they cover their faces when they intend to break the law

I am reading alongside Danny Hayward at Housmans Bookshop in London 7PM Wednesday October 15 thank you both are worse press bit.ly/4mzUWQb

reflections lie proclaim dictators as they ban mirrors

do deportations smell? I don't get it

finally told Dario how much I miss coming to his restaurant since my doctor told me I had to stop eating pasta—he was very understanding—told me I needed a new doctor

at Art Institute of Chicago: 25-year drawing (1960-1985) in fabricated charcoal on paper by Myron Stout—not something you see everyday

thank you Kyle

read my essay *Seven degrees of silence* in current issue of Inscriptions international philosophy journal bit.ly/3GFKF6e

returning to practice this summer derived from Oliver Sacks—celebrating birthdays with sample of element sharing atomic number with age—younger friend receives ampule of argon older friend of mercury

Every house has a door newsletter #6.2: What can performance do? bit.ly/4m6IyaL

We at the Review mourn the loss of Fanny Howe (1940-2025). In celebration of her life and work, we’ve unlocked her Art of Poetry interview, along with her poems, from our archive. buff.ly/YtQzXpd

Dried ketchup drips from a dragged-out wall. Lin Hixson and I collaboratively composed our contribution to the Portable Gray issue Pope.L The Chicago Years bit.ly/4eCuBPf

I find this email inappropriate, coming from the SSA, for too many reasons to explain, but mostly because of its partisan position. It is also misleading about the legislation to which it refers. Please send an apology and retraction to everyone who received this email.

“Given its conduct in these proceedings, the government’s posture resembles that of the arsonist who calls 911 to report firefighters for violating a local noise ordinance."

the king in the act of dreaming—when church and state are one, absolute sovereign infallible, unconstrained by human forces, enemy unspecified: a shape with lion body and the head of a man, a gaze blank and pitiless, the difficulty to think at the end of day, when the shapeless shadow covers the sun

***GIVEAWAY*** This signed/stamped Advance Readers Copy of TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES, forthcoming Nov 2025 from @fsgbooks.bsky.social! Like=1 entry, Share=1 entry, Like + Share=2 entries. Will randomly select winner on Friday, May 23, 2025. US addresses only. Preorder info: shorturl.at/OXr0Z #booksky

tomorrow = Tuesday May 20th 2025

Lin and I are here in Boston speaking tomorrow hosted by the mighty ds4si bit.ly/3SH0nQG

Here's one easy and local way to resist the march of antihuman tech. Make a practice of writing sentences. DM for info or write kylebeachy at gmail to reserve a spot. I believe in this weekend course as much as I believe in just about anything.

TRUST NO ONE

today

Karla Kelsey and I will read from and talk about Transcendental Factory and Kingfisher at The Seminary Co-op Bookstore 4:00 Monday May 12 bit.ly/44YWOg6

Corbett vs. Dempsey Gallery video vault showing 11 hours of complete Country Style USA 1950s live studio music performances interspersed with Army recruitment messages and scenes--happily saw the Faron Young segment

view the video recording of my April 19th conversation with Brian Massumi -- cat appearance at 42:45 vimeo.com/1078743217

April 19 2PM I will interview Brian Massumi about The Personality of Power: A Theory of Fascism for Anti-fascist Life. Join in person or remotely. Thank you @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social and Watershed Art and Ecology I wrote about it in newsletter #6.1: Contemplations in an Emergency bit.ly/3GbQw2q

undergraduate writing student referred to me as “a super-chill professor”

rising before dawn commencing chores keeping watch for a first glow’s gradient in dark sky

wood sorrel from Three Sisters Garden

Tonight!

join us one week from today--Thursday March 13--for the first Every house fundraiser gathering performance event--me, Jorge Lucero, Kinsella & Pulse in the lineup bit.ly/41ukWUt

I have lived in Ukrainian Village Chicago for 30 years and can say with confidence that no rational person picks a fight with a Ukrainian

Done.

Five Poems for a Quartet by Ed Roberson available in an edition of 125 (minus the one I ordered) from Foolscap Poetry letterpress with handsewn binding bit.ly/3PGAEq8

Books read 2024 / 4 of 4 Cosmos by Witold Gombrowicz, tr. by Danuta Borchardt Through the Night Like a Snake—Latin American Horror Stories Spinoza’s Religion by Clare Carlisle The Maybe-Bird by Jennifer Elise Foerster This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud

Books read 2024 / 3 of 4 A Prayer Journal by Flannery O’Connor Plays One by Jon Fosse, tr. by Gregory Motton and Louis Muinzer The Gospels, tr. by Sarah Ruden Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, tr. by Michael Hofmann Every Object Has A Ritual by Selena Kearney

Books read 2024 / 2 of 4 A New Name: Septology VI-VII by Jon Fosse, tr. by D. Searls Aliss at the Fire by Jon Fosse, tr. by D. Searls Indian Summer by Adalbert Stifter, tr. by Wendell Frye A Silent Language—Nobel Lecture by Jon Fosse, tr. by D. Searls Trilogy by Jon Fosse, tr. by May-Brit Akerholt

Books read 2024 / 1 of 4 The Other Name: Septology I-II by Jon Fosse, tr. by Damion Searls Lotería by Esteban Rodríguez I Is Another: Septology III-V by Jon Fosse, tr. by Damion Searls Modern Poetry by Diane Seuss

Every invitation unfolds beyond itself, overflowing the modest means and limits of its origin. Every house has a door newsletter #5.3: Light of the invitation bit.ly/4gOwtUH

North Hoyne Avenue Chicago tonight

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thank you Tor 💙🦉

I will read from Kingfisher on Saturday at Corbett vs. Dempsey Gallery in a dream event with Ed Roberson--who wrote the poem which commanded my attention--and photographer poet and publisher Ken Taylor bit.ly/49uk0mK

both are worse press in the UK invited me so I wrote this little book about Ed Roberson’s poem about a bird