Vivek Narayanan
@naravive.bsky.social
Poetry: The Kuruntokai and its Mirror (Hanuman Editions, 2024); After (New York Review Books / HarperCollins India, 2022); Life and Times of Mr. S (2012); Universal Beach (2006). I teach Creative Writing in the MFA Program at George Mason University.
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“This archive is produced by a group of academics to honor and commemorate these lives and those of the many other teachers and researchers in higher education murdered in Gaza during the genocide.”
www.publicbooks.org/remember-the...
www.publicbooks.org/remember-the...
Remember Them: Palestine Scholars Murdered in the Gaza Genocide - Public Books
“In Palestine, some 87,000 students have suffered a near total disruption of their studies for the duration of the genocide, and more than 1200 have been killed. Upwards of 200 academic staff have…
www.publicbooks.org
September 15, 2026 at 8:07 PM
“This archive is produced by a group of academics to honor and commemorate these lives and those of the many other teachers and researchers in higher education murdered in Gaza during the genocide.”
www.publicbooks.org/remember-the...
www.publicbooks.org/remember-the...
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"This is a film about a system. It focuses on orders, policies, and patterns of operation, not deviations from them. The mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza was not a “tragic byproduct” of a war against Hamas, but a premeditated, calculated, intentional act." www.972mag.com/naza-exposin...
‘NAZA’: Exposing Israel’s killing machine in Gaza
Our new film shows how Israel’s slaughter of Palestinian civilians was a calculated and intentional act, through the testimonies of those responsible.
www.972mag.com
September 11, 2026 at 5:50 AM
"This is a film about a system. It focuses on orders, policies, and patterns of operation, not deviations from them. The mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza was not a “tragic byproduct” of a war against Hamas, but a premeditated, calculated, intentional act." www.972mag.com/naza-exposin...
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So, in fact, the most salient point is what you think of Cofnas and his work, specifically how he was hired while he lacked any expertise in the subject he was purportedly hired for, beating out real experts, by a hiring committee of one individual, an alleged racist bsky.app/profile/hoov...
August 21, 2026 at 12:37 PM
So, in fact, the most salient point is what you think of Cofnas and his work, specifically how he was hired while he lacked any expertise in the subject he was purportedly hired for, beating out real experts, by a hiring committee of one individual, an alleged racist bsky.app/profile/hoov...
The real facts of the so-called DEI era
I wrote a little bit about the data on recent DEI efforts in academic hiring (inspired by some recent articles). A few interesting charts and hot takes below. 🧵
What actually happened to faculty hiring under DEI?
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August 17, 2026 at 3:24 AM
The real facts of the so-called DEI era
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elon stroking his chin in thought, thinking about how the three hour movie he sat still for and paid attention to wasn't as faithful as it could be to the long poem he read all of
July 22, 2026 at 4:51 PM
elon stroking his chin in thought, thinking about how the three hour movie he sat still for and paid attention to wasn't as faithful as it could be to the long poem he read all of
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Today's Feature:
What Sparks Poetry: Afsar Mohammad on "Evening with a Sufi"
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What Sparks Poetry: Afsar Mohammad on "Evening with a Sufi"
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Evening with a Sufi
After the evening prayer,
I knew the body of the Sufi
by the embroidered cloth that covered him
for many hundred years.
poems.com
June 29, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Today's Feature:
What Sparks Poetry: Afsar Mohammad on "Evening with a Sufi"
Read here:
poems.com/poem/evening...
What Sparks Poetry: Afsar Mohammad on "Evening with a Sufi"
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poems.com/poem/evening...
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Today's Feature:
What Sparks Poetry: Sylvan Lionni on Rhyming Design and Quatrains in XXV Poems
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What Sparks Poetry: Sylvan Lionni on Rhyming Design and Quatrains in XXV Poems
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Four Poems
Tik Tok
30ROCK
SHAKE
SHACK
Cadiillac
poems.com
June 15, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Today's Feature:
What Sparks Poetry: Sylvan Lionni on Rhyming Design and Quatrains in XXV Poems
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What Sparks Poetry: Sylvan Lionni on Rhyming Design and Quatrains in XXV Poems
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poems.com/poem/four-po...
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Today's Feature:
"A Lesson in Drawing" by Nizar Qabbani, translated by Rana Bitar from Love and Resistance published by Fernwood Press
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"A Lesson in Drawing" by Nizar Qabbani, translated by Rana Bitar from Love and Resistance published by Fernwood Press
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poems.com/poem/a-lesso...
A Lesson in Drawing
I can't pluck a flower from the field
without it raising a weapon in my face
poems.com
June 14, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Today's Feature:
"A Lesson in Drawing" by Nizar Qabbani, translated by Rana Bitar from Love and Resistance published by Fernwood Press
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poems.com/poem/a-lesso...
