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🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Music and Poetry of the Spanish Golden Age
The Spanish vocal ensemble Qvinta Essençia showcase the polyphonic musical tradition and poetry that flourished in the Iberian Peninsula of the 16th century.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002hx76

Challenge: "Name 20 female authors you admire, 1 per day"
Day 15:
Jenni Fagan
She is like a volcano of creativity - 4 novels, numerous books of poetry, film, sculpture, painting ... she is amazingly productive, and unique in her style and voice.
I particularly enjoyed The Sunlight Pilgrims and some of the things in it helped explain odd things I'd notice when I moved to rural Scotland. Can also recommend her first novel The Panopticon.

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…

@… I saw this by another Gaza poet, and thought it might interest you. It's powerful!
https://mastodon.social/@appassionato/1153098541…

earthling (@appassionato@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image In order for me to write poetry that isn't political, I must listen to the birds and in order to hear the birds the warplanes must be silent Marwan Makhoul via holyfigtree #poetry #Palestine

A kind editor had pity upon me:
#poetry

Upon a Single Fact
Upon a single fact is life supported: I-AM exists and works and speaks, before All time began, when space and earth were sorted, His plan completed, the Fartherest Edge and Core. The human mind cannot fully know The only limitless God whose spiritual Being Is Air to breathe and Wind that chooses to blow Wherever he desires, and no man seeing. This central truth: the eternal One not only Speaks but writes as well: his plan revealed, The unknown explained, the deepest secret unsealed- He lays the…

A triptych on Starhawk, who developed some of the most poignantly insightful ideas in structural theories of power, among the many philosophers, sociologists, and psychologists who wrote about theories of power in the 20th century
Note that the second and third image come from the *same book*, in the first and second chapters
I…did not expect woo poetry on magic and sexuality in a book that's highly cited by writers on theories of power

This is beautiful; pure poetry: https://obsidian.md/blog/less-is-safer/
(Obsidian’s dependency-management philosophy.)
I have a suggestion: If you have a project or repo that's getting popular, stop writing features for a few months and implement this instead.

Less is safer: how Obsidian reduces the risk of supply chain attacks
Supply chain attacks are malicious updates that sneak into open source code used by many apps. Here’s how we design Obsidian to ensure that the app is a secure and private environment for your thoughts.

To The Edge – piano and poetry improvisations
#improvise #piano #poem

To The Edge - piano and poetry improvisations
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

"#Serendipity is generally defined as the accidental discovery of something valuable while searching for something else. It’s also a hotly contested component of the library research process: is it a failure of #library systems or facilitated by the physical design of libraries, the cat…

This improvised (spontaneous, unedited) poem by Stan Stewart is titled "Strange Parables". Everything else you need to know is in the poetry.
#improvised #poetry

Strange Parables - an #improv #poem
Stan Stewart - @muz4now