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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 22h

Read 𝙋𝙤𝙚𝙩𝙧𝙮 𝘾𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚: 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙁𝘼 𝙄𝙣𝙙𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙭 by 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗡𝗲𝗺𝗼 in the Fall issue of 𝐀𝐦𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐦 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰

#poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #essays

What does it mean to be an artist today? What does it mean to be a poet? Amsterdam Review confronts the rise of the MFA industrial complex and the consequences of turning creativity into an institutionalized craft, in a call to remember that genuine art emerges from the unconscious, not from within the walls of academically sanctioned success.

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 1d

"Animals are not mere machines; they are fellow voyagers in the stream of time, feeling the same currents we do, though in other ways." - George Santayana

To be alive is already to be in relation with the world.

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#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Did you know the midbrain of honeybees pulls on memory and perception to support behavioral choice?

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Chelsea Dingman @chelsdingman.bsky.social · 5d

New poem up! Thanks to the editors @amsterdamreview.bsky.social for including my work. Follow their link to read the issue in full:

AMSTERDAM REVIEW
We Have Known Each Other at Every Hour by Chelsea Dingman
At dusk, the dusk holds
the days apart. I am also other than
I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness, Simone Weil wrote at the onset of WWII. Still,
this almost-hour. Its snows. All that I still have to lose. What grain, what glacier,
what child, what plain did I hand my emptiness
that I would feel full? Still, I don't understand why
we describe it as falling— in orbit, the satellites going fast enough sideways
that they fall past the earth
as the earth turns from them. As in love,

when I looked you in your face the first time and understood you too will be impossible
to see to the end. Some days, I think it would be easier not to know
hat I now know. You are a homesickne uffered by fantasies of orchids, scotc
pines, daybreak. Blue
graves scattered over cities. People
I tried to love
but couldn't. The cow's bright eyes in the fields might've been fireflies tonight had it not been March. The river
cries out from under its hood of ice. Its mouth a silo. In it,
a perfect silence arrives
after the clamor of breaking. As a child,
only after breaking was my body believable. Belief gave way
to grief, its purgatories. Who will look out for you after you are grief enough
to believe in? You who emerged from me
in the future, where I delivered us, two fragile creatures lured out into the ryegrass,
the permafrost. And what on earth is lost that is not lost
fercely, and on purpose? When I'm dead, still I'll dream of you. A rebellion of late snow

I moved toward
without meaning to. A howl of dusk
trembling against me from within.
Chelsea Dingman's first book, Thaw, won the National Poetry Series (UGA Press,
2017). Her second book, through a small ghost, won The Georgia Poetry Prize (UGA Press, 2020). Her third collection is I, Divided (LSU Press, 2023). She is also the author of the chapbook, What Bodies Have I Moved (Madhouse Press, 2018). As a PhD Candidate at the University of Alberta, her current work draws on research supported by funding from the Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada. Visit her website: chelseadingman.com.
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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 1d

Slaughtering animals for meat isn’t a collective need—it’s an individual choice. Let them live.

Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.

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Did you know massive amounts of resources (grain, corn, soy, and fresh water) that could be directly consumed by humans are used to grow livestock?

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 2d

"The animal reminds us that life precedes thought, and that thought is only one way of being alive." - Hannah Arendt

To be alive is already to be in relation with the world.

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#biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Did you know that proximity to the mother is an inborn need for all mammals?

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 3d

Slaughtering animals for meat isn’t a collective need—it’s an individual choice. Let them live.

Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.

More at bit.ly/world-revisited

#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Are you aware language helps distance us from the reality of what we're eating—using words like “beef” or “pork” or "venison" instead of cow or pig or deer?

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 4d

"In every animal is the visible soul of the earth, unburdened by our artifices." - Margaret Fuller (Summer on the Lakes, 1844)

Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.

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Did you know we are part of a long process of emerging life intrinsically connected to the natural world and not a unique creation?

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 5d

Our Fall 2025 issue is OUT NOW!

Featuring an #interview with Keetje Kuipers and works by Sean Thomas Dougherty, Suzy Eynon, Jason Bentsman, Chelsea Dingman, and many more.