"A Lesson in Drawing" by Nizar Qabbani, translated by Rana Bitar from Love and Resistance published by Fernwood Press
Read here:
poems.com/poem/a-lesso...
Talk abou a ridiculous and deeply unscientific report.
WashU and Vanderbilt AAUP chapters have issued a *joint* statement on the "State of Scholarship in the Humanities" report commissioned by our university leadership. bpb-us-e2.wpmucdn.com/sites.wustl....
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June 13, 2026 at 12:59 AM
Talk abou a ridiculous and deeply unscientific report.
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We’re teaming up with @hanumaneds.bsky.social for a conversation this Wednesday at 6:30 PM with writers and translators @antonhur.com and @naravive.bsky.social on the art of translation, how to translate ideas, and temporalities between the ancient and the highly contemporary in literature.
Translating Ideas in Literature: Vivek Narayanan & Anton Hur
A conversation presented with Hanuman Editions between the poet and translator Vivek Narayanan and the writer and translator Anton Hur, on translating ideas, temporalities between the ancient and the ...
asiasociety.org
June 8, 2026 at 4:40 PM
We’re teaming up with @hanumaneds.bsky.social for a conversation this Wednesday at 6:30 PM with writers and translators @antonhur.com and @naravive.bsky.social on the art of translation, how to translate ideas, and temporalities between the ancient and the highly contemporary in literature.
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Join us and @hanumaneds.bsky.social on June 10 at Asia Society New York for a conversation between poet Vivek Narayanan and writer @antonhur.com on translation and its practices in world literature.📚
🎟️: https://asiasociety.org/new-york/events/translating-ideas-literature-vivek-narayanan-anton-hur
🎟️: https://asiasociety.org/new-york/events/translating-ideas-literature-vivek-narayanan-anton-hur
June 3, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Join us and @hanumaneds.bsky.social on June 10 at Asia Society New York for a conversation between poet Vivek Narayanan and writer @antonhur.com on translation and its practices in world literature.📚
🎟️: https://asiasociety.org/new-york/events/translating-ideas-literature-vivek-narayanan-anton-hur
🎟️: https://asiasociety.org/new-york/events/translating-ideas-literature-vivek-narayanan-anton-hur
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Today's Feature:
What Sparks Poetry: upfromsumdirt on "What Light Through Beyond Yonder Window" from The Shoes of the Fisherman’s Wife published by University Press of Kentucky
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What Sparks Poetry: upfromsumdirt on "What Light Through Beyond Yonder Window" from The Shoes of the Fisherman’s Wife published by University Press of Kentucky
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What Light Through <em>Beyond</em> Yonder Window
& the heady poems of mythic black folk both floating to surface in ambush of sky
poems.com
June 1, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Today's Feature:
What Sparks Poetry: upfromsumdirt on "What Light Through Beyond Yonder Window" from The Shoes of the Fisherman’s Wife published by University Press of Kentucky
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What Sparks Poetry: upfromsumdirt on "What Light Through Beyond Yonder Window" from The Shoes of the Fisherman’s Wife published by University Press of Kentucky
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The Shoes of the Fisherman’s Wife is an amazing collection— I’d advise you not to sleep on it!
eternal gratitude to @naravive.bsky.social for featuring my poem, What Light Through Beyond Yonder Window for Poetry Daily... ❤️
poems.com/poem/what-li...
poems.com/poem/what-li...
What Light Through <em>Beyond</em> Yonder Window
& the heady poems of mythic black folk both
floating to surface in ambush of sky
poems.com
June 1, 2026 at 9:35 PM
The Shoes of the Fisherman’s Wife is an amazing collection— I’d advise you not to sleep on it!
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eternal gratitude to @naravive.bsky.social for featuring my poem, What Light Through Beyond Yonder Window for Poetry Daily... ❤️
poems.com/poem/what-li...
poems.com/poem/what-li...
What Light Through <em>Beyond</em> Yonder Window
& the heady poems of mythic black folk both
floating to surface in ambush of sky
poems.com
June 1, 2026 at 9:31 PM
eternal gratitude to @naravive.bsky.social for featuring my poem, What Light Through Beyond Yonder Window for Poetry Daily... ❤️
poems.com/poem/what-li...
poems.com/poem/what-li...
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On June 10, Asia Society and @hanumaneds.bsky.social present a conversation between the poet and translator @naravive.bsky.social and the writer and translator @antonhur.com on translation and its practices in world literature.
