JSA Lowe
@jsalowe.com
she/her | just another poet with a cat | teaches film and creative writing | studies danmei/dangai and fanfiction | masterless ronin, island dweller, matcha enjoyer, winter sparrow | "we must hurry if we are going to dance" | http://jsalowe.com
We must hurry if we are going to dance.
Oh, we have time, I think.
—till there’s no time left. That’s what time means.
When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning,
we will be alone, on an empty shore.
Then we will dance. Is this a waltz?
It will serve.
[Sir Tom Stoppard 1937–2025]
Oh, we have time, I think.
—till there’s no time left. That’s what time means.
When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning,
we will be alone, on an empty shore.
Then we will dance. Is this a waltz?
It will serve.
[Sir Tom Stoppard 1937–2025]
November 29, 2025 at 10:21 PM
We must hurry if we are going to dance.
Oh, we have time, I think.
—till there’s no time left. That’s what time means.
When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning,
we will be alone, on an empty shore.
Then we will dance. Is this a waltz?
It will serve.
[Sir Tom Stoppard 1937–2025]
Oh, we have time, I think.
—till there’s no time left. That’s what time means.
When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning,
we will be alone, on an empty shore.
Then we will dance. Is this a waltz?
It will serve.
[Sir Tom Stoppard 1937–2025]
we need this man on here NOW #academicsky
November 9, 2025 at 5:08 AM
we need this man on here NOW #academicsky
four by jean valentine [via sean singer]
October 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
four by jean valentine [via sean singer]
was anyone going to TELL ME that kahlo and o'keeffe partied together in new york, visited each other afterwards, and kahlo at least seems to have had a pretty intense crush on o'keeffe, or did i really have to find that out myself today via A FB POST
August 24, 2025 at 9:45 AM
was anyone going to TELL ME that kahlo and o'keeffe partied together in new york, visited each other afterwards, and kahlo at least seems to have had a pretty intense crush on o'keeffe, or did i really have to find that out myself today via A FB POST
(Brodsky's own translation, which is arguably worse; he and Weissbort fought bitterly about these matters)
May 28, 2025 at 11:41 PM
(Brodsky's own translation, which is arguably worse; he and Weissbort fought bitterly about these matters)
"Freedom is when you forget the tyrant's middle name,"
[Joseph Brodsky, from the end of "Part of Speech," Poetry Magazine, March 1978]
[Joseph Brodsky, from the end of "Part of Speech," Poetry Magazine, March 1978]
May 28, 2025 at 9:33 PM
"Freedom is when you forget the tyrant's middle name,"
[Joseph Brodsky, from the end of "Part of Speech," Poetry Magazine, March 1978]
[Joseph Brodsky, from the end of "Part of Speech," Poetry Magazine, March 1978]
like, look at him, he's vivid and memorable and this happens in two seconds of screentime (when the trailer ended this way in the theatre, i was the only person laughing hysterically, because i'm terrible)
May 28, 2025 at 11:48 AM
like, look at him, he's vivid and memorable and this happens in two seconds of screentime (when the trailer ended this way in the theatre, i was the only person laughing hysterically, because i'm terrible)
cixous on tsvetaeva: "she declared her love to the people she met the way one declares war…her letters are very violent, but also sad and funny."
May 28, 2025 at 2:14 AM
cixous on tsvetaeva: "she declared her love to the people she met the way one declares war…her letters are very violent, but also sad and funny."
(this is what he looked like around the time i knew him, here with his dear friend derek. later i sought out derek and he was also my teacher for a year, because i thought: with joseph dead, who would be the next best thing?)
May 25, 2025 at 1:22 AM
(this is what he looked like around the time i knew him, here with his dear friend derek. later i sought out derek and he was also my teacher for a year, because i thought: with joseph dead, who would be the next best thing?)
85 years ago my late teacher was born. he died a year younger than i am now, a "cardiac cripple" he called himself. he loved cats and they loved him back, like ballet dancers and lesbians. he was miserable, tragic, contemptuous, magnetic, unforgettable. Иосиф Александрович Бродский, 5.24.40–1.28.96.
May 25, 2025 at 1:20 AM
85 years ago my late teacher was born. he died a year younger than i am now, a "cardiac cripple" he called himself. he loved cats and they loved him back, like ballet dancers and lesbians. he was miserable, tragic, contemptuous, magnetic, unforgettable. Иосиф Александрович Бродский, 5.24.40–1.28.96.
