The cat awaits midterm results, as do we all.
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Politics
The GOP runs anti trans ads because they want to exterminate trans people. (Public Notice)
On El-Sayed and how Islamophobia harms people of all faiths. (Sojourner’s)
They call Obama elitist because they are racist. (EIH)
Amy Kaplan’s Our American Israel and the fascism of invincible victims. (EIH)
Elie Wiesel and weaponizing American Holocaust guilt. (EIH)
Cultural criticism
The Holiday Hitman shows how casting Black actors can elevate a genre exercise. (Splice Today)
Implicating the viewer who isn’t there in Hollow Man. (EIH)
On Marge Piercy’s He, She, and It and the possibilities in apocalypse. (EIH)
Poetry
Some short poem. (smols)
something something something
somewhere somewhere
Sad poem with cat. (Five Fleas)
Self-Criticism
One day you will write your last good poem.
Maybe it is today.
Maybe it was the one you wrote yesterday,
before this one.A white, warm cat sits on your chest
and you cannot write anymore.
From the archive
My poetry book Not Akhmatova paid back its advance! So now if you buy it, I get royalties. And you get a book of my poetry! Everyone wins.
Track of the week
Funky fusion for trains.
