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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 14h

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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Pryscilla Hebel @phebel.bsky.social · 14h

Why the EU’s ‘Veggie Burger Ban’ Vote Should Alarm Everyone, Not Just Vegans

Corporate Greed Is Writing Europe’s Food Laws — We Cannot Let It Win

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Suzy Eynon @suzyeynon.bsky.social · 5d

Super proud to have new short fiction in the latest @amsterdamreview.bsky.social

www.amsterdamreview.org/terrarium.html

Terrarium by Suzy Eynon | Amsterdam Review

Terrarium, a short story by Suzy Eynon

www.amsterdamreview.org

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

"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.

More at bit.ly/world-revisited

#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

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

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Pryscilla Hebel @phebel.bsky.social · 2d

Open letter on the future of small press publishing in the UK

The industry must work together to ensure the longevity of the UK’s independent presses.

www.thebookseller.com

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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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Jason Bentsman @jasonbentsman.bsky.social · 5d

Hi friends - I have a series of photos in the new issue of the @amsterdamreview.bsky.social, described as "Monochrome Cinematic," along with an insightful descriptive essay by the editor. See it & the other fine works here
www.amsterdamreview.org/monochrome-c...

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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.

More at bit.ly/world-revisited

#biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

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

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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 · 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.

More at bit.ly/world-revisited

#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

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

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 9d

“As long as we live under capitalism, making art should be considered labor and as such be fairly compensated.”

Artists Shouldn’t Need to Become Content Creators to Get Fair Pay - Electric Literature

Under capitalism, those of us who want a career in the arts feel pressured to sell ourselves. But making art and marketing it are very different skills

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Pryscilla Hebel @phebel.bsky.social · 11d

Early screen exposure reshapes our brains, alters our ability to form interpersonal bonds, and disrupts emotional growth. Blending #neuroscience and #psychology and backed by research, @danielnemo.bsky.social reveals disturbing insights into what it means to grow up with screens. A must-read:

The Swift Bird of Digital Detachment

Neurodevelopmental Impacts of Screens on the Developing Brain

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

"The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal, ‘What good is it?’" - Aldo Leopold

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

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#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Can ethical treatment really exist in a system that ends in the killing of the subject after a life of suffering?

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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 · 19d

Read "Dante", a poem by Marin Sorescu in my translation.

hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/dante

#poetry #poetrycommunity #translation #writing

A poem by Marin Sorescu translated from Romanian by Daniel Carden Nemo

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 19d

"One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human." - Loren Eiseley

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

More at bit.ly/world-revisited

#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Do you think the concept of personhood has been defined at the expense of other forms of life?

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 25d

Look into the animal's eyes and ask yourself: What is it you have forgotten that they still remember? (variation on an Olive Schreiner quote)

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

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#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

What do the possibilities of human nature hold if they fail to take into account those of the non-human world?

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 26d

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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#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Are you aware that cultural norms, rather than objective reasoning, shape much of what we view as “acceptable” when it comes to eating animals?

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 27d

"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 scientific studies show animals demonstrate behaviors associated with consciousness, planning, and emotional response?

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 29d

"She’s not just limp / but thin from hunger, from / scavenging among the ruins, / not a flutter in her delicate / cage of ribs, neither the oath / nor allegiance of oxygen."

Four poems by 𝗚𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗚𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗲𝘀 in Amsterdam Review

www.amsterdamreview.org/four-by-gary-geddes.html

#poetry #poetrycommunity

How can there be laughter,
how can there be pleasure, when
the whole world is burning?

I found these words in a book
called Buddha’s Teachings,
translated from the Pali by

Juan Mascaró. It startled me,
at first, by its contemporary
relevance, Gaza in flames

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · Sep 14

We need another concept of animals—they are “gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear” (Henry Beston).

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?

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

Read an exclusive interview with Jorge Luis Borges on Substack

cardennemo.substack.com/p/borges-a-character-by-borges

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