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I have realised that, as embarrassing as it may be, I like having a body. I like that on any given afternoon, I can dip my fingers in a plate full of steaming rice and squeeze the brains of a…

Saudamini Deo @saudaminideo.bsky.social · 2d

It’s nice that, like an apple, I have skin.

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I like having a body

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 37

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 25d

This week in the poetry blogs w/ @pearlpoet.bsky.social @roguestrands.bsky.social @saudaminideo.bsky.social @shawnalemay.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @kristybowen.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social 1/2
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A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.

The Louvre and the ass of a horse

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Saudamini Deo @saudaminideo.bsky.social · Sep 10

The Louvre and the ass of a horse:

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The first time someone visits the Louvre, they either go to see the famously cryptic smile of Monalisa or Venus de Milo or Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss and even Liberty Leading the People. There …

Telling My Lost Child the Story of His Life - Electric Literature

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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · Sep 1

Thrilled to share extracts from my novel The Orange Notebooks @pressassembly.bsky.social in @electricliterature.com introduced by @rachelcantor.bsky.social 🙏
"Moving & masterful, this book, at its heart, is about love..& how we manage when that love is lost."

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An excerpt from THE ORANGE NOTEBOOKS by Susanna Crossman, recommended by Rachel Cantor

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · Aug 19

This week in the poetry blogs with @kent-nj.bsky.social @saudaminideo.bsky.social @racheldacusauthor.bsky.social @shawnalemay.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social @mcrucefix.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social 1/3
www.vianegativa.us/2025/08/poet...

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 33

A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.

One could lie down on the grass at night for hours looking at stars. Though one quickly discovers that apart from stars, there are also planets, meteors, flying planes, the moon, and Elon Musk’s St…

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Saudamini Deo @saudaminideo.bsky.social · Aug 13

"I would like to die in a forest somewhere looking through a telescope."

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The Rings of Saturn

One could lie down on the grass at night for hours looking at stars. Though one quickly discovers that apart from stars, there are also planets, meteors, flying planes, the moon, and Elon Musk’s St…

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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · Aug 13

Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.

Quote from a story on changes at the U of Chicago that notes they are "pausing" doctoral eduction in Classics, Comp Lit, Germanic studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Romance languages and literatures, and South Asian Studies.

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Theo Nash @theonash.bsky.social · Aug 13

This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.

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Saudamini Deo @saudaminideo.bsky.social · Aug 13

"I would like to die in a forest somewhere looking through a telescope."

beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/08/14/t...

The Rings of Saturn

What is a banlieue? It took me some time to understand it. At first I didn’t understand it at all. I lived in Paris but if I walked 200 metres, I was no longer in Paris and found myself in Gentilly…

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Saudamini Deo @saudaminideo.bsky.social · Aug 9

"I had no idea where the village of Paris began and ended."

Banlieues Chéries:

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Banlieues Chéries

What is a banlieue? It took me some time to understand it. At first I didn’t understand it at all. I lived in Paris but if I walked 200 metres, I was no longer in Paris and found myself in Gentilly…

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Saudamini Deo @saudaminideo.bsky.social · Aug 9

"I had no idea where the village of Paris began and ended."

Banlieues Chéries:

beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/08/09/b...

Banlieues Chéries

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 31

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · Aug 4

This week in the poetry blogs w/ @beckyltuch.bsky.social @saudaminideo.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @wendypratt.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social @matthewepaul.bsky.social @kathrynanna.bsky.social 1/3
www.vianegativa.us/2025/08/poet...

A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.

In the 5th arrondissement of Paris, next to the street of the cat that fishes, is an old 16th century building from the depths of which people can sometimes hear music. It seems almost like a surre…

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Saudamini Deo @saudaminideo.bsky.social · Aug 3

I am sometimes in the 21st and sometimes in the 15th century. What does it all mean? Nothing except that we don’t know anything.

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Rue du chat qui pêche

In the 5th arrondissement of Paris, next to the street of the cat that fishes, is an old 16th century building from the depths of which people can sometimes hear music. It seems almost like a surre…

Saudamini Deo @saudaminideo.bsky.social · Aug 3

I am sometimes in the 21st and sometimes in the 15th century. What does it all mean? Nothing except that we don’t know anything.

beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/08/04/r...

Rue du chat qui pêche

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 30

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · Jul 28

This week in the poetry blogs w/ @aempoet.bsky.social @kristybowen.bsky.social @saudaminideo.bsky.social @kathrynanna.bsky.social @velveteenrabbi.bsky.social @salenagodden.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @jillpearlman.bsky.social @mariapopova.bsky.social 1/2
www.vianegativa.us/2025/07/poet...

A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.

Whenever I have conversations these days, the sentences seem to be spoken as if by a defendant. It’s a performance, defence, in front of an invisible jury. People no longer talk, they defend. The i…

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Saudamini Deo @saudaminideo.bsky.social · Jul 28

The Hockney Exhibit:

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The Hockney Exhibit

The World Is Made Every Day by Alok Dhanwa | Seagull Books

Saudamini Deo @saudaminideo.bsky.social · Jul 26

Starting the weekend right.

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Saudamini Deo @saudaminideo.bsky.social · Jul 25

@prefpolice.bsky.social Bonjour, j’ai déposé ma demande de renouvellement (Passeport Talent – Chercheur) sur ANEF le 23 juillet. Mon contrat doctoral commence le 1er oct., mais je dois fournir le récépissé au plus tard le 25 août. Pourriez-vous m’indiquer les délais ? Merci beaucoup 🙏

Saudamini Deo @saudaminideo.bsky.social · Jul 25

Delighted to announce that my translation of Alok Dhanwa's cult poetry collection The World is Made Up Every Day is now available in India (to be available in the rest of the world October onwards).

Order your copy here:

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Now available in India. Forthcoming in the rest of the world in October 2025. Poetry that serves as a powerful testament to the struggles and resilience of India's marginalized, capturing the spirit o...

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Saudamini Deo @saudaminideo.bsky.social · Jul 22

I like fallen people, people who fall, who fell, who will fall, who have been made to fall. I like Adam and Eve and the red apple.

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The Fallen People

I often think of Paul Celan while walking alongside the Seine that, in the summer, smells like fish, sweat, and rotting apples. One can look at the green of the river and imagine the countless bodi…

I often think of Paul Celan while walking alongside the Seine that, in the summer, smells like fish, sweat, and rotting apples. One can look at the green of the river and imagine the countless bodi…

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Saudamini Deo @saudaminideo.bsky.social · Jul 22

I like fallen people, people who fall, who fell, who will fall, who have been made to fall. I like Adam and Eve and the red apple.

beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/07/23/t...

The Fallen People