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Two Poems — t.r. san test (the only one) did you exist in the past—yes—[] have had having(had &) whenthe body has materialwants mother matter;having (had) lets me bewhen [] did notare you—[] i ?—pitch information c…

Two Poems — t.r. san ( @thoushallkill.bsky.social )

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Manic Joy: Irmgard Keun and the Politics of Life Under/Over Fascism — Simon Wortham What does anybody know about Irmgard Keun? Failed actress, encouraged by Alfred Döblin to write. A darling of Weimar, her first novel Gilgi a sensation, turned into a film. Falsely accused of plagi…

Manic Joy: Irmgard Keun and the Politics of Life Under/Over Fascism — Simon Wortham

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Manic Joy: Irmgard Keun and the Politics of Life Under/Over Fascism — Simon Wortham What does anybody know about Irmgard Keun? Failed actress, encouraged by Alfred Döblin to write. A darling of Weimar, her first novel Gilgi a sensation, turned into a film. Falsely accused of plagi…

"In Keun’s writing there are no dead [...] It is ugly and it is beautiful. Life goes on, and those who don’t are unloved and unmourned. It is impossible to be dead. It is beyond consideration ..."

Simon Wortham on Keun

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When death is everywhere and nowhere all at once, grief has no object. When grief has no object, we risk going beyond melancholia towards a manic stage…Keun is the great chronicler of the mania that transpires when grief is in want of an object…in other words, the great chronicler of fascism.

"something about the ‘everything-and-nothing’ of fascism...carries itself over into the precise character of manic protest, which takes aim everywhere and nowhere all at once."

– Simon Wortham on fascism and the work of Irmgaard Keun, today at @minorliteratures.bsky.social

Manic Joy: Irmgard Keun and the Politics of Life Under/Over Fascism — Simon Wortham What does anybody know about Irmgard Keun? Failed actress, encouraged by Alfred Döblin to write. A darling of Weimar, her first novel Gilgi a sensation, turned into a film. Falsely accused of plagi…

"What does anybody know about Irmgard Keun? Failed actress, encouraged by Alfred Döblin to write. A darling of Weimar, her first novel Gilgi a sensation, turned into a film. Falsely accused of plagiarism for her second. Banned by the Nazis ..."

minorliteratures.com/2026/03/05/m...

Manic Joy: Irmgard Keun and the Politics of Life Under/Over Fascism — Simon Wortham What does anybody know about Irmgard Keun? Failed actress, encouraged by Alfred Döblin to write. A darling of Weimar, her first novel Gilgi a sensation, turned into a film. Falsely accused of plagi…

"In Keun’s writing there are no dead [...] It is ugly and it is beautiful. Life goes on, and those who don’t are unloved and unmourned. It is impossible to be dead. It is beyond consideration ..."

Simon Wortham on Keun

minorliteratures.com/2026/03/05/m...

Manic Joy: Irmgard Keun and the Politics of Life Under/Over Fascism — Simon Wortham What does anybody know about Irmgard Keun? Failed actress, encouraged by Alfred Döblin to write. A darling of Weimar, her first novel Gilgi a sensation, turned into a film. Falsely accused of plagi…

"What does anybody know about Irmgard Keun? Failed actress, encouraged by Alfred Döblin to write. A darling of Weimar, her first novel Gilgi a sensation, turned into a film. Falsely accused of plagiarism for her second. Banned by the Nazis ..."

minorliteratures.com/2026/03/05/m...

Manic Joy: Irmgard Keun and the Politics of Life Under/Over Fascism — Simon Wortham What does anybody know about Irmgard Keun? Failed actress, encouraged by Alfred Döblin to write. A darling of Weimar, her first novel Gilgi a sensation, turned into a film. Falsely accused of plagi…

"Keun is the great chronicler of the mania that transpires when grief is in want of an object. She is also, and in other words, the great chronicler of fascism."

Manic Joy: Irmgard Keun and the Politics of Life Under/Over Fascism — Simon Wortham minorliteratures.com/2026/03/05/m...

Manic Joy: Irmgard Keun and the Politics of Life Under/Over Fascism — Simon Wortham What does anybody know about Irmgard Keun? Failed actress, encouraged by Alfred Döblin to write. A darling of Weimar, her first novel Gilgi a sensation, turned into a film. Falsely accused of plagi…

Manic Joy: Irmgard Keun and the Politics of Life Under/Over Fascism — Simon Wortham

minorliteratures.com/2026/03/05/m...

Two Poems — t.r. san test (the only one) did you exist in the past—yes—[] have had having(had &) whenthe body has materialwants mother matter;having (had) lets me bewhen [] did notare you—[] i ?—pitch information c…

"a nothing here, so absolute it’s like waves, automated
-collapsing-gone-backagain-repeat ..."

