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We had the lethal pills. The world at end
Did not give us the time to say goodbye.
Thinking of ourselves, not of our friends,
We put our pets to sleep, we did misspend
The precious moments, hoping to deny
We had the lethal pills the world to end.
I had no strength and no way to suspend
This condemnation. I muttered my outcry
Thinking of ourselves, not of our friends.
You were at home. Your travel case at hand,
Calmly you folded clothes, your eyes dry:
We had the lethal pills the world to end.
“I’m leaving. There’s no reason to expend
What’s left in here: so hurry, we must fly.”
Thinking of ourselves, not of our friends,
We had the lethal pills the world to end.
(Villanelle by SiRiChandra)
Santorini!
Where the sun is always shining,
Where the sea is always purring.
Where the girls are wearing short short dresses,
Where the tourists are having long long nights,
Where the barkeepers mix strong strong shots,
Where the greek coffee is hot hot at the bar.
Where every restaurant offers good food,
Where everybody is in a good mood!
Jaynee Bowker reads during the Uncanny Senior Symposium for Literature Majors was held in the Old Main Lincoln Room on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020.
May your sandwich be a masterpiece of culinary balance with each ingredient singing in harmony. May the bread embrace the fillings with love, keeping every bite intact and delicious
Bless this sandwich with the freshness of its contents and the warmth of the hands that made it.
Scott Henderson 2-13-2025
Sydney Bieber reads during the Uncanny Senior Symposium for Literature Majors was held in the Old Main Lincoln Room on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020.
SAA-uk joined Leeds Library in October 2014 for a day of culture to celebrate Black History Month. Presenting Bharatanatyam and Kathak dance, Indian classical music and poetry in Urdu and English.
Photos by Amardev Gahir
Join writer Femi Martin, a judge of English PEN’s recent Made Up Words competition, and have a go at writing amazing letters to your friends, or why not make your own dictionary of made-up words? Or come along to poet Zena Edwards’s poetry and philosophy workshops for all!
Image: ‘English PEN Workshops, Siah Armajani: An Ingenious World, Courtesy of Parasol unit, 2013’
The automatic writing project started out as an activity among friends and locals. I would write a line someone else would write a line and so on... Then people would overhear us and ask if they could participate and write something too (which surprised me) of course I said "yes!" At that point I realized that lots of people have something to say. I started asking strangers to add entries, then I graduated to offering people $1.00 to participate, some people do not accept the dollar and some pay me a $1.00 (paying it forward). It's becoming quite a lovely, surprising and compelling project. People from many walks of life are participating: homeless, a news reporter, academics, students, doctors, drug addicts, lawyers, tourists etc... People have written things in my journal that they'd never say out loud, not to anyone. Some of it's so sad, some intriguing, hilarious and so on... At the end of the day, every one of these people understand that their entries are being uploaded to the internet and are comforted in knowing that they will be heard. I have no idea where this is going, but it's going just fine! FYI: English is not everyone's first language here. I will be illustrating the book/journal after the text is done. I hope that everyone who reads these entries learns something about people, mostly that we never know what someone else is going through.
Feel free to stop by my facebook page:
theatre / performance art / poetry / installation / readings / documentary / creative writing / music
Πολυχώρος Κέντρο Ελέγχου Τηλεοράσεων / TV Control Center
Κύπρου 91Α & Σικίνου 35Α, 11361, Κυψέλη, Αθήνα / 91Α Kyprou & 35Α Sikinou, 11361, Athens
Τ: (00 30) 213 00 40 496 || Mobile: (00 30) 69.45.34.84.45
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The automatic writing project started out as an activity among friends and locals. I would write a line someone else would write a line and so on... Then people would overhear us and ask if they could participate and write something too (which surprised me) of course I said "yes!" At that point I realized that lots of people have something to say. I started asking strangers to add entries, then I graduated to offering people $1.00 to participate, some people do not accept the dollar and some pay me a $1.00 (paying it forward). It's becoming quite a lovely, surprising and compelling project. People from many walks of life are participating: homeless, a news reporter, academics, students, doctors, drug addicts, lawyers, tourists etc... People have written things in my journal that they'd never say out loud, not to anyone. Some of it's so sad, some intriguing, hilarious and so on... At the end of the day, every one of these people understand that their entries are being uploaded to the internet and are comforted in knowing that they will be heard. I have no idea where this is going, but it's going just fine! FYI: English is not everyone's first language here. I will be illustrating the book/journal after the text is done. I hope that everyone who reads these entries learns something about people, mostly that we never know what someone else is going through.
