"Kazakh Dissident Aron Atabek Dies Weeks After Release from Prison"
"Kazakh dissident Aron Atabek has died less than two months after being released from prison where he had spent 15 years, according to activists and media reports. Writer and poet Atabek was 68. Known as a fierce critic of the Nursultan government, Atabek died late on Wednesday in a hospital where he was being treated for COVID-19."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Douglas Luman on bpNichol's "First Screening"
"The poems are active; they literally reveal themselves. Even on what must be my hundredth viewing, the works are clever and moving solutions of poetic and technical 'problems.' Letters flutter, travel, disappear. Linguistic invention gives way to parallel, co-present visual-spatial metaphor. A romance occurs off screen in the code even if the viewer/user doesn't execute the author-provided code to see it happen ('Off-Screen Romance')." |
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