Carlos A. Pittella

Hi Sky! My name is Carlos A. Pittella, I’m a Latinx poet, & you may find my bordercrossing/borderbeing in poems like “WATSONS” —luv to @chaudierebooks.bsky.social for publishing this piece during National Poetry Month: chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2025/04/nati...

New research by @pittella.bsky.social on 2004 doc Manon by André St Pierre, which profoundly shaped views on assisted dying in Québec Journalist Benoit Dutrizac has maintained that Québec's Bill 52 should have been called ‘the Manon Brunelle Law’ assistedlab.ch/visual/manon

🧵 We tend to think the internet is permanent, but VANISHING CULTURE—the new 📚 from Internet Archive—starts with a simple reality: our digital record is far more fragile than we think 🕳️ 📖 Read for free: archive.org/details/vani... 🛒 Purchase in print: www.betterworldbooks.com/product/deta... ⬇️

Few government records say more about a democracy than the census. 📚 The Internet Archive’s U.S. Census collection includes digitized records from 1790 to 1930, showing how census questions and methods changed over time. Learn more 👉 blog.archive.org/2026/10/12/t... 🧵

Let's all listen to the wind today ... #AnneCarson #NobelPrize www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...

New entry on Adriano Silva’s 2025 book, ‘O dia em que Eva decidiu morrer’ by @pittella.bsky.social 74-year-old ‘Eva’ seeks assisted suicide in Switzerland, as it is illegal in Brazil. This story mixes journalism with activism to promote the right-to-die. assistedlab.ch/textual/o-di...

👉 Here's my 2nd ekphrastic piece in PLAYTIME #13, alongside Frida's painting of Burbank being burbanked 🎨 ℹ️ PLAYTIME is a series of pamphlets with playful poetry, published by priapress, a side gig of Devon Gallant (who also co-runs Cactus & Accent). More info: ko-fi.com/priapress/shop

Publishing today an updated entry on Amanda Villegas's photos of her husband Chris Davis. This raw and arresting series about Chris's end-of-life influenced legislative amendments to California's End of Life Option Act. @amandaraevillegas assistedlab.ch/visual/this-...

"Since syntax" "grading sibilances into proper whistle" SUCH an honour to receive this well-crafted poem from my dear dear friend ❤️‍🔥

New in our archive 👇 Ecuadorian writer Adolfo Macías Huerta's award-winning novel Pensión Babilonia follows a couple unraveling after their daughter's death: the husband drawn into a secret society that turns suicide into ceremony Analysis by @pittella.bsky.social assistedlab.ch/textual/pens...

New in our Archive: 14-year-old Valentina Maureira's 2015 video plea to Chile's president requesting the right to die. Her appeal went viral and ignited a national debate on assisted dying in Chile. Analysis by @pittella.bsky.social assistedlab.ch/visual/video-plea #AssistedDying #Chile

Last poem in “Startlement“ by Ada Limón.

Family Court — sparrows build a nest in the "o"

Obviously not haiku or senryu, just 5-7-5 comic verse: fab, grotty, and naff each counterculture movement Tiffanys breakfast

Irresistible. The marriage of poets & lexicographers is my sweet spot. oh, shark repellent you earth-sheltered megahit sweet warp speed yuzu [year redacted; I grew up fearing acid rain] Wanna play? 👉 Write a 5-7-5 haiku with 3+ words from your birth year — at least 1 per line. Link below.

Hannah Karpinski, Lateral Sway robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/06/hann...

Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social in Back Patio

"Had a bunch of debt that went to collections like parking tickets and a couple pulled teeth and there’s this whole insurance claim I didn’t square from a car accident where so the way it went down was..." killer long single sentence from Max Steiner! https://www.havehashad.com/ixuzk

brilliant poem and use of form today from Theo Nguyen ! https://www.havehashad.com/gmp6i

Honoured to write for @assistedlab.bsky.social about poet Daniele Pieroni’s spiritual testament. Pieroni’s prose poem known as “Trascolorare” became entangled with the ongoing assisted-dying debate in Italy.

The only other poem about #JeanCharles I know of is this piece by Robin Durnford, from her fabulous 2012 collection "A Lovely Gutting". [karmic fact] Robin & I ended up sharing an office at John Abbott & somehow realized we both had written poems about Jean Charles ❤️‍🔥

PRAx, Spring Creek Project, and Terrain.org invite poets to create original poems in response to a selection of polar science papers. Submissions close August 26. https://www.terrain.org/2026/news/poetry-polar-science-2026/ #poetry #science #polarscience #submit #submissions

« Linear at first, Florencia’s thread was spun over the course of one hour, as she kept adding posts every few minutes. Yet, it also grew like an interactive rhizome... » I wrote for @assistedlab.bsky.social about the content, form, & legal impact of Florencia Salgueiro's viral thread.

« I’m tired of hearing how nuanced it all is. It’s not. They say it has everything to do with money & power, but what they want us to forget is that it is about how we love. » ❤️‍🔥 —Yesenia Montilla

I wrote for @assistedlab.bsky.social about the real-drama-turned-stage play of Dr. Hourmann & its legal impact. Hourmann's story was also featured in a wonderful recent episode of the podcast @radio-ambulante.bsky.social, titled 'Historia clínica' (Medical record).

Book Cover of the Day:

« ‘It’s death by bureaucracy’… …we can’t help but feel the film is as much about dying as it is about immigration: depending on our passports, we need expensive visas – and sometimes illegal coyotes – for the final border-crossing. » My meta-review of Dreaming of Lions @assistedlab.bsky.social

New entry on the Portuguese – Brazilian – Spanish film ‘Sonhar com Leões’ by Paolo Marinou-Blanco See 👇 for a discussion by @pittella.bsky.social of its depiction of suicidal ideations, assisted dying, and border-crossings assistedlab.ch/visual/sonha...

"..... More people will turn back and be subjected to violence because of something they cannot or should not have to change about themselves, such as their race, religion, nationality, or political opinion."

More from Justice Sotomayor's dissent: "The consequences of today’s decision are predictable. More people will die. More people will attempt to cross the border illegally, and some will make it while others will not."

Immigration case: Trump can stop people in Mexico, and prevent them from applying for asylum, because they haven't *arrived* in the US. Alito calls the case "straightforward" but Soto's dissent explains that standing two feet into Mexico shouldn't allow Trump to deprive people of human rights.

Here is Sotomayor, in dissent, explaining the dire consequences of today's decision in Otro Lado. The government may now circumvent a vast range of laws protecting asylum-seekers by simply blocking their entry at the border. An insane loophole to open up. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Thursday night, I got to attend the final book launch stop for @mishasolomon.bsky.social’s stunning poetry collection ‘My Great-Grandfather Danced Ballet’ with guest readers @pittella.bsky.social, @effervescentvoid.bsky.social, and Bret Crowle! Congratulations, Misha!!!

Tonight 🦉

👉 This soon = a poetry event, a launch, a reunion! See you at Owl's Nest on June 18 🦉

I do not struggle with the poem, but with my own attentions. —@robmclennan.bsky.social

Was surprised by this memo to be honest.

Thrilled to celebrate @mishasolomon.bsky.social's debut collection alongside another alchemical friend, @effervescentvoid.bsky.social 🥁 If you're zooming in/near/thru Calgary/Mohkínstsis, come land in our poetry's nest❗ Jun/18 | 7PM Owl's Nest (815A 49th Ave SW) 👉 owlsnestbooks.com/events/51798...

Made a peach dutch baby with raspberry coulis for breakfast &, yes, it tasted like a poem ☺️