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Jennifer Wong @jennywcreative.bsky.social · 1d

Don't miss the last two days to submit to the first-ever @foundationswift.bsky.social Woman, Mapped anthology (forthcoming from @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social 2026)! Deadline 12 Oct, 11.59pm, open call for works by UK-based women poets. Here's more: www.youtube.com/shorts/_HVes...

Rebecca Swift Foundation - 'Woman, Mapped' Anthology

YouTube video by Rebecca Swift Foundation

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Jennifer Wong @jennywcreative.bsky.social · 15d

it’s not easy thinking up a book cover. But when you come across the right one you’ll know.

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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 18d

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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Jennifer Wong @jennywcreative.bsky.social · 26d

Looking forward to running this workshop on found poetry and metaphors for Tsaa on 27 oct! Please check out the upcoming sessions by Charlotte Shevchenko Knight and Romalyn herself on haunting and joy 👍✍️

@romalynante3.bsky.social

www.romalynante.com/event-list

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Jennifer Wong @jennywcreative.bsky.social · 26d

Looking forward to running this workshop on found poetry and metaphors for Tsaa on 27 oct! Please check out the upcoming sessions by Charlotte Sharvenko Knight and Romalyn herself on haunting and joy 👍✍️

@romalynante3.bsky.social

www.romalynante.com/event-list

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Rebecca Swift Foundation @foundationswift.bsky.social · Aug 21

Do you want to be part of something special?

We're recruiting for a new Chair and two new Trustees to support our national work advocating for and championing UK-based women poets.

Find out more here: www.rebeccaswiftfoundation.org/about/work-w...

#Governance #womenpoets

blue square on white background. Text says "Rebecca Swift Foundation, we're recruiting. Chair of Trustees and two new Trustees. The Rebecca Swift Foundation is recruiting for α new Chair and two new Trustees to support our national work advocating for and championing UK-based women poets. Deadline: 9am BST, 15 September. Visit our website for more details https://www.rebeccaswiftfoundation.org/about/work-with-us/

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Jennifer Wong @jennywcreative.bsky.social · 28d

Thank you!

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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · Sep 10

‘Shapero leaves a huge dent in oblivion to show us that it’s real.’
—Jack Underwood

STAY DEAD by Natalie Shapero OUT NOW

In her fourth collection, Shapero examines performance, power, comedy and despair through the lenses of method acting and abstract expressionism.

outspokenldn.com/shop/staydead

Cover of Stay Dead by Natalie Shapero: title appears in fat black eurostile caps with “stay” above and “dead” below a photo collage of b&w Joshua tree desert and old tv set, with a blue-green gradient sky. outspokenldn.com/shop/staydead

'In Stay Dead, Natalie Shapero leads us out from the wreckage into the brightly smouldering aftermath more precariously mortal, more humane and attentive and vivid than before. Her relentlessly dark, metaphysical poems of dying and not dying, surviving and not surviving, are as bleakly comical as they are halting.
Shapero always keeps her lyrics effortlessly turning, veering her syntax, squinting and tacking
- from abstract paintings, movie quotations and the private ownership of coastal redwoods, to the ocean hurling itself onto the rocks, the past, the afterlife, the dead that stay dead, and the dead that don't. Shapero leaves a huge dent in oblivion to show us that it's real.'
— Jack Underwood
OUT
SPOKEN PRESS
STAY DEAD
www.outspokenldn.com/shop/staydead

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · Sep 10

📣 Orders are now open for our latest issue, Wasafiri 123!

Find interviews with Andre Bagoo, Cato Pedder, and Christina Sharpe, three translated Tamil poets, a poem by Devika Rege, and more fiction, reviews, articles, and poems.

www.wasafiri.org/issues/wasaf...

