Mia You
New book: Festival (Belladonna 2025). Current research project: Poetry in the Age of Global English (NWO Veni).
- - Sex and Violence in Elizabethan Drama - Ovid’s Metamorphosis - Poetry & Poetics - 20th Century Writings by Women of Color - Multivariable Calculus (because I couldn’t accept the fact I wasn’t required to have math anymore)
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- Reposted by Mia YouIt's this but then the exterminator sends you text messages asking for more money every 3 hours for the rest of your life
- the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches
- Happy 2026! Here is my cold, old dog in the new year’s snow. He’s still standing, and so are we. 🐶❄️💫
- Reposted by Mia YouLovely 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
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- Reposted by Mia Youthe graduation of a cohort of gaza’s new medical professionals in front of the ruins of al shifa hospital. No words, really.
- Reposted by Mia YouAfter reading The Raven a high school classmate asked if poetry existed before Edgar Allen Poe, and what did they call it?
- Reposted by Mia You🚨BREAKING: GRETA THUNBERG ARRESTED UNDER TERRORISM ACT FOR SUPPORTING 'PALESTINE ACTION PRISONERS'
- Reposted by Mia YouWrote 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...
- Reposted by Mia Youa 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
- Reposted by Mia YouJane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.
- Please sign the open letter: No layoffs at the Poetry Foundation! forms.gle/oUe2YV73pNxK...
- Reposted by Mia Youare we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson
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- Net gelezen, wauw, dankjewel @fonolog.bsky.social 🙏 “Hier komt iemand, al dan niet in vertaling, de Nederlandse poëzie in wandelen en gooit alles overhoop met grote energie, simpelweg door te laten zien hoe groot de wereld is, en dat dit allemaal toch ook in een bundel past.” 💞
- Reposted by Mia YouRead this as an American woman and then go break something.
- Reposted by Mia YouThis from @stopgenai.com is an arresting klaxon on the true dangers posed by GenAI It's not that the Singularity will wipe us out, or machine sentience or anything It's that so many CEOs are banking on it we won't have any human knowledge left to keep the world running medium.com/@kim_crawley...
- Reposted by Mia Youwrote an article for @thebookseller.com outlining to the industry why small presses are the lifeforce & future of book production. Pls share esp w people who may not know what small press publishers do! www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
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- My New Years Resolution is to finally read and close the 210 tabs open on my web browser. Or at least get it down to two digits.
- Kim Hyesoon in Dutch, translated by the wonderful brilliant generous @marwinvos.bsky.social in @groene.nl . KHS will be visiting NL in January, with various programs at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social Writers Unlimited Festival & Perdu 💫
- ‘vaak worden kims beelden surreëel of schokkend genoemd, maar ze zijn ten diepste ecologisch. (…) haar gedichten laten ons de poreusheid en de wederzijdse afhankelijkheid zien van al het menselijke en niet-menselijke vlees.’ @miayou.bsky.social #kimhyesoon #degroeneamsterdammer #writersunlimited
- Reposted by Mia YouImmense scholarly integrity: www.tithibhattacharya.net/new-blog/202...
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- To me AI is like ships. When I see a painting with a ship I am immediately bored.
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- Reposted by Mia Youchuffed.org/project/firs... help build the first library in gaza after the genocide
- Reposted by Mia YouFeeling honored and grateful to receive the Best Article Prize this year! 💙 Huge thanks to the wonderful editorial team from Environmental Humanities journal for their support in publishing this work. Feeling so motivated to dive even deeper into many waters of the Blue Humanities! 🌊✨ #envhum
- We start with announcement of Environmental Humanities 2025 Best Article Prize which goes to (drumroll): @susanneferwerda.bsky.social for "Blue Humanities and the Color of Colonialism" read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta... Read the citation for the award: read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...
- On 29 Nov, I’ll be interviewing the Palestinian-Syrian poet Ghayath Almadhoun & his Dutch translator Djûke Poppinga. Every day is a day of international solidarity with the Palestinian people. @actionbooks.bsky.social @uitgjurgenmaas.bsky.social www.wintertuinfestival.nl/en/blog/prog...
- Reposted by Mia YouWhat I've been noticing lately in convos with students is that they *despise* the AI-slopification of everything as much or even more than I do. And yet our universities & their admin seem to believe that students for some reason want it integrated into everything. THEY DON'T.
