Jonathan Thirkield

digital/visual poetics, writer, teacher

[UChicagoPress @UChicagoPress]

Now on our blog: read an interview with Jonathan Thirkield, whose new poetry collection, INFINITY POOL, publishes with the Phoenix Poets series this month: https://t.co/E9jWYcQVea

[David B. Olsen @DavidBOlsen]

Excellent interview with poet and digital artist Jonathan Thirkield about his new @UChicagoPress book INFINITY POOL https://t.co/n6NcFTJhtG

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Thank you @parisreview and @thereal_ckj for recording this little video of me reading Antwerp (2)! So fun being on Instagram for the first time (might have to join)! https://t.co/iA95uNo1mk

[Jonathan Thirkield @jonthirkield]

Thanks @lithub for including my code poets review in your daily! https://t.co/Lgy3ivUXyo

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@hipsterelectron @parisreview Thanks!!!

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My review of @CpPress series of computer generated/mediated writing (mostly, excitingly, poetry!), Using Electricity, is up at @parisreview -- fascinating works by @aparrish, @nickmofo, @programmatology, @RuMboya, @rafapyp, @rrrrrroa, and many others

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

“Counterpath Press’s series of now thirteen computer-generated books … offers a refreshing alternative to the fantasia of terror and wonder that we’ve all been subjected to since the public release of ChatGPT.”

@jonthirkield for the Review’s Review. https://t.co/2rHBvspQBt

[Jonathan Thirkield @jonthirkield]

Just read my teaching evals (as always with deep trepidation) and I've never been this moved by the comments @parsons_dt MFA students wrote. I feel so lucky to have worked with this awesome group of artists/designers/coders. supreme thanks to @colleenmacklin for bringing me in

[Jonathan Thirkield @jonthirkield]

So psyched to have part 2 of my spy poem in summer issue of @parisreview

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

“Whenever I went on too long about Antwerp
The doctor would quietly descend the two steps

To the kitchen and pour a cold French white
Into a tumbler, so as not to incriminate himself.”

From “Antwerp (2)” by @jonthirkield in our new Summer issue.
https://t.co/GKOzYPb4Ta

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surfacing from my twitter silence to send love to @akasomeguy and his (as always) awesome poem (along with my infinite devotion to Celan (esp in the form Joris‘ trances))

[Jonathan Thirkield @jonthirkield]

So awesome!!

[cph @cathyparkhong]

This feels like a dream--JIA TOLENTINO wrote the smartest & most beautiful review of Minor Feelings in the NEW YORKER!! Thank you @jiatolentino! @OneWorldLit @ProfileBooks @JanklowNesbit @penguinrandom

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I am very late on this--here are the opening 3 lines of my poem "Drop" in @_conjunctions amazing and horrowing Earth Elegies issue. Deeply grateful to have my voice among this concert of voices. Please find a copy and read everything in it. Our minds are all part of the Earth.

[Jonathan Thirkield @jonthirkield]

Everlasting layers of ideas, images, feelings, have fallen upon your brain softly as light. —Thomas De Quincey
via @laphamsquart (how soft is light exactly and how everlasting are ideas etc? Still nice stuff)

[Jonathan Thirkield @jonthirkield]

A stark governmental example of #codingtheself / coding subjugated identities based on the idea/possibility of engineering your visual identity through DNA. "Called DNA phenotyping. Scientists use it to analyze genes for traits like skin color, eye color and ancestry."

[Paul Mozur 孟建國 @paulmozur]

In Xinjiang, Chinese police are using the blood and faces of an oppressed minority to craft dystopian technologies that may not even work. For years, they’ve been publishing their findings in respected international journals. W/ @suilee https://t.co/Fsmytwp5AF

[cph @cathyparkhong]

Posting this essay I wrote years ago since sometimes I feel so helpless as a witness to all this madness https://t.co/74CHFTUiaN

[Jonathan Thirkield @jonthirkield]

Here is another, actually quite visually beautiful (like quartz), story attesting to the Internet's opposition to nature.
https://t.co/A7J7zO1a0u

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This is what the Internet actually looks like to nature.
https://t.co/NLFYKeRCg1

[Jonathan Thirkield @jonthirkield]

There are no flowers on the Internet. @nytimes Nature isn't a metaphor. Internet is the opposite of nature.

[Jonathan Thirkield @jonthirkield]

Fantastic poems by Shane McCrae @akasomeguy framed by a rare example of really well done illustration and digital/visual storytelling by the @NewYorker (but it's still really about the poems!)
https://t.co/YotxTHr0Wr

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

“Poetry is not a fancy way of giving you information; it’s an incantation. It is actually a magic spell. It changes things; it changes you.” An interview with Philip Pullman. https://t.co/5x6WYlUqqC

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Agnes Denes again, because, so amazing.