Two Poems — @thoushallkill.bsky.social

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Two Poems — t.r. san test (the only one) did you exist in the past—yes—[] have had having(had &) whenthe body has materialwants mother matter;having (had) lets me bewhen [] did notare you—[] i ?—pitch information c…

“((the theoretical
you does not really exist: it is
i while i/am am
not()))”

Two Poems — t.r. san @thoushallkill.bsky.social

Two Poems — t.r. san test (the only one) did you exist in the past—yes—[] have had having(had &) whenthe body has materialwants mother matter;having (had) lets me bewhen [] did notare you—[] i ?—pitch information c…

“…but that is the game, the affixing of language to body, isn’t it, meaning-derivation: stage rendered performance-site, by audience-presence alone, how objects must exist in—through—implications, as symbols…”

Two Poems — t.r. san @thoushallkill.bsky.social

4. i cannot quite think-

This is very excellent!

Two Poems — t.r. san test (the only one) did you exist in the past—yes—[] have had having(had &) whenthe body has materialwants mother matter;having (had) lets me bewhen [] did notare you—[] i ?—pitch information c…

({[language bodies [body] labor}
bodies [(my) body] labors
(their/your) [language] bodies
i/ i that is mine/ body/ {[my body]
girls through [labor] mans through
[language]} mans me into girlhood/

Two Poems — @thoushallkill.bsky.social

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Two Poems — t.r. san test (the only one) did you exist in the past—yes—[] have had having(had &) whenthe body has materialwants mother matter;having (had) lets me bewhen [] did notare you—[] i ?—pitch information c…

"a nothing here, so absolute it’s like waves, automated
-collapsing-gone-backagain-repeat ..."

Two Poems — @thoushallkill.bsky.social

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2 weird little poems in minor lits today that i'm quite proud of, both loosely about/around these erotic systems & structures of reading & the read, sexing-as-reading. i'm writing my current manuscript around what these poems have seeded & were seeded by. i want you to read 🌊

Two Poems — t.r. san test (the only one) did you exist in the past—yes—[] have had having(had &) whenthe body has materialwants mother matter;having (had) lets me bewhen [] did notare you—[] i ?—pitch information c…

“…but that is the game, the affixing of language to body, isn’t it, meaning-derivation: stage rendered performance-site, by audience-presence alone, how objects must exist in—through—implications, as symbols…”

Two Poems — t.r. san @thoushallkill.bsky.social

Two Poems — t.r. san test (the only one) did you exist in the past—yes—[] have had having(had &) whenthe body has materialwants mother matter;having (had) lets me bewhen [] did notare you—[] i ?—pitch information c…

({[language bodies [body] labor}
bodies [(my) body] labors
(their/your) [language] bodies
i/ i that is mine/ body/ {[my body]
girls through [labor] mans through
[language]} mans me into girlhood/

Two Poems — @thoushallkill.bsky.social

minorliteratures.com/2026/03/03/t...

A Short Post-Poetic Essay on Current Digital Methods of Culling — Michael Templeton The Word The entire process depends on the use and placement of specific key words. It is possible that the process can have begun many years prior to this moment in the present; that the concatena…

The absence, the emptiness wherein nothing is lost because nothing was ever present nevertheless remains in fact a space. It is what Julia Kristeva designates as “a chora, a receptacle”....

- Mike Templeton on chora in @minorliteratures.bsky.social

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Two Poems — t.r. san test (the only one) did you exist in the past—yes—[] have had having(had &) whenthe body has materialwants mother matter;having (had) lets me bewhen [] did notare you—[] i ?—pitch information c…

Two Poems — t.r. san ( @thoushallkill.bsky.social )

minorliteratures.com/2026/03/03/t...

call for submissions

PLAGIARI[S]M
edited by @benlibman.bsky.social

opens 16/03

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call for submissions

PLAGIARI[S]M
edited by @benlibman.bsky.social

opens 16/03

oleada.io/publication/...

our own @monalisavitti.bsky.social at AWP w/ @thedodgemag.bsky.social

and coming up this week

— experimental writing from @thoushallkill.bsky.social

— Simon Wortham on Irmagard Keun

Monthly Dispatch #32 — February 2026 A letter from the editor[s]

ALSO! Monthly Dispatch #32 — feat. everything we published in February — went live ...

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A Short Post-Poetic Essay on Current Digital Methods of Culling — Michael Templeton The Word The entire process depends on the use and placement of specific key words. It is possible that the process can have begun many years prior to this moment in the present; that the concatena…

last week @ minor lits ...

— @delfanbaum.bsky.social interviews @raviddice.bsky.social

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— Michael Templeton on digital culling

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and coming up this week

— experimental writing from @thoushallkill.bsky.social

— Simon Wortham on Irmagard Keun