It’s been 30 years since I received a letter in my campus mailbox letting me know that I’d spend the next year in Ireland, writing, acting, learning about Ireland but learning, more importantly, about the US from the outside. Congrats to the new class. We need their vision, energy, and purpose.
Joe Brainard’s ‘I Remember’ (1970-1975) is a small book that is immense inside, not least because of the way it—generously, wittily, companionably—opens up the reader to their own worlds of memory and feeling. There’s no such thing as an everybody book, but this is one. @dauntbookspub.bsky.social.
A new poem for my brother in @poetrylondon.bsky.social — with thanks to editor Niall Campbell 🙏🏻 poetrylondon.co.uk
In print. Two for my brother. With thanks to Joe Hoover & America Magazine 🙏🏻
Please help Nano Tagg & Natalie Young (of Sugar House Review) through this incredibly difficult time if you can gofund.me/e134b5acb @sugarhousereview.bsky.social
Chat w/ Chad & Vince about Dermot Healy's plays: fearlessly inventive language and theatricality, yet tied to the voice and experience of those he wrote about. The wit and poetry is pure him, and pure Irish. Mining the @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social podcast: dalkeyarchive.substack.com/p/dermot-hea...
Acre author @bydanobrien.bsky.social is returning faculty this summer at @sewaneewriters.bsky.social! Apply, apply! 🖊️📚
Applications through March 1 ✍️
CB editions February newsletter - it's been a bad month - as archived on the blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2026/02/cbe-...
Congratulations to Michael Laskey who was awarded the King's Medal For Poetry at the weekend. Here's a fine appraisal of his work by Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social
thefridaypoem.com/michael-lask...
Another from America Magazine for my brother, on the 40th anniversary of his first suicide attempt, and what may be the third anniversary of his suicide. Thinking of him and all those who struggle with depression.
Thanks so much, Penny. I’m so sorry for your loss
A poem for my late brother in the January issue of America Magazine — with my thanks to editor Joe Hoover 🙏🏻 www.americamagazine.org/poetry/2025/...
Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
And here is my story: ‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
Bad Bunny, Lady Gaga, & Ricky Martin repping ALL of the AMERICAS! Best Super Bowl halftime performance…maybe ever! 💙 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 🇧🇿 🇬🇹 🇭🇳 🇸🇻 🇳🇮 🇨🇷 🇵🇦 🇦🇬 🇧🇸 🇧🇧 🇨🇺 🇩🇲 🇩🇴 🇬🇩 🇭🇹 🇯🇲 🇰🇳 🇱🇨 🇻🇨 🇹🇹 🇦🇷 🇧🇴 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇪🇨 🇬🇾 🇵🇾 🇵🇪 🇸🇷 🇺🇾 🇻🇪
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
here in free on demand new play reading: Australian playwright Sunny Drake's fiery comedy of catastrophe APOCALYPSE: A LOVE STORY. online at @lorteltheatre.bsky.social . (runs through Feb 16)
I remember our meeting fondly, Penny. But alas this time I'm visiting the Birmingham in Alabama
Birmingham — See you next month, on Saint Paddy’s no less ☘️
calendar.uab.edu/event/dan-ob...
holy shit they finally canceled Shear Madness
Trump's awful post about Alex Pretti am confirms this point -- he's not sorry, he's not pivoting, and he'll use the same playbook as ever to survive yet another scandal that would have destroyed any other politician
my new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
Acre poet @bydanobrien.bsky.social at @kenyonreview.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Truth is / I'm sane: I'm just sad
I recorded "For My Brother: A Heroic Crown" for The Kenyon Review, if you feel like a listen: soundcloud.com/the-kenyon-r... @kenyonreview.bsky.social
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
