Marty Cain

Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’ | Defector When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology project...

It's the end of The Best American Poetry.

I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse.

defector.com/good-riddanc...

Cornell Cut Classes by a Pro-Palestinian Professor After an Israeli Student’s Discrimination Complaint Dr. Eric Cheyfitz, who has taught at Cornell for more than two decades, claims the university is attempting to silence him as part of a broader crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism.

just gonna have to keep saying, in company of so many others:

we are jewish faculty against the astroturf antisemitism persecution of jewish faculty by our own universities, by online hate groups, and by the regime

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Deflating “Hype” Won’t Save Us The problem with AI isn’t hype. The problem is who and what it’s useful for.

We wrote a thing about AI, fascism, and why framing this as "hype" is too apolitical

www.liberalcurrents.com/deflating-hy...

a chicken in every pot and an all ages hardcore show in every neighborhood

The Prison Next Door - Bolts How Arkansas’ secretive plan for a new state lockup angered residents in a deep red corner of rural America—and changed how some see incarceration.

NEW: Arkansas announced plans for a mega prison in a rural town. Since then, locals are organizing to stop it.

At first they opposed it in their own town. But some now say they've taken a more critical look at how we incarcerate in the country.

make time for this new feature, you won't regret it

the tiny issue 14 is live!

The cover art Bedroom (2023) is by KB Jones.

Read the issue at thetinymag.com

I have some poems in the new issue of @thetinymag.bsky.social; but more importantly, the rest of the issue is extremely good and you should read it!

www.thetinymag.com/current-issue

For a second I thought this said The Last Unicorn and I was about to get mad haha

Time to go to work in the shit factory!

my neck
my back
my war
you’re one of them

Wowwww yes!!!

Psst check it out @lattaj.bsky.social

Lots of gratitude to the Cornell Library folks who helped make this happen. I have a chapter on Ithaca House in my book project that's under contract with @cupress.bsky.social !

Very long time coming but, super stoked that this digital collection of archival materials from Ithaca House—amazing Ithaca, NY-based small press that operated from 1969 to the mid-'80s—is finally live!

digital.library.cornell.edu/collections/...

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

bsky.app/profile/dday...

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

burninghousepress.com/2025/07/01/j...

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...