Just one week until the hybrid reading of my translation of Tea Arciszewska's 'Miryeml' The YIVO Institute, directed by caraid o'brien. Wonderful cast, including Alona Bach and Dylan Seders Hoffman. UCL Hebrew & Jewish Studies Yiddish Book Center

Thursday, April 18 at 7 pm (ET).
yivo.org/Miryeml

I am thrilled to share Sonia Gollance's stunning new translation of Tea Arciszewska's MIRYEML with an incredible cast of children and adults. On zoom or in person April 18th at the Center for Jewish History yivo.org/Miryeml The YIVO Institute Sonia Gollance, PhD

Haven’t seen this shared on Twitter so putting it out there. Funding for Ukrainian literary translators.

Poem of the Day: My Son the Man - poetryfoundation.org/poems/48565/my…

In 1963, 24 years after the Wizard of Oz premiered, Ray Bolger came on the Judy Garland show and they performed,
If I only Had A Brain.

Judy's eyes the entire time...

'I was born a bitch. I was born a painter.' Frida Kahlo

(photograph by Gisèle Freund, c.1953) #WomensArt

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

'All too often, working-class children are not provided the same access to the arts. The arts have been treated as a luxury, rather than a necessity, for far too long.' - Imelda Staunton

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“To translate another language in order to learn your own language…”
(W.S.Merwin to the poet Ezra Pound)

From all of us who couldn’t attend
thank you!
Paul Paul Holdengraber

KAFKA UNEXPURGATED: Ross Benjamin & Paul Holdengraber in Conversation youtu.be/GAVDWtuMNfo via YouTube

Head Start preschools aim to fight poverty, but their teachers struggle to make ends meet apnews.com/article/head-s…

Poverty is policy murder. In a country with so much wealth we must refuse to accept the myth of scarcity & instead declare our votes are demands for living wages, #votingrights & other policies to save lives & democracy. Stand w/ our Moral Movement on 3/2: poorpeoplescampaign.org/march2/

New York reading of 'Miryeml' The YIVO Institute (co-sponsored by CongressForJewishCulture), directed by caraid o'brien 4/4 yivo.org/Miryeml

HOLY CRAP!

We are getting four new issues of HATE by Peter Bagge?!?

Where was the press release for this?!

PETER! Come onto my weekly live YouTube show! Let’s talk about this!

Fantagraphics

President and Sabina Higgins this afternoon received Senator Bernie Sanders Bernie Sanders and his wife, Jane O'Meara Sanders, at Áras an Uachtaráin

Audre Lorde was born February 18, 1934 in Harlem.

Margaret Skinnider, gender conforming, passing as a Fianna boy & in her Cumann na mBan uniform (right) with her life long partner Nora O’Keeffe (also Cumann na mBan) - they were revolutionary & feminist activists & lived together for over four decades in Clontarf. #LGBTplusHM

'The Queen of Beasts', bronze, by contemporary Irish sculptor Fidelma Massey #WomensArt

Common Grackles look pretty common--until you see them in the right light, and then 🌈🌈🌈! If you look closely, you can see its tongue wrapped around the acorn, as it tried to swallow it! #Grackle #CentralPark #birdcpp

In 1966, socialists built the model: Co-Op City. The foundation of a Bronx where all can live comfortably in our homes, free of fear.

In 2024, the Bronx movement we're forging will fulfill this mission for all.

Green Social Housing, built by union workers to protect our future.

Teachers need *permanently* affordable housing—and the Social Housing Development Authority can build it at scale with 100% union labor across our city and state.

So grateful for UFT Action's partnership and support 💪🏘️