- Last night I got to see Derek Jarman’s Blue at the cinema. “The world is dying, and we do not notice it,” he said in 1993, as he faced his own death and still kept looking for beauty. “Love is life that lasts forever.”
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- Reposted by Mia YouStaggering harm is being done to #language learning in Higher Ed. No oversight or strategic thinking, with cold spots now present. Petitions alone this week in response to closures: Nottingham · Change.org Leicester · Change.org #edusky #langsky @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social
- Reposted by Mia You"BUT BILL CLINTON IS IN THE EPSTEIN FILES" okay man arrest him too
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- Love showering in poop water, love doing the dishes in poop water, love accidentally rinsing my toothbrush in poop water, love boiling for three minutes a large pan of poop water, love making coffee with boiled poop water, love filling my dog’s bowl with poop water, just love it 🤎💩💦
- If you’re around Utrecht on 11 November, Biswamit Dwibedy will be in town!
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- Dutch elections are always so unsatisfying. I never understand if we’re relieved or if we’re just screwed in another combination of ways. Can someone let me know before the cabinet falls again?
- Kim Hyesoon has a new book, which has the beautiful title Synchronized Sea Anemone, and it is funny and strange and makes me see again the shifting limits of our (more than human) bodies and how that shapes the form of our living. I got to translate the title poem for the Korean publication. 🪼🩵🪸
- Reposted by Mia YouAs the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have
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- It’s kind of amazing to me how people can ask for so much interest and attention without ever offering it back.
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- Very much looking forward to seeing Marie Valentine Regan in Utrecht, who will screen and talk about her documentary on the great Etel Adnan. I’ve seen fragments and even these did do much to restore and inspire my heart. 💜 @ilfu.com ilfu.com/agenda/film-...
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- Friends in Paris: I’ll be reading with Claudia Rankine and Gabriel Gauthier on 24 September, Atelier Michael Woolworth, for the wonderful Double Change collective. Please come by and say hello. 💞 doublechange.org/2025/09/09/2...
- Same for NL please
- Now with Gloria Wekker too ❤️🔥
- Happy to get to join this program on Audre Lorde’s literary & political legacy with Mariken Heitman, @sylvanasimons.bsky.social & @lazeefuik.bsky.social . As Lorde said, “Every day of your lives is practice in becoming the person you want to be.” 🍉
- Reposted by Mia YouWill spend the rest of my life considering how we were rushed into "going paperless" for the good of the environment only for the next generation of digital tools to become far worse for the environment.
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- Who wants to do a panel with me but our panel is a seance asking the ghosts of modernists random anachronistic questions? Like: Gertrude, do you see a white dress or a blue dress? Ezra, f*ck marry kill, Mussolini, Putin, Dump?
- Reposted by Mia You🐋 1 month left! CFP for #EASLCE2026 – Join the Orca Uprising! (14–17 April, Utrecht University). Deadline for abstracts: 15 Sept 2025. Keynotes: Greg Garrard, Kate Rigby, Eva Meijer. Full details here: easlce2026.sites.uu.nl @easlce.bsky.social @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
- Happy to get to join this program on Audre Lorde’s literary & political legacy with Mariken Heitman, @sylvanasimons.bsky.social & @lazeefuik.bsky.social . As Lorde said, “Every day of your lives is practice in becoming the person you want to be.” 🍉
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- Reposted by Mia YouOPPORTUNITY!! @royalholloway.bsky.social is recruiting a poet to join our Creative Writing team - the role is part-time (0.5), permanent, and encompasses teaching and research! More than happy to chat about department culture and all things RHUL poetry🧡 jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
- Reposted by Mia YouI have a new article out today. It's about an environmental turn in Palestinian arts and activism, and how environmental framings of Palestine and the Palestinian struggle enable different forms of identification and solidarity: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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- Reposted by Mia YouAlice Oswald arrested this afternoon for supporting Palestine Action.
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- Honest question: why do academics in literature programs in the Netherlands study anything BUT literature? Like, can you just move into the social sciences then please?
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- Deadline is 15 September, there’s still time to join the uprising. 🐋❤️🔥
- The 11th Biennial EASLCE (@easlce.bsky.social) conference, entitled “‘Join the #OrcaUprising!’: Nonhuman Resistance and Multispecies (In)Justice”, will be held at Utrecht University (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social) in April 2026. Visit easlce2026.sites.uu.nl for further details.
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