"The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts."
May 22, 2025 at 3:39 AM
"The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts."
well this seems unfortunate in...several ways, really
May 19, 2025 at 11:54 PM
well this seems unfortunate in...several ways, really
perhaps the most dazzling piece of academic straightwashing i've ever encountered, from an unnamed editor's preface to the al-andalusian anthology, ca. 1976, tr. from arabic. allow me to paraphrase: "these poets using masculine pronouns are definitely referring to women. we know this bc it is true…"
May 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
perhaps the most dazzling piece of academic straightwashing i've ever encountered, from an unnamed editor's preface to the al-andalusian anthology, ca. 1976, tr. from arabic. allow me to paraphrase: "these poets using masculine pronouns are definitely referring to women. we know this bc it is true…"
oh GOSH they're so GORGEOUS? here is zoë/zozo, a small but evil torbie
May 11, 2025 at 8:27 PM
oh GOSH they're so GORGEOUS? here is zoë/zozo, a small but evil torbie
i didn't even know i HAD a "g••gle watchlist" and why does it have these four films, three of which i've already seen (though @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social you're clearly responsible for the first one)
May 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
i didn't even know i HAD a "g••gle watchlist" and why does it have these four films, three of which i've already seen (though @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social you're clearly responsible for the first one)
THANK YOU THANK YOU <3 <3 <3
March 31, 2025 at 4:26 AM
THANK YOU THANK YOU <3 <3 <3
tomrrow [sic] are my birthday. here is a tiny figurine of jesus that someone put on top of the elevator at the courthouse, no i don't know why either.
March 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
tomrrow [sic] are my birthday. here is a tiny figurine of jesus that someone put on top of the elevator at the courthouse, no i don't know why either.
a delightful sampling lol
March 23, 2025 at 10:55 PM
a delightful sampling lol
welp never assigning tarkovsky again bc every single essay on stalker (1979) went for the well-chewed AI bubblegum. "long takes" "wide shots" "themes of faith, existentialism and spirituality"
me [on my knees sobbing]: ONE SHOT. PLEASE. JUST TELL ME ABOUT A SHOT, JUST A SINGLE SHOT I AM BEGGING YOU
me [on my knees sobbing]: ONE SHOT. PLEASE. JUST TELL ME ABOUT A SHOT, JUST A SINGLE SHOT I AM BEGGING YOU
March 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
welp never assigning tarkovsky again bc every single essay on stalker (1979) went for the well-chewed AI bubblegum. "long takes" "wide shots" "themes of faith, existentialism and spirituality"
me [on my knees sobbing]: ONE SHOT. PLEASE. JUST TELL ME ABOUT A SHOT, JUST A SINGLE SHOT I AM BEGGING YOU
me [on my knees sobbing]: ONE SHOT. PLEASE. JUST TELL ME ABOUT A SHOT, JUST A SINGLE SHOT I AM BEGGING YOU
"who are the five writers that [sic] made you"
well…i can tell you the ones who didn't make me? since i haven't ever amounted to much, through absolutely no fault of theirs & all of mine
joseph brodsky
lucie brock-broido
cd wright
norman dubie
sarah kane
anne carson
plath
tsvetaeva
woolf
dickinson
well…i can tell you the ones who didn't make me? since i haven't ever amounted to much, through absolutely no fault of theirs & all of mine
joseph brodsky
lucie brock-broido
cd wright
norman dubie
sarah kane
anne carson
plath
tsvetaeva
woolf
dickinson
March 23, 2025 at 5:37 AM
"who are the five writers that [sic] made you"
well…i can tell you the ones who didn't make me? since i haven't ever amounted to much, through absolutely no fault of theirs & all of mine
joseph brodsky
lucie brock-broido
cd wright
norman dubie
sarah kane
anne carson
plath
tsvetaeva
woolf
dickinson
well…i can tell you the ones who didn't make me? since i haven't ever amounted to much, through absolutely no fault of theirs & all of mine
joseph brodsky
lucie brock-broido
cd wright
norman dubie
sarah kane
anne carson
plath
tsvetaeva
woolf
dickinson
happy agnes martin's birthday i love her
March 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
happy agnes martin's birthday i love her