Feel free to stop by my facebook page:
Sydney Bieber reads during the Uncanny Senior Symposium for Literature Majors was held in the Old Main Lincoln Room on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020.
On 3 July 2018, participants of English PEN's Brave New Voices programme came together for a special celebration event. The evening marked the launch of latest anthology The Future House with readings from the book.
Brave New Voices is English PEN's ongoing creative writing outreach programme for young people from refugee and asylum-seeker backgrounds.
Photo: Suzi Corker
Natalie Diaz reading from her poetry.
The ASU Department of English celebrated our 2017-2018 graduates and award-winners! Our featured speaker was assistant professor Natalie Diaz, who performed a reading from her poetry.
Diaz was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California, on the banks of the Colorado River. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Her first poetry collection, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was published by Copper Canyon Press. She is a Lannan Literary Fellow and a Native Arts Council Foundation Artist Fellow. She was awarded a Bread Loaf Fellowship, the Holmes National Poetry Prize, a Hodder Fellowship, and a PEN/Civitella Ranieri Foundation Residency, as well as being awarded a US Artists Ford Fellowship. Diaz teaches at the Arizona State University Creative Writing MFA program. She splits her time between the east coast and Mohave Valley, Arizona, where she works to revitalize the Mojave language.
May 8th, 2018
ASU Tempe campus
theatre / performance art / poetry / installation / readings / documentary / creative writing / music
Πολυχώρος Κέντρο Ελέγχου Τηλεοράσεων / TV Control Center
Κύπρου 91Α & Σικίνου 35Α, 11361, Κυψέλη, Αθήνα / 91Α Kyprou & 35Α Sikinou, 11361, Athens
Τ: (00 30) 213 00 40 496 || Mobile: (00 30) 69.45.34.84.45
Email: info@polychorosket.gr
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The sea was soaking wet, a hard round board
Wrapped in crushed tinfoil, uneaten pie
Of yesterday’s big party. I stood on ward
Bearing the trampling thunder of the sky
While barring ears to sound, my flesh sandstone,
Clenching my chapped lips against the frost.
The surface than went mad. Lightning ozone
And coils of rippling scales climbed to the coast:
It was then I perceived the monster’s back
- Only a hint of spiky silver mane -
As if leaning its head over, to check
Who was around. It sailed for its domain.
The pewter coated surface fell down in metal plates
Roaring and spilling over the latch of the floodgates.
(Sonnet by SiRiChandra)
Remote Work Beyond the Office: Digital Nomads in Natural and Urban Sanctuaries
Description
A cinematic collection portraying the new geography of remote work, where laptops, notebooks, mobile phones, coffee cups, power banks, and quiet concentration replace the traditional office desk. Across coastal camper vans, desert roads, mountain cabins, tropical cafés, greenhouse workspaces, rustic studios, city terraces, ferry terminals, bookstores, and plant-filled coworking interiors, the series captures a calm but highly connected professional lifestyle shaped by mobility, autonomy, and intentional environments.
The images blend documentary realism with aspirational visual storytelling: women and men working alone or in small collaborative groups, surrounded by natural textures, worn wooden tables, soft daylight, travel gear, handwritten notes, dashboards, video calls, plants, books, ceramics, and open landscapes. The repeated presence of laptops and analog notebooks creates a strong contrast between digital productivity and slow, tactile living. Each scene suggests a different version of the same idea: work no longer belongs to one fixed place, but can unfold wherever there is focus, connectivity, and a meaningful sense of atmosphere.
