Artists: - Likes do not determine your value - It's okay to not create - Not everything you make has to be important or good - You can make things just for yourself - You're allowed to rest - You're so much more than what you make
Mia You
@miayou.bsky.social
New book: Festival (Belladonna 2025). Current research project: Poetry in the Age of Global English (NWO Veni).
On the Northern Line from ctl London while both Piccadilly & Central lines are down & could not support this more.
come be my colleague! lecturer creative writing, University of Leeds, apply by 31 July, details here: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Get Animal back out there to present the medals. Even Coldplay can join.
I’m going to start listing my land of residence as pineapples and leopard print
Jasbir Puar in Amsterdam, at Perdu on 18 June! She’ll be presenting her collaboration with artist Dima Srouji, a lecture performance called Rememberment: Palestine in Real Time. Organized by brilliant @layalftouni.bsky.social . Please join! perdu.nl/agenda/remem...
Rememberment: Palestine in Real Time - Stichting Perdu
Perdu is een gespecialiseerde poëzieboekhandel, een cultureel podium en een uitgeverij gevestigd in Amsterdam sinds 1984.
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Love this on the Ealing Beaver Project! 🦫🦫🦫 You can learn about them here (and donate): theealingbeaverproject.com
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Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · 2mo ago1. London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers. After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.
This thread is amazing, full of creative humans helping someone be creative by offering dozens of beautiful, practical variants on "you've got this! Let yourself mess around & fail! Do something else! It's all good."
Ashley Schofield is looking for work! 🐉@ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 4mo agoany advice from writers for when you desperately need to start writing something but you can't because you're terrified of it being terrible
Deze Boekenweek was Rodante van der Waal te gast in ons programma ‘Baas in eigen boekenkast’. De daar genoemde boeken verdienen een groter publiek. Lees Van der Waal over Greer, You, Van Offel, Mariën, Gumbs, Moten, Harney, Bey, Lispector, Lucassen, Thierens! athenaeumscheltema.n...
On May 10, @marwinvos.bsky.social & I will lead a creative/collective translation workshop on the poetry of Kim Hyesoon. All languages welcome. The workshop is free. Send a short motivation statement (<100 words) to uitgeverij@perdu.nl by April 14 on how this workshop resonates with your practice. 💗
Congratulations to @miayou.bsky.social for her Best of the Net inclusion for her "Poets on Translation" essay! 👏
Sundress Publications@sundresspub.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe 2026 Best of the Net Anthology is live! Check out all of this year's award-winning poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art plus our full list of 2026 finalists! https://bestofthenetanthology.com/
I had no idea about this aspect of Hughes' life and work.
![In late 1934, Langston Hughes, already established as a leading voice of literary Black America, traveled to Mexico City, where he stayed for more than five months and began translating short fiction by prominent Mexican and Cuban writers. These stories, as he wrote to a friend, explore “the revolutions and uprisings, sugar cane, Negroes, Indians, corrupt generals, [and] American imperialists,” and are “mostly all left stories, because practically all the writers down here are left these days.” But when Hughes proposed publishing the stories as a book, to be titled Troubled Lands, his agent discouraged him from further pursuing the project and it remained unpublished, until now, with only a handful of the translations making their way into contemporary magazines. This volume presents Hughes’s translations of these stories together for the first time as he originally envisioned. Edited by Ricardo Wilson, the book also features an introduction and brief biographies of the included writers.
Troubled Lands features thirty-three stories by eighteen writers, including Rafael Felipe Muñoz, Nellie Campobello, Lino Novás Calvo, Luis Felipe Rodríguez, Germán List Arzubide, Pablo de la Torriente-Brau, and Juan de la Cabada. The collection depicts Mexico in the wake of its revolution and Cuba in the years between the brutal regimes of Machado and Batista](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wlamchyb2ae65fgx75sfaqsq/bafkreiabxdfrb2572rx2ljk6uqrs7rv3krxgs675zbq6n6ykrnysls47yi)
Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · 4mo agoTroubled Lands is a landmark book—the first complete publication of Langston Hughes’s translations of 33 stories by 18 Mexican & Cuban writers, edited by Ricardo Wilson II. Now available (19 May UK pub). Order yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #LangstonHughes #Literature
Trying to remember. Cited in Trinh T Minh-ha‘s Woman, Native, Other.
A special concert tonight by Graindelavoix in Utrecht, with music around the art of the Limbourg Brothers. There will be a few tickets available at the door. www.leeuwenbergh.org/concert-grai...
Join us on March 14, 2026, as we welcome poet Mia You (@miayou.bsky.social) to Mnemosynes. We will gather at Rerenga Wines (3 rue de la Fidélité) from 14-16h to hear from her newest collection, Festival (Belladonna, 2025). A short Q & A will follow the reading.
Join me & the Utrecht Jazz Archipel at their Urban Mosaic concert, 6 Feb, for #poezieweek at Bibliotheek Utrecht on the Neude. Poems & songs about the city. You’ll get to hear all about my inburgering ambivalence. bibliotheekutrecht.op-shop.nl/7133/pozie-e...
Poëzie en jazz: URBAN MOSAIC | vrijdag 6 februari 2026 om 19:30
Bibliotheek Neude en Utrecht Jazz Archipel organiseren in het kader van de Poëzieweek een multidisciplinair concert, waarbij jazz wordt vermengd met poëzie! In
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such an insightful & thoughtful interview of Kim Hyesoon by @dieuwertjem.bsky.social in @parool.nl today! She’s here this week in Utrecht, The Hague & Amsterdam. www.parool.nl/boeken/kim-h...
Kim Hyesoon doorbrak het mannenmonopolie op poëzie: ‘Als vrouw in Korea is het moeilijk jezelf geen feminist te noemen naarmate je ouder wordt’
De invloedrijke Zuid-Koreaanse dichter Kim Hyesoon is komende week te gast bij literatuurfestival Writers Unlimited. Met haar poëzie eist ze een plek op in een patriarchale samenleving. ‘Door poëzie k...
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Mia You@miayou.bsky.social · 7mo agoPlease join us to welcome Kim Hyesoon to NL. Her first stop is at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social for a special event on translation and transcultural/multispecies solidarities. Free & open to the public.
Academics who don‘t do creative writing or have an art practice themselves, thinking they can suddenly teach it, or do it and it’s immediately worthy of presenting or publishing publicly as “artistic research“… a new level of (excruciating, trust me) hubris.
Please join us to welcome Kim Hyesoon to NL. Her first stop is at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social for a special event on translation and transcultural/multispecies solidarities. Free & open to the public.
“I am a woman, even if I don’t know where that begins and where being a woman ends.” - Astrid Roemer Rest in peace.
Happy 2026! Here is my cold, old dog in the new year’s snow. He’s still standing, and so are we. 🐶❄️💫
Lovely to have a poem (an ode to the dandelion!) in the new issue of wonderful online children’s poetry magazine Tyger Tyger: Read here: tygertyger.net/project/tyge... #kidlituk #ukkidlit #ukpoets #poetrysky #kidlit
Tyger Tyger Issue 10 – Surprise, December 2025 | Tyger Tyger
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Congratulations to Christopher Fan, whose book ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965: TRANSNATIONAL FANTASIES OF ECONOMIC MOBILITY was shortlisted for the Biennial Book Prize from MELUS. tinyurl.com/4nkhu8sh @chrisfan.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
After reading The Raven a high school classmate asked if poetry existed before Edgar Allen Poe, and what did they call it?
Wrote about the Dutch higher education crisis and why a strike without suspending exams or classes is just cosplay. @jacobinnl.bsky.social jacobin.nl/een-hoger-on...
Een hoger onderwijsstaking die het beleid geen pijn doet is cosplay – Jacobin
Vorige week was er een staking in het hoger onderwijs. 7000 academici en studenten trokken naar Amsterdam, maar niemand leek echt acht te slaan op de staking. Want hoewel de universiteiten de staking ...
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a big part of the issue surrounding the use of chatgpt/LLMs in academic research comes down to process vs. product. a lot of us know that the process of doing research matters because that's where intellectual work is done; but some "academics" and lots of techies only care about a fast product