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johannesg.bsky.social @johannesg.bsky.social · 6d

It does make students giddy and excited to be playing around with poetry; and while I think that's the key to any creative writing class, I do know that many don't agree...

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johannesg.bsky.social @johannesg.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah my undergrads had big disagreement if this was an erotic text or what.

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Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 8d

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johannesg.bsky.social @johannesg.bsky.social · 8d

Top advice on teaching creative writing: teach Keats' letter to Leigh Hunt.

"I’ll cavern you, and grotto you, and waterfall you, and wood you, and water you, and immense-rock you, and tremendous-sound you, and solitude you..."

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johannesg.bsky.social @johannesg.bsky.social · 8d

Top advice on teaching creative writing: teach Keats' letter to Leigh Hunt.

"I’ll cavern you, and grotto you, and waterfall you, and wood you, and water you, and immense-rock you, and tremendous-sound you, and solitude you..."

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johannesg.bsky.social @johannesg.bsky.social · 12d

AASE'S DEATH

(Forthcoming from Black Ocean)

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johannesg.bsky.social @johannesg.bsky.social · 14d

Absolut. Jag hatar denna tendens.

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johannesg.bsky.social @johannesg.bsky.social · 15d

Some of my Courtney Love fan fiction

Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · Aug 2

Johannes Göransson

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johannesg.bsky.social @johannesg.bsky.social · 15d

Be sure to check out the internet launch of the critical-electronic edition of Joyelle McSweeney's brilliant and immensely influential Dead Youth, or The Leaks today at 3:30 eastern time. There will be reading, discussion and writing prompts.

www.eventbrite.com/e/open-poeti...

Open Poetics — Launch & Workshop w. Joyelle McSweeney & Tonya M. Foster

eBook Launch of Dead Youth, or, The Leaks with a Generative Writing Workshop led by Joyelle McSweeney & Tonya M. Foster

www.eventbrite.com

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johannesg.bsky.social @johannesg.bsky.social · 22d

"It’s difficult picking up another collection of poetry after finishing Burn the Losses; it’s such a damn compelling and spellbinding book... it is stunning both in image and in idea."

Review of Gamoneda's Burn the Losses at Action, Spectacle: www.action-spectacle.com/summer-2025-...

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johannesg.bsky.social @johannesg.bsky.social · Sep 9

September issue of Poetry Magazine is up on the PF website, incl my translations of a couple poems from Aase's Death. They also posted sound files of us reading the poems, so if you want to hear what Aase Berg sounds like when she reads her poems, go here:

www.poetryfoundation.org/audio/171462...

Från “Aases Död” [“Jag går naturlig”]

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

www.poetryfoundation.org

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Matt Neil Hill @mattneilhill.bsky.social · Aug 27

Cracked open Aase Berg's "Hackers" as part of my reading for Women in Translation month and this is the first page 🔥

Eagerly awaiting her new book later this year.

Text from the first page of Aase Berg's poetry collection "Hackers"

This is a threat:

We are the woman trap. We are the hostess animal, hooked up to slop-fleshed parasites, such as lazy men and manipulative fuck-addicts and spoiled morons who act like pets.

But the body is caught in a vicious circle, the women's movement rears toward a spiralling fever pitch. To speak plainly about our invulnerable vulnerability: we have always been good at a very complicated kind of love.

There is a female freedom. Found inside a feeling you don't know exists. Our inner machines are fine-tuned into a frozen gaze:

We are Anonymous.

We are Legion.

We do not forgive.

We do not forget.

Expect us-always

Aase Berg, Sha-Tin, Hong Kong, Nov. 14

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · Sep 1

www.artforum.com/columns/p-ad...

P. Adams Sitney (1944–2025)

Film critic J. Hoberman looks back on the life of film history pioneer P. Adams Sitney.

www.artforum.com

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johannesg.bsky.social @johannesg.bsky.social · Sep 1

”Hers are poems of the abyss, its irresistibility, its absurdity, its gooey splendor…”

Great review of Aase Berg’s Aase’s Death (forthcoming from Black Ocean) by Nina MacLaughlin
open.substack.com/pub/ninamacl...

