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Daniel Carden Nemo
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"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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#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
Did you know science now shows the lives of other organisms are far more complex and sentient than we thought?​
November 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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"There is never / an ending to The End of the Affair, / to The Lover."

A poem by 𝗚𝗲𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗶𝗮 𝗦𝗮𝗻 𝗟𝗶 @georgia2newengland.bsky.social in the Fall 2025 issue

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​We are neither friend, nor enemy because those could be metaphor I might come to understand, something made by diction, by definition or perhaps by reference to a painting – But I am boiling water at temperatures too high for this tea, this bite of York peppermint. Is your yearning to regain control of my life why you text me again, conjuring
November 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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We sacrifice what’s real—natural world, sentient animals, our health, climate—to uphold a contrived paradigm that equates meat with wellness and prosperity. Let them live.

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

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Did you know urges and preferences are almost always culturally conditioned?
November 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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The Shadow of Words by Ana Blandiana @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

#poetry
November 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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We sacrifice what’s real—natural world, sentient animals, our health, climate—to uphold a contrived paradigm that equates meat with wellness and prosperity. Let them live.

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

More at bit.ly/world-revisited

#biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
Did you know animals are sentient beings like yourself?
November 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Read my new translation of 𝑷𝙧𝒆𝙡𝒖𝙙𝒆 by Tomas Tranströmer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. 𝑷𝙧𝒆𝙡𝒖𝙙𝒆 is the opening poem of his first book, 17 𝑷𝙤𝒆𝙢𝒔 (1954).

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#poetry #poetrycommunity #translation #Swedish #Transtromer
Waking is a parachute jump from a dream. Free of the suffocating whirl, the traveler dives toward the green zone of the morning. Things flare up. From the soaring skylark’s perch, he makes out the mighty tree root system’s subterranean, swaying lamps. But above ground, the greenery stands in a tropical current with raised arms, listening to the rhythm of an invisible pump. And he sinks toward summer, lowered into its bright crater
November 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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"The animal is not beneath us, but beside us; its path through time runs parallel to ours, only differing in the music by which it moves." - Eliseo Reclus

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

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#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
Did you know the limbic activity of mammals draws their emotions into immediate congruence?
November 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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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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​Are you aware terms like livestock, etc., are used to desensitize consumers by referring to sentient beings as products?
November 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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We stand against promoting and monetizing mediocrity at the expense of genuine talent and artistic freedom.

Read 𝙋𝙤𝙚𝙩𝙧𝙮 𝘾𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚: 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙁𝘼 𝙄𝙣𝙙𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙭 by 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗡𝗲𝗺𝗼 @danielnemo.bsky.social in the Fall issue.

#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.
November 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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"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 animals not only influence the living environments of the planet but also lead complex lives that involve feelings and mental control?
November 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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sleigh-bells
bent down
bristling with
a forlorn note

Many thanks for @amsterdamreview.bsky.social for nominating "when the ponds were new" for Best of the Net. The poem is a visual erasure using a page of Walden.
November 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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We sacrifice what’s real—natural world, sentient animals, our health, climate—to uphold a contrived paradigm that equates meat with wellness and prosperity.

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

More at bit.ly/world-revisited

#biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
Did you know the animal industry is the leading cause of deforestation worldwide?
November 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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We sacrifice what’s real—natural world, sentient animals, our health, climate—to uphold a contrived paradigm that equates meat with wellness and prosperity. Let them live.

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

More at bit.ly/world-revisited

#biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
Did you know “humane” labels are largely unregulated or misleading, and animals are still bred, confined, and ultimately killed long before their natural lifespan?
November 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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“And what is home if not the choice – over and over again – to stay?”

