Carlos A. Pittella
latinx poet haunted by borders ⦁ he/him ⦁ RA @assistedlab.bsky.social
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propersitions (Cactus, '25)
footnotes after Lorca (above/ground, '24)
ALT pfp: buzzcut, polkadot, broken smile
ALT banner: blueskyed Shiva humming
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- So wonderful to meet a new Nikki Wallschlaeger poem—& to watch it burn layers of BS rhetoric down to the core of power ❤️🔥
- many thanks to @robmclennan.bsky.social dusie.blogspot.com/2024/12/tues...
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- "My bookmark is the folded up operating instructions for a pulse oximeter. 1. Operation of the product is simple and convenient. 5. Finger and body should not tremble during measuring." —Lindsay Tigue, from the stunning "Campaign Strategy" ❤️🔥
- I’ve written for @assistedlab.bsky.social about José Saramago’s fabulous novel “Death with Interruptions,” focusing on the ethical questions it raises around assisted dying.
- ‘As intermitências da morte’ by José Saramago explores the economic, political, & ethical questions raised if, suddenly, people stopped dying. To see how it has been cited in debates on the legalization of assisted dying see 👇 Analysis by @pittella.bsky.social assistedlab.ch/textual/as-i...
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- Reposted by Carlos A. Pittellatoday's Kaitlan Bui poem is one of my fave things i've read in a while. so honored to get to share it. "when he was my age, my grandfather would comb the scalp of the forest for shells, then write letters to the families of dead bodies he found." havehashad.com/3vdnr
- "i repeated & scribbled until it picked its way & stagnated somewhere i can’t point to anymore, maybe my gut— maybe there in-between my pancreas & large intestine is the piddly brook of my soul." —Renee Nicole Good, poet murdered by ICE
- “i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...
- Reposted by Carlos A. PittellaWe are delighted to publish Tracy Fuad’s (@tracyfuad.bsky.social) extraordinary little poem, “Living.” In just a few words, she manages to build this vast interconnected universe where objects and bodies seamlessly blur together: bulbregion.com/Living-by-Tr...
- "To whom it may concern, Your work isn’t right for us At this time. Please consider submitting To the crushing weight of the inevitable." ❤️🔥 —Meghan Harrison
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- Reposted by Carlos A. PittellaSUBMISSION CALL COMING! Wednesday, 1/14, 10 AM (MT) / 12 PM (ET) / 6 PM (CET) Subs will be capped at 150, so be quick. The nitty-gritty: 750 words for prose (or 2 micro pieces of equal combined length) 1-2 poems & hybrid pieces (each no longer than 2 pages) guest ed: @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social
- 🙋 As a poet, is it healthy that I spent yesterday thinking how: 1 ÷ 2 × 3 × 4ˆ5 ÷ 6 × 7 ÷ 8 × 9 + 10 = 2026❔ Anyway, happy 1/2*3*4ˆ5/6*7/8*9+10 everyone❣️ ps. sparknote: 4ˆ5 = 4 to the 5th power = 4×4×4×4×4
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- Teachers 🔄 Researchers 💚 "The role of teachers is, then, shifting from that of disseminators of knowledge to facilitators of knowledge-generation and sense-making... while the role of researchers is moving to include that of community conveners and educators." —Stephanie Leite
- Reposted by Carlos A. PittellaThe story of Ramón Sampedro influenced the legalization of assisted dying in Spain and elsewhere. But beyond Alejandro Amenábar's film Mar Adentro with Javier Bardem, there's also Sampedro’s own book 'Cartas desde el infierno' Analysis by @pittella.bsky.social 👇 assistedlab.ch/textual/cart...
- I'm still moon-high from our reading last night... Thank you so much for all that poetry—& thanks to everyone in the audience who shared the evening with us 💙
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- ! mañana / amanhã / demain / domani ❤️🔥
- Helen DeWitt's "The Last Samurai," in which Ludo searches for a model of masculinity ❤️🔥
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- SAVE THE DATE: one week from today... A Winter's Night Chapbook Reading 👉 Sunday, Dec 7, 7pm ET (Zoom) Thrilled to celebrate this season of poetry in fab company💙
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- #Poets! We’re exactly 18x more dangerous than prosefolk… Somehow I’ve always known that, but now it’s a quantitative fact* *pending peer review 😋 arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
- Agreed. Even tho that “florid verse” subheading is a buzzkill… The journalist wasted a great opportunity to present us as truly fearsome 😎
- A fabulous antidote to those ads on Spotify & LinkedIn... Goddess bless satire 🙏
- After years subscribing to #Spotify, encountered the ICE ads. (I'm late here, as premium subscribers don't hear ads) The ads made me so sick I cancelled my sub, stating as reason that they obviously violate Spotify's anti-discrimination clause. Moved to Qobuz (same $, better sound).
- 👉 Save the date, poetry people!
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- This is gonna be amazing 🔥
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- “I’ve heard it said the only safe terrain is to write about oneself because you’re not encroaching on anyone else’s material experience of trauma. But... I don’t feel like I know where I end and someone else begins. There’s no pure self that is not touched by other people.” ❤️🔥 ~Stephanie Bolster
- Watching Stephanie Bolster read—live—from her brilliant latest book, Long Exposure... This will make your evening, day, season ❤️🔥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmCs...
- My chap «propersitions» was reviewed by mRb! «visas, borders, permissions, refusals, evictions, and the empty space left by a chipped tooth. They track how borders attempt to mediate our ability to understand ourselves» Much gratitude to reviewer Paisley Conrad, the mRb team, & Cactus Press 💚
