By Tomas Tranströmer
Tr. by Patty Crane
Audio Poem of the Day - The Ripples Are Ongoing Acts
By Adam Wolfond
Audio Poem of the Day - “Fever your sex is a crab”
By Joyce Mansour
Tr. by Emilie Moorhouse
NPR's Book of the Day - Two books reflect on the highs and lows of adolescence
Audio Poem of the Day - Utang Na Loob
By Michelle Peñaloza
the memory palace - Episode 206: The Thundering Herd, The Vanishing American
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Music
Halcyon and Photosynteses and Embryo by H. Takehashi
Intro by Library Tapes
The Florist Wears Knee Breeches by M. Sage
Notes
I found Andrew Isenberg's book, The Destruction of the Bison, An Environmental History, completely fascinating.
If you want to do a deep dive on Madison Grant, I'd recommend Defending the Master Race: Conservation, Eugenics, and the Legacy of Madison Grant by John Peter Spiro.
If you want to do a deep dive on the Catalina Buffalo, this site is a fun place to start.
NPR's Book of the Day - Terrance Hayes’ poems span history, fables and quarantine in ‘So to Speak’
Audio Poem of the Day - The Dream of a Fire Engine
By Kimiko Hahn
Articles of Interest - Paisley
Himanshu kept seeing paisley everywhere: from his home temple to his couch cushions to his mom’s pants. Some of these products were Indian but a lot weren’t. How did this pattern get embraced by the world?
See articlesofinterest.substack.com for images, links and more.
Land of the Giants - The Human Cost of Ultra Hardcore
“Please prepare yourself for a level of intensity that is greater than anything most of you have ever experienced before,” Elon Musk once wrote in an email to employees at Tesla. The subject line, “ultra hardcore,” also operates as an edict - go hard or go anywhere else. But this “ultra hardcore” philosophy has led to injuries, scandals and lawsuits. Are the costs of “ultra hardcore” worth it?
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