Marjorie Lotfi – winner of the 2024 Forward Prize for Best First Collection for THE WRONG PERSON TO ASK – on becoming a writer, from fleeing Iran as a child in 1978 to arriving in Scotland
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Marjorie Lotfi | WritersMosaic Magazine
Forward Prize winner 2024 for The Wrong Person to Ask, Lotfi moved to Tehran as a baby from the US and fled during the Iranian Revolution
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November 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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"Each animal is surrounded by its own bubble of significance, its own world full of colors and tones we shall never perceive. To enter it is impossible, yet it exists as fully as our own." - Jakob von Uexküll

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Did you know the midbrain of honeybees pulls on memory and perception to support behavioral choice?
November 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Read an interview with Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti:

hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/thoughts-on-the-beat-generation

#writingcommunity #interviews #AllenGinsberg #LawrenceFerlinghetti #MarinSorescu
Thoughts on the Beat Generation Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti in conversation with Marin Sorescu
November 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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We sacrifice what’s real—natural world, sentient animals, our health, climate—to uphold a contrived paradigm that equates meat with wellness and prosperity.

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

More at bit.ly/world-revisited

#biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
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?
November 20, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Join us tomorrow for our online launch event for new November titles by Tomas Venclova, Pia Tafdrup and Ivan V. Lalić (1931-96), with readings from the poets & translators, plus discussion with editor Neil Astley.
Watch live (or later) on YouTube on Thurs 20 Nov, 7pm GMT:
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November 19, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Read 𝙊𝙛𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙡𝙤𝙪𝙙, a tale about the power of words in a digital world built to repress and forget.

#flashfiction by 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝗞. 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘀 in the Fall issue

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Raz Darden recrossed San Carlos Street carrying his lunch as he looked at the sign over his shop. “Antiques” was all it said and all it needed it to say. His niece, who lived on the other side of San Jose, always bugged him about making the sign read “Darden’s Antiques,” but he kept telling her the front of the building wasn’t long enough to support all the extra letters. Besides, he worried about having his name attached to the business for other reasons. He unlocked the front door, removed the handwritten “back in five minutes” sign, and walked to the counter. Raz took a glance at his dark, wrinkled face in the 19th-century mirror that hung on the far side of the shop. That, he thought, still needed to be removed.
November 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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All living beings possess their own truth and are made from the same stuff we are. 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 there are underlying commonalities in emotional perception and expression” in all mammals?
November 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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"is there a place in Dante's hell for the / algae that eat light / and beget this world one bone marrow / at a time"

A poem by 𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗮 𝗶𝗿𝘂 in the Fall 2025 issue

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#poetry #poetrycommunity
for your adoration, a woolly mammoth, intact with its last meal— all that unprocessed sugar, tucked in the ​cold wok of its belly, like your rage inside me, waiting as though waiting is a form of listening.
November 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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“If structural violence – settler colonialism, empire – sustains itself by insisting that the past is past, Lotfi’s poetry works to remind us that violence in actuality operates as a series of ‘not yets’ and deferrals”

Yumi Pak reviews THE WRONG PERSON TO ASK
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‘The Wrong Person to Ask’, by Marjorie Lotfi - The Bottle Imp
The last time I wrote a review for The Bottle Imp, the world had not yet experienced the public health crisis we now know as Covid-19; according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), ‘[a]lthough...
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November 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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We sacrifice what’s real—natural world, sentient animals, our health, climate—to uphold a contrived paradigm that equates meat with wellness and prosperity. Let them live.

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

More at bit.ly/world-revisited

#biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
Did you know the meat and dairy industries use scare tactics, lobbying, and deceptive ad campaigns to prevent change and maximize profit?
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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"It is a curious thing, that in observing animals closely, one sometimes feels as if they are attending to us with an intelligence parallel to our own, though built on different lines." - Charles Darwin

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Did you know the limbic brain found in mammals is not only the seat of dreams and value judgements, but also the center of emotionality?
November 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Beastly sample

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Sample of "Beast" by Pascale Petit
Peek inside this book and discover another great read.
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October 23, 2025 at 10:17 PM