Marc Alan Di Martino
@marcadimartino
Poet & translator. Support 🇺🇦 Pro-democracy. Atheist. Reader at @baltimorereview.bsky.social | Translation: | Web: marcalandimartino.com
Thanks to @timothysnyder.bsky.social for his review of Man in the High Castle, which finally got me to read this. Feels timely.
Got an email from a scammy AI-driven 'reading group' wanting to adopt my book. Took three emails but they finally got around to the $$$ ask. Beware, writers!
Tu vuò fa il tiranno. Great #NoTyrants sign on Todi, Italy today!
No Tyrants protest in Todi, Italy today. Resistance is worldwide. 🇺🇸🇪🇺🌎
If you're sick of an unexplained and illegal war, try poetry. Translation by Dick Davis.
My translation of Giuseppe Gioachino Belli's "La Bbellezza":
I requested a blue check from Bluesky just to see if I'd get one, but they require a user photo and they'd never believe this is actually me.
I don't think the sensationalistic proclamations are the work of Maddow's people. The episodes are uploaded by users who add that probably to steer attention.
Stephen Miller is Jewish. His family escaped the pogroms and the Shoah. He is the grandchild of immigrants. He is a hypocrite.
Holocaust Remembrance Day book rec. We should do drug testing in the Trump Regime.
Robert Ingersoll has some words for us. We might heed them.
Maybe this sort of juxtaposition is driving us all collectively insane?