Slugs, Swedish poetry, Mel Allen's New England, lots of litfests

New England Literary News

open.substack.com

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johannesg.bsky.social @johannesg.bsky.social · Aug 27

Joyelle McSweeney on the connection between grief and "disobedience" in the late great Alice Notley's work: www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/171...

A Charmed and Desperate Poet

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

www.poetryfoundation.org

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johannesg.bsky.social @johannesg.bsky.social · Aug 21

Looking forward to seeing Verano, the Spanish translation of my book Summer, to be published in Chile this fall. Especially look forward to it bc it's so indebted to Latin American poetry, esp Chilean poetry.

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johannesg.bsky.social @johannesg.bsky.social · Aug 20

Ghayath Almadhoun's second English-language book, I Have Brought You A Severed Hand (Action Books 2025), is on the filmmaker Sepideh Farsi great list of Palestinian books here:

a-rabbitsfoot.com/editorial/cu...

8 essential books to add to your Palestine reading list

Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk director Sepideh Farsi gives us eight essential texts to add to your Palestine reading list.

a-rabbitsfoot.com

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johannesg.bsky.social @johannesg.bsky.social · Aug 20

I didn't know what syllabub was, but now I'm intrigued...

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johannesg.bsky.social @johannesg.bsky.social · Aug 19

Someone pointed out to me how much this reminds of Plath's "Mirror": allpoetry.com/poem/8498499...

Mirror by Sylvia Plath at Allpoetry

Comments & analysis: I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. / Whatever I see I swallow immediately /

allpoetry.com

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johannesg.bsky.social @johannesg.bsky.social · Aug 19

I'm syllabus-making which reminded me of Swift's "On Snow," which kind of disproves the common rhetoric that poetry should not be a riddle:

poets.org/poem/snow-0

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johannesg.bsky.social @johannesg.bsky.social · Aug 10

Interesting article about the homogenizing effects of Anglo/US literature worldwide but also suggests that a lot of the most ambitious new work is being written elsewhere. Tho he doesn't really explore the reason. Why is US literary establishment so normative?

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

‘It’s another form of imperialism’: how anglophone literature lost its universal appeal

There’s a growing appetite for stories from around the globe – if only we can avoid the cliches and exoticism of recent years, writes the International Booker nominee

www.theguardian.com

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johannesg.bsky.social @johannesg.bsky.social · Aug 6

“These are refugee footnotes…”

Kym Cunningham on I Have Brought You a Severed Hand by Ghayath Almadhoun (Action Books, 2025)

www.action-spectacle.com/summer-2025-...

Kym Cunningham - book review of Ghayath Almadhoun — Action, Spectacle

www.action-spectacle.com

johannesg.bsky.social @johannesg.bsky.social · Aug 6

Thanks!

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Stefanie Kirby @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social · Jul 20

Something to look forward to this fall!! Big fan of Aase Berg since WITH DEER, and of all things Black Ocean. Really grateful to @johannesg.bsky.social for all of these translations! 🙏

johannesg.bsky.social @johannesg.bsky.social · Jul 1

This translation from Aase's Berg's Aase's Death (forthcoming from Black Ocean this fall) is in new issue of APR. I'm very happy about that.

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · Aug 4

theintercept.com/2025/08/02/s...
Trickledown corruption or Brownshirt DEI?

Guess Who’s Eligible for Student Loan Forgiveness: New ICE Agents

Thanks to the Supreme Court and the Trump administration, student loan forgiveness is out of reach for many — unless you work for ICE.

theintercept.com

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johannesg.bsky.social @johannesg.bsky.social · Aug 4

I wrote this when so much of my writing had to do with performance. The "title" is the character speaking the poem. There are narrative threads but mostly it's like monologues taken from different imaginary plays. But mostly, from some play I imagined Genet might have written about Jon Benet Ramsey.

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