Felix Eshiet

writer & efik-ibibio poet. work in:
@ChestnutReview, @onlypoemsmag, @madridlitmag, @20_35Africa, @PorterHouseLit, eic @ekondoreview

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my poem "the anatomy of rust" is live on @thestripesmag.

https://t.co/lWcYPTNikV

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@LNmagazine i strongly disagree

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@OnyebuchiEwa congratulations

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@Aswagaawy @AfrihillPress @umm_sawsan @tunde_adesokan congratulations

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@SymplyTaiwo talk to me directly. stop cutting corners

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@foxypiano read your essay on amos tutuola and felt so proud when i saw you retain the word "tapestry." it's such a bullshit to stop letting go of certain vocabs because they've become overused by LLMs. i mean, didn't these models come to meet us using these words?

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for me, nothing's as self-sabotaging as succumbing to the pressure of continuing a literary legacy. i know i'll be so big a writer and wouldn't, under typical pressural circumstances, wish that my child become a writer. they are a thousand better ways to die

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@cornrowchuks are we still debating this?

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@Dera_Writes congratulations

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@esomnofu_e 🤣🤣🤣

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"Do we stop writing in rhythm because algorithms have learned the beat? Do we abandon metaphor because it now gets replicated at the expense of a prompt? Should we stop sounding like ourselves because machines have learned, from us, how to sound like us?"

https://t.co/epYW9cfjKO

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said it here...we can't become our own undoing

https://t.co/38hQTFOFG3

[Michael Chièdoziém Chúkwúderà @ChukwuderaEdozi]

Nigerian writers become victims of bullying, oppression, censorship, discrimination, etc., and instead of working to break the vicious cycle, they turn around and become the same bullies, oppressors, censors. The rubbish going on between me and this person has left me speechless.

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@Ibn_Yushau44 she's amazing. i reviewed one of her books last year

https://t.co/38hQTFOFG3

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@NKaelid62097 it's on @ekondoreview.

https://t.co/ubg9iQLdnp

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@brecht_dp this is so beautiful

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@foxypiano i bet the entire pangram growth team is making a robust pr stunt with this...it's so not a good wave to ride on. sigh

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@NKaelid62097 the ai allegations aside, if you're intimate with carribean prose, you'll see that the story isn't that much an extensive word salad as you lot make it seem. the weird metaphors have dialectical overtones but then no one's talking about that

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@jidesalawu congratulations

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@ChimezieChika1 there's a village in upper cross river where men and women speak different languages

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@elnathan_john 10 out of 10 times, you're always missing the point