New poem up at the always quality San Pedro River Review. Many thanks to the kind editors for having me.

Hey! I've got a poem in the new issue of Trailer Park Quarterly. Always a good feeling to be included with so many of my favorite writers. Link to the full issue in the comments, well worth a look! trailerparkquarterly.com/volume-16/wi...

I'm reading David Lynch's Room to Dream and revisiting most of his films as they're covered in the book. This gave me an excuse to pick up a copy of the Criterion Collection Eraserhead. Very much looking forward to indulging later this evening.

Hey, I've got a new poem up at The Literary Underground for Fuck-it-Friday! theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/08...

I've got a poem in the new issue of The Berlin Review. Kind thanks to the editors for including my work. theberlinliteraryreview.com/william-tayl...

I've got enough hot n' ready new poems in the wings right now to allow me to send little batches out to at least three different journals, but where should they go, my friends and potential readers, where? #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

Hey! New Orleans poet and publisher extraordinaire Todd Cirillo has kind things to say about my forthcoming book from Roadside Press. You can reserve signed copies now. Doing so will help support an awesome indie press! checkout.square.site/merchant/MWQ...

Hey, the new issue of Bull Lit features an interview with yours truly. Many thanks to @frank212.bsky.social for shooting the shit with me. mrbullbull.com/newbull/the-...

ust achieved a sort of holy grail for my book collection - picked up a (relatively) affordable copy of a first edition of Cormac McCarthy's Suttree, what I currently consider to be my "favorite" book. It has some condition issues, but presents quite well. Basking in its glow.

I don't currently drive, so I apparently experience my version of road rage at the grocery store. Today, a woman was lingering too long gazing upon a package of hummus, thus blocking my path to the refrigerated case, and I wanted to crush her skull.

Saturday night. Wine and old Herzog films as self-care.

Hey! You can now pre-order a signed copy of my upcoming collection from Roadside Press! I'm genuinely excited about this one. Do it and make me feel special, thanks! Also, more ordering options in the comments! www.magicaljeep.com/product/wolv...

Today at Whole Foods a lady was chastising her sullen toddler. She sternly told him: "You. Will. Have. Six. Minutes. Of. Consequence." So that's my new band name, Six Minutes of Consequence.

Far worse than Trump himself, worse than his vampiric cronies, is the fact that so many in the country actively support them and all they do, even now. This normalizing of the glorification of willful ignorance and cruelty to such a degree is disheartening, to say the least.

I've taken performative reading to a new personal height by reading Lawrence Ferlinghetti's copy of Swann's Way on public transit to and from work.

I think they did Carl Sandburg a real disservice by having "Fog" represent his work in most textbooks and anthologies. I mean, it's a nice little poem, but it's not like you're going to read it and think, "Goddamn I need to read more of this dude's shit!!!"

Hey, I've got two poems in the new issue of Misfit magazine. With many thanks to the kind editors. misfitmagazine.net/archive/No-4...

I subscribe to the idea that no one's gonna save you but yourself, but also it's a bummer, as I'm not sure I'm up to the task.

I officially don't enjoy listening to poems in which the reader busts out with a portion of a song at some point in the midst of the text. It's an overused schtick. Come at me.

Hey! My next poetry collection, The People are Like Wolves to Me, is due out in November from Roadside Press, just in time for my birthday. I'm excited about this one. #WritingCommunity #poetrycommunity

I am undertaking the project of building a WordPress website for my writing and art. Thus far, I have titled it (The Writing and Art of William Taylor Jr.) and chosen this image as the site icon. I think I'm off to a pretty good start. A satisfying day's work to be sure.

I posted about finally listening to and liking Trout Mask Replica on an FB music group, and now the Beefheart/Zappa cultists are demanding I listen to everything Zappa's ever done and proclaim his ultimate genius or be forever declared unclean. They're worse than Jehovah's Witnesses.

Hey, I just got my contributor's copy of a new anthology of work inspired by William Burroughs, including one of my paintings and an accompanying essay. It features work by a lot of cool folks. If you're a Burroughs fan, it may well be worth indulging in.

