@PushcartPrize winner Ravi Shankar is poet @recentpress, prof @tufts @nyww & editor @wwnorton of over 15 books. His memoir "Correctional” is now out. ✌🏾
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4 Jan 2022
What a long, hard, strange, revelatory journey it has been to write #Correctional - been blown away by my readers’ responses- so immensely grateful to you for helping me share my quintessential #American story #WritingCommunity @commonmag @mqr_tweets @thedailybeast @MarshallProj
4 Jan 2022
📚 🎉 Happy official publication day to @empurpler, whose memoir Correctional releases today!
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GIO REYNA, ARE YOU KIDDING?! 🤯
A STUNNING goal closes out USMNT's 4-1 victory!
via @TelemundoSports
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May 18
A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.
He knows his time is running out.
So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.
He died 5 months later.
This is that lecture.
The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇
Bookmark it for later
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May 16
Kathmandu is set to host distinguished writers, poets, scholars and storytellers from around the world during the Himalayan Literature Festival and Writers Workshop (HLF-WWK) 2026.
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Mar 15
Pushcart Prize–winning poet Dr. Ravi Shankar invites you to the Himalayan Literature Festival & Writers Workshop (HLF–WWK) 2026, taking place 29 May – 5 June.
Author, translator, and editor of 18 books, Ravi Shankar’s work includes Correctional, a finalist for the Memoir Magazin
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Mar 19
Workshop Announcement – Tina Chang’s Tender Archive: Poetry as a Pathway to Healing
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Mar 21
Himalayan Literature Festival & Writers Workshop 2026 Welcomes Dr. Rajni Shankar-Brown
The Himalayan Literature Festival & Writers Workshop 2026 is honored to welcome Dr. Rajni Shankar-Brown— acclaimed educator, poet, artist, and activist whose work bridges creativity, healing.
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HLF-WWK 2026 Poet Fellow Awards Announcement
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Apr 24
Israel killed Rico Pramudia in South Lebanon.
He died of his injuries today.
He wasn’t a fighter — he was a UN PEACEKEEPER from Indonesia.
Israel killed him anyway.
And not a single whisper from Western media.
No international outrage. No justice. No accountability.
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Apr 24
Finland gave every homeless person a house and within 6 months 85% had a job and were financially independent.
Less crime, less hospital visits, less suffering and even including the cost of the house, LESS COST than the UK/USA method of abandoning them on the streets.
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Jan 21
Only 40 goals left for Cristiano Ronaldo to reach 1000.
The countdown is on. 🇵🇹⏳
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23 Nov 2025
كريستيانو رونالدو! ⚽️
بمقصيّة رائعة للغاية يضيف الهدف الرابع للنصر 🔥🐐
#النصر_الخليج
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21 Nov 2025
And you are a Nazi supporter
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19 Oct 2025
October 19, 2025. On the first day of the olive harvest in Turmus'ayyer, the Israeli Defense Force leads a group of farmers directly into a brutal ambush by armed settlers. These people need to be in prison by tomorrow, and the people of this village, and all across Palestine, need to be protected. Enough is enough.
19 Oct 2025
Brutal settler attack in Turmus’ayya olive fields. Many injuries, including a woman knocked unconscious with a club and beaten repeatedly (2nd photo). The IDF lured us into an ambush, I have it all on video. Will upload as soon as I have good service.
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27 Sep 2025
COURT (FIELD) RUSH GRADE: 10/10
NO NOTES. THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE. The speed is something I’ve never seen before in my life. Go off UVA 🫡
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19 Aug 2025
Matwaala 10th Anniversary Celebration: Wed, Sep 3, 2025, 7 - 9pm: Medford/Somerville campus events.tufts.edu/?trumbaEmbe…
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