Once again, Iranians, Palestinians, Israelis, and people across the Middle East are experiencing immense uncertainty because of the actions of warmongers in power. While they do anything to protect themselves and hold onto their power, ordinary people pay the highest price. (1/4)
Wear comfortable shoes!!!
I have made it even easier to be found at AWP. If the schedule graphics are getting to be too much, just follow the shoes … #AWP26
See you soon #AWP!!! Come hear me read at Pickles Pub, Thurs. 3/6, at 5 pm with @baltimorereview.bsky.social and more! IT’S KIND OF A BIG DILL.
#AWP26 We will be there! Join us at Pickles Pub and our official off-site Baltimore-style literary event...
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Co-signed
Just in case anyone was wondering help.openai.com/en/articles/...
No one should be using ChatGPT or partnering with OpenAI for anything.
Beyond the Picket Sign: Writer’s Tools to Create Social Change
Thurs., March 5, 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
Location: Room 321-322, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center
Sara R Burnett
@sunuchandy.bsky.social
@battlecake.bsky.social
Chloe Yelena Miller
@hilaratzabi.bsky.social
We’re open for submissions until March 15! This winter’s extended reading period is for individual poems for our first anthology rather than full-length manuscripts. Details at www.juneroadpress.com/submissions!
Winner of best offsite event title: “IT’S KIND OF A BIG DILL” at Pickles Pub Thurs March 5 at 5pm. And I get to read there! Cause I’m KIND OF A BIG DILL.
We’re having a Jewish Writers Breakfast offsite at AWP. And by “we” I mean “me.” Totally casual, no agenda, just show up, eat, schmooze. Friday March 6, 8:00–8:45am ish. All are welcome.
Here come all my AWP posts! This one’s the full schedule. Who’s going to be there? Come say hi! I’m on a panel, an offsite or two, and signing books @juneroadpress.bsky.social
I’ll be talking about the intersection of my Israel-Palestine peace activism & poetry writing practice at AWP panel “Beyond the Picket Sign: Writers’ Tools to Create Social Change” with @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social @srburnett.bsky.social @sunuchandy.bsky.social @battlecake.bsky.social
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Join us for a Zoom conversation with Mo Husseini, a Palestinian-American filmmaker, writer, and activist, who will share about his recent work and his experience organizing in the diaspora.
Register here: omdi.me/4qJ7y9z
Are you going to #AWP in Baltimore?
Join us --and five other fabulous DMV-area (that's DC, Maryland, & Virginia!) on THURSDAY, March 5th at the iconic Pickles Pub -- right across from the Convention Center!
Let us know you're coming, pretty please...
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Looking forward to reading!
I’ll be leading an online generative writing workshop: “Seeking Peace through Poetry: Reading Palestinian & Israeli Poets” @consequencef.bsky.social Four sessions, Wed. Apr 8-29, 7pm ET. Learn more (scroll down to bottom of page) & register: consequenceforum.org/writing-clas.... All are welcome!
The phrase that keeps floating up for me after watching the Bad Bunny performance:
“I, too, sing America” —Langston Hughes
#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow
(A poem) in the geometry of knowing we have no new thing to tell only the same old almanac january love one another february whatever you sow you will reap • Lucille Clifton
Always a good time for Lucille Clifton
charges addressed to a Tyrant who "has sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, & eat out their substance; he has endeavored to obstruct the Naturalization of Foreigners; he has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures;
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"Here’s an example that Google’s Josh Woodward, VP of the Gemini app, Google Labs, and AI Studio, shared in a blog post about how Personal Intelligence can work. Google also put together a similar example in a video that I’ve embedded below: For example, we needed new tires for our 2019 Honda minivan two weeks ago. Standing in line at the shop, I realized I didn’t know the tire size. I asked Gemini. These days any chatbot can find these tire specs, but Gemini went further. It suggested different options: one for daily driving and another for all-weather conditions, referencing our family road trips to Oklahoma found in Google Photos. It then neatly pulled ratings and prices for each. As I got to the counter, I needed our license plate. Instead of searching for it or losing my spot in line to walk back to the parking lot, I asked Gemini. It pulled the seven-digit number from a picture in Photos and also helped me identify the van’s specific trim by searching Gmail. Just like that, we were set." https://www.theverge.com/news/861576/google-gemini-ai-personal-intelligence-gmail-search-youtube-photos
Every example of ai being useful begins with "okay imagine you're in a situation, and you are very dumb"
this kind of straightforwardly tyrannical behavior from government officials isn't, of course, unknown in US history, even recently, but it's worth saying again that it fundamentally violates the US's whole system of government, which binds agents of the state and citizens alike to the rule of law
"Terrible things are happening outside ... poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared." — Anne Frank (Jan 13, 1943)
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Thanks for the lovely review!
one of four in a week
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