Marty Cain

there's some folks in Ithaca pairing poets with punk bands! lmk if you're interested and I can put you in touch

AI filmmaking and storytelling is punk rock. It’s hip hop. It’s counterculture. It’s a new type of creativity. It’s a new medium. It’s hated by the mainstream film and art establishment. It resists ideology. It ignores gate keeping. It’s uncomfortable. It’s scary. It’s viral. It’s accessible. It’s refreshing. It’s welcoming. It’s here.

AI filmmaking is peeing. It’s pooping. It’s throwing up. It’s a new kind of liquid coming out. It’s hated by the establishment. It’s what goes in the toilet. It’s wet. It’s what’s in the bathroom.

universities ARE healthcare

rural clinics, rural hospitals, urban ERs all run by universities where corporations won't go

attacking universities is public health poison

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The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring.

Read it for yourself here:

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

solidarity, everybody, as we navigate the ruins of the postwar anglo-american educational system together —but please know, this does not need to be the way

Marty Cain — GROTTO MARTY CAIN from SEXYRUBIES666 ~ ~ ~ Reflect my lungs to a world more metal Poetry was time theft, feelings settle & sediment I am in love / with your body...

I have some sonnets in the new issue of Grotto!

JULY 2025 Guest Editor Is M. Forajter!!! THEME: ART & ANNIHILATION: contemporary gothic writing in the Anthropocene Burning House Press are excited to welcome M. FORAJTER as the second BHP guest editor of our return series of special editions! As of today M. will take over editorship of Burning House Press onlin…

BHP are excited to welcome our July guest editor - M. Forajter!!! @saint-remus.bsky.social

THEME: ART & ANNIHILATION: contemporary gothic writing in the Anthropocene

“microplastics + dandelion + flawed pearl + fruit punch + The Relic + baroque”

Sendxxx

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Crowd of people sit in a bookstore listening to a panel discussion.

Alison from Library Freedom Project brings up a good point re: AI literacy in libraries. Most of it is focused on trying to teach patrons how to use it instead of trying to understand how it works, who created it, and why. @librarypunk.bsky.social #ALAAC25

Resource Spotlight: Queer Zine Archive Project Zines have a curious relationship with libraries. For the uninitiated, zines—pronounced like zeens—are typically self-published, self-distributed, low-budget pamphlets that have historically served to...

wrote about the excellent @qzap.bsky.social on my library's blog! blogs.cornell.edu/olinuris/res...

some new peepers have joined my family

haven't published new stuff in a minute! thank you to John and BHP : )

Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...

"At its heart the Trump Administration is violently divisive, isolationist, and segregationist, and solidarity is our first duty and most profound rejection of that agenda."

for this insight, Solnit has been suspended from fb

www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...

Chanting “shame” at cops: sanctimonious, doesn’t work because they don’t have any
Chanting “quit your job” at cops: constructive feedback, funny

also, can't get over the fact that this is being touted as "bilingualism" when universities are simultaneously hiring outside consulting firms to gut their actual language departments

every academic worker and librarian pushing for this shit is either a sellout, a fool, or both

This is true bravery, and my heart is with every single soul who put their own safety on the line to protest fascism

U Michigan spent nearly a million dollars paying private spies to follow and harass its own students. The university is in crisis.

the guys who are Mad At Academia have discovered "phallocentric"

Mae’s in the same boat 👗

my four-year-old just called me “doctor poetry”… my PhD is finally paying off thank god

I am poetry-pilled once more, I can't stop thinkin about POMES POMES POMES

Intifada Incantation: Poem #8 for b.b.L. I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED GENOCIDE TO STOP I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND REACTION I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED MUSIC OUT THE WINDOWS I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED NOBODY THIRST AND NOBODY NOBODY COLD I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED I WANTED JUSTICE UNDER MY NOSE

I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED BOUNDARIES TO DISAPPEAR I WANTED NOBODY ROLL BACK THE TREES! I WANTED NOBODY TAKE AWAY DAYBREAK! I WANTED NOBODY FREEZE ALL THE PEOPLE ON THEIR KNEES! I WANTED YOU I WANTED YOUR KISS ON THE SKIN OF MY SOUL AND NOW YOU SAY YOU LOVE ME AND I STAND DESPITE THE TRILLION TREACHERIES OF SAND YOU SAY YOU LOVE ME AND I HOLD THE LONGING OF THE WINTER IN MY HAND YOU SAY YOU LOVE ME AND I COMMIT TO FRICTION AND THE UNDERTAKING OF THE PEARL YOU SAY YOU LOVE ME YOU SAY YOU LOVE ME AND I HAVE BEGUN I BEGIN TO BELIEVE MAYBE MAYBE YOU DO I AM TASTING MYSELF IN THE MOUTH OF THE SUN

I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED
GENOCIDE TO STOP

It is always a good morning for June Jordan.

Black and white photograph of Alice Notley in Bolinas, California, early 1972.

Alice Notley passed away yesterday evening in Paris. She said a few years ago, “What can we learn from the fact that we don’t die?” I’m heartbroken, & heartbroken for everyone who knew & loved her, her work.

Theory of the Voice and Dream by Ponce Liliana & Shea Michael Martin This beautiful and meditative compilation of Argentine poet Ponce’s work presents ethereal scenes that seem self-contained in th...

"This beautiful and meditative compilation of Argentine poet Ponce’s work presents ethereal scenes that seem self-contained in the poetic world..."

Read the full review of THEORY OF THE VOICE AND DREAM by Liliana Ponce, trans. by Michael Martin Shea, in Publisher's Weekly.

Out May 20th, 2025!

working on a new long poem (I think) and repeatedly asking the question I've been asking myself every time I've tried to write for the last ~4ish years :)

'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.

Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.