My Dear Friends:
NeverEnding Story reached a new milestone this morning: 2 M pageveiws (FYI: On May 5, 2020, NeverEnding Story crossed the one million view mark)
I am grateful to everyone who has been a part of this poetry journey. And NeverEnding Story now seeks the haiku and tanka that can bite and bite hard.
The accepted haiku and tanka will be translated into Chinese and posted on NeverEnding Story and X. And you are welcome to follow me on X at @ericcoliu (7 following, 4,665 followers).
In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, "poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty."
-- Seamus Heaney
And
What poetry can, must, and will always do for us: it complicates us, it doesn't "soothe."
-- Jorie Graham
Game Show, 2024, LIV
this past May the hottest ever Trump Bikini
(FYI: This smokin' hot summer swimwear, FREE delivery on $35 shipped by Amazon)
Happy Reading and Writing
Chen-ou
FYI: The Guardian, June 10: Trump vows to ‘drill, baby, drill’ despite rally attendees wilting in extreme heat
Supporters hospitalized following rallies in Las Vegas and Phoenix, where temperatures have broken records
And TomDispatch, June 13: Losing Our Cool in the Twenty-First Century
The world’s hot future has already arrived in parts of the Global South, thanks largely to past greenhouse gas emissions mainly from the Global North. On May 29th, in Delhi, India, residents suffered under record-melting 127-degree heat. Earlier in May, deadly heat descended on Southeast Asia. The heat index (the “feels like” temperature that takes humidity into account) exceeded 125 degrees in both Manila and Bangkok this spring, thereby “rewriting climatic history,” according to experts.
Added: This Brave New World, CXIV
wave after wave of heat
the book about book bans
banned in Florida
FYI: The Guardian, June 11 2024: Book about book bans banned by Florida school board
Ban This Book by Alan Gratz banned in Indian River county after opposition from parents linked to Moms for Liberty
In a statement to the Tallahassee Democrat, Gratz noted the irony of his book being banned.
“They banned the book because it talks about the books that they have banned and because it talks about book banning,” he said. “It feels like they know exactly what they’re doing and they’re somewhat ashamed of what they’re doing and they don’t want a book on the shelves that calls them out.”
Book bans have picked up steam in recent years and not shown any sign of slowing down. In fact, the American Library Association issued data earlier this year that noted there had been a massive uptick in the number of titles targeted for censorship at public libraries in the US in 2023. The number of titles targeted for censorship increased by 92% over the previous year (2022), accounting for about 46% of all book challenges in 2023.
The data also noted that there had been 4,240 unique book titles targeted for censorship, as well as 1,247 demands to censor library books, materials and resources in 2023.
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