locally, too

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@cityascanvass

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🚨City College announces it is closing its food pantry as a result of the solidarity encampment. In 2022, 40% of CUNY students reported having low or very low food security. Thats 110,000 students.

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2 years

"I couldn't love a man because I loved the sea." (Etel Adnan)

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@dhami

7 months

I actually found the Poetry Foundation less ridiculous when it wasn't pretending to be anything but a means of recycling pharmaceutical money into prestige

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@dhami

2 years

Alert: McNally has copies of the best English-language book

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@dhami

2 years

Did you know that “you should not be stressed” because “stress is bad for you”

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@dhami

2 years

Every article on 'writers downtown' lately is about the same subset of fash-adjacent, tech-funded nihilists and a few party girls who think it's 'political' to pass around the communal cocaine

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@dhami

6 years

Show me a more enviable biographic sentence: "She then proceeded to fall out with everyone in America, too, and finally retired to Italy, where she lived in an apparently lesbian relationship with a younger painter, surrounded by cats."

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@dhami

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And in the midst of the genocide (and the boycott of PoFo for silencing opposition to it), Poetry still uses Abu Toha's work to self-promote:

Omar Sakr

@omarsakrpoet

11 months

A reminder there is an ongoing call to boycott Poetry. I co-wrote this letter with @MyNrhindi @summabis and @IntifadaBatata that over 2000 poets and writers have signed.

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@dhami

2 years

It is either sadism or incompetence that would lead an editor to invite someone to document her own psychosis—in a personal essay about having confessed to plagiarism—without first checking the essay for unattributed text

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@dhami

3 years

Winnicott's reputation is the nice-guy analyst, but he is also gutting

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@dhami

3 years

I personally reject any advice that says it's safe to go to work but unsafe to kiss

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@dhami

2 years

Why don’t rich people save magazines? It’s got to be cheaper than keeping the opera going

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@dhami

2 years

As I sat down to lunch with an ex, to decide whether to get back together, a young deer leapt through the window of the mall, through a glass door, and into the restaurant. Everyone else fled while I stood still, and the deer jumped over my shoulder, splattering me in its blood

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@dhami

3 years

Had the best Saturday night in years reading The Duino Elegies aloud "Every angel is terrifying. And yet, alas, I invoke you, almost deadly birds of the soul"

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@dhami

2 years

Good morning; I am 37. Reply with something nice to look at

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@dhami

5 months

I have a poem, Sea Urchin, in the new Baffler:

Sea Urchin | Rainer Diana Hamilton

I’m reacquiring taste, returning to the natural / Relish for learning how a woman sits, miming her calm

thebaffler.com

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@dhami

2 years

Today you could take a month-drug, as an emotional scientist

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@dhami

3 years

Once again the only person in the office building, so I ask the internet, in lieu of my coworkers, to admire my scarf

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@dhami

9 months

Every article about non-monogamy is a psyop designed to make traditional marriage suddenly appealing

New York Magazine Communications

@nymagPR

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The new issue of @NYMag explores the world of ethical non-monogamy. The package includes a feature by @AllisonPDavis on one specific polycule, and offers poly-curious readers an in-depth guide to opening up their relationships. Read about the issue:

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@dhami

3 years

I wrote a poem about fantasy for @chireview 's Memoir Dossier:

I’m Telling You

By Diana Hamilton

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@dhami

2 years

In: poetry Out: poetry

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@dhami

2 years

It would also be a good day to make art with friends and remain as indifferent as your means permit to the world’s attention

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@dhami

1 year

Saw a feminist writer implying it was sexist to not like Barbie, confirming my belief that the movie is about the failed Warren campaign

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@dhami

1 year

The NYTimes offers, as an example of "how to make the most of whatever entry space you have," this $3.5K pig table

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@dhami

2 years

One last thing: Bernadette Mayer reading "The Way to Keep Going in Antarctica" at @poetry__project in 2019

The Way to Keep Going in Antarctica

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@dhami

3 years

The screenshots folder is an archival record of gossip

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@dhami

2 years

I feel like still-active presses should have to share PDFs of books they let go out of print

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@dhami

2 years

Delany writes about initially choosing SF as a genre specifically because he wanted to avoid representing the world's misogyny, without naively pretending it doesn't exist:

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@dhami

2 years

Exactly, eh? The breasts were “sliding” “exactly” like tomatoes?

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@dhami

3 years

Celebrate Ash Wednesday with Delany's essay on a sex party for gay seniors:

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@dhami

2 years

Delany on Ashbery, defending gossipy criticism against our New Critical hangover

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@dhami

2 years

We should replace college & grad school with the practice of everyone taking a couple of free classes a year until death

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@dhami

8 years

Flirting by tweet rather than DM leaves room for the Holy Spirit

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@dhami

2 years

Then you get to easier questions: "How can you tell the difference between a representation of *a misogynist fantasy* (presumably, the writer's) and a representation of *a fantasy that accounts for really-existing misogyny*" (presumably, ours)

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@dhami

1 year

If you'd like a small pamphlet of my self-portraits (paintings and poems), you can now order THE GOSSIP ACCORDING TO from @bella_collab

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@dhami

7 months

When I walked into a sushi place for lunch today, the waiter handed me the umbrella I'd lost four months ago and said he'd been waiting for me to return 🥺

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@dhami

6 years

Congrats to whomever is on the other end of the phone call with this glamorous woman shouting “Look at you—you caught feelings with fucking Frédérique!” in Gramercy Park

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@dhami

1 year

My poem “Trance Essay for Remembering Smells,” in @preludemag today

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@dhami

2 years

Delany's essay is outdated, for sure (it opens with his wife complaining about the language of "people who get pregnant," for one)—but the central question remains: "How easy is it to build a world that doesn't reflect our world's oppressions?" It's pretty hard

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@dhami

3 years

Is there a good psychoanalytic account of friendship?

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@dhami

2 years

Violet Spurlock and I have started talking in sonnets! Four of them are on Futurefeed @futurepoem today

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@dhami

2 years

Bring back careers for humanists

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1 year

Amanda Kim's wonderful Nam June Paik documentary, Moon is the Oldest TV, is streaming on PBS:

Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV | American Masters

See the world through the eyes of Nam June Paik, the father of video art and coiner of the term “electronic superhighway.” Born in Japan-occupied Korea, Paik went on to become a pillar of the...

www.thirteen.org

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@dhami

3 years

(Shiv and Holly and Joey and I are fine)

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@dhami

3 years

Because I could not fuck for Death – He kindly fucked for me –

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@Turning_Pages7

3 years

You get to add the "F word" into a line of literature. What do you choose?

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@dhami

2 years

I suspect that people mad at George R. R. Martin—because women have a rough time in books modeled after the War of Roses—do not actually care about genre fiction or its narrative questions. Which is fine! But then maybe opine about something you actually read

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Dreamt that I learned everyone I know had been secretly writing “poems of their lives”—long narrative verse meant to continually summarize their sense of self before death—but had been forbidden from telling me

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@dhami

2 years

Interlibrary loan remains unsurpassed as a lifelong pleasure

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@dhami

2 years

I wrote two sonnets—"Selected References to 'Friendship' in the Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud" and its Rebuttal—now at @andshymagazine

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@dhami

3 years

I wrote about Winnicott, @unit01barbie , @jmsnftzptrck , and @tedodson for Yaby's _AH:

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@dhami

2 years

So far

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@dhami

2 years

And economies need to account for childcare. Unless you're writing "pure fantasy," he says, you wind up with another world where the economic system makes it likely that women are oppressed (or a book where your world-building is especially focused solving this problem)