J. Mae Barizo
@jmaebarizo
Poet, librettist, etc. Author of Tender Machines @TupeloPress The Cumulus Effect @FourWayBooks MFA Faculty @newschoolwrites Very Libra
I wrote a poem about grief, desire and recording the goldberg variations during mercury in retrograde and it's in poem-a-day this morning. very grateful
The main thing is that you should never let yourself be swayed by public opinion, that you should go your own way unwaveringly, in life as in art, allowing yourself to be distracted neither by failure not acclaim. - Gustav Mahler to Alma, 16 Dec 1901
for @MinorLits a conversation about what we want, expect and hope for when we read novels including contributions from J. Mae Barizo, Nancy Freund, Greg Gerke, Daniel Kennedy, Ben Libman, Alvin Lu, Mikra Namani, Lisa Robertson, Ryan Ruby and more ... youtu.be/kmP-ku2Ty0U
We could not be happier! Hugely proud of both Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi. Thank you to the judges and to all of you who have supported HEART LAMP. What a night!
We're delighted to announce that the winner of the #InternationalBooker2025 is Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, translated by Deepa Bhasthi. Here's everything you need to know about the book: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-lib…
Overjoyed to see Palestinian poet and writer Mosab Abu Toha—who has faced threats and intimidation—win a Pulitzer for his powerful commentary on Gaza. Huge congratulations @PulitzerPrizes
A bird was making its nest. In the dream, I watched it closely: in my life, I was trying to be a witness not a theorist. —Louise Glück, from "Nest"
“I only name what I love. I only name what’s worth naming.” - Roland Barthes, 30 March 1977
For all the Columbia and Barnard students expelled today ❤️🔥 garadinervi-repertori.blog/post/717128078…
Read June Jordan’s “Notes of a Barnard Dropout” and then read it again.
“we, however, are going through hell, oblivion” Friederike Mayröcker tr. by Alexander Booth
“The moral component of history, the most necessary component, is simply a single question: When it mattered, who sided with justice & who sided with power? What makes moments such as this one so dangerous, so clarifying, is that one way or another everyone is forced to answer”
Can't express how excited I am to share today's conversation with Omar El Akkad, about a book I'll surely be thinking alongside for a long time. A map, a guide, a thinking through, and a breakup letter with the American dream. Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar-e…
"The sound filled out that solitude to which the tone gave rhythm ahead of time." -Raymond Quineau, from A Hard Winter
I have been collecting Musil's descriptions of his struggles with writing. They are marvelous, Here are some of them (link in reply).
Goes without saying, but—every decent person in the world sees President Zelensky (@ZelenskyyUa) for what he is: a hero. Every decent person in the world recoils in disgust at the sight of a hero being taunted by shameless cowards.
Irredeemable and dangerous
Hundreds of asylum seekers were deported from the U.S. to Panama and locked in a hotel without access to lawyers, or their own passports. nyti.ms/4hFaeBJ
Adorno: “In the dash, thought becomes aware of its fragmentary character. It is no accident that in the era of the progressive degeneration of language, this mark of punctuation is neglected precisely insofar as it fulfills its function: …
No, using an em dash a lot isn’t a sign of AI because the em dash is not punctuation, it’s a vibe. It’s a feeling. You don’t use it because it makes grammatical sense — you use it because your heart tells you to. AI couldn’t possibly do it well because it lacks one.