Get tickets today:
Get tickets today:
Translating Ideas in Literature: Vivek Narayanan & Anton Hur
A conversation presented with Hanuman Editions between the poet and translator Vivek Narayanan and the writer and translator Anton Hur, on translating ideas, temporalities between the ancient and the…
asiasociety.org
May 30, 2026 at 12:19 AM
On June 10, Asia Society and @hanumaneds.bsky.social present a conversation between the poet and translator @naravive.bsky.social and the writer and translator @antonhur.com on translation and its practices in world literature.
Get tickets today:
Get tickets today:
I loved this book
May 27, 2026 at 12:38 PM
I loved this book
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Today's Feature:
"Guava Season in Exxon Guyana’s Cash-Grant Line" written and translated from the Guayana Creole by Jeremy Jacob Peretz & Joan Cambridge-Mayfield from Jombii Jamborii published by @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social
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"Guava Season in Exxon Guyana’s Cash-Grant Line" written and translated from the Guayana Creole by Jeremy Jacob Peretz & Joan Cambridge-Mayfield from Jombii Jamborii published by @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social
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Guava Season in Exxon Guyana's Cash-Grant Line
but the money's not for everyone
much less those like you and I
we who grovel
poems.com
May 26, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Today's Feature:
"Guava Season in Exxon Guyana’s Cash-Grant Line" written and translated from the Guayana Creole by Jeremy Jacob Peretz & Joan Cambridge-Mayfield from Jombii Jamborii published by @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social
Read here:
poems.com/poem/guava-s...
"Guava Season in Exxon Guyana’s Cash-Grant Line" written and translated from the Guayana Creole by Jeremy Jacob Peretz & Joan Cambridge-Mayfield from Jombii Jamborii published by @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social
Read here:
poems.com/poem/guava-s...
Pallava dynasty script— cool stuff
May 26, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Pallava dynasty script— cool stuff
Beautiful, illuminating piece by @jntod.bsky.social . The reading of Prynne’s recent (2020s) work is really helpful as I’ve found it hard to enter.
“I think of the poet JH Prynne—who died last month at the age of 89—every time I mow my lawn,” writes Jeremy Noel-Tod
JH Prynne, resistance fighter
The poet’s work is challenging—but in a way that illuminates our universe, from the atomic level to the cosmic
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
May 17, 2026 at 2:52 AM
Beautiful, illuminating piece by @jntod.bsky.social . The reading of Prynne’s recent (2020s) work is really helpful as I’ve found it hard to enter.
Adani corruption meets Trump corruption. This is like some kind of crossover episode
You can take all the corruption from every single US administration in history, add it all together, and it will not equal the amount of corruption committed by the Trump Regime in less than two years.
May 15, 2026 at 2:44 AM
Adani corruption meets Trump corruption. This is like some kind of crossover episode
Excited to feature this collection and Jumoke's fascinating essay about it. poems.com/features/wha...
Jumoke Verissimo on Form as a Blueprint for Survival
While gathering these fragments was arbitrary, their alignment with the Ifá structure transforms them into emotional maps. I, as the poet, was as surprised by the “truth” that emerged—how the poems na...
poems.com
May 11, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Excited to feature this collection and Jumoke's fascinating essay about it. poems.com/features/wha...
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Abid Surti was also a close friend and editorial consultant to H. N. "Atom" Golibar (1949-2024), who published a weekly adfree Gujarati pulp magazine with a 45-year run. Alongside joke columns and science news, it serialised Golibar's supernatural horror novels.
Read one in Gujarati Pulp Fiction!
Read one in Gujarati Pulp Fiction!
May 11, 2026 at 3:22 AM
Abid Surti was also a close friend and editorial consultant to H. N. "Atom" Golibar (1949-2024), who published a weekly adfree Gujarati pulp magazine with a 45-year run. Alongside joke columns and science news, it serialised Golibar's supernatural horror novels.
Read one in Gujarati Pulp Fiction!
Read one in Gujarati Pulp Fiction!
Here, from a lovely tribute by Luke Roberts, is a J.H. Prynne opinion I wholeheartedly share www.littlemirrormag.com/luke-roberts...
May 10, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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1/✊🏽✨“Desi Love Beats South Asian Hate” is more than a message. It is a refusal to be defined by fear, erasure, or discrimination.
🫂We know who we are. We know where our power lies, in our communities, in our collective voice, and in our refusal to stay silent.
🫂We know who we are. We know where our power lies, in our communities, in our collective voice, and in our refusal to stay silent.
May 6, 2026 at 11:33 PM
1/✊🏽✨“Desi Love Beats South Asian Hate” is more than a message. It is a refusal to be defined by fear, erasure, or discrimination.
🫂We know who we are. We know where our power lies, in our communities, in our collective voice, and in our refusal to stay silent.
🫂We know who we are. We know where our power lies, in our communities, in our collective voice, and in our refusal to stay silent.