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#freepalestine

[psithurízō ♱ @omniscientiasco]

As Susan Sontag said, “Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more, (…) upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world - in order to set up a shadow world of ‘meanings’” close to seventh attempt watching this, discussion-inducing essay

[todd dillard @toddedillard]

one of the things that irks me whenever our quarterly "this contemporary good poem is bad, actually" discourse occurs is how almost uniformly ppl criticize that the language sounds everyday, normal (like a text message). and, like, did you know beauty can sound like anything

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

yeah it's funny when people criticize contemporary poetry for sounding... contemporary. there's plenty of contemporary poetry that doesn't sound conversational, if that's what they mean, but they don't actually read and just want an excuse not to.

[Aaron Gwyn @AmericanGwyn]

Absolutely ludicrous. A blueprint to destroy Literature.

[Mudit @muditfx]

— Žižek, on not obsessing with psychoanalyzing oneself all the time

[Rayji de Guia @rayjideguia]

lesbian writing ko nga pala, mga accla #artph #queerartph

1. what could have been water (2019) - eight poems of lesbian desire so immense it is divine, free to download: https://t.co/uCwaCpGcAH

[Vikram Chandra @typingvanara]

I told a student recently that using em-dashes would make her prose more effective. She didn't want to because of this AI paranoia. I love em-dashes and have been using them my entire life, as have many other writers. LLMs train on decades of texts, good and bad. They use patterns that have been working well across the years. LLM detectors make mistakes. And yet we are caught up in this frenzy of fear. Bizarre loop we are caught in.

[Sarah Brouillette @brouillettese]

a characteristically brilliant essay

[Richard Siken @richardsiken]

Poems are art. They are not diaries or advocacy. If you want to "write about it," then write essays or do journalism. Poems aren't supposed to come out the way you want them to. Poems should surprise you. Poems are how you discover things. If you know what you want to say ahead of time, poetry is the wrong venue. Everyone is in pain. Everyone has content. If you want a good poem, make good images. Make good sentences, metaphors, line breaks.

[Ronan Farrow @RonanFarrow]

My 18-month investigation into Sam Altman and OpenAI in @NewYorker, with @andrewmarantz, is out now.

Read here: https://t.co/HEPHN4E54P

Thread on a few of the key findings here: https://t.co/TVIBsUoRdB

[Ronan Farrow @RonanFarrow]

(🧵1/11) For the past year and a half, I've been investigating OpenAI and Sam Altman for @NewYorker. With my coauthor @andrewmarantz, I reviewed never-before-disclosed internal memos, obtained 200+ pages of documents related to a close colleague, including extensive private notes, and interviewed more than 100 people.

OpenAI was founded on the premise that A.I. could be the most dangerous invention in human history—and that its C.E.O. would need to be a person of uncommon integrity. We lay out the most detailed account yet of why Altman was ousted out by board members and executives who came to believe he lacked that integrity, and ask: were they right to allege that he couldn't be trusted?

A thread on some of of our findings:

[Damilola Omotoyinbo ||flower geh @_Damilola_O]

Writers.
I have compiled a list of magazines you can submit to and what they pay.
Please retweet so it can reach more writers who need this.

1. Terrain $50
2. The Pig’s Back $300
3. Twenty-two, Twenty eight $30
4. Brick Magazine; a literary journal $65-100

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

mary ruefle was right when she said that people would rather read an essay about poetry than read a poem. it reminds me of when people in a museum read the explanatory caption before having their own experience of the art. you fear not "getting it" when you should fear not living

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

more world-building does not automatically lead to richer story, the way more information/detail about a character does not necessarily lead to deeper characterization or emotional truth. often you don't need "more," you need right and revealing.

[Angela T. Carr @adreamingskin]

The April Lit List is here with 75+ calls for submissions to literary competitions, journals, residencies, mentoring, & funding opportunities for poetry, flash/fiction, creative nonfiction & visual art, all with deadlines by 1st May. Sign up at link.

https://t.co/XFtn5yphIS

[Indiana Review @IndianaReview]

Friends, we hit our fiction cap and have unfortunately had to close early for short story submissions. We're open for poetry and nonfiction through the end of the month!

[Deep Vellum @DeepVellum]

Deep Vellum’s POETRY OPEN CALL starts April 1st.

details and guidelines: https://t.co/2mF855XxPW

[poet john compton @poetjohncompton]

this person who plagiarized many poems, including mine — SENT a manuscript in the chapbook contest that i'm judging: WITH MY POEM he plagiarized. like wtf!!!
so watch out everyone for this manuscript in your inboxes!

[Steven Knepper @StevenEKnepper]

Elaine Scarry's recent essay on "Plato and the Poets" is a much needed pushback against a simple narrative.
https://t.co/hATKcaEni7

[West Branch @WestBranchMag]

happy August! we are open for submissions!! send us your darlings!!