Read here: bit.ly/AmsterdamReview

#poetry #fiction #translations #finearts #amsterdam 🇳🇱

Amsterdam Review Fall 2025 issue is OUT NOW!
Featuring an #interview with Keetje Kuipers and works by Sean Thomas Dougherty, Suzy Eynon, Jason Bentsman, Chelsea Dingman, and many more.

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 5d

Read my poem "Micro-Machinist", first published in Amsterdam Review.

hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/micro-machinist

#poetry #poetrycommunity

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 6d

"The animal reminds us that life precedes thought, and that thought is only one way of being alive." - Hannah Arendt (The Human Condition, 1958)

Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.

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#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Did you know that nurturance, social communion, (vocal) communication, and play are rooted in limbic territory?

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 6d

"The life of an animal has worth in itself, not only as it concerns the pleasures of man." - John Stuart Mill

Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.

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Did you know that many animals show signs of trauma, depression, and learned helplessness when confined in factory farms?

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 7d

"Man is not the center of things. The animals too are envoys of the divine, voices of the universal mind." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.

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Did you know that humans have a disproportionately negative effect on the Earth and most of its organisms?

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 8d

"Animals are not instruments for human use, but sentient beings whose lives matter to themselves." - Peter Singer

Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.

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Did you know that chickens can recognize up to 100 faces, experience empathy, and form strong social bonds?

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 9d

"If animals feel, as surely they do, then the universe is already wider and deeper than any human philosophy has allowed." - William James (Pragmatism, 1907)

Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.

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Do you think feeling may in fact mean inwardness, “an experience and a formative power that binds an organism together?

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 10d

Treating living beings as consumables shows lack of respect for life itself. Let them live.

Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.

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#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Did you know cows have best friends and experience stress when separated from them?

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 11d

Read my essay on the impacts of screens on the developing brain:

hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/the-swift-bird-of-digital-detachment

#technology #neurodevelopment #digitalrealm #science #essays

The Swift Bird of Digital Detachment - Neurodevelopmental Impacts of Screens on the Developing Brain

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 11d

"To look at the animal is to confront another mode of existence, complete in itself and closed to ours." - José Ortega y Gasset

Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.

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Did you know science now shows the lives of other organisms are far more complex and sentient than we thought?

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 12d

"Animals are not instruments for human use, but sentient beings whose lives matter to themselves." - Peter Singer

Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.

More at bit.ly/world-revisited

#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Did you know animals raised for meat are often denied the chance to engage in any natural behaviors, like running, nesting, or nurturing their young?

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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 21d

Winchester Poetry Festival is approaching. online events are so important for accessibility, but they’re also costly to run & we haven’t sold many online tickets yet. Just wanted to shout that our headline events are
live-streamed and BSL interpreted! 1/3 www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org/what-s-on

What's on - Winchester Poetry Festival events in 2025

Details of our forthcoming events and collaborations. Winchester Poetry Festival runs 2-12th October

www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 13d

"The great lesson of the animal world is that life is manifold in its expressions, and no one form may claim superiority over another." - Henry Salt

Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.

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#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Do you think humans alone are capable of thinking? Do you believe there is only one kind of thinking?

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 15d

"Animals are the enduring other, the beings beside whom man measures himself, never ceasing to be disturbed by their presence." - Elias Canetti

Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.

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#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Did you know the intricate cellular structure of certain eels allows the precise mapping of perturbations in nearby electric fields?

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 15d

Congratulations to this year's Best of the Net nominees!

#poetry #fiction #nonfiction #art #writingcommunity

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 19d

"It’s not enough, anymore, to say of course / I would’ve liked to know / how it ended."

A poem by 𝗔𝗮𝗿𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗴𝗹𝗼𝗶𝗿𝗲 in the Amsterdam Review

www.amsterdamreview.org/birthday-poem-by-aaron-magloire.html

#poetry #poetrycommunity

Once the rain let up I was sure
the East River’d have a new tributary
to show for it. Instead, more of the same,

and a new subspecies of kingfisher
last night; I dreamt it, but couldn’t
make out its eyes. It dripped dark green

from a black marsh tree, and it was large, looked
large, even in its large tree. That’s how
you can tell. It might’ve flown

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 15d

Thanks for the kind words Jane, the piece is so wonderful it practically nominated itself.

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 16d

"The animal looks at us, and we are naked before it. Thinking begins there." - Jacques Derrida

Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.

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#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Did you know mother cows cry and search for their calves for days after they're taken away?

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