Wasafiri 123

Inside Wasafiri 123, you'll find interviews with Andre Bagoo and Christina Sharpe, a lead feature poem by Devika Rege, our 2024 Essay Prize winning articles…

www.wasafiri.org

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Natalie Whittaker @natalie-whittaker.bsky.social · Sep 7

I'll be reading from my @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social book, The Point Is You Are Alive, alongside @marymulholland.bsky.social Wendy Allen and @alicehiller.bsky.social, at The Poetry Cafe, Tuesday 28th October, 7pm-9pm!

Free tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/outrageous...

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · Sep 4

Join @csmithpoet.bsky.social to celebrate the publication of BYCATCH at Wembley Library, alongside poet Erica Hesketh.
Their books are beautifully moving explorations into the beginning and end of life, parenting & ageing, sadness & joy.
Thursday 16th October 6.30pm
eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-in-...

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Jennifer Wong @jennywcreative.bsky.social · 28d

was away from this side of social media for a while but so glad to learn from @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social her process of translating and editing

Jennifer Feeley @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social · Apr 29

Thank you @jennywcreative.bsky.social for chatting with me about literary translation & HK lit 💖
hongkonger.world/2025/04/21/h...

Hong Kong literature with an English voice | The Hong Konger

Translator Jennifer Feeley works to retain the distinctive character and tone of the Chinese authors she interprets.

hongkonger.world

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Jennifer Wong @jennywcreative.bsky.social · Jul 27

The first hour of the day 💕

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Taz Rahman @tazrahman.bsky.social · Jul 22

Fellow @serenbooks.bsky.social poet @wendycaitlin.bsky.social and I are reading tomorrow (23rd July, 6.30 pm) at @bookspacecardiff.bsky.social, the best independent bookshop in the city. Tickets: www.bookspacecardiff.co.uk/products/wen...

Wendy Allen and Taz Rahman poetry ticket

Join us for an evening of readings from poets Wendy Allen and Taz Rahman When: 23/7/25 18:30 start (doors 18:10) Where: 26a Crwys Road, CF24 4NL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There will be books available to b...

www.bookspacecardiff.co.uk

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Jennifer Wong @jennywcreative.bsky.social · Jul 22

helping with a writing contest makes me think back on beginnings, the way good writing matters and grows on you. 🌱🌱

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Barbara Bleiman @barbarableiman.bsky.social · Jul 7

I’ve been sending out some copies of ‘Snap!’ It’s so lovely to have the book out in the world and the reactions so far have been really lovely. If you want a copy, it’s available here in parperback or hardback: shorturl.at/V3bGH

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Jennifer Wong @jennywcreative.bsky.social · Jul 5

‘No matter how hard they try, Hai, Grazina, and his friends find America falling short of what it promises, simply and especially because they are immigrants or children of the immigrants.’ theadroitjournal.org/2025/07/03/a...

A Review of Ocean Vuong’s The Emperor of Gladness - The Adroit Journal

Ocean Vuong’s latest novel, The Emperor of Gladness, is a bold and remarkable novel that captures the hopes and disillusionments of people living in today’s America. The story begins in the fictional ...

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Jennifer Wong @jennywcreative.bsky.social · Jul 3

I’ve read a very different review on Vuong’s The Emperor of Gladness recently but I hope to share my own reflections on the novel with you. Thanks a lot to The Adroit Journal for including it theadroitjournal.org/2025/07/03/a...

A Review of Ocean Vuong’s The Emperor of Gladness - The Adroit Journal

Ocean Vuong’s latest novel, The Emperor of Gladness, is a bold and remarkable novel that captures the hopes and disillusionments of people living in today’s America. The story begins in the fictional ...

theadroitjournal.org

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Milton Keynes Literary Festival @mklitfest.bsky.social · Jun 27

A 90-minute masterclass for our Raising Voices Project

www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe...

@clareshawpoet.bsky.social
@betarish.bsky.social
@jessmookherjee.bsky.social
@calebparkinpoet.bsky.social
@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
@ninearchespress.bsky.social

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · Jun 27

Wasafiri has three panels in the English Shared Futures conference taking place in York, 3-5 July, incl. our Associate Editors @mayacaspari.bsky.social @jennywcreative.bsky.social

Magazines will be on sale on Sat, 5 July in the Publishers Hall.

