Brian Glavey

Virtually every institution I engage with regularly—the university, healthcare—is falling to pieces in front of my eyes.

But live music? It continues to deliver everything its social contract has always promised: community, joy, a vision of a better world.

Go to the gig.

starting Dec 1st! ie tomorrow!

for structure to eke out pages at a bonkers time of year (that is also a precious writing-est time):

you can do 250 words a day! books get written that way! if more, amazing! if not when grading or festive-ing, that's ok!

check in daily at #acadecawriteathon

Tonight at 8pm EST--a free online event with Stephanie Anderson, Patricia Spears Jones, Maureen Owen, & MC Hyland hosted by @nysnetwork.bsky.social. Register via the link!

www.eventbrite.com/e/women-in-i...

Teaching Poetry Now

"Challenging the dicta, norms, & implicit biases that have dominated poetry pedagogy for decades, Teaching Poetry Now jump-starts a long overdue discussion of the theories, methods, & stakes of teaching poetry today."

Getting ready to send this one to the printer. 🎉

sunypress.edu/Books/T/Teac...

Just ordered! At $20.97 this works out to LESS THAN $1 AN ESSAY for, e.g. @asheeshksi.bsky.social on "Board of Trustees"; @cnewf.bsky.social on "Degree"; @dennismhogan.bsky.social on "Endowment": & (one I read in draft) @andyhines.bsky.social, @kaibosworth.bsky.social et al on "Sustainability" 💥

Lexapro and a geriatric cat in the lap here. But we should get coffee and supplement with caffeine soon

Punch me in the face for 10,000 years!

At Night the States: a Memorial Celebration for Alice Notley This will be a gathering to read perform and listen to works by and with and about Alice Notley, who passed away this past spring in Paris. Notley said St. Mark's Church was where she imagined her wor...

free memorial event for Alice (Mom) Notley happening tomorrow eve. Six months from the date of her death. Which also means we just got the French tax bill. So the memorial's free, but if anyone brings a big bag of money to lend us for a spell, that's cool

www.poetryproject.org/events/at-ni...

Three people having fun discussing work and poetry.

I am full of gratitude for this conversation @redemmas.org on Saturday with @kristingrogan.bsky.social and Chris Nealon. It was such a wonderful way to launch Poetry in General. Thanks to all who came!!

Will someone come pick me up and drive me to Baltimore for this?

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

my library bought @kristingrogan.bsky.social ’s beautiful book and yours should too

In case you missed it, here’s a recording of the conversation.

youtu.be/8l1Rj1wCeCs?...

Sapere aude y’all

This is tomorrow night! Please share widely and bring your friends!

No, Women Aren’t the Problem America is rapidly becoming the manosphere, but sure, let’s go after the “feminization” of culture.

Instead of watching Ross Douthat make this face 🤔 while smelling his own farts, you should read @sophiegilbert.bsky.social on the "Great Feminization." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

connect the dots on attacks on education, the AI grifter bubble, and consolidating authoritarianism

"I have to believe that we can still push back, that creative people can find the means to defy the ruling class and keep on creating."

A large manuscript diary open

In 1830, Joseph Williams, a Spaniard incarcerated in Massachusetts State Prison was discovered to have been stealing other convicts' drained blood from the prison hospital, then drinking+vomiting it back up to feign illness & avoid work. Cans of blood in near 'putrefaction' were found in his cell 🗃️

"create “public media centers”—publicly-owned hubs in every community federally guaranteed but locally governed+democratically operated. establish new anchor institutions universally available to everyone—not unlike the ideal version of public schools+libraries."

publici.ucimc.org/2025/10/the-...

pickle car!

vending machine!

something good:

Downbound Books has installed its Richard Scary Busy People mini print automat!

www.downboundbooks.com

not sure how this vote went but the rallies are ongoing for the next few days, there may be one in your area

If you find yourself in the NJ suburbs next month, come to my talk! You can register at ridgewoodlibrary.org.

I'll be talking about the NEA, literary nonprofits, & poetry's professionalization at @asapartsnow.bsky.social in Houston on Friday.

Did Guillaume Apollinaire Steal the Mona Lisa? | TheCollector The great 20th century writer Guillaume Apollinaire was once embroiled in an art heist. But did he really steal the Mona Lisa?

One of the best Louvre heist stories -- the time Apollinaire and Picasso were wrongly accused of stealing the Mona Lisa (but were definitely neck-deep in a case of statues being stolen from the museum)
www.thecollector.com/did-guillaum...

The Passion Projects How modernist women writers used biographical writing to resist their exclusion from literary history

If you don't yet have a copy of Mel Micir's brilliant THE PASSION PROJECTS, Princeton is having an ungodly 70% off sale. Now's your chance. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Neman: Book by WashU professor says tacos are more than tacos How did tacos become popular? "Technology plus organization plus broad social acceptance across classes, and all of that happened in the '20s."

Thank you to Daniel Neman of the ST Louis Post dispatch for this feature on my book.

www.stltoday.com/life-enterta...

Finland! this is so exciting — thank you @lievenameel.bsky.social

Oh god, do I have to acknowledge this exists in my book?

I think ours is pretty good and we have plans to expand

Grey tee featuring a lighthouse, a beach with an easel and canvas, and the words “time passes” in a very cool purple color

A friend just asked me where I got this beautiful To the Lighthouse tee shirt and—in honor of the publication of a NEW (!) book by Virginia Woolf—I feel it’s my civic and literary duty to remind you all that @allgrim.bsky.social has lots of fantastic Woolf stuff allgrimprints.shop/search?q=woo...