The overall mood is grounded, quiet, and human. Rather than presenting remote work as a glossy fantasy, the collection emphasizes practical beauty: imperfect spaces, real materials, mixed cultures, weathered interiors, natural light, and moments of solitude. It speaks to digital nomadism, hybrid collaboration, sustainable work culture, creative entrepreneurship, mindful productivity, and the search for balance between technology and place.
These images have been generated by Artificial Intelligence.
theatre / performance art / poetry / installation / readings / documentary / creative writing / music
Πολυχώρος Κέντρο Ελέγχου Τηλεοράσεων / TV Control Center
Κύπρου 91Α & Σικίνου 35Α, 11361, Κυψέλη, Αθήνα / 91Α Kyprou & 35Α Sikinou, 11361, Athens
Τ: (00 30) 213 00 40 496 || Mobile: (00 30) 69.45.34.84.45
Email: info@polychorosket.gr
Site: polychorosket.gr/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/kentron.el
Twitter: twitter.com/TVControlCenter
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How many hues of green we saw today?
The silver foliage of the trembling asps,
The glossy leaves of a sweet scented bay
And flowered branches assaulted by the wasps.
On the hill, up, there is an island, black
Of green pine trees. Their colour tries to erase
All the spring shades. Walking up the track
I would have thought the sun’s hiding its face.
A few burnt orange twigs are here to enhance
The leaves so vibrant, floating in the breeze.
They sing a silent song, and fly and dance
And a few birds are playing the reprise.
If, when you dress in green, you think you’re at your best
Don’t challenge against the woods: the trees are fully dressed.
(Sonnet by SiRiChandra)
The Creative Writing Program at Arizona State University presents the Stellar Alumni Reading Series, a mixed-genre reading of poetry and prose with Iliana Rocha (MFA 2008) and Vedran Husić (MFA 2013).
About the Authors
Iliana Rocha earned her PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing from Western Michigan University. Her work has been featured in the Best New Poets 2014 anthology, as well as The Nation, Virginia Quarterly Review, Blackbird, and West Branch. Karankawa, her debut collection, won the 2014 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and is available through the University of Pittsburgh Press. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Central Oklahoma and lives with her three chihuahuas Nilla, Beans, and Migo.
Vedran Husić was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina and raised in Germany and the United States. His collection of stories, Basements and Other Museums, won the St. Lawrence Book Award and was published by Black Lawrence Press in 2018. He has work published in The Gettysburg Review, The Massachusetts Review, Mississippi Review, Ecotone, Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of fellowships from The Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the National Endowment for the Arts.
ASU Tempe campus
Thursday, Mar. 14, 2019
Natalie Diaz reading from her poetry.
The ASU Department of English celebrated our 2017-2018 graduates and award-winners! Our featured speaker was assistant professor Natalie Diaz, who performed a reading from her poetry.
Diaz was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California, on the banks of the Colorado River. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Her first poetry collection, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was published by Copper Canyon Press. She is a Lannan Literary Fellow and a Native Arts Council Foundation Artist Fellow. She was awarded a Bread Loaf Fellowship, the Holmes National Poetry Prize, a Hodder Fellowship, and a PEN/Civitella Ranieri Foundation Residency, as well as being awarded a US Artists Ford Fellowship. Diaz teaches at the Arizona State University Creative Writing MFA program. She splits her time between the east coast and Mohave Valley, Arizona, where she works to revitalize the Mojave language.
May 8th, 2018
ASU Tempe campus
Knox College professor Monica Berlin talking with students in the Senior Writing Portfolio course, before setting out on a mile-long "pilgrimage" from the Carl Sandburg statue on the Public Square, to Old Main, and then to the Sandburg Birthplace historic site; gathering at the square for remarks by Berlin. More on writing at Knox: www.knox.edu/academics/majors-and-minors/creative-writing