ZeeshanJaanam
@zeeshanpathan.bsky.social
Columbia University trained poet & translator. MFA @Columbia. Author of The Minister of Disturbances (@DiodeEditions, '20) Former Poetry Editor @pestemagazine
Jules Bastien Lepage
October 25, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Jules Bastien Lepage
Francis Picabia
October 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Francis Picabia
Pablo Picasso - Couple - 1970
October 12, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Pablo Picasso - Couple - 1970
2 years of ĝ3nøç1ḍə in G@za. How have you been silent for 2 years? What made your heart a stone?
October 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
2 years of ĝ3nøç1ḍə in G@za. How have you been silent for 2 years? What made your heart a stone?
My translation 🧿🧿🧿🇱🇧
October 6, 2025 at 1:50 AM
My translation 🧿🧿🧿🇱🇧
Every day that you are silent—look—what is unfolding all around. This is not the time to recoil. We must continue to advocate for the possibility of democracy and equality for all.
October 5, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Every day that you are silent—look—what is unfolding all around. This is not the time to recoil. We must continue to advocate for the possibility of democracy and equality for all.
Mohamed Melehi
Moroccan visual artist
Moroccan visual artist
October 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Mohamed Melehi
Moroccan visual artist
Moroccan visual artist
We have not learned the lessons of ANNE FRANK. If we had, things would look very different in America & beyond today.
October 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
We have not learned the lessons of ANNE FRANK. If we had, things would look very different in America & beyond today.
Man Ray at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
October 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Man Ray at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Hope is often misunderstood. People tend to think that it is simply passive wishful thinking: I hope something will happen but I’m not going to do anything about it. This is indeed the opposite of real hope, which requires action and engagement.
—Jane Goodall (REST IN POWER 1934-2025)
#atruehuman
—Jane Goodall (REST IN POWER 1934-2025)
#atruehuman
October 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Hope is often misunderstood. People tend to think that it is simply passive wishful thinking: I hope something will happen but I’m not going to do anything about it. This is indeed the opposite of real hope, which requires action and engagement.
—Jane Goodall (REST IN POWER 1934-2025)
#atruehuman
—Jane Goodall (REST IN POWER 1934-2025)
#atruehuman
Picasso - c. 1970
October 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Picasso - c. 1970
For thousands of years, the nargis flower cries—
at its own blindness.
With great difficulty—a visionary—
is born in the flower garden.
—Allama Iqbal
at its own blindness.
With great difficulty—a visionary—
is born in the flower garden.
—Allama Iqbal
September 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
For thousands of years, the nargis flower cries—
at its own blindness.
With great difficulty—a visionary—
is born in the flower garden.
—Allama Iqbal
at its own blindness.
With great difficulty—a visionary—
is born in the flower garden.
—Allama Iqbal
Blanca Varela:
I haven't arrived
I will never arrive
at the center of everything is the poem—
an unspoiled sun
inexorable night.
[My translation. 🧿]
I haven't arrived
I will never arrive
at the center of everything is the poem—
an unspoiled sun
inexorable night.
[My translation. 🧿]
September 19, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Blanca Varela:
I haven't arrived
I will never arrive
at the center of everything is the poem—
an unspoiled sun
inexorable night.
[My translation. 🧿]
I haven't arrived
I will never arrive
at the center of everything is the poem—
an unspoiled sun
inexorable night.
[My translation. 🧿]
Redon - Italian Landscape - 1895
September 19, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Redon - Italian Landscape - 1895
Odilon Redon - Marine Landscape with Cliff - c. 1880
September 19, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Odilon Redon - Marine Landscape with Cliff - c. 1880
Vaccines save lives. Get boosted and protect yourself & your loved ones & community. We are losing herd immunity for many preventable diseases. Think how many lives could be saved if we still cared about such matters as a culture.
September 18, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Vaccines save lives. Get boosted and protect yourself & your loved ones & community. We are losing herd immunity for many preventable diseases. Think how many lives could be saved if we still cared about such matters as a culture.
Now more than ever, folks!
September 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Now more than ever, folks!
Every day that you are silent terrible, abominable things are taking place in our names.
September 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Every day that you are silent terrible, abominable things are taking place in our names.
The media landscape is bleak. We need progressives to form media outlets that will support honest journalism, and that will serve the people, not power.
September 17, 2025 at 12:54 AM
The media landscape is bleak. We need progressives to form media outlets that will support honest journalism, and that will serve the people, not power.
All these simultaneous disasters could have been averted had our society actually believed in justice, democracy, science (knowledge), and equality.
September 16, 2025 at 11:06 PM
All these simultaneous disasters could have been averted had our society actually believed in justice, democracy, science (knowledge), and equality.
"There is only one form of gøvɛrnmənt that cannot produce good writers, and that system is F@§çīṣm. [...] A writer who will not lie cannot live or work under F@§çīṣm.
Because F@§çīṣm [...] is condemned to literary sterility.
Because F@§çīṣm [...] is condemned to literary sterility.
September 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
"There is only one form of gøvɛrnmənt that cannot produce good writers, and that system is F@§çīṣm. [...] A writer who will not lie cannot live or work under F@§çīṣm.
Because F@§çīṣm [...] is condemned to literary sterility.
Because F@§çīṣm [...] is condemned to literary sterility.