Matthew Murrey

Really pleased (and grateful) to have this flying, ice, Greenland, worry, moon poem up today on the Open Spaces feature at @northamerreview.bsky.social northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...

On a Winter's Night | 2/27/2026 | Old Town School of Folk Music Presenting the reunion tour of “On A Winter's Night” from veteran singer-songwriters that remain among the brightest stars of the singer-songwriter movement for the past three decades. In 1994 Christi...

Yeah, I was in Chicago Friday evening for this folk music concert - www.oldtownschool.org/concerts/202...
and then looked at Al Jazeera on my phone Saturday morning... sigh... 😢
Off to AWP, too. FWIW, the concert was wonderful.

I love Democracy Now! but I hope you won't have Barry Levine on again. He was dismissive of investigating Trump and did not emphasize that DOJ is lawless, Trump-loyal & has ZERO credibility. He also expressed no deep sympathy for victims. Ughh.

[LIVESTREAM] People's State of the Union · MoveOn At the State of the Union (SOTU), Republicans in Congress are once again bending the knee to Trump and hanging their constituents out to dry. Nobody should participate in Trump’s vanity project, and t...

I'm attending MoveOn's event, “[LIVESTREAM] People's State of the Union” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...

Image of a poem with the following text: X-RAYS by Matthew Murrey reveal the structure beneath, miracle of how strong and fragile I am, we are. I keep one of my right hand with its fifth bone broken—a now-healed ridge I still feel after half a lifetime. And these (sent in secret from a country whose leaders, like so many leaders, hate the people they rule) reveal ghosts haunting the injured bones. Here is one with bright dots of birdshot fired into the face, another with pellets peppering the chest, and one where the target was the tenderness between the legs. I do not understand what I see, am not trained to diagnose what disease carries a shotgun into a crowd of unarmed souls, levels it point-blank, and pulls the trigger.

This poem of mine was published today at The New Verse News: newversenews.blogspot.com/2026/02/x-ra...
It is informed by this article - www.theguardian.com/global-devel... - and to be clear, I DO NOT support the US taking ANY military action against the country where this occurred.

Great to see you on @democracynow.org

That ship sailed a long time ago-- left the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964.

Liz Truss vs. lettuce: Vegetable outlasts British PM in tabloid's livestream competition After a heated weeklong contest, a head of lettuce claimed victory over British Prime Minister Liz Truss, who has resigned after 45 days in office.

IFYKYK
and if you don't, www.usatoday.com/story/news/w...

a man wearing glasses is holding a piece of paper in his hand . Alt: GIF of a man wearing glasses and rifling through index cards until he finds one to hold up.

Do my 40 years of 3x5 cards in a box count as an archive?

Nothing says the ‘special relationship’ is over like this picture of Donald Trump and Liz Truss | Zoe Williams It’s awkward, nobody seems to know what is going on, and the president’s thumb is at half-mast. It’s almost a metaphor for diplomatic relations between the US and the UK, writes Zoe Williams

@zoesqwilliams.bsky.social He does like a wedge salad. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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BREAKING: government’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action under terrorism law ruled UNLAWFUL

This matters for everyone.

For years, the right to protest has been under sustained and deliberate attack.

Thousands of people have been arrested for something that should have never been a crime.

I'm so grateful to Escape Into Life for posting the first review of my second book of poems, Little Joy. www.escapeintolife.com/poetry/littl...

Definitely gonna watch Bad Bunny tonight.

Matthew Murrey: Three Poems - Cultural Daily Inky My son’s rat is as clean as a garden, as calm as the Buddha’s thumb. When I hold him he looks right at me, but I’ll never know what he knows, what any animal knows: our dog staring out the window...

Same goes for calling people rats. And there's a poem for that, too! www.culturaldaily.com/matthew-murr...

Pig Brain by Matthew Murrey - Rattle: Poetry Kept alive. Thoughtless. What if it was thinking? In the thirties, under Stalin, dogs’ severed heads were vivified— swallowed, blinked, […]

Others have noted the insult to pigs who - unlike the racist scumbag in question - are often sensitive, emotional and quite intelligent. I even have a poem that relates.
rattle.com/pig-brain-by...

Matthew Murray | En•Trance Journal

Had to respond with this poem of mine: www.entrancejournal.net/matthewmurray

Fresh Fury as Schumer, Jeffries Bend on Demand to Unmask ICE Agents in Funding Talks | Common Dreams "Schumer needs to get the hell out," said Rep. Delia Ramirez. "He continues to demonstrate to us that he can't meet the moment."

One can dream. But...
www.commondreams.org/news/jeffrie...

Drats, going to be at a movie tonight.

"Worth" is doing A LOT of work in that Forbes headline.

Okay, Quisling.

Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

Under Trump, ICE Is Far More Likely to Arrest People With No Criminal Record, Data Shows | KQED Immigration arrests and deportations have quadrupled under the Trump administration, driven largely by street arrests and surges of ICE officers into cities, according to a new report.

Do you have your staff do ANY prep or research before such an interview? Any informed person knows Republicans are going to lie about what ICE is doing and claim they are arresting criminals, but the simplest search proves this is a lie (from KQED!). Shame on you!
www.kqed.org/news/1207137...

Alex Plechash, chair of Minnesota's Republican Party, on federal agents in the state NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Alex Plechash, chair of the Minnesota GOP, about the federal presence in his state.

www.npr.org/2026/02/01/n...
What @npr.org is the point of running a piece like this where you allow an official to brazenly lie with NO pushback from the interviewer? Plechash states, "the hard work of the administration to remove the worst of the worst criminals from our communities."

"First Lady is a preening, scowling void of pure nothingness." Yeah, but what about the movie?

Boom!

Wow. I see it now. Had no idea. Thanks!

ICE Was Warned About Conditions at Fort Bliss Migrant Jail. Then 2 Men Died. Immigrant rights activists and elected officials are calling to shut down Camp East Montana.

This is where people snatched up in Trump's occupation of Minneapolis and Saint Paul are being sent.

After the first death at the notorious "tent city" at Fort Bliss, advocates warned ICE that detainees reported extreme physical and sexual abuse at the facility.

Within weeks, two men were dead.

15-year, yes? I mean it does FEEL like 50 years but I don't think I'm that old...yet.

Purged! Nearly 5 million American citizens, two percent of the voting-age population, have lost the fundamental right to participate in our political process.

There were the chads, but the Republicans stole the 2000 election in Florida by wrongfully purging thousands of voters from the rolls, voters who would have overwhelmingly gone for Gore.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
and
www.salon.com/2000/12/04/v...

I'll give Al Gore credit for trying. He just couldn't match the super-funded disinformation machine... sigh.