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Came into my #YaleNUS office this evening to do a spot of quiet
Came into my #YaleNUS office this evening to do a spot of quiet reading and prep for my poetry writing class on Wednesday. I muck about w the network...

“Algorithms are essentially thoughtless. They model certain
“Algorithms are essentially thoughtless. They model certain decision flows, but once you run them, no more thought occurs. To call a person thoughtl...

Day #1 part 2 My first reading of the Poetry with Prakriti
Day #1 part 2 My first reading of the Poetry with Prakriti festival is at Kalakshetra — an arts college, not dissimilar to La Salle in Singapore, k...

Chennai tomorrow; India for the first time; a poetry festival
Chennai tomorrow; India for the first time; a poetry festival (poetrywithprakriti.in). Eight engagements over three days, which have been thankfully r...

When I gave up my place in NUS Law to study Literature in the UK
When I gave up my place in NUS Law to study Literature in the UK on a teaching scholarship, my father (a career teacher) tried to dissuade me from wha...

To me, the point was never that celestial bodies may no longer be
To me, the point was never that celestial bodies may no longer be where we think they are (or thought they were), in the unfathomable heavens. To m...

I am translating over 36 poems from six poets (Swedish, Latvian,
I am translating over 36 poems from six poets (Swedish, Latvian, Romanian, Czech, Galician, Basque) into, of all things, written Chinese -- and I have...