Cody Stetzel
@bearable.bsky.social
[They/Him] I write about laughter, joy, and what foot-forward community embracing looks like. Love your love. Poems, bear scholar, and all around person who cares. riantly.substack.com
Antae Third Issue // Cody Stetzel is a Seattle resident working within arts organizing. They are a literary critic in journals like Tupelo Quarterly and The Colorado Review, offering insights on contemporary queer poetry and poetry-in-translation. [...]
Translation is not about copying a poem into another language. It’s about deciding what survives when language changes and moves into this third-space beyond explanation and interpretation.
lmao courts are pushing to fine those stupid fucking LLM companies that stole millions of books to train their AI. They would owe between $200B and $1.8T in theft and copyright infringement fines. Lmao lmao lmao
Writing about recent books is so challenging. I feel haven't lived with the book long enough to write about it. I envy anyone who feels like they can give a confident opinion of a literature in short periods of time.
positive update in who knows how long: Open Books has met the match and the donation has been made to the Sameer Project's North Gaza initiative. Open Books has raised $26,000 for this so far w/matching campaigns and book sale proceeds. donation link to cont. to give: chuffed.org/project/help...
North Gaza: Food, Water, Diapers + Milk, Medical Aid
Translating Falasteen (Palestine), in collaboration with The Sameer Project, launched a fundraising campaign to support families in Gaza facing severe hardships. Our mission is to provide essential ai...
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Workshops4Gaza@workshops4gaza.bsky.social · last yr.From the amazing Open Books: 🚨 New match alert! Thanks to recent contributions we just closed our previous match -- and now another anonymous donor has offered to match up to $1k in donations 💫 If we can raise $2k, we'll be at a total of $25k for this urgent work. Let's gooooo: tinyurl.com/w4gmatch
How did people see Isr*el murder 100 journalists in 1.5 years and not immediately assume the American cop structure, trained by Isr*el, wouldn’t also target media? Be safe and protect your journalists
Seattle protestors are using the new seated Lime scooters to keep ICE goons from leaving the immigration court clearly time to send in the marines
Seattle protesters block ICE vans from leaving immigration court
On Tuesday morning, about 40 people gathered at the Henry M. Jackson Federal Building in downtown Seattle, which houses a federal immigration court.
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You and your words build community, and community will support you. This is what I learn with every moment of engaging with writers and artists, poets and essayists. Our people are scaffolding for each other. And we are all constructing something marvelous, something beautiful.
Reading poetry is a way of grasping life, nurturing every bit of good, connecting up severed bits of ourselves.
I like to think if you hold out your hand long enough, a bird might simply perch there.
Sometimes the act of creation is a kind of divine insistence on remembering.
The fact that writing cultivates more writing for me excites me. A neverending process toward purpose and fulfillment is a neverending effort toward happiness.
Me, sending my second poetry ms. to the press’ first book contest which rejected my first poetry ms. last year:
⚡ Gordon Square Review is back! ⚡ Issue 15 is out today with 17 new writing about sacrificial sisters, fleas and conspiracies, epigenetics and Modern Standard Arabic, Jackie Chan and Chick-Dumpling’s Chief Accounting Officer. Check out the full issue now! www.gordonsquarereview.org
Having a very “everyone hates me” day! Feelings are dumb!!
So my friend @cathylinhche.bsky.social won a *ahem* Sundance Film Award Come see her film at SIFF or at Elliot Bay Books this Sunday 5/18 at 5 PM! I will read a lil something to celebrate her, and her new book, too!
mean (adj.) 'undignified, low; not elevated or sublime.' meanness (n.) 'the state or quality of being mean.' ode (n.) 'a lyric poem...in varied or irregular meter and of moderate length.' I wrote an Ode to Meanness: it's in this chapbook 🖤 bottlecap.press/collections/...
Dogwitch, by Catherine Rockwood
Poetry, chapbook, 28 pages, from Bottlecap Features. “Tenderness, anger, intensity: Catherine Rockwood’s poems howl, growl, and show their soft bellies to teach us ‘how to love a fearsome high-ribbed ...
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"Iona" by Constance Hansen. Read more from our Winter 2024 Issue by clicking the link in our bio. #ecotheo #celebratewonder #poetry #Iona
Very happy that my short story collection CREATURE, published in English by @dorothyproject.bsky.social, has been translated into Spanish by Daniela Betancur and will be out this month with Fiordo Editorial in Argentina. www.fiordoeditorial.com.ar/product-page...
Criatura, de Amina Cain | Fiordo
PARA LECTORES DErelatos literarios, atmósferas enrarecidas, voces peculiares con puntos de vista fuertes — «Amina Cain es una escritora bella. Como la chica que, desde el asiento de atrás en tu coche,...
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This week on my substack you can find writing on Kate Zambreno and Jacques Derrida, wrongness and greed, rudeness and screencaptures, and, you know, these beautiful things, all of them.
This Week's Laughter #37
An archive in ‘ههههه، هاهاها
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This is absolutely ridiculous, NFTs use vastly more energy and water than crypto. Unnecessary and pitiable to the authors and artists whose work is being entrusted.
In absolute reticence to say but cutting 99% of fat from my diet and exercising 45-60 minutes every day rigorously has in fact made me substantially healthier.
so seems like I'm going to get paid on time next week but still need a little bit more support until May 1st. Thank u for your help. Grateful 💜 #mutualaid
Where, who, how does one get their hands, reasonably, on a pdf of recent poetry anthologies from those big uni/academic publishers? Even Nortons, Routledges, etc are so expensive I wouldn’t dream of purchasing. But the anthology is such important work, generally.
Days late, but just saw a post of someone celebrating earth day by… launching another AI education chatbot? Happy hair day! Let’s celebrate by lighting our scalps ablaze!
A Resonant Death: Poems & Reflections by Fatima Hassouna Batool Abu Akleen writes: "Heartsick, I am sharing with you my translations of some of her prose and poetry, as it was her wish to have a RESONANT death."
A Resonant Death: Poems & Reflections by Fatima Hassouna
Batool Abu Akleen writes: "Heartsick, I am sharing with you my translations of some of her prose and poetry, as it was her wish to have a RESONANT death."
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One of the reasons why I rarely speak of my plots, my mappings, my achievements and dreams and goals, is because oftentimes it becomes too much. My craft is intensity.
