Archive for April, 2018

‘The Fatal Conscience’: Julia de Burgos, Puerto Rico’s Greatest Poet | by Molly Crabapple | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

Portrait of Julia de Burgos

Source: ‘The Fatal Conscience’: Julia de Burgos, Puerto Rico’s Greatest Poet | by Molly Crabapple | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

From Paris to our friends scattered across the world – lespaves.net

Source: From Paris to our friends scattered across the world – lespaves.net

30/04-05/05: blockade against Macron & his world ! – lespaves.net

Source: 30/04-05/05: blockade against Macron & his world ! – lespaves.net

Barbara Dane – Don’t Sing Love Songs (Silver Dagger) – YouTube

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘This could be the beginning of a revolution’ | Books | The Guardian

Adichie grilling Hillary Clinton at PEN America’s World Voices Festival, New York, April, 2018. Photograph:Karsten Moran/New York Times/Redux/eyevine

One of the most compelling injunctions in Adichie’s manifestos is to encourage girls to “reject likability”. “Oh my God, all that time wasted,” she says with feeling, that boys and men do not waste. Clinton and “all the harping on about whether or not she is ‘likable’,” is the perfect example of how she had to persuade friends that sexism was at work. “It is still very upsetting to me. I don’t care how much societies tell themselves that they are progressive, the kind of criticism that Clinton gets from the very progressive left, I think is terrible. People now say to her ‘shut up and go away’ – that whole idea of silencing women. I kind of like what’s happening to her now, it feels as though that ‘fuck it’ I wish she had said before, she seems to be saying now.”

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One group who didn’t seem swayed by how much they found Clinton likable was black American women, 90% of whom voted for her in the election.

The bestselling author says she never wanted to become a voice for feminism, but refuses to abide by ‘language orthodoxy’

Source: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘This could be the beginning of a revolution’ | Books | The Guardian

Etel Adnan – The Shape of the Mountain Paris Review

for Sabine Miller

Source: Paris Review – The Shape of the Mountain

Today’s Haiku (April 26, 2018) | Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi)

たんぽぽは地の糧詩人は不遇でよし   寺山修司

tampopo wa chi no kate shijin wa fugû de yoshi

dandelion is the earth’s food…

it is OK if a poet is

ill-fated

Shuji Terayama

translated by Fay Aoyagi

from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006

Fay’s Note:  Shuji Terayama (1935-1983)

Source: Today’s Haiku (April 26, 2018) | Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi)

COLD MOUNTAIN – YouTube

A Longhouse Birdhouse

How Janelle Monáe Found Her Voice – The New York Times

Janelle Monáe – PYNK [Official Video] – YouTube