Theo Chiotis (selfcoding.bsky.social)

'limit.less_an assembly of the sick',a long poem on identity, solidarity and empathy is now out from @LitmusUK: goo.gl/rP8nAM

Some great photos from our Cypriot event @culturalchcuk @CyprusInUK @AvgiLilli @l_kiew @catonacanto @___Stathis___ @NoraNadj @alevadil @komarhanna @lauradavispoems @selfcoding @chrissywilliams @antoniataylorpr All videos europeanpoetryfestival.com/cyprus

Our Cypriot event @culturalchcuk @CyprusInUK last night was amazing. Thanks to everyone who attended @AvgiLilli @l_kiew @catonacanto @___Stathis___ @NoraNadj @alevadil @komarhanna @lauradavispoems @selfcoding @chrissywilliams @antoniataylorpr All videos europeanpoetryfestival.com/cyprus

Our Cypriot poetry celebration @culturalchcuk on June weds 25th @CyprusInUK 7pm, free tickets w/ @AvgiLilli @catonacanto @___Stathis___ @NoraNadj @alevadil @komarhanna @lauradavispoems @selfcoding @chrissywilliams @antoniataylorpr et al europeanpoetryfestival.com/cyprus

@bram_kawa @_vajra I had forgotten about that! The cheek of youth!

@_vajra My good friend @selfcoding quoted David Cronenberg back to him on CRASH at a signing (something about it being about the characters reinventing themselves). Cronenberg just shook his head politely. It's possible he had no idea he said that.

this is one of the (at least three) situations that "death of the author" is useful for

So adios Twitter. It's been fun for the last 17 or something like that years. @selfcoding.bsky.social is where I am going to be at.

Free PDFs of several of my books, including Chimera, Bloods Dream, (dis/re)membered and Moreau’s Doctored Bodies. thebirdking.com/free-pdfs/

Birthmarks on newborn babies used to be called "longing-marks" and were believed to take on the shape of something desired by the mother. Pouring a drink and wishing I'd asked the mom who marked me with desire what on earth she'd been desiring.

Paulo Freire was preaching when he said teaching cannot be neutral it either dismantles systemic inequities or perpetuates them

“We cannot get around silence. We can only go through it. The mind is unable to think the mind.” — Edmond Jabès (A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Book, tr. R. Waldrop)

First Impressionist? Monet's Sunrise (1872) Turner's Sunset (1840)

everyone is participating in the "what to do about young men" debate without actually discussing the book that figured out what needs to happen 52 years ago, we need to stop them from continuing to get oedipized over and over again by patriarchal systems

My greatest joy is not knowing what people are talking about.

I recommend Ernst Bloch's essay 'Marxism and Poetry' to everyone, not just poets. But to poets I recommend drinking 3 beers before reading this essay

I don't study politics, but I do study culture, and here are some of the signs that a cultural shift has been brewing for years in America that most of the professional political analysts just completely missed. Some of these may seem absurd, but hear me out. 🧵 We'll start with this one:

Deleuze: For Proust, to write is to “read the inner book of these unknown signs… There is no logos, there are only hieroglyphs. To think is therefore to interpret, is therefore to translate.” — Ricardo Piglia, The Diaries of Emilio Renzi (tr. Robert Croll)

I have a new Queen….her name is Patti LuPone

“I would like—with Rimbaud—to eat stones.” Alejandra Pizarnik (Diaries, 1959)

The cloud formation, the Atacama desert in Chile

“…in the end, a poet was someone for whom the world didn’t even exist, because, for him, there was only the radiance of the eternal outside.” — Enrique Vila-Matas, The Illogic of Kassel (tr. McLean and Milsom)

Monet, Sunset on the Seine