Full programme: buff.ly/MGibRzm

See you there!

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · Jun 23

Agami Heron, rear view.

At Agami Island #CostaRica

#birds #nature

A bird with smooth, layered blue and teal plumage perches on a branch facing away. Its long, pale blue crest feathers drape down the back of its head, and its elegant tail feathers taper into a sharp point.

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Jennifer Wong @jennywcreative.bsky.social · May 3

Wonderful to discover the thoughtfulness and sensitivity in Jennifer’s translation practice @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social

Jennifer Feeley @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social · Apr 29

Thank you @jennywcreative.bsky.social for chatting with me about literary translation & HK lit 💖
hongkonger.world/2025/04/21/h...

Hong Kong literature with an English voice | The Hong Konger

Translator Jennifer Feeley works to retain the distinctive character and tone of the Chinese authors she interprets.

hongkonger.world

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · May 2

Join Wasafiri for a poetry reading and panel discussion on dislocation and diaspora with Theophilus Kwek & Suji Kwock Kim. The event will be chaired by Wasafiri Associate Editor & poet @jennywcreative.bsky.social

Thursday, 12 June, 7pm
BLOC, Queen Mary University London

Tickets:

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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · Feb 23

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity.

TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

NO CHATGPT Or other artificial stupidity: motivation
First, clarity on distinguishing AIs:
Non-generative: grammar aid, translation, dictionary, text-to-audio (e.g. Natural Reader): no problem
As long as you use the appropriate tools (least intensive in data and server energy use).
Why? Because you provide the content. Your brain is doing the most important work
Generative: ChatGPT & Co.
You only supply the prompt, the AI supplies the content.
Why is this delegation of work problematic?
3 domains: ethical, environmental, intellectual engagement.

(Caveat: generative is probably ok for computer programming, where it can be useful and save time. Not relevant to this class.)

1) AI and ethics
Mass theft of all and everything
«learning» on books, articles, blogs, social media, images, music, cultural production, without permission of authors/creators, and leading to their mass joblessness. Profits are not reditributed to originators.
Permanent destruction of the mental health of underpaid precarious tech workers in the Global South (Kenya, Philippines …):
«correction» to avoid production of violent and pedophile contents etc, tech workers are obliged to watch and correct super violent contents for days on end, leading to extreme psychological suffering and trauma, from which recovery is doubtful. No or little compensation (certainly not at the level of the suffering inflicted).
In short, an industry built on theft of real human creation and sacrifice of real human health, profiting a few megafortunes.

2) AI and (un)sustainability

Massive consumption of electricity, water, server capacity for generative AI.
Outcome: keep fossil fuel companies in business, using up new renewable capacity, without any satisfaction of basic human needs.
Massive misappropriation of the finance necessary for climate and ecological action (renewable generation, efficiency and retrofit for buildings, public transit, infrastructures for cycling etc) towards AI industry.
Overall: undermine climate action, reinforce fossil industry, waste resources necessary for human development.

3) AI and intellectual engagement

First, what learning is (or should be) about:
The goal should not (only) be the reproduction of «correct» knowledge,
But mainly personal engagement and experience of thinking about topics of interest. Personal engagement = using one’s own brain.
The most important activity for learning and intellectual engagement is the experience of making one’s own mistakes, by trial and error, corrections based on new ideas, starting over again. Learning to recognise nuances, knowledge gaps, better explanations
This kind of learning is possible only through using your own brain, not AI.
Also, Ais are not «intelligent». At all.
They simply reproduce pre-existing patterns. They «bullshit», invent false references, false facts, false data, simply because those sound plausible. VERY DANGEROUS.
If you learn how to NOT use AI, and how to research facts and data on your own, this will serve you and your communities for the rest of your life.

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Jennifer Wong @jennywcreative.bsky.social · Feb 24

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