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[NPF @ezuversity]

Now available! Paideuma 47, a symposium on literature and war. "May our writing not be a language to paper over the cracks in the walls of war. May our pens widen the cracks until the walls fall. Until the house that war built no longer stands."--@PhilipMetres in his afterword

[Am Phil Society @AmPhilSociety]

You may not think of beat poetry when you think of the APS, but poet Gary Snyder was a longtime friend and correspondent of linguist Dell Hymes, whose papers are held at the Society. Snyder's "Summer Solstice & the Miserable Modern Man" marks the turning of the year.

[RD Pohl @RDPohl1]

As Erza Pound was making a splash with “translations” of Chinese poetry, immigrants from China were etching poems of despair into the walls of a California detention facility.

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[NPF @ezuversity]

We’re saddened to learn Dubravka Ugrešić has died. Our current issue, a symposium on literature and war, features a long essay on her work by Richard Berengarten. https://t.co/5pDh7LT9Vh

[NPF @ezuversity]

Kareem is one of our authors and a U.S. citizen. @USEmbassyQ8, she needs your assistance!

[Ben Friedlander @mongibeddu]

This is worrisome. Kareem is a poet and translator of great distinction and I hope not a target for intimidation. @USEmbassyQ8, please give quick assistance so she can see her family.

[NPF @ezuversity]

@jntod

[NPF @ezuversity]

.@JBrphy was an editorial assistant for Paideuma— I miss our conversations. This book fills a need. Looking forward to it!

[NPF @ezuversity]

Ryan was Paideuma’s editorial assistant 2019-’20, co-conceiving our special issue on literature and war. His first book of poetry is due soon. https://t.co/5pDh7LTHKP

[Bangor Daily News @bangordailynews]

Ryan Stovall published his writing to show other veterans, especially those with PTSD, that they’re not alone. https://t.co/G0hr3FkT2U

[NPF @ezuversity]

Contributors include @monakareem, @pjoris, @stephenscollis, @PhilKlay, @mstraciemorris, @MarkWallace1322, @nahidrachlin, @brookeosheridan--and lots of people not on Twitter! Full table of contents and ordering information here: https://t.co/5pDh7LTHKP

[NPF @ezuversity]

Now available! Paideuma 47, a symposium on literature and war. "May our writing not be a language to paper over the cracks in the walls of war. May our pens widen the cracks until the walls fall. Until the house that war built no longer stands."--@PhilipMetres in his afterword

[NPF @ezuversity]

@monakareem @mongibeddu Our thanks to you for being willing to participate!

[NPF @ezuversity]

Wonderful project. We published texts and art related to it in our symposium on community, Paideuma 46. https://t.co/pBQ4kh0mF6

[NPF @ezuversity]

Yes, stay tuned for updates—part of our fiftieth anniversary volumes, “Poems We Live With”!

[Boris Dralyuk @BorisDralyuk]

@mongibeddu @ezuversity Many thanks to Hatlen for preserving this bitter American original.

[Boris Dralyuk @BorisDralyuk]

It’s just a short L ride away from this to Chicago-reared Kenneth Fearing (though by the 1930s Masters was no fan of communism, at least as it actually existed):

[NPF @ezuversity]

@GillyWhite8 “Literary criticism should be at least as transformative as therapy” would have been a good Ezra Pound quip (though in his case more therapy was needed!).

[NPF @ezuversity]

"Hard to come by" because it's nothing other than love. He'll be missed.

[NPF @ezuversity]

RIP James Longenbach, a good friend of Paideuma going back to 1984. His essay for our forthcoming fiftieth anniversary volume is a meditation on art that begins with Yeats and Pater and goes, well, many places, including here:

[V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams]

RIP James Longenbach. His “Stone Cottage: Yeats, Pound, and Modernism,” was a book I really admired.