poets read, every night at 2 a.m.

I usually update the actual site before the table of contents (sorry) so this is in complete

Turing Test_Love by Franni Choi

Half-Light by Frank Bidart

Telemachus’ Detachment by Louise Glück

We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics

Silk, the Universe, Language, the Heart by Inger Christensen, trans. Susanna Nied

Ode to Elliott Smith by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib

Peut être by Savannah Hicks

I GOT SO HIGH IN THE OPERATING ROOM BEFORE MY SEX CHANGE
I THOUGHT I WAS A BIBLICALLY ACCURATE
ANGEL MADE OUT OF BARBIE DOLL PARTS by Felix Lecocq

small town ses-teen-a by Delany Lemke

Salvage by Hedgie Choi

The Lost Woods as Elegy for Black Childhood by Derrick Austin

Thirstiness is Not Equal Division by Kaveh Akbar

Notes on Desire by Ugochukwu Damian Okpara

What the Seas Would Make Us by C.J. Evans

interview in session

Bhanu Kapil

Teju Cole interviewed by Aleksandar Hemon

Ryan McGinley

Marie Howe, The Power of Words to Save Us

Susan Sontag, the art of fiction

Fran Lebowitz

James Baldwin, The Artist’s Struggle for Integrity, 1963

James Baldwin on being gay in America (1984)

David Hockey on van Gogh

Etel Adnan

Father John Misty

Lou Reed interviewed by Flo & Eddie

Toni Morrison on trauma, survival, finding meaning

J.R.R. Tolkien on languages

Obliqueness and Extravagance: A Conversation with Rowan Williams and Shane McCrae

library

The Sheer Velocity and Ephemerality of Cy Twombly by Anne Carson

Manifesto of the Committee to Abolish Outer Space

Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil (full text)

Emanuel Carnevali on Arthur Rimbaud

Jailbait by Otessa Moshfegh

COMPOST (digital commons magazine)

Relativity for Poets

Daydreams and Fragments: On How We Retrieve Images From the Past by Maël Renouard

Gender Trouble by Judith Butler (full text)

Corpus Christi: A Play by Terrence McNally (so good. cannot recommend enough)

Love, Sex, Art, and Death- a talk with David Wojnarowicz and Nan Goldin (1990)

Why Make Fellini the Scapegoat for New Cultural Intolerance?
letter to the New York Times from Martin Scorsese

Gigantic beautiful mega folder of textbooks, readings, and essays on HUNDREDS of ancient
and modern languages, plus linguistic theory and culture

Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida

Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics- open Yale course

Everyone is Beautiful and No One is Horny by RS Benedict

Modest Mouse by Pat Graham

Letter from a Religion in My Mind by James Baldwin

’Why Are We Like This?’: The Primacy of Transsexuality by Xandra Metcalfe
(title may seem ambiguous- this is pro trans)

Shame and Guilt in Ancient Greece by Armand D’Angour

Felon: Poems, by Reginald Dwayne Betts

Nostalgia, Freedom, Web 1.0, & Why This Site Exists (essay on small web, resources for exploring)

The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community by Fran Lebowitz (1987)

The Anxiety of Influencers: Educating the Tiktok Generation

Philosopher of the apocalypse

Feminism is for Everybody by bell hooks

Dropbox full of readings for Renaissance Lit & the History of Sexuality !!

undergraduate texts on physics

Getty Publications Virtual Library

David Lynch: The Art Life (full doc)

On Self-Translation: Meditations on Language by Ilan Stavans

digitalized collection of arabic scientific texts (9th-19th centuries)

Androgyny, Mimesis, and Marriage of the Boy Heroine
on the English Renaissance Stage by Phyllis Rackin

Anarchist Library

Tobacco and Boys: How Queer was Marlowe? by Stephen Orgel

Divine Love in the Medieval Cosmos by Jack Ford, UCL

A Defense of Abortion by Judith Jarvis Thomson

The Well Wrought Urn: Studies of the Structure of Poetry by Cleanth Brooks

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Stephen Adly Guirgis

Godot Comes to Sarajevo by Susan Sontag

Rimbaud and Patti Smith: Style as Social Deviance by Carrie Jaurès Noland

Why I Write by George Orwell

Looking at War: Photography’s view of devastation and death by Susan Sontag

A Brief History of Death by Nir Baram

Jewish texts, translation, and commentary

Introduction to Political Philosophy- open Yale course

Intro to Ancient Greek History- open Yale course

Roman Architecture- open Yale course

Dante in Translation- open Yale course

All open Yale courses, fucking goldmine

The Mythologies of the Himalaya Mountains by Ed Douglas

In El Salvador by Joan Didion

The Strange Persistence of First Languages by Julie Sedivy

The Ebbing Language by Sadiqa de Meijer

The Laugh of the Medusa by Hélène Cixous

On Self-Respect by Joan Didion (1961)

Unnecessary Things by Tatyana Tolstaya

Back the Way You Went by Anne Carson

Stigmata by Hélène Cixous

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg (pdf)

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams

100 Ways To Disappear And Live Free

The Plant Observer's Guidebook by Charles E. Roth

The Pirate Book ed. Nicolas Maigret & Maria Roszkowska

The Thief’s Journal by Jean Genet

Archived issues of Anything That Moves, a bisexual zine from 1990-2002

Angels in America (Millenium Approaches) by Tony Kushner

Angels in America (Perestroika) by Tony Kushner

Decreation by Anne Carson

Plan for a Journal by Italo Calvino

Heidi Gustafson Recounts How She Established an Archive of Hundreds of Samples of Humanity’s Oldest Art Material

Black Skin, White Masks (1952) by Frantz Fanon

The Wretched Of The Earth (1961) by Frantz Fanon

The Paper-Airplane Collector

movie theater

Totally Fucked Up (1993)

Juliet of the Spirits (1965)

Masculin Féminin (1966)

Pink Narcissus (1971)

Fallen Angels (1995)

Francis Bacon: A Brush with Violence

Georgia O’Keefe By Myself

But I’m a Cheerleader (1999)

Lost in Translation (2003)

Mysterious Skin (2004)

SLC Punk! (1998)

Metropolitan (1990)

Night on Earth (1991)

The Holy Mountain (1973)

Gummo (1997)

Suspiria (1977)

My Own Private Idaho (1991)

the international fairy-tale filmography- database of fairytale adaptations across different countries

Velvet Goldmine (1998)

8 1/2 (1963)

2046 (Wong Kar-wai, 2004)

400 Blows (1959)

A Man Escaped (1956)

Caravaggio (1986)

A Married Woman (1964)

Alphaville (1965)

La Belle et la Bête (1946)

Cléo from 5 to 7

Daisies (Sedmikrásky, 1966)

Dead Ringers (1988)

Death in Venice (1971)

Medea (PPP 1969)

Orpheus (Cocteau, 1950)

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)

Van Gogh (1991)

After Hours (1985)

Amadeus (1984)

Mulholland Drive (2001)

Taxi Driver (1976)

John Waters Commencement speech RISD 2015