Sumita Chakraborty

@notsumatra.bsky.social

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www.sumitachakraborty.com • poet, scholar, general doer of things with words, faculty at the University of Virginia • wherever I am, I'm not Sumatra • opinions mine, including that nobody’s free until everybody’s free

Shows three MLA panels: Poetry as Object of Literary Studies, Making Our Work Visible, and Witnessing War and Genocide
The poem “Tired” by Langston Hughes, which reads, “I am so tired of waiting, / Aren’t you, / For the world to become good / And beautiful and kind? / Let us take a knife / And cut the world in two— / And see what worms are eating / At the rind.”
Arabic text of the poem excerpt which is in English on the subsequent photograph.
Image shows Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla and power forward Jayson Tatum, and there’s a quote from Mazzulla in response to whether he feels any pressure after last season: “We’re all gonna be dead soon”
A screencap of a Wikipedia article for the brown thrasher, which is a species of bird
A screencap of a Wikipedia article for the brown creeper, which is a species of bird