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@chowleen most elsewhere; my old tweets reappear here at odd times.

Duke prof, APSI Dir+DGS, Duke Story Lab founder. DUP Sinotheory, LAReviewOfBooks board. Shewo Institute 舍我紀念館 Director, Biographical Lit 傳記文學 publisher
周成蔭 #everynightapoem
Safe travels to Nakadai Tatsuya (1932-2025), the great, great Japanese actor of both film and stage, who disappeared into every role he played. It's hard to imagine any story of Japanese cinema without him.
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
a new small post on 柏舟 ("Cypress Boat") from the Book of Songs (c 600 BCE).

My heart is not a mirror
To reflect what others will

My heart is not a stone
It cannot be rolled

My heart is not a mat
It cannot be folded away

我心匪鑑 不可以茹
我心匪石 不可轉也
我心匪席 不可卷也

#everynightapoem chowleen.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
(Because we need a diversion)

I don’t have the NYT cooking app so someone who does might tell me: why would it take a whole *30 minutes* to make egg drop soup?? Are we collecting eggs from the hen coop? Making bone broth from scratch??
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Watched Taxi Driver again tonight - last saw it in college probably.
Just astoundingly, disturbingly good.
November 8, 2025 at 5:09 AM
"We are the leaders we've been waiting for."
-Grace Lee Boggs
November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
via @notoriousrsg.bsky.social: "Holding a Roaring Twenties party for your billionaire friends while you’re doing everything you can to make Americans relive the 1930s."
November 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Both recovering from the plague, but wouldn’t miss a vote. Actually 15yo gave me informed opinions on the slate, and helped me make up my mind on a key vote
#nc #vote
November 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Durham County Government, in collaboration with local partners, has created a food and nutrition resources page that contains important information and links for residents who are impacted by the federal government shutdown.
#Durham #NC #food
➡🔗 dconc.gov/Public-Infor...
November 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
“It is also November. The noons are more laconic and the sundowns sterner...November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.”

-Emily Dickinson, letter to Elizabeth Holland (Nov 1865)
#everynightapoem #november
November 3, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I just love that Otani shared this Yamamoto lion’s roar
#大谷翔平 #山本由伸 #WorldSeries
November 2, 2025 at 8:16 PM
My tsundoku 積ん読 to be read book pile costume was originally crowned with a nightstand reading lamp on my head, but it toppled over…
#halloween
November 1, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I was going to attend the ball of ghosts and witches,
A delegation would appear there in masks and wigs,
And dance, unrecognized, in the chorus of the living.

Czeslaw Milosz, All Hallow's Eve
#everynightapoem
November 1, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Deciduous indecisiveness
October 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The level of pumpkin carving to which I aspire
(By the artist Michael Cherney)

「忽肚痛不可堪,不知是冷熱所致,欲服大黃湯,冷熱俱有益。如何為計,非臨床。」
October 29, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Absolutely worth seeing on 35mm in theaters #bugonia
October 27, 2025 at 1:55 AM
"Protests broke out in Chinatown after an ICE raid on Canal Street. Multiple people were detained. According to AMNY, 30-40 vendors were arrested, while ICE officials say 9."

[Susan Chen, Chinatown Block Watch, 2022 @brooklynmuseum.org]
October 23, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Always great to have the opportunity to welcome Curtis Chin to Duke! I will be in conversation with Curtis, and the talk will be free and open to the public.
If you're in #DurhamNC area:
TODAY 10/22 Wed, East Duke Building 209 4pm
October 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
You wonder who they mean,
but then you see. Their poison hemlock? That
is you. Their brown tree snake. Their killer bee.

-Amit Majmudar, 'Invasive Species'
#everynightapoem
We flower where we flower.
October 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
And of course this was the verso of my “Immigrant and Here to Stay” sign #nokings #durhamnc
October 19, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Got off the plane and went straight to #nokings #durhamnc. What a turnout.

(Love my neighbors- so many folks cheered my “Immigrant and Here to Stay” sign)
October 19, 2025 at 1:09 AM
High school students representing!
October 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This was startling yesterday
October 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
October 16, 2025 at 10:17 PM
On Beale Street.

In Memphis for the first time to give a public lecture at Rhodes College this evening, on the subject of southern Asian food, and tomorrow I'll be taking part in and delivering a keynote for the #1882Foundation Conference on Rural Chinatowns and Hidden Sites. 🩷 1882foundation.org
October 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I am the man. I suffered,
I was there.
-Whitman

In Baldwin’s hand, cover page for the manuscript of Giovanni’s Room
#everynightapoem
October 15, 2025 at 1:37 AM