Jonathan Thirkield

Now on our blog: read an interview with Jonathan Thirkield, whose new poetry collection, INFINITY POOL, publishes with the Phoenix Poets series this month: buff.ly/4evo2g4

Excellent interview with poet and digital artist Jonathan Thirkield about his new @UChicagoPress book INFINITY POOL pressblog.uchicago.edu/2024/09/19/rea…

Thank you @parisreview and @thereal_ckj for recording this little video of me reading Antwerp (2)! So fun being on Instagram for the first time (might have to join)! instagram.com/reel/Cu2E0SbvK…

Thanks @lithub for including my code poets review in your daily! lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-…

@hipsterelectron @parisreview Thanks!!!

“ChatGPT uses brute force on both sides … to create coherent, normative sentences … The works in Using Electricity harness data and code to push language into more playful and revealing imaginative territory.” @jonthirkield for the Review’s Review. theparisreview.org/blog/2023/06/2…

My review of @CpPress series of computer generated/mediated writing (mostly, excitingly, poetry!), Using Electricity, is up at @parisreview -- fascinating works by @aparrish, @nickmofo, @programmatology, @RuMboya, @rafapyp, @rrrrrroa, and many others

Just read my teaching evals (as always with deep trepidation) and I've never been this moved by the comments @parsons_dt MFA students wrote. I feel so lucky to have worked with this awesome group of artists/designers/coders. supreme thanks to @colleenmacklin for bringing me in

So psyched to have part 2 of my spy poem in summer issue of @parisreview

surfacing from my twitter silence to send love to @akasomeguy and his (as always) awesome poem (along with my infinite devotion to Celan (esp in the form Joris‘ trances))

So awesome!!

I am very late on this--here are the opening 3 lines of my poem "Drop" in @_conjunctions amazing and horrowing Earth Elegies issue. Deeply grateful to have my voice among this concert of voices. Please find a copy and read everything in it. Our minds are all part of the Earth.

Everlasting layers of ideas, images, feelings, have fallen upon your brain softly as light. —Thomas De Quincey via @laphamsquart (how soft is light exactly and how everlasting are ideas etc? Still nice stuff)

A stark governmental example of #codingtheself / coding subjugated identities based on the idea/possibility of engineering your visual identity through DNA. "Called DNA phenotyping. Scientists use it to analyze genes for traits like skin color, eye color and ancestry."

Posting this essay I wrote years ago since sometimes I feel so helpless as a witness to all this madness poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine…

Here is another, actually quite visually beautiful (like quartz), story attesting to the Internet's opposition to nature. bbc.com/future/bespoke…

This is what the Internet actually looks like to nature. bbc.com/future/article…

There are no flowers on the Internet. @nytimes Nature isn't a metaphor. Internet is the opposite of nature.

Fantastic poems by Shane McCrae @akasomeguy framed by a rare example of really well done illustration and digital/visual storytelling by the @NewYorker (but it's still really about the poems!) newyorker.com/magazine/poems…

“Poetry is not a fancy way of giving you information; it’s an incantation. It is actually a magic spell. It changes things; it changes you.” An interview with Philip Pullman. nyer.cm/FhivnIr

Agnes Denes again, because, so amazing.