🗳️ Bronx Teacher Launches NY-15 Campaign to Unseat Ritchie Torres Andre Easton, a public-school English teacher in the South Bronx and father of three, announced his run for Congress in New York’s 15th District (NY-15) in late October. He describes himself as a socialist running as an independent...

Join ICE Out of NY for A Court Accompaniment Volunteer Training! 📆 Sat. Nov 15 🕙 10:00AM 🛜 Hybrid 📍In-Person at The People’s Forum, 320 W 37th St. 🌐Virtually on Zoom 🔗RSVP at peoplesforum.org/nov15

We're excited to announce Cam Scott's sequel of politically-inflected personal collage and city poems, MANOR's RANSOM—the second installment of a life-poem that began with the Lambda-nominated ROMANS SNOWMARE (2019).

Great piece on trumpeter/composer Bill Dixon on his centennial. I've been moving through his Odyssey: Solo Works, a gorgeous expanse of solo trumpet. burningambulance.substack.com/p/bill-dixon...

Poème électronique (Iannis Xenakis, Edgard Varèse & Le Corbusier, Pavillon Philips, Expo 1958, Bruxelles, 17 avril – 19 octobre 1958)

steamroom.bandcamp.com 50% off for a bit /暫く半分割引

I answered a series of questions on my poetry from tireless collective poetry conduit, @robmclennan.bsky.social

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Geoffrey Olsen / @geoffreyolsen.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/07/12-o...

Hello! Here’s the first of some forthcoming updates—the Critical Circle is on! Send your application between today and June 15th. Time for discourse in July!

I was one of a few journos inside the Columbia encampment last year. a new documentary focused in part on Mahmoud Khalil and Grant Miner, the expelled student union president, was released in theaters early, after Khalil's abduction. my interview with a director and student organizer @teenvogue.com

Allyson Paty, Jalousie / @tupelopress.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/04/ally...

As always, new essays by @vanishingsigns.bsky.social are not to be missed.

I wrote about the functions of music under the Pinochet regime, recent attempts upon Chile's carceral infrastructure, and the work of percussionist Lukax Santana (asking, as always, “¿Qué hacer?”): www.recent-songs.com/captive-songs/

NECK FIELD, my newest chapbook, is now available from Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs: yoyolabs.com/olsen.html. These poems were written immediately before and after a bike accident at the end of last summer. Poems of recovery and fracture in the mulch of imperial epoch.

Reading tonight with Loren Connors in celebration of Dylan Angell & Lizzy Hindman-Harvey's collaborative book Airs (a summer suite). Almost can't believe this is happening -- Connor's music has been a motivator for my own poems for years!

UPDATE: Mahmoud Khalil is being held by ICE in the Jena/LaSalle Detention Facility in Louisiana, per ICE detainee tracker Khalil was detained Saturday night from his New York apartment building

“Dhalgren” illustration by John Harris.

Alexandra Kollontai masterminded International Women's Day as a Soviet holiday with the support of Vladimir Lenin. Male revolutionaries, including Lenin, Trotsky, Mao, Sankara, etc. have all openly recognized the fundamental importance of women's involvement in the success of their movements.

newly posted: Ryan Skrabalak : on THE ORCHIDS periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/03/ryan...

very proud to announce the seventh Erstwhile release from Vanessa Rossetto, her second ErstSolo: Vanessa Rossetto - Pictures Of The Warm South (ErstSolo 010-2)

Submerged in this sound

Providing some poetry for this reading and sound event on Sunday.

Two years ago GA police murdered Tortuguita a peaceful forest protector. “Manuel loved the forest,” their mother said. “It gave them peace. They meditated there. The forest connected them with God. I never thought that Manuel could die in a meditation position.”

working on new above/ground press titles by Catriona Strang (cover by Aoife), Andy Weaver @weaverandy.bsky.social , Alice Burdick @aliceburdick.bsky.social , Ryan Skrabalak + Lydia Unsworth @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social ; have u thot of subscribing fr 2025? abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2024/10/abov...

BREAKING: The Teamsters are dramatically escalating their strike and taking it to Amazon’s largest NYC warehouse. Beginning at midnight tonight they will picket the massive facility with 5,500 workers. JFK8 on Staten Island is the first unionized Amazon warehouse.

Bombardment of tents housing displaced people

I had been hesitant to donate to Gazan GFMs because I wasn't sure how often people were actually getting the money/worried about non-Gazans running scams. Molly has a few threads addressing the concerns I (and a lot of people) have and I feel very confident in contributing to Gazan GFMs now.

Geoffrey Olsen, Nerves Between Song / @geoffreyolsen.bsky.social robmclennan.blogspot.com/2024/10/geof...

There’s just a flat out massacre happening at Jabalia Refugee Camp in Northern Gaza right now- targeted murder of hundreds of civilians

This Holocaust is what Joe Biden wants. This Holocaust is what Kamala Harris wants. If it weren’t, they would’ve stopped the weapons shipments long ago.

Kenyan activists are being abducted in broad daylight by the police. If you’re a US citizen this is important for you to know because Kenya is a frontline state in the so called “war on terror” and the patterns of abductions and disappearances have their origin in that relationship.

Gaza isn't in any way a "single issue." It has everything to do with the well-being of life across this planet.

As we (rightly) spotlight all this Zionist depravity, let's also make sure to appreciate the spectacular heroism exhibited by Palestinian doctors and nurses, aid workers, caregivers, educators, resistance fighters, and so many others, young and old, from every walk of life.

My friend Hollis Mickey embroidered the cover art for this book in 2015. Today, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis means she can't move, eat, or go outside w/o pain & exhaustion that can worsen her illness. Donate $10+ to solvecfs.org, (researching causes & cures for ME) & I'll send you a copy of this book.

This dead expanse of trash and emptiness is what the ruling class wants to make of the entire world. The vibrant community based in solidarity that had flourished here is what we want instead. Socialism or barbarism, liberation or death.

"In my nearly 40 years as a faculty member, I have never seen such brazen cruelty toward students and faculty, such cowardice before what amounts to a right-wing witch hunt, and such blatant dishonesty." Robin D. G. Kelley to Columbia President Minouche Shafik: www.bostonreview.net/articles/let...

“It is a wonderful thing that you have…decided to speak out against the repression that you see with your own eyes. You are part of something massive, & you are part of something that is on the right side of history,” —Mumia Abu-Jamal. #GazaGenocide www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

The destruction of Gaza, by USA weapons.

Not "war." Genocide. Not "Netanyahu's government." Zionism. Not "loss of life." Murder. Not "Hamas." All of Palestine.

Brenda Iijima's first novel, Presence, is now out in the world! ugapress.org/book/9780820...

new (and sadly final) incredible issue of Bæst Journal: www.baestjournal.com/issue-9-list Stacked with great poets.

...it seems as if one must disobey everyone else in order to see at all. This is a persistent feeling in a poet but staying alert to all the ways one is coerced into denying experience, sense and reason is a huge task. Alice Notley, The Poetics of Disobedience

Some new poems from up from my series REND in Issue 3 of Grotto Journal!: grottojournal.net/Geoffrey-Olsen

how I think of it is: books are a form which predates and will outlive market capitalism in our time publishing, which is necessarily a business, is how books get made and find readers but that's arbitrary to what books most essentially are AND not all books are made / shared as part of this