Another from Horsetail Rhizome, written for Gaspereau Press about Dumuzi, my 2020 book of poems, on the presenthood of myth & the happenstances of poetic form. artofcompost.ca/2025/07/30/1...
Poetry + vispo, printing history + paleography, a little of this + a little of that. Angered + activated by the slide of my birth country toward dictatorship. http://artofcompost.ca.
66 followers 75 following 56 posts
view profile on Bluesky
Another from Horsetail Rhizome, written for Gaspereau Press about Dumuzi, my 2020 book of poems, on the presenthood of myth & the happenstances of poetic form. artofcompost.ca/2025/07/30/1...
The first part of Typographia, a digital exhibition on the typography of the early modern page, is now live at an interweb near you.
Did my heart good to see these pics today. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
So sad. But he and his wife are still close. At least he has that.
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer...
Shame on ABC. Kudos to Moran.
Dress rehearsal for a coup, with Stephen Miller as stage manager. Here's an excellent statement of his aesthetics. Moran should be applauded, not suspended, for seeing and saying it, so more of the rest of us can see it, and say it.
An excerpt from my forthcoming book, Horsetail Rhizome.
Gotta just note, succession ≠ secession, though the conflation opens all sorts of interesting lines of inquiry.
But of course!
Where I come from (academia) that's a sign of generative AI.
At least he has a sense of humour about it? I mean, he means to be funny here, right?
Generative AI is the cognitive equivalent of high fructose corn syrup. Forget the printing press, forget the steam engine. High fructose corn syrup. By the time we have a name for the cognitive diabetes we're courting, it'll be too late to reverse it.
Derailed tonight from grading and documenting to write this. I guess this is what Mother's Day means to me these days.
Watch PM Mark Carney quote Shakespeare in silent answer to Trump's "never say never." And King Lear no less (V.3.372)! A grandiose senescent tyrant on his way out. youtu.be/8yDo49k0JAg?...
Agh! Seemed too good to be true.
And not – in case the subtext didn't come through – on Democrats who don't.
Well, this is what the slide from democracy to dictatorship looks like. History will look kindly on Democrats who say so.
Americans in Toronto! Protect your vote! The votes of millions of others! Here's a small but real thing we can do to fight the tyranny taking shape in our home country. www.democratsabroad.org/juliabuchana...
The slope gets slipperier. We need mass action, millions in the streets, general strike, every nonviolent action in the arsenal. youtu.be/Cs32oUJPXWU?...
I fear we may be ahead of you on that score in Toronto.
Hey Paul. Do you not find tho that the rise of generative AI makes it harder to get students to do their thinking entirely for themselves? E.g., Grammarly is now AI-assisted and will edit your rough draft sentence by sentence. As for reading ... oops, got distracted, forgot what I was going to say.
Thanks Stacy. I hear you.
Love letters to the oligarchs A day after the national and global Hands Off protests – we were maybe 300 in Toronto – all the honks & waves & shouts in support were especially gratifying – I got round to writing these love letters.
Prepped and pumped for tomorrow's rally with Democrats Abroad Toronto. We're meeting at 1:30 pm at 361 University Avenue – across the street from the US Consulate – if you're in TO and would like to join us.
Never before in the history of this nation have so many self-serving cowards banded together united in their resolve to not do anything risky when their country called on them in its hour of need. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Columbia’s capitulation Sent this off the other day. I encourage my fellow Columbians to do likewise. Dear President Armstrong, I am writing to express my disappointment and anger that my alma mater has capitulated to the bullying and coercion of the Trump Administration. I understand how…
Don't be fooled by the merely scandalous lead. HCR lays out the blueprint Trump and cronies are using. Coup, dictatorship, fascism, the words aren't hyperbole anymore (if they ever were).
"If there is a plan, shock is part of the plan. We have to get through the surprise and the shock to see the design and the risk. We don't have much time." Snyder posted this on 15 November 2024. We have even less time now.
"We call on scholars, students, administrators, and staff here at Columbia to reject such efforts to dominate universities." Letter from History faculty at Columbia to President Armstrong (with complete list of signatories) www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...
Silver lining, comedic gold.
“Nazis got better treatment under the Alien Enemies Act than has happened here,” Judge Patricia Millett of the D.C. Circuit Court said, adding: “These people weren’t given notice, they weren't told where they were going.” talkingpointsmemo.com/news/federal...
I encourage my fellow Columbia grads to do likewise. #columbia #columbiauniversity
The time to fight authoritarian takeover is always NOW – later is TOO LATE. Grow a pair or get out of the damn way.
Shut it down and keep it shut down till you can pass a bill that keeps Musk & DOGE in check. And you might mention to Sen. Schumer that the time to fight authoritarianism is always now – later is too late.
The proper response to fascist takeover is not compliant roll-over. SHUT IT THE EFF DOWN. Demand a bill that neuters Musk and DOGE as a starting point. Then negotiate on policy, sure, but don't sell out on basic precepts of representative democracy. How do you people not get the EFFING difference?
SHUT IT DOWN. Grow a spine & SHUT IT DOWN. The proper response to fascist takeover is not milquetoast statements of concern. I am a lifelong Democrat & DEEPLY DISMAYED by what my party has managed to muster as resistance in the face of a catastrophe of world-historical proportions.
No.
We’re watching an administrative coup unfold in real time. Whatever you call the fascist upwelling in America, it is world-historical bad, end of the Pax Americana, and nothing good to take its place.
Yup. newrepublic.com/article/1923...
It's Nero again, this time with nukes.
Report DJT's upcoming feed on YouTube for the bad bad bad it is. Just be ready for sadness you can't check all the boxes.
Mark Rothko, "Untitled", (1954).
Naked and squalling like a baby.
"While Vance, who admitted Friday he has never been to Ukraine, fled to an undisclosed location to evade protesters, some commentators noted that Zelenskyy, who stayed in Ukraine during Russia’s invasion, was returning to a Kyiv still under attack." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Name the coup for what it is.
Five Failures in the Oval Office (video) open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
If You Can Keep It on fighting the authoritarian power grab – strategically, intelligently, effectively. Read the whole thing. It's a draft of an action plan and cuts through the despair so many of us are feeling. www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/reverse-en...
There's more at stake here than funding. The rule of law and with it the republic are under dire threat. Forget bipartisanship. Shut s**t down. Obstruct. Oppose. Refuse to do business with a governing party that fecklessly enables a president intent on tyranny.
From the folks over at Facebook.
ELON is 4/5ths of FELON. Coincidence?
We (Canada) will buy it from him for a reasonable price.
If I were teaching a course on how to be a country, Rep. Buddy Carter (R), who recently "introduced a bill to authorize the purchase of Greenland and rename it 'Red, White and Blueland,'" would fail for irrecuperable unseriousness. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
The tariffs are the least of it – at least they're within his constitutional authority. So much of what he's doing is not. The Senate offers considerable powers to the minority party and I and millions with me implore you to use them. Gum up the works. Raise every procedural obstacle you can.
I was wondering why he doesn't spark joy.
Good practical guidance I will be following.
I'm trying, as so many I know are, to get my bearings, and work out how to act. These words of Zoketsu Norman Fisher has helped me to, some. everydayzen.org/message-on-t...
We might call our Democratic senators to say DO THIS. newrepublic.com/article/1912... via @newrepublic.com
"I just want to be clear about what's going on here." - @warren.senate.gov www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHN...
Brandon 