Short Conversations with Poets: Callie Siskel Callie Siskel’s Two Minds is neither minimalist nor maximalist, but the spareness and efficiency speak volumes—and sometimes speak in long lines, sometimes short—making an art of saying as little as possible, but crucially no less. What’s left out presses upon what remains, and what remains is both substantial and hard as stone. Here’s the begin…

Improve Your Conversations By Focusing on Curiosity, Not Performance Turns out you don’t need to fill every silence with nervous rambling.

Epic is going to let you report voice conversations in Fortnite Image: Epic GamesEpic Games is adding a new voice reporting feature into Fortnite to help catch players who break the company’s community rules. If the feature is on — if you’re under 18, the feature is always on when using voice chats — the device you’re playing the game on will securely capture the past five minutes of audio on a “rolling basi…

Short Conversations with Poets: Alice Oswald What is it about Alice Oswald’s poetry that is so immensely compelling? It could be the tautness, the hard brightness, of the language, the sense that every word in every line is earned, desperately necessary, a matter of urgency. It could be the fact that the poems are consistently so beautiful, so flinty and beautiful. They have the flexibilit…

Short Conversations with Poets: Safiya Sinclair If your encounter with these poems is anything like mine, the first thing you might experience is pure music: the thick stunning gorgeous sound at work in Safiya Sinclair’s writing. And then almost at the same time you might realize that the poems, which are often layerings of elaborations, lists, and collations, are also telling stories, making…

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Meta wants Threads to be the ‘de facto platform’ for online public conversations Illustration: The VergeInstagram boss Adam Mosseri has high ambitions for Threads: he wants it to become the “de facto platform for public conversations online,” he said on Friday. Big statement to make on the one-year anniversary of Elon Musk taking over Twitter! Meta’s aspirations came up as part of a question Mosseri answered in an AMA: “What…

Short Conversations with Poets: John Burnside John Burnside was born in 1955 and became a published poet almost by accident. For a while, he worked as software engineer. After long days—or in the midst of—crunching numbers and signs, he would write poems to allay the ennui. He sent a poem to a friend in publishing, who then asked to see a book—and published it without telling John. Since th…

Short Conversations with Poets: Robyn Schiff Robyn Schiff’s work has long demonstrated that American poetry can be both ornamental and discursive, both formally inventive and intimate. But the intimacy, in her latest, is woven more explicitly—and even more movingly—into the history and science that have long been the stuff of her métier. Information Desk is described as an epic. It takes i…

Songs with actual conversations or monologues in them. I’m looking for songs that have monologues, random conversations, audio samples from movies or tv and so on. It can be any time of song and any genre. Currently I have these songs that meet the criteria: Let’s Talk About Cars – Butthole Surfers, Giorgio by Moroder – Daft Punk, Pink Cellphone – Deftones, Simultaneous – Puscifer, Mystery Roach (Di…

Thamel (Nepal) street conversations I am currently in Thamel, Kathmandu, Nepal. This is the second time I’ve been here. It is impossible to walk a block without a man approaching and asking where I am from. The conversation starts off friendly, but it ALWAYS leads to them asking me to come to their shop or buy a hike/tour. I tried being friendly. But I just want to walk down the…

Short Conversations with Poets: Jesse Nathan The first thing one notices when one reads a Jesse Nathan poem is: one’s body humming along to the music of his words. How does such a thing work? It’s the sound patterns—rhyme, inner rhyme, alliteration, assonance—yes, but it’s also how the poet uses the sound patterns on the line-by-line level, and as connective tissue between different poems,…

Short Conversations with Poets: Cathy Park Hong Cathy Park Hong’s first book, Translating Mo’Um, made poetry out of a representation of Asian American life that skewers the exoticizing currents in American culture while, at the same time, ironizing and breathing life into the twisting singularities of dialect like few other living poets. “Translating,” in this sense, is what Hong’s work has a…

Short Conversations with Poets: Ben Lerner Ben Lerner’s first book of poems in thirteen years, The Lights, gathers several kinds of lines and sets them talking to one another, several styles intertwined so that the play of forms itself is a poem. One form—one thread—is the waterfalls of prose, unparagraphed and sometimes covering several pages. Another thread consists of shorter lines, t…

Google Indexing Bard Conversations In Search Results via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google is indexing conversations with its AI chatbot in search results. Users should be cautious as private chats may become public. The post Google Indexing Bard Conversations In Search Results appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Short Conversations with Poets: Elisa Gonzalez There’s a raw and sinewy energy to Elisa Gonzalez’s line. Her debut collection, Grand Tour, clarified and found its final form in the years after her brother was shot to death. So it is a first book and also a shattered elegy, an announcement and an aftermath, by turns impassioned and dispassionate as it registers grief in many forms. It begins …

Does anyone else imagine situations or have fake conversations/delusions of grandeur when listening to music? Example situation could be: walking into a room where your crush is sitting. And you almost USE the lyrics and beat to “make an impression” on the imagined people around you? Am I crazy? For some reason every time I listen to music I just drift away into another world and am in a room surrounded with friends….or sitting next to my crush by the o…

Short Conversations with Poets: Timothy Donnelly Timothy Donnelly’s new book, Chariot, is a genius sweep of quatrains—almost all of them consist of five stanzas, long-lined, sheer music. Donnelly’s sensibility has always gathered its strength at the point where essay and lyric meet, where philosophy shades into beautiful brilliant torsion-rich talk, something you might dream of hearing at a dr…

Short Conversations with Poets: Jeffrey Yang Jeffrey Yang’s latest book is Line and Light, a title that rhymes in a way with the title of his second collection, Vanishing-Line. Line and Light, his fourth full-length work, is sprawling, vast, like a city of poetry. It’s composed of five sections, all of them serial in form or spirit. The first and most ambitious, “Langkasuka,” spans sixty-t…