Tootfinder

The argument that humans make mistakes too so we should be okay with AI making mistakes is… bizarre. I don't use a calculator for it to be wildly wrong some of the time and not indicate any sort of confidence level. I use a calculator when I want the right answer, ALL THE TIME.

Sure, I also don't ask the calculator to write poems in the style of Mad Hatter… but maybe, just maybe, I can do without that.

Also, again, "AI" is not sentient. It's actually not…

Just finished "Dreams from Many Rivers" by Margarita Engle. It's a Latin-American history of the United States, written in poems that take on the points of view of a number of both fictional and actual people. It starts with the arrival of Spanish colonists in Puerto Rico, which was in fact the first part of the present-day States to experience European colonialism.
Its super informative and a great read to appreciate the complexities of history that ICE and the US white supremacist movement are trying to sweep under the rug. Like how the fuck do you deport a person whose indigenous and then Mexican ancestors lived in Arizona for centuries but now that it's claimed by the US since they speak Spanish they're "foreign."
It's a pretty quick read since it's a lot of short poems, and it's got lovely illustrations by Beatriz Gutierrez Hernandez.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

A stable reference is not necessary for meaning.
If ancient poems have no current similar meanings to use for construction or deconstruction, we all yet understand them as communications. Even over the years, and spaces.
Sometimes their meanings multiply.
#Poetry #Philosophy

"Me, naked with textbook poems spout fountain against the Nazis."
This is the "weird kind of sex symbol" we could all use just about now.
Minutemen, "Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing" (1984)
https://youtu.be/cosuyGLWtJA

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Bilal:
🎵 Love Poems
#Bilal
https://sisdee.bandcamp.com/track/introdeection-instru-bilal-love-poems
https://open.spotify.com/track/18yd2Ghc5ow8rwkVSVHhd2

Matsuo Basho (1644–1694) lived his peculiar life on the conviction that
art could create an awareness that allowed one to see into and communicate the essence of experience.
Throughout his life he searched for the state of being one with the object of his poems,
something he believed a poet needed to reach in order to write truthfully.
This life-long search brought Basho to wandering.
He thought that travelling would lead to a state of karumi (lightness), ess…

In Basho’s Footsteps: Hiking the Narrow Road to the Deep North Three Centuries Later
Matsuo Basho (1644–1694) lived his peculiar life on the conviction that art could create an awareness that allowed one to see into and communicate the essence of experience.

Day 28: Samira Ahmed
As foreshadowed, we're back to YA land, which represents a lot of what I've been enjoying from the library lately.
I've read "Hollow Fires", "This Book Won't Burn", and "Love, Hate, and other Filters" by Ahmed, along with "Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know" which is quite different. All four are teen ~romances with interesting things to say about racism & growing up as a South Asian Muslim, but whereas the first three are set in small-town Indiana, the third is set in France and includes a historical fiction angle involving Dumas and a hypothetical Muslim woman who was (in this telling) the inspiration for several Lord Byron poems.
Ahmed's novels all include a strong and overt theme of social justice, and it's refreshing to see an author not try to wade around the topic or ignore it. Her romances are complex, with imperfect protagonists and endings that aren't always "happily ever after" although they're satisfying and believable.
My library has a plethora of similar authors I've been enjoying, including Adiba Jaigirdar (who appeared earlier in this list), Sabaa Tahir ("All my Rage" is fantastic but I'm less of a fan of her fantasy stuff), Sabina Khan ("The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali"), and Randa Abdel-Fattah ("Does My Head Look Big In This?"; from an earlier era). Ahmed gets the spot here because I really like her politics and the way she works them into her writing. Her characters are unapologetic advocates against things like book bans, and Ahmed doesn't second-guess them or try to make things more palatable for those who want to ban books (or whatever). Her historical fiction in "Mad..." is also really cool in terms of "huh that could actually totally be true" and grappling with literary sexism from ages past.
#30AuthorsNoMen

'The Soliloquist Journal' seeks submissions of poems and soliloquies for Fall 2025 issue https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/08/02/the-soliloquist-journal-seeks-submissions-of-poems-and-soliloq…

Today, 4 August 2025, is the 300th birthday of John Newton, author, Anglican, anti-slavery campaigner, writer of many poems and hymns including #AmazingGrace #JohnNewton #Olney

Today I looked up at one of those early October brilliant blue skies that grace New York.
One might say that I looked up from my phone, from the other kind of Bluesky which feeds me all the madness of the world.
These days I’m trying keep both skies balancing each other with a practice of writing back to the social media posts I encounter.
From sky to screen to sky. It’s a form of play that helps me reclaim my attention and connect to my sense of being.

Another Blue Sky
A series of prose poems written in response to social media posts on Bluesky.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Robert Schumann, Jorge Viladoms & Benjamin Appl:
🎵 Meine Rose, from Six Poems by Lenau and Requiem
#RobertSchumann #JorgeViladoms #BenjaminAppl

Decoding the Poetic Language of Emotion in Korean Modern Poetry: Insights from a Human-Labeled Dataset and AI Modeling
Iro Lim, Haein Ji, Byungjun Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03932

Decoding the Poetic Language of Emotion in Korean Modern Poetry: Insights from a Human-Labeled Dataset and AI Modeling
This study introduces KPoEM (Korean Poetry Emotion Mapping) , a novel dataset for computational emotion analysis in modern Korean poetry. Despite remarkable progress in text-based emotion classification using large language models, poetry-particularly Korean poetry-remains underexplored due to its figurative language and cultural specificity. We built a multi-label emotion dataset of 7,662 entries, including 7,007 line-level entries from 483 poems and 615 work-level entries, annotated with 44 f…

Life must go on,
And the dead be forgotten;
Life must go on,
Though good men die;
Anne, eat your breakfast;
Dan, take your medicine;
Life must go on;
I forget just why.
2/2
#Poetry --EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

'The Soliloquist Journal' seeks submissions of poems and soliloquies for Fall 2025 issue
https://ift.tt/rGWtMPH
updated: Monday, August 4, 2025 - 11:41amfull name / name of organization: The Soliloquist…
via Input 4 RELCFP

'The Soliloquist Journal' seeks submissions of poems and soliloquies for Fall 2025 issue
https://ift.tt/LlrZbwQ
updated: Monday, August 4, 2025 - 11:41amfull name / name of organization: The Soliloquist…
via Input 4 RELCFP

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Stefan Nilsson, Wilhelm Stenhammar, Karl-Magnus Fredriksson & Bo Bergman:
🎵 Four Stockholmsdikter (4 Stockholm poems) vers. for voice & piano (Op.38)
#StefanNilsson #WilhelmStenhammar #KarlMagnusFredriksson #BoBergman

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Laura Steenberge, Tim Parkinson & Angharad Davies:
🎵 But are not all facts dreams as soon as we put them behind us - from Seven Poems
#LauraSteenberge #TimParkinson #AngharadDavies

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RecordReview
Max Reger, Gävle symfoniorkester & Jaime Martín:
🎵 4 Tone Poems After Arnold Böcklin, Op. 128: No. 2, Spiel der Wellen
#MaxReger #Gävlesymfoniorkester #JaimeMartín #newRelease 🆕 album
https://open.spotify.com/track/0vjEkTGdQTHxkqQIiVQG7h