I finally got around to listening to Trout Mask Replica. Its reputation for being all but unlistenable turned out to be quite hyperbolic. I mean, sure, it's weird, but it's not THAT weird. After about 3 listens, I'm a big fan. Also, David Lynch claimed it as his favorite album, so there's that.

Apparently, this is my reading selection when I retire to the bedroom super high at 3 a.m.: Leaves of Grass, Bukowski, The (Immortal) Hulk, and (Ditko era) Dr. Strange. I'll stand by it.

Hey, I've got 4 new poems up at Pixelated Shroud! Many thanks to the editors. pixelatedshroud.wordpress.com/2025/05/31/4...

New poem up at As It Ought To Be. Many thanks to the kind editors.

New poem up at As It Ought To Be Magazine. Many thanks to the editors. #poetry #writingcommunity asitoughttobemagazine.com/william-tayl...

Excited to have some of my portraits up at the Canessa Gallery in North Beach for a group show this month. The reception is this Thursday, May 8th. It's a lovely show. If you're in the area, come on out!

Bay Area friends! This Thursday I'm reading poetry with some good folks at a swanky piano bar. Come on out, it's gonna be fun! #poetry #writingcommunity

San Francisco friends! I'm reading at Martuni's on April 24th, as a part of the Literary Speakeasy's tribute to National Poetry Month. Ain't no better place for a poetry reading than a dimly lit swanky piano bar, lemme tell ya. Come on out!

Writerly friends! I was (good-naturedly) chastised by the host of a reading at AWP for not having an author's website - if you have one, do you find it actually enhances your engagement? If so, is there a host you'd recommend that is cheap (free?) and easy to create and maintain?

Hey, now there's an interview to go with my poems on the LAdige California Poets site! You can read all about my thoughts on poetry readings vs. art shows, my record shopping ritual, and much, much more! davidgaryan.wixsite.com/ladige/post/...

Watched the Criterion Collection edition of Polanski's Tess last night, haven't seen the film in decades. What a gorgeous piece of work. Easily the best translation of Hardy to film. Polanski understood that the land is just as much a character as the people. Near perfect. .

New poem up at Horror Sleaze Trash. Many thanks, as always, to the kind editors. #writingcommunity #poetry #mixtapes #horrorsleazetrash horrorsleazetrash.com/2025/03/17/w...

Hey, I've got 3 new poems up at the Gorko Gazette! With many thanks to the editors. #poetry #writingcommunity thegorkogazette.com/2025/03/17/b...

Encountered in the neighborhood today. Martyrs and saints.

This is where we're at now.

When I show up somewhere late and wet: "I never allow myself to be influenced in the smallest degree either by atmospheric disturbances or by the arbitrary divisions of what is known as time...I know nothing about...those...pernicious and flatly bourgeois implements, the umbrella and the watch."

Ah, we've reached that special time of the year when the oven clock is right again.

I'm at the age where I'm literally counting how many books I might have time enough left to read if I live as long as my father did. I should have read Proust when I was younger because it is beautiful but stressing me out, as it's taking like four other books off my lifespan.

My little poem cracked ONE ART's February top ten. Thanks for reading, friends! #poetry #writingcommunity oneartpoetry.com/2025/03/01/o...

I've got a new poem up at Horror Sleaze Trash. Many thanks to the editors! #poetry #writingcommunity horrorsleazetrash.com/2025/03/01/w...

Hey! I've got a new poem up at One Art. Many thanks to the editors. #poetry #writingcommunity oneartpoetry.com/2025/02/23/w...

I don’t understand how there’s any debate about whether to characterize them as Nazis when they’re out here sieg heiling. It’s an absolute failure of messaging not to name and condemn this behavior, and build a narrative around it.

Choose your fighter

There have never been kings in America. The monarchy doesn't start now.

The country is now basically being run by a handful of dudes whose only desire is to destroy everything because no one has ever loved them.

I did a new Bukowski today, because his face is fun to paint. I worked much faster than I usually do, trying to let myself capture the important things and not get bogged down with minutiae, which I think can sometimes make my work look a bit stiff. #Bukowski #art #artcommunity