I just published a shape poem called "Lantern Festival" for the forthcoming end of the Spring Festival ... after reading it, @sgusbeth.bsky.social sent me this amazing photo she took last March in Beijing. I'll make this into a postcard substack.com/home/post/p-...
"The flame represented our capacity for change, for taking raw materials and reshaping reality according to our will. It was the first technology, and with it came the realization that we didn’t have to accept the world as we found it. We could remake it entirely" substack.com/home/post/p-...
Translation: After China's Spring Festival Gala, "The Humans Are Worse Off Than The Robots"
"In the end, are robots becoming more human, or are humans becoming more like draft animals? Or to put it another way: Who’s treated with care in this country, and who’s an expendable resource?"
Just sprinted through Shroud...classic @aptshadow.bsky.social in terms of world-building, the largeness of his imagination is to be envied. He has an uncanny ability to describe the utterly unfamiliar in words you can understand, and then somehow you're suddenly inhabiting alien minds, walking moons
If you could rewrite your love, would you? anthonytao.substack.com/p/writing-myth
The Other Side — a @poetryxmusic.bsky.social track conceived in Kangding, finalized in Beijing
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWb7...
WE MET IN BEIJING is now available at Bookazine in Hong Kong, ahead of the lit fest: bookazine.com.hk/products/we-...
Participating in this year's #HongKong Literary Festival — specifically the March 6 event, Nightcaps & Narratives, with @chinarhyming.bsky.social, @emmapeiyin.bsky.social, Pulitzer winner Hernan Diaz, and Xu Xi: www.eventbrite.hk/e/special-ev...
This year's CCTV Spring Festival Gala is robots and AI.
End of Chunwan liveblog
Album artwork for "All of Those Times" as a New York subway poster, to promote the album's availability on Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music
Album now available on the major streaming services. poetryxmusic.bandcamp.com @poetryxmusic.bsky.social
If you could rewrite your love, would you?
Introducing ALL OF THOSE TIMES, an album by Poetry x Music, released today: poetryxmusic.bandcamp.com/album/all-of... #ValentinesDay #poetry #music
"One Way or Another," a poem by Anthony Tao on Substack
My latest poem asks how much perfidy and desecration we're willing to tolerate anthonytao.substack.com/p/one-way-or...
(The photo is of Jackson Pollock’s "The Deep," via Beijing Minsheng Art Museum's Colors exhibition, which I highly recommend, curated in conjunction w/ @centrepompidou.bsky.social)
"I think we have to be willing to be humble, frankly, in relation to this experience and not quickly extrapolate one way or the other, either our disappointments of ourselves and our glamorization of what they’ve done or the converse"—@adamtooze.bsky.social on China: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/o...
Getting closer to album release... here's a music video from #Kangding: anthonytao.substack.com/p/the-other-...
"Today in America my international experience seems to have little value. Worse, it feels anathema to the values marketed by the ruling class." stevescherer.substack.com/p/my-journey...
My band Poetry x Music has just set an official release date for our album — February 14. "All of Those Times" is now available for pre-order (there's a Chinese edition, too, if you prefer). Check it out: poetryxmusic.bandcamp.com/album/all-of...
Via Eric Olander: "China’s ability to influence events in Venezuela and elsewhere in Latin America is extremely limited, so the assessment that what happened in Caracas was a blow to Beijing may also be overstated."
This is another angle of CBP murdering a woman in cold blood.
My first reverse poem, about two different experiences of #Beijing —
Like winter birds, like outsiders
Chasing joy, we spin in circles
Untethered, unrestricted, wild,
Bare, our souls drunk...
anthonytao.substack.com/p/our-beijing
"Performatively aloof" is a great phrase from Cole Rooty, a cutting critique of Insta poets, w/ wider application too
Of course, ppl will perform any which way to get attn, esp these days. Perhaps better to be aloof than violent
But poetry can push us toward genuine
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m_J...
Evan Michael Anderson wrote quite the short story on @tacobellquarterly.org: tacobellquarterly.org/the-migratin...
So, this is where everyone's been
Very cheap cigarettes. How a courier in Shanghai gets by with 7,400 yuan per month with a mortgage and a wife and child: www.pekingnology.com/p/life-as-a-...
"China needs more ppl who care about universal issues, produce universal knowledge, and solve concrete problems—not self-styled experts and scholars who do little more than chant slogans, stay indifferent to (China’s and others’) problems, and ultimately fool themselves” substack.com/home/post/p-...
Thank you, David.
Also, sorry for the late reply
#NowPlaying on #SHMUFM:
"Magpie" by Anthony Tao & Liane Halton
#Wordplay
#IrregularFeature
shmu.org.uk/fm
An amazing night at the Macau Literary Festival featuring Anthony Tao & his band Poetry X Music & the amazing Lisbon Poetry Orchestra and Os Surrealistes, all at the incredible Teatro Dom Pedro V (built 1860) on Largo de Santo Agostinho
Thank you for reading
@KaiserKuo Long-time listener to the @SinicaPodcast (and @ChinaGSProject !), but listening to your recent chat with Anthony Tao convinced me to subscribe to the substance. I could feel the love for Anthony and Beijing in your voice. Thank you.
