Brian U. Garrison

My 2026 resolution will be to remember to click SEND after I finish typing an email.

Like what’s even the point of listening to music in December if it’s never going to show up on spotify wrapped?

Speculative Poetry Initiative What Are the Hugo Awards and Who Can Participate?

The #PoetryHugo website has been updated with a list of news related to the award, as well as a Google Sheet where you can add your own award-eligible poems for any speculative poetry award: www.poetryhugo.com

Media Bias Offender Tipline

The White House is looking for biased news articles. I wonder how they would react if they were flooded with a bunch of links from the right wing propaganda machines:

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The marbling adds a nice texture. Can't wait to read it!

Congratulations!

As promised.

me on the outside:
"This is well deserved recognition for the ongoing contributions poets make to literary canon"

on the inside:
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyayayayayayayayayayayyyyyyyyyyyyyyayayayyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!

This is my first issue as poetry editor and it features poetry by Michael Butterworth, @andydibble.bsky.social, Robert Frazier, @bugthewriter.bsky.social, @cybergodwrites.bsky.social, @jennahanchey.bsky.social, Howard V. Hendrix, @aijiang.bsky.social, Lauren McBride, & John Reinhart + lots more

An exchange on twitter. controlla.xyz: If you hate Al you probably just hate art and expression It's an infinite mashup of all the best art ever made by humans lesliejandersonwriter: If you hate the juice at the bottom of a restaurant dumpster you just hate food and cooking. It's an infinite mashup of all the best food made by humans!

I love this.

People are On Here begging for food. People are on the street begging for food. People are starving to death in the United States, in Sudan, in Palestine. And we're letting Elon Musk have A TRILLION FUCKING DOLLARS.

See you on Nov 12! So excited to read with this all star lineup!

For a group of folks who claim that it’s their sacred duty to uphold the law, ICE agents sure break it a lot.

All these people avoiding m-dashes because “AI uses them” simply means that there’s more for me!

Bullets beget bullets. Speak out before it turns more deadly.

Standing up to government overreach means pointing to amendments that cover unreasonable search and seizure, due process, public trials, witnesses, counsel, equal protection.

If a pack of officers believes they can raid an apartment complex overnight, firing a few bullets at them isn't going to get you very far.

The fatal flaw in 2nd amendment exceptionalism is that most laws broken by tyrannical governments do not call for a murderous response.

Wondering what’s going on with National Guard in Oregon? Here’s a quick timeline of the legal developments over the past week.

NOTE: This information is current as of Monday morning, October 6. We’ll continue to share updates as the situation evolves.

Right? It's the same ignorant mindset from Covid: if you don't test, there's no disease. No numbers on the economy, no problems.

Thanks. The overall, immediate safety of Portlanders seems good at the moment. The administration's flagrant disregard of the court's authority is definitely concerning, and they have shown what atrocities they are willing to commit with the Chicago raid.

If congress has the same courage as Judge Immergut to uphold the constitution, a good start would be to remove Stephen Miller from office, and to impeach and remove the President from office.

In the future, everyone will be Taylor Swift for 15 minutes.

As a retired US Navy vet, if you are ordered to invade US homes, break their doors, zip-tie kids? - and you do that? YOu should read up on Neuremberg because those are NOT lawful orders, and you should be fucking ashamed of yourselves. Your families shoulid be ashamed of you. Stand the fuck up.

stay out!

Combat zones | Internal Revenue Service Find combat zones recognized by the IRS for combat pay tax benefits.

The IRS does not recognize Portland as a combat zone. DO NOT SEND TROOPS.

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Chapbook Category

First Place: The Inca Weaver's Tales • Katherine Quevedo • (Sword & Kettle Press, 2024)

Second Place: Water-Kin • @mahailasmith.ca • (Metatron Press, 2024)

Third Place: Micropoetry for Microplanets • @bugthewriter.bsky.social • (Space Cowboy Books, 2024)

Congratulations! I just love this book.

yay! Such a compliment. If you happen to know any science or english teachers working at public schools, let them know they could get a free visit from a poet!

thanks!