Michael Hessel-Mial
Poet and scholar who teaches writing in Minnesota. Expect takes on left politics (free Palestine, abolish prisons), reflections on writing science fiction poetry, hot takes on parenting, and a reading log.
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2025 Reading Log: 41. The Song of Roland + 2025 Reading Recap!
41. The Song of Roland, translated by Frederick Goldin.
French medieval epic set during Charlemagne’s war against Muslim Spain. Charles’s greatest warrior Roland is slain after a false peace offering tricks most troops to withdraw. Roland...
2025 Reading Log: 39-40. Weird Fiction Deep Dive Completed! China Mieville and Jeff VanderMeer
39. The City and The City, China Mieville
By a weird quirk of geopolitics and centuries of cultural schismogenesis, two cities exist in the same physical space, yet it is illegal for residents of one to interact (or even see) with those o...
2025 Reading Log: 38. Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings. Abolqasem Ferdowsi, translated by Dick Davis.
Persian national epic poem completed in the 11th century, narrating thousands of years of history from mythic origins to just before the 7th-century Muslim conquest. Read aloud to my daughter over the course of 2025. This edition of close t...
The Twelfth Take of Christmas: Takes Do Nothing, Free Palestine
This take will follow the template set by my essay on John Milton and Palestine, which alternated each paragraph to a different donation link benefiting people in Gaza. As you read or skim, please consider donating to one or more of these l...
The Eleventh Take of Christmas: Christmas Eve is Microdosing Shabbat
I think it was Christmas Eve sometime between third and fifth grade, close to 11:00 p.m. after my family’s party we always hosted for family friends. I was building a lego set in my room with a single lamp on, radio on in my room. “The Twel...
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