I tried to come up with something insightful and cutting to say about the crackdown at various universities this week, but I can’t improve on this photo. It belongs in a museum.

Another aerial attack on Odesa, Ukraine—completely ignored by the Western news—multiple wounded and dead, including children:

Today Russia used the same tactics while bombing Odesa, Ukraine as they once did in their bombardments of Syria: a strike - first responders come to the location - another strike. Multiple dead and wounded.

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“While cancer is often described as an individual phenomenon, Farris writes of her cancer care as fundamentally relational.”
Read Sarah Roth’s review of Katie Farris’s Standing in the Forest of Being Alive (2023).
medicalhealthhumanities.com/2024/02/09/sta…

Friends, if you are at AWP in Kansas City, tomorrow Feb 9 at 6pm there will be a benefit reading gathering funds for refugee kids’ poetry studio in Odesa, Ukraine.

The event will be at union Station, Second floor, World Trade Center Board Room. 6pm

Favorite poem, two favorite poets on the favorite podcast: Major Jackson Katie Farris The Slowdown

slowdownshow.org/episode/2024/0…

Thanks, MTA!

Here is a little essay about reading Dante in Ukraine:

asymptotejournal.com/special-featur…

Friends in Disability community— if you have any suggestions, it would be much appreciated!