Jesse Holth

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A copy of Conversations on Writing is photographed against a dark green velvet background

“After all, dictators are always afraid of poets.”

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Conversations on Writing, which collects three conversations Ursula had with David Naimon, is published by Tin House.

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Sai Tells a Ghost Story One morning in late 2010 I looked out my Pittsburgh apartment window where I always saw a parking lot

"How else I know I saw a ghost is the child seemed so composed, happy, and it was way too early in the morning for someone so young to be out riding alone." -Soham Patel

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Poetry is for everybody. If more publishers and newspapers and magazines and media in general treat poetry like something that is present, accessible, in demand, and marketable like they do other genres, they will see more and more people reading and buying poetry books. Truth.

“Another air raid alert
As if they are walking the whole country to the execution
But shoot just one of us”

--Victoria Amelina, Ukrainian poet who died from wounds inflicted by the Russian bombardment

History = a series of endless cataclysms
Poetry = in the middle of all this a human voice is trying to sing

Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.

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A roughly circular cloud of gas and dust with complex structure. The inner shell is made of bright pink and orange filaments studded with clumps and knots that look like tiny pieces of shattered glass. Around the exterior of the inner shell, there are curtains of wispy gas that look like campfire smoke. Around and within the nebula, various stars are seen as points of blue and white light. Outside the nebula, there are also clumps of dust, coloured yellow in the image.

High definition image of a dead star.
This is Cassiopeia A, a star that died 320 years ago.
This image was presented today on AAS Nova (ApJL).
aasnova.org/2024/11/12/t...
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A field of thousands of small galaxies of various shapes and colors on the black background of space. A bright, foreground star with diffraction spikes is at lower left. Near the image center, a tiny white box outlines a region and two diagonal lines lead to a box in the upper right. Within the box is a banana-shaped blob that is blueish-red in one half and distinctly red in the other half. An arrow points to the redder portion and is labeled “JADES GS z 14 – 0”.

Most distant object known to humanity.
Found by JWST, JADES-GS-z14-0 is the most distant galaxy ever discovered. It's located 13.6 billion light years from us, and since it takes time for light to travel, we see it as it was only 290 million years after the Big Bang.
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From Saeed Jones (@theferocity.bsky.social)'s book, Alive at the End of the World: bookshop.org/a/862/978156...

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From Kate Baer's book, And Yet: bookshop